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Use for image-to-video, reference-video continuity, keyframe-driven prompting, camera control, and consistency workflows based on official Runway, Kling, and character/style reference patterns.

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Reference Driven Video Prompting

Use this skill when the workflow depends on image inputs, prior videos, keyframes, or reference-based consistency.

Source Basis

  • Runway Gen-3 prompting, keyframes, and camera control docs.
  • Kling image-to-video prompt pattern.
  • Midjourney character/style reference concepts for identity/style persistence.

Reference Hierarchy

  1. identity reference
  2. world/location reference
  3. previous formal shot continuity
  4. style reference
  5. motion prompt

Prompting Rules

  • With an input image, focus text on desired motion and camera behavior rather than re-describing the full image.
  • Use direct, descriptive motion language; avoid conceptual chatter.
  • Separate subject motion from camera motion.
  • When using keyframes, define what must transform between first/middle/last frame.

Consistency Rules

  • Character references preserve face, hair, clothing silhouette, and recurring identity traits.
  • Style references preserve palette, texture, light behavior, and rendering attitude.
  • Previous video references preserve action phase, movement direction, and world continuity.

Camera Control Rules

  • Choose one dominant camera move per shot unless complexity is essential.
  • If the subject moves toward camera, note whether the camera compensates, holds, or retreats.
  • Do not overload a shot with contradictory camera verbs.

Good Motion Language

  • sways gently in wind
  • advances in heavy armor with restricted weight
  • camera slowly pushes in as expression hardens
  • orbit tightens during transformation

Avoid

  • vague commands with no motion target
  • multiple unrelated action verbs in one short shot
  • re-randomizing identity when continuity references already exist