From one image to a finished video, the simple formula that makes it all work, and a faster way to edit.
Just the basics, to get you started. If you have two minutes, start here.
Sixteen panels in one image, made with GPT Image 2.5 on ChatGPT, then turned into a full thirty-second video with Seedance 2.5 on Dreamina. The method needs only one image: the storyboard. Below, we break down the building blocks that get you here.
One image in. The whole video is generated from this single storyboard image. Ideal for a quick proof of concept.
The most practical method there is. Your still already does 80% of the work. It shows the subject, the wardrobe, the world. Your prompt only has to add motion and one camera move.
Same frame brought to life using nine different camera motion terms generated with Kling 3.0 Omni.
Same still. One word each. Nine different shots. Tap any clip to play it large, then use the arrow keys to browse.
Specifying the shot type is the single most impactful thing you can add to a prompt, and the cheapest way to learn it is to shoot the move on your phone once.
Not a filter, a rewrite. Your clip provides the skeleton: motion, timing, camera path. Your prompt provides the flesh: subject, world, style. With Gemini Omni you just say what should change, and fan one clip out into many.
Take one clip and keep talking to the model. Each edit below is a single sentence: the motion and camera stay identical, only what you named gets rewritten.
These six outputs have sound. Tap to play with audio.
Same input video in every panel. The framing, camera path, the character and the world change according to how you describe it.
It all starts as a sentence.
Every clip above began as a few words. The prompt got smaller and the context got larger, but structure still wins. More advanced techniques need a proper creative brief and more complex prompting. To start with prompt structure, here is the formula and a quick tool to build one yourself.
Structured prompts win. Six short blocks, in order. Build one below: pick or type each term, and it adds up to a ready-to-shoot prompt.
Pick from a menu or type your own in any field. The prompt builds itself in the six-block order, and the final prompt is fully editable before you copy it.
Aim for 60 to 100 words, one action, one camera move. Under 30 is under-specified. Changing a field above rebuilds the prompt.
Skip the editing software. Chat with ChatGPT (Codex) or Claude (Claude Code), describe the edit, and let the agent make quick, simple edits directly. This method works for short videos.
Nine short clips, generated with Gemini Omni Flash 1.1.
One quick edit by chat, done in Codex with GPT-6 Astra instead of a video editor.
The voiceover, generated with ElevenLabs.
The same works in Claude Code. Keep it for short videos and simple edits.
The craft above is just the start. The real shift is context engineering (giving the model the right context to work from), and the part that never gets automated is your direction. Hands-on training brings it to your team, and the live masterclass covers what actually works.