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varg-video-prompting

How to prompt varg's video, image, voice and music models so shots come out right on the first or second take: the working loop (look bible, environment master, character sheets, approved stills, animate, QA), which model for which shot (Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4, Lyria, lip sync), prompt anatomy for video, stills and edits, what @image1, @video1 and @audio1 references copy, dialogue and voice rules, a frame and audio QA checklist, and gotchas from paid runs. Use when someone asks to "prompt Seedance", write a Kling or Veo prompt, pick a "varg video model" or asks "which model", does "image to video" or "video to video", needs a "consistent character" or location, makes "storyboard stills" or key frames, wants dialogue or lip sync, or asks why a clip looks like AI slop, drifted or ignored the prompt.

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# varg video prompting

This skill is what a team that makes video on varg every day learned the expensive way: which model to use for
which shot, how to write the prompt, what each reference actually copies, and how to check the result before
anyone sees it. It extends the basics in `varg-ai` (`references/prompting.md` has the shot, lens and light
vocabulary); it does not repeat them.

Calling the tools (sign-in, `call_tool`, jobs, uploads): [references/mcp-tools.md](references/mcp-tools.md).
Copy-paste prompts: [references/prompt-templates.md](references/prompt-templates.md). Per-model quirks:
[references/models.md](references/models.md). Real runs and what they taught: [references/examples.md](references/examples.md).

## 0. Five rules before any prompt

1. **Fix stills, not clips.** A 5 s Seedance 2.5 clip at 720p costs about as much as 25-35 Nano Banana stills.