Free download · Director’s field guide

Stop hoping for the shot. Direct it.

The AI Director’s Cheat Codes. The exact words that tell Gemini and Veo how the camera moves, what must never change, and how the shot should feel.

No more melting faces, extra fingers or a camera that wanders off on its own. Copy the phrase, paste it into your prompt, get the shot you pictured.

The cover of The AI Director's Cheat Codes: direct the camera, protect the subject, control the physics, build the shot. 180+ prompt phrases, 13 control systems, 8 copy-paste recipes.
  • 180+Prompt phrases
  • 13Control systems
  • 8Copy-paste recipes
  • 10Decisions per shot

Why your AI video looks like AI

“Make it move” isn’t direction

You upload a gorgeous picture, type something hopeful, and out comes a face that slowly melts, a hand with six fingers and a camera drifting nowhere in particular.

The model isn’t broken. It just wasn’t told what to do. Nobody said where the camera goes, how fast, what has to stay exactly as it is, or where the shot ends.

One clear action, plus only the controls the shot needs. That’s the whole rule.

These cheat codes are the words film crews use, turned into plain phrases you paste straight into Gemini or Veo. You pick the move. You lock the subject. The shot does what you asked.

What’s inside

Thirteen pages. Every one earns its place.

  • Build the shot in ten decisions

    The order to write a prompt in, from camera to loop, so nothing important gets left out.

  • Direct the camera

    Pans, dollies, orbits and crane shots, and what each one actually does to the picture.

  • Protect the subject

    The lock phrases that keep your face, hair and clothes yours, and stop the glitches before they start.

  • Control the rhythm

    Speed, start and end frames, and loops that return cleanly to where they began.

  • Eight prompts to steal

    Identity lock, speed ramp, drone reveal, cinematic horror and more. Swap the subject and go.

  • The prompt builder

    Ten pairings that give the model one strong idea at a time, and the formula behind them.

These are plain-English directions that work well in Gemini and Veo style image and video tools. They aren’t official Google commands, and results vary by model and by the picture you start from.

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180+ phrases, 13 control systems and 8 recipes you can paste today.

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