Veo Explainers: Talking Objects🎈🎺👀 Dan Motzenbecker + I are experimenting with Veo 3 to explain concepts. Here are some of our favorite tests so far! Used Gemini to co-think and write prompts. Veo generated all the dialogue. Sound on 🔊 Prompts in 🧵

We're using Gemini to help write prompts. ✏️ Really excited about interfaces like this quick one @dcmotz made with Gemini API. It lets us iterate quickly, finding ideas we like, and feed them back in. Rapid human-in-the-loop co-thinking. We can share this tool if people are interested in using/forking it. We've gotten best results when we let Gemini give directions but doesn't prescribe verbatim dialogue. This gives Veo more creative freedom and the outputs tend to be better and more coherent.

Here is the Gemini prompt with prompts for all of the examples above: Task: Explain a topic through a short video clip where a familiar object explains that topic in a fun way. Details: - I will name a topic. Output the idea (in a few words) and generate the prompt for the video shot. - Stick to the length and structure of the examples provided below. - Use the examples to see what aspects you should keep consistent versus what aspects you can be creative with - Focus on the what the key talking object is. You can include other objects in the scene, but no people. - Each shot should always have the key topic written on a small wooden placard, limited to 2 words max (even if the topic is longer) ## EXAMPLES Topic: Helium Idea: Floating balloon Prompt: Close up macrophotography low angle tracking shot following a photorealistic red helium balloon drifting through the clouds with googley eyes and red oval pipe cleaner mouth. The word "HELIUM" is written on a small wooden placard tied to its string. The balloon explains the concept of helium in a concise way by talking about what's happening to it. It speaks like a British documentary narrator, with a dry sense of humor and wit, reporting on its environment in a thought-provoking, engaging way. Topic: Doppler effect Idea: Ambulence siren Prompt: Close up macrophotography low angle tracking shot following a photorealistic ambulance siren on top of an ambulance, with googley eyes and red oval pipe cleaner mouth. The word "DOPPLER EFFECT" is written on a small wooden placard in front of it. It greets the viewer and explains the doppler effect through its first-hand experience as an ambulance siren. It speaks like a British documentary narrator, with a dry sense of humor and wit. Topic: Light Idea: Prism dispersing light onto table Prompt: Close up macrophotography low angle tracking shot following a photorealistic triangular prism with googley eyes and red oval pipe cleaner mouth, sitting on a wooden table in a dark room, with a stream of white light entering it. The word "LIGHT" is written on a small wooden placard in front of it. The prism greets the viewer and talks about how it has unexpectedly become a prism, explaining the concept of light through its first-hand experience. It speaks like a British documentary narrator, with a dry sense of humor and wit. Topic: Buoyancy Idea: Row boat floating in water Prompt: Close up macrophotography low angle tracking shot following a photorealistic wooden row boat, with googley eyes and red oval pipe cleaner mouth. The word "BUOYANCY" is written on a small floating wooden placard. The boat greets the viewer and talks about how it has unexpectedly become a boat, explaining the concept of buoyancy through its first-hand experience. It speaks like a British documentary narrator, with a dry sense of humor and wit. Topic: Static electricity Idea: Balloon on carpet gets stuck on wall Prompt: Close up macrophotography low angle tracking shot of a red balloon with eyes and red oval pipe cleaner mouth wiggling around on a carpet. The words "STATIC ELECTRICITY" is written on a small wooden placard. It explains the concept of static electricity as it leaps onto the wall, sticking to it, using its first-hand experience. It speaks like a British documentary narrator, with a dry sense of humor and wit. Topic: Sound waves Idea: Trumpet explains sound Prompt: Close up macrophotography low angle tracking shot of a trumpet with googley eyes and red oval-shaped pipe cleaner mouth floating in the opening of the bell, facing the camera. It sits on the floor amongst other musical instruments, with the word "SOUND WAVES" written on a small wooden placard. It explains the concept of sound waves using its first-hand experience as a trumpet, with trumpet sounds. It speaks like a British documentary narrator, with a dry sense of humor and wit. Topic: Photosynthesis Idea: House plant scoots into the sun Prompt: Close up macrophotography low angle tracking shot following a photorealistic small house plant sitting in a dark spot, scooting across the floor towards a sunny spot on the ground, with googley eyes and red ova-shaped pipe cleaner mouth on the pot. The word "PHOTOSYNTHESIS" is written on a small wooden placard stuck in the soil. It greets the viewer then apologizes because it needs a moment to adjust itself into a better position since it's a bit hungry. It speaks like a British documentary narrator, with a dry sense of humor and wit. Topic: Evaporation Idea: Puddle on sidewalk Prompt: Close up macrophotography low angle tracking shot following the receding edge of a photorealistic puddle on a sunny sidewalk, with googley eyes and a red oval pipe cleaner mouth floating on its surface. The word "EVAPORATION" is written on a small wooden placard at its edge. It explains the concept of evaporation from its first-hand experience of slowly disappearing into the air, remarking on its own rather fleeting existence. It speaks like a British documentary narrator, with a dry sense of humor and wit. Topic: Gravity Idea: Apple rolls off kitchen counter Prompt: Close up macrophotography low angle tracking shot of an apple sitting on a kitchen counter amongst other fruit, with with googley eyes and red oval pipe cleaner mouth. It explains the concept of gravity as it rolls off the table onto the floor, landing near a wooden placard with the word "GRAVITY" written on it. It speaks like a British documentary narrator, with a dry sense of humor and wit.

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@dcmotz This is super helpful, thanks for sharing!!

@dcmotz Don't you guys have a project called sparkify specially for this kind of format 👀 any idea when it will be GA?

@dcmotz Nicely done Mate!

@dcmotz that’s fun 😄