Built for Sora 2 (and just as good for Veo and Runway), this prompt generator paces beats to your clip duration, names the lens, the lighting setup and a color grade reference so the output looks like cinema, not a tech demo.
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Before vs After
Sora 2 has eyes for pacing, lens choice and grade references. Give it those three and the gap from "tech demo" to "cinema" closes fast.
“A drone shot of a desert at sunset.”
# Logline A solitary motorcyclist rips across an endless salt flat at golden hour, dust trailing as the sun melts into the horizon behind them. # Specs Duration: 10s Aspect: 2.39:1 cinematic Frame rate: 24fps Lens / camera: drone, 24mm wide, slow orbit clockwise # Beat breakdown 0–4s: Top-down establishing shot; lone rider as a black streak across orange salt; dust kicks up. 4–8s: Drone tilts down to chase altitude, parallaxing mountains in the distance. 8–10s: Pull-up flyaway — rider shrinks; sun fills the frame in lens-flare warmth. # Lighting & color Golden-hour key with strong rim from low sun. Grade: Deakins warm magic-hour with crushed blacks and clean whites. # Avoid flickering rider, choppy drone motion, banding in the sky, lens-flare ghosting in the wrong direction Target: Sora 2
How it works
Sora cares about pacing, lens choice and a clean grade reference. Four steps to give it all three without a film-school crash course.
The frame Sora should open on. One sentence is enough — leave the camera vocabulary to us.
3s for a single beat, 8s for two, 15s for a mini-narrative. The generator paces beats to fit.
We add a DP / director reference (Deakins, Lubezki, Wong Kar-wai) so the look stays consistent.
Sora's input window. The length cap is respected automatically — no truncation surprises.
Sora 2 cares about pacing, lens choice and grade. Every output ships with all three pinned.
Logline + specs + beat breakdown — the structure Sora 2 reads cleanly.
Lens and DP grade references chosen for Sora 2's strengths.
Duration-aware pacing (3s = 1 beat, 8s = 2 beats, 15s = a mini-narrative).
Aspect ratio (16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 2.39:1) baked in.
Avoid line for the specific artifacts Sora 2 still gets wrong.
~1000-char cap respected so nothing truncates on submit.
The generator leans into what Sora 2 does best and stays out of its weak spots.
Dolly, gimbal arc, pull-out drone — the moves Sora interprets best. We name them explicitly.
DP names (Deakins, Lubezki, Chivo) and director references (Wong Kar-wai, Iñárritu) shape the look.
Each second range gets its own beat — the way Sora processes time.
We strip 'maybe', 'kinda' and 'somewhat' so the model has nothing to guess at.
Anywhere a film-quality 5–15 second clip beats a stock-photo loop.
Mockup look-and-grade tests before booking the crew. The grade reference is the brief.
10s product teasers in 9:16 for TikTok and Reels — cinematic enough to stop the scroll.
Cinematic cutscene mockups before booking VFX. The beat breakdown doubles as the storyboard.
Experiments without the Sora 2 cliché look — the specific DP reference snaps it out of stock.
Questions
Both — Sora 2 just renders the same well-structured prompts at higher fidelity. The 8s beat pacing and 2.39:1 specs are universal to OpenAI's Sora family.
Up to Sora 2's current limit (around 60s on top-tier plans). The duration presets cap at 30s by default because beat clarity drops past that, but you can ask for longer in the idea and the generator will structure 4–6 beats.
Yes — the structure (Logline / Specs / Beats / Grade / Avoid) is universal. Pick the target model in the optimizer and the length and vocabulary tune to whichever model you're submitting to.
16:9 for cinematic, 9:16 for vertical social, 1:1 for square, and 2.39:1 for ultra-wide cinematic. The generator picks one based on the platform you mention (TikTok → 9:16; YouTube → 16:9) or defaults to 16:9.
Three things, in order: a DP grade reference (Deakins / Lubezki), a specific lens (35mm anamorphic / 50mm portrait), and a clear beat-by-beat shot breakdown. The generator adds all three by default.
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