Video Generation (Veo 3.1)

Generate high-quality short-form video with Google's Veo 3.1 API. The skill bundles four scripts covering the four input shapes Veo supports: text-only, single image, first/last frame interpolation, and reference ingredients.

Directory layout

video-generation/
├── SKILL.md                        # This file (workflow, script usage, options)
├── references/
│   └── prompt-guide.md             # Detailed prompt reference (5-element formula, cinematography vocabulary, audio direction, templates)
└── scripts/
    ├── text_to_video.py            # Text → video (default)
    ├── image_to_video.py           # Image → video (animate from a starting frame)
    ├── keyframes_to_video.py       # First + last image → video (frame interpolation)
    └── refs_to_video.py            # Reference images → video (preserve characters / products)

What Veo 3.1 is good at