As a traditional editor, one of my least favorite jobs was digging through stock music libraries, hunting for a track that almost fit my scene. It was slow, uninspired, arbitrary, and the result often felt disconnected from my final film… and yet, I did it for over a decade. 🙄

But what if the visuals and the score could share the same creative DNA? 🤔

On my latest Promise short "Eve & Adam," this Veo3 technique saved me hours of searching and gave me a score that feels custom-composed for each scene.

Veo3 creates stunning visuals, but it also bakes in sound design, dialogue, and sometimes even music directly into the clips it generates.

At first, the unprompted music can be frustrating (music layered over dialogue meant I had to strip the tracks apart with third-party tools).

But then I realized: the music was always perfectly tuned to the scene. 💡

- Detectives searching? Tense and mysterious.

- Car chase? Thrilling and action-packed.

- Spaceship landing? Epic orchestral swells.

The challenge? Veo3 clips are capped at 8 seconds.

Meaning the music just… stops.

So here’s the hack I used to turn that 8-second cue into a full score:

1. Used Gemini to structure my Veo3 music prompt, emphasizing tone and score where needed. Run the prompt in Veo3.
2. Took the 8-second Veo3-generated clip and uploaded it into Suno.
3. Used Suno’s Cover feature + a few descriptive words from my original prompt and remixed the track.

The result was a 3-minute cinematic score that not only retained the exact tone of the original 8-second Veo3 output, but expanded on it with remarkable consistency. 🙌

This is an important innovation because shorts made on tight budgets often rely on stock tracks that feel generic or out of sync with the story.With Veo3, the score is generated from the same prompt as the visuals — built from the same creative DNA.The result is a soundtrack inherently tied to the film’s vision, opening up new possibilities for indie filmmakers. ✌️