How to write a Kling 3.0 prompt
Kling is strongest at believable motion: bodies, animals, water, snow and cloth moving the way they do in real footage. The best Kling prompts spend their words on the movement and keep everything else short.
- Subject plus movement. Say exactly how the subject moves: “sprints, slips on the ice, then catches the railing”.
- The scene in a few words. One setting, no long lists of props.
- One camera instruction. Kling follows a single clear move (push in, tracking, orbit) far better than a sequence of them.
- Light and style. These set the look: phone footage, cinematic or security camera.
- A negative prompt. List what you do not want, such as warped hands or on-screen text. The generator writes one that matches your style.
Example Kling prompts
A man in a hoodie grabs a package from a doorstep, turns to run and slips on the wet steps, landing flat on his back. A suburban front porch at dusk. Fixed high-angle security camera view. The camera stays locked off. Lighting: grainy infrared night vision. Style: found footage, compressed low-resolution video, timestamp in the corner.
A large man in a three-piece suit carefully carries a tiny bag of groceries across a busy street, nodding politely at passing cars. A narrow city street outside a corner store. Medium shot. The camera tracks alongside the subject. Lighting: soft overcast daylight. Style: casual vertical phone footage, like a real social media post.
Kling powers most of the video trends in the trending AI prompt library, including CCTV, GoPro and helmet-cam formats.
Kling 3.0 settings in ShortStudio
ShortStudio runs Kling 3.0 from 3 to 15 seconds in 9:16 or 16:9, in Standard, Pro or 4K quality. Sound adds 2 credits per second when you turn it on.
| Quality | Price | 5-second video |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | 8 credits per second | 40 credits |
| Pro | 12 credits per second | 60 credits |
| 4K | 20 credits per second | 100 credits |
Plan a whole series with the AI video cost calculator, and check your framing with the safe zone checker before you post.
Kling or another model?
- Cuts between shots in one clip: try the Seedance prompt generator.
- A clean 8-second cinematic shot: the Veo 3 prompt generator writes for Google’s model.
- Start from a photo of your character: make the still with Nano Banana, then animate it with Kling.