Veo3 and editorial judgement

Veo3 needs help to encapsulate stories into clips

Veo3 continues to excel as the best video generation tool. I fed it Hot Crossed Lines and asked it to make a trailer video, and this is what it generated:

It didn’t accept the illustrated images I suggested, and ignored queues about the protagonists ages. That said, the rendering is extraordinary — the people look very real and move naturally.

I asked it to make a movie trailer of my short story, Digital Ghosts, Digital Goblins, and it added sound, but the overall effect is cheesier and doesn’t really capture the essence of the story. Although the images are more fantastical, I found the quiet realism of the first video more impressive.

Overall, AI does best when filling in between the lines.

Cyberfilm.ai has templates with basic film script structure (three act play etc.) and a long series of fields where you fill in the outline, and then it generates the script. It’s quite time consuming to fill out, but probably reflective of what any serious screen writing planning process would require.

You can see how detailed the prompts become, and it wasn’t trivial to port the short story into this format — but it always takes reimagining to turn prose into cinema.