Example 01
Overhead Recipe
A clean overhead cooking clip with smooth motion through recipe steps, bright natural light, satisfying actions, caption-friendly pacing.
For recipe content.
Prompt Guide
AI Cooking Video Prompts
AI cooking video prompt examples for recipes and food brands. Copy-ready prompts with angle, lighting, and motion direction.
Prompt Examples
Use these as starting structures. Replace generic product, audience, channel, and brand details with your real campaign context.
Video
Example 02
Sizzle Close-Up
A mouth-watering close-up of food sizzling in a pan, steam, glistening textures, warm light, irresistible detail.
For appetite appeal.
Example 03
Plating Reveal
An elegant plating reveal clip with careful garnishing, soft lighting, shallow focus, premium restaurant feel.
For fine dining.
Example 04
Ingredient Drop
A satisfying slow-motion clip of fresh ingredients dropping or being added, crisp detail, bright clean lighting.
For dynamic moments.
Example 05
Drink Mixing
A stylish drink-mixing clip with pouring motion, condensation, garnish, warm bar lighting, premium beverage feel.
For drinks and bars.
Example 06
Cozy Kitchen
A warm cozy kitchen cooking scene with natural light, homely atmosphere, relaxed motion, inviting and authentic.
For lifestyle food.
Example 07
Quick Hack
A vertical quick cooking-hack clip with clear steps, bright lighting, snappy pacing, space for on-screen text.
For social hacks.
Example 08
Final Dish Hero
A hero shot of the finished dish with steam and garnish, gentle camera move, appetizing warm light, satisfying payoff.
For closing shots.
Real Generations on Unify
Output produced on Unify, shown with the exact prompt that created it. Copy any of them as a structure for your own scenes.
Janice — Icy
Exact prompt used
Style: 8K photorealistic, anamorphic 2.39:1, high-fashion beauty commercial grade, soft pastel tones, creamy highlight roll-off, fine grain. Lighting: soft wraparound beauty key from camera-front, gentle warm rim from camera-left, diffused fill, muted sage-grey background falling soft; delicate light catching the butterfly wings translucent. Color: muted sage-grey background and pale silver garment as the dominant, warm peach skin and soft rose lips as the accent, iridescent pastel butterfly wings, silver jewelry glinting cool. Camera: anamorphic cine optics, very shallow depth, slow floating macro move that eases to a halt, real motion blur on the butterfly. Skin: pore-level realism — fine peach-fuzz catching the rim, dewy sheen, soft blush flush, glossy lip texture, real catch-lights in the eyes. Acting: serene and still — a soft knowing half-smile, eyes following the butterfly, breath held gentle as it lands, lips barely parting. Physics: the butterfly flutters with real lightweight erratic flight, wings translucent and trembling, settling with featherlight contact; hair and the chain shift with the faintest air. Composition: butterfly leads the frame in flight, then face fills the frame as it settles on the lips, depth from soft foreground to creamy background bokeh. Continuity: same woman, same silver jewelry, same butterflies, same soft sage-grey beauty set across all cuts. Technical: 24fps, ultra high detail, smooth floating-to-still motion, total continuous flow. Audio: diegetic and atmospheric — soft airy ambient pad, the faint flutter of butterfly wings, a single soft breath. SCENE CONTEXT A high-fashion beauty spot: the camera floats behind a pale iridescent butterfly drifting through the air toward a serene woman, slowing to a halt as the butterfly settles on her lips, ending on a close beauty hold of her lips and silver jewelry. ACTIVE REFERENCES : the woman and the look — a woman with warm fair skin, long light-brown hair with straight bangs in a high ponytail, soft natural makeup with rose lips, a small silver beaded choker and a thin silver chain necklace, a silver drop earring, a pale silver-blue halter top; pale iridescent butterflies drifting in the air, soft muted sage-grey background. 100% matches the reference. LOCATION MAP Foreground: the drifting butterfly nearest camera. Midground: the woman's face and bare shoulder. Background: soft sage-grey studio falling to creamy bokeh, a few more butterflies floating in depth. Camera floats through the air on the butterfly's path, soft key from front. Movement glides forward then eases to a stop at her lips. FIRST FRAME / BLOCKING A pale iridescent butterfly mid-air filling the foreground, the woman soft-focus beyond it, head slightly turned, beginning a gentle smile, more butterflies drifting in the background. FORMAT MODE One continuous shot, the camera does not cut on its own — a single floating follow that eases to a halt. OPTICS WS 47° opening on the butterfly in flight, easing to MCU 29° as it nears her, settling to ECU 18° on her lips and jewelry. No hard cuts; FOV tightens smoothly with the move. CAMERA A slow floating operator gliding behind the butterfly at a natural following distance, drifting and bobbing gently with its erratic flight, decelerating smoothly as the butterfly approaches her face, coming to a complete gentle halt as it lands on her lips, then holding perfectly still on the close beauty frame. ACTION The camera floats forward behind the pale butterfly as it drifts through the air toward the woman, her face soft beyond it, a knowing half-smile forming and her eyes tracking it. The butterfly weaves closer, the camera slowing with it, depth racking onto her face. As it nears her mouth the camera eases almost to a stop; the butterfly settles featherlight on her lower lip, wings trembling once and stilling. The camera halts completely, holding the close frame — her lips barely parted around the butterfly, the silver choker and chain catching cool light at her throat, a single soft breath, her eyes warm and serene. PHYSICS The butterfly flies light and erratic, wings translucent and fluttering with real lift, trembling as air moves the thin membrane, settling with weightless contact that does not press the lip. Fine hairs and the silver chain shift faintly in the gentle air. Her skin holds dewy and soft. LIGHTING Soft wraparound beauty key from camera-front, warm rim from camera-left, the butterfly wings lit translucent as it passes through the light, background soft sage-grey; WB 5000K held throughout. AUDIO Soft airy ambient pad, the faint papery flutter of wings as the butterfly nears and lands, a single soft breath on the final still hold. POSITIVE LOCKS Same woman, silver beaded choker, thin silver chain, silver drop earring and pale silver-blue halter stay identical throughout. Butterflies stay pale iridescent. Soft sage-grey beauty set consistent. Camera follows the butterfly then eases to a complete halt — ending still on the lips and jewelry. Motion stays soft, floating, and serene, resolving to stillness.
Janice — Neon Forest
Exact prompt used
Style: 8K cinematic. Photorealistic — no 3D render, no game engine, no game-cutscene aesthetic. Cinematography: Aggressive, desperate handheld master shot. Camera operator physically running and diving for cover, lens constantly buffeted by shockwaves, reactive dutch tilts under stress, focus breathing on every impact. Never locked, never clean — a war correspondent in a fantasy battlefield. Lighting: Catastrophic bioluminescent jungle twilight. The dense alien canopy filters the dying red sun into deep amber-crimson god-rays. The @dragon's acid breath illuminates the entire scene from below in violent, sickly neon-green — casting upward shadows on every surface, inverting the natural lighting logic and making every figure look wrong. Color: 60:30:10 — dominant deep blood-red and shadow-black jungle canopy 60% / secondary violent neon-green acid light from dragon breath 30% / accent blinding white sparks from shattered enchanted armor and bone-white lightning arcs 10%. Camera: Physical wide anamorphic cine lens (18mm). 180° shutter motion blur. Masterfully executed speed-ramping (24fps to 240fps and back). Severe horizontal neon-green anamorphic lens flares from every acid burst. Physics: Gravity, mass, and fluid dynamics strictly respected — acid splashes behave with real surface tension and viscosity, dragon limbs move with immense reptilian inertia, shockwaves from wingbeats flatten the jungle canopy in visible pressure rings. SUBJECTS: @hunter: A lone, battered female dragon hunter — tall, lean, wearing scorched leather armor reinforced with salvaged dragon-scale plates still faintly glowing at the edges. No fantasy embellishment — her gear is practical, damaged, functional. Face streaked with soot and luminous green acid burns on her left forearm. Moves with desperate precision, not heroic grace. @dragon: A massive, low-profile ambush predator — not a classic European dragon. Its body is long and sinuous, built like a 30-meter saltwater crocodile with six limbs and a broad, flat skull. Its scales are matte black with hairline cracks between each one leaking constant sickly neon-green acid light. It moves fast, low, and intelligent — a hunting animal, not a monster. LOCATION: A vast alien jungle on a dying world — the trees are enormous, hundreds of meters tall, their bark deep arterial red, their canopy so thick it creates a false twilight at ground level. The jungle floor is carpeted with enormous bioluminescent fungi that pulse dim violet and amber underfoot. Ancient, collapsed ruins of an unknown civilization are overgrown and barely visible — cracked stone columns, half-buried archways. The air is thick with glowing acid vapor from the dragon's prior attacks. ACTION — ONE CONTINUOUS TAKE, single unbroken handheld tracking shot, NO cuts. 15 seconds. 0:00–0:05 — Medium tracking shot on @hunter (24fps): Camera runs alongside her at chest height as she sprints low through the ruins, the @dragon's mass visible as a fast, terrifying shape between the tree trunks to her right — closing. She dives behind a collapsed stone column. The dragon's acid spray hits the column she just vacated, and the stone dissolves instantly in a boiling neon-green splash. Camera shakes violently from the shockwave, lens catching a direct hit of acidic vapor — the glass element briefly hazes over before clearing. 0:05–0:06 — Speed-Ramp: She rises from cover, draws a heavy iron-tipped lance from her back, and plants her feet in the mud. In the exact millisecond the dragon lunges directly at her — its jaw opening into a gape of pure green fire — time freezes, ramping violently into extreme slow-motion. 0:06–0:12 — Ultra Slow-Motion (240fps): The dragon's lunge hangs suspended mid-air. Its six limbs are caught fully extended, individual claws hyper-visible, each scale hairline crack pulsing with trapped green light. The acid beginning to pour from its open jaw has frozen into a slow, glowing river of neon-green liquid catching the crimson god-rays from above and refracting them. The hunter's lance tip is extended toward the incoming mass. Violent horizontal neon-green anamorphic flares streak slowly across the full lens element. Bioluminescent fungi spores from the shattered jungle floor drift upward in slow golden clouds. Every detail hyper-sharp — the micro-texture of ruined stone, the individual scales, the hunter's knuckles white on the lance. 0:12–0:15 — Speed-Ramp Back (24fps): Time snaps violently back. The dragon's full mass slams into her position — the camera is thrown sideways by the shockwave, spinning and reorienting. Through the chaos, a single moment: her lance buried deep, green fire erupting in all directions, and the dragon's shriek shaking the entire frame. The camera settles, low, in the acid mist — outcome unclear, both figures lost in the neon-green haze. CONSTRAINTS: 16:9 anamorphic widescreen. ONE CONTINUOUS SHOT — NO cuts. Speed-ramp to 240fps and back. Handheld never stabilized — constant motivated shake. Neon-green acid light must compete with and frequently overpower the ambient red. Photoreal throughout. AUDIO: NO MUSIC. SFX ONLY — the deafening wet roar of the dragon's movement through dense jungle, snapping ancient trees like dry wood. The hiss and sizzle of acid dissolving stone. The hunter's ragged, controlled breathing. At 0:05, the dragon's lunge produces a colossal wingbeat shockwave — a deep infrasonic thud. During slow-mo (0:06–0:12), all ambient sound drops into a thick muffled vacuum, replaced by a deep, resonant hum from the acid energy and the hunter's own amplified heartbeat. At 0:12, a world-ending reptilian shriek and the wet, catastrophic impact — followed by the hiss of expanding acid steam swallowing the frame.
Janice — Cloudy
Exact prompt used
single continuous shot, one take no cuts, cinematic oner, cinematic lighting, photorealistic, 35mm film quality, professional color grading, sharp focus, high detail texture, film grain, depth of field mastery, steadicam fluidity Photorealistic live-action, not animation: an epic mountaintop cliff above a vast sea of glowing clouds at golden hour, distant jagged peaks catching warm light. A young woman pianist in a long flowing gown plays a black grand piano with intense expressive emotion, body swaying, hands flying across the keys, hair and dress whipping violently in a rising wind, while flocks of birds sweep upward through shafts of god-light and embers and petals swirl through the gusting air. The single take is built as one aggressive FPV descent — banking flight, a plunge into the piano's resonant interior, then an explosive pull-back to epic scale — with warm golden light, anamorphic flares, and volumetric beams held consistent so feather, ember, skin, and string textures all read in razor 4K macro detail. Single continuous shot 15s: The camera banks fast and low around the cliff edge through churning golden clouds, embers and petals streaking past the lens as it swings toward the pianist, her gown and hair whipping in the wind, hands flying across the keys. Accelerating forward, the camera dives straight into the open piano lid and ramps to slow motion as it threads the tight gap between copper-wound strings and felt hammers, the hammers striking and the strings shivering in pore-deep macro detail, dust and light vibrating in the resonant wooden interior. Then the camera bursts back out of the piano, snapping to full speed as it pulls away and rises, birds sweeping upward through shafts of light, until it settles into a soaring extreme wide that reveals the whole cliff, the lone pianist, and the endless sea of glowing clouds below. Total: 15s / 1 shot / 16:9
How to Use These Prompts
01
Start from the business goal
Define the audience, channel, output format, brand tone, and business outcome before generating.
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Choose a matching model
Use the recommended models on this page as the first test set for the prompt style.
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Adapt the prompt
Replace the generic product, audience, format, and tone details with your real campaign context.
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Generate variants
Use the video workspace to create multiple directions and compare which result is strongest.
Recommended Models
Google DeepMind
Veo 3.1Google's premium video generation model supporting up to 4K resolution with cinematic quality and precise detail.
OpenAI
Sora 2OpenAI's standard Sora 2 model for realistic motion, strong scene generation, and general text-to-video work.
Kuaishou
KlingThe Kling lineup on Unify, covering Kling 2.6, Kling 3.0, Omni, Motion Control, Video O1, and faster variants for different video workflows.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are the best prompts for ai cooking video?
This guide includes 8 ready-to-use prompt examples. AI cooking video prompt examples for recipes and food brands. Copy-ready prompts with angle, lighting, and motion direction. Copy a prompt, adapt the details to your project, and generate on Unify.
Which models work best with these prompts?
These prompts are tuned for Veo 3.1, Kling, Sora 2, all available on Unify.
How do I improve my prompt results?
Be specific about format, style, audience, and constraints, then generate several variants and keep the strongest. Unify makes it easy to iterate quickly across models.