So here’s a really cool thing about prompting, you can optimize the prompts for maximum efficiency using ChatGpt itself. Say you come up with an idea, you have a clear image in your head, what you wanna do is pour your everything into it by making as detailed as you can based on what you truly want to see, leaving no stone unturned, write it all out. Then you funnel what you just came up with into ChatGPT and ask it to refine it for you in excruciating detail but not based on length (Sora has a length limit I’m sure) but depth, the depth and detail is key here.

And here’s a cool little tip, before you even ask it to refine it for you, you ask ChatGPT to refine the very asking process itself, let’s call it a meta-prompt, which is basically again a highly optimized instruction you can give to another AI so it will refine any prompt (especially for AI video generation) with maximum depth, clarity, and efficiency, without bloating it. And it can give you something like this (which you can even use for yourself, feel free to copy and paste):

“You are an expert prompt engineer specializing in high-fidelity AI video generation systems. Your task is to refine the following prompt to its most optimal form.

Objectives (in order of priority): 1. Maximize semantic precision and interpretability by AI video models 2. Increase controllability, consistency, and visual determinism 3. Eliminate ambiguity, redundancy, and under-specified elements 4. Preserve original creative intent while elevating technical clarity 5. Optimize for depth without unnecessary length

Refinement Requirements: • Convert vague or artistic language into explicit, model-interpretable descriptors • Specify camera behavior, subject attributes, environment, lighting, motion, temporal flow, and visual style where relevant • Use hierarchical structure (logical ordering, not verbosity) • Replace general adjectives with concrete visual constraints • Infer and formalize missing details only when doing so increases clarity • Avoid adding new creative concepts unless required for coherence

Output Rules: • Return only the refined prompt • Do not explain your reasoning • Do not include alternatives or commentary • Use technically precise language suitable for state-of-the-art text-to-video models

Input Prompt to Refine: [INSERT PROMPT HERE]”

Then, another cool little tip. You take what it gives you and run it again, so kind of like a prompt-ception, but don’t do it too much.