LTX 2.3 Video Prompts — PromptCraft

How LTX 2.3 Reads Prompts

LTX 2.3 is a video generation model — unlike image models, it must understand not just what a scene looks like, but how it moves through time. Your prompt needs to describe motion, camera behaviour, and temporal flow explicitly.

Think of your prompt as a brief for a cinematographer and director combined. Describe the opening frame, what moves and how, camera action, and how the scene ends or transitions. Vague prompts produce static-looking or incoherent video — specificity is essential.

Prompt Structure

Element	Purpose	Example
Opening Frame	Establish the first shot clearly	Opening on a rain-soaked neon-lit Tokyo alley at midnight
Subject Motion	What moves and how	a woman in a red coat walks slowly toward camera
Camera Movement	How the camera itself moves	slow dolly forward, slight downward tilt
Environmental Motion	Background and ambient movement	rain falling, steam rising from grates, neon signs flickering
Pacing / Duration Feel	Tempo of the clip	slow and contemplative, 5-second hold on the final frame
Visual Style	Overall look and grade	cinematic anamorphic, warm neon colour grade, film grain

Camera Movement Keywords

Dolly / Track

dolly in
dolly out
tracking shot left
tracking shot right
dolly forward

Pan / Tilt

slow pan left
slow pan right
tilt up
tilt down
whip pan

Crane / Aerial

crane up
crane down
drone pullback
bird's eye descend
aerial orbit

Handheld / Zoom

handheld follow
subtle handheld sway
slow zoom in
slow zoom out
rack focus

Example Prompts

Cinematic Scene

Opening on a rain-soaked neon-lit Tokyo alley at midnight. A woman in a long red coat walks slowly toward camera, hands in pockets, face partially obscured by an umbrella. Camera dollies slowly forward to meet her, with a slight downward tilt. Rain falls steadily, steam rises from iron grates at her feet, distant neon signs flicker in puddle reflections. Slow and contemplative pace. Cinematic anamorphic lens, warm neon colour grade — magenta, amber, deep blue — light film grain. The clip ends as she passes the camera, her face still unseen.

Nature / Landscape

Aerial drone shot pulling back and rising slowly from a dense autumn forest canopy. The trees are a patchwork of deep orange, amber and crimson. Morning mist hangs in the valleys between the hills. Camera rises steadily, revealing an increasingly vast landscape until a silver river becomes visible cutting through the forest far below. Golden hour warm light raking across the treetops. No sound implied, purely visual. Slow, majestic pacing. Drone cinematography style, natural colour grade, shallow atmospheric haze.

Action Sequence

Handheld tracking shot following a motorcycle courier weaving at speed through gridlocked city traffic on a wet road. Camera tracks from directly behind, keeping pace. Cars blur past on both sides. The courier leans into a sharp left turn, the camera follows with a natural sway. Puddles spray. Headlights and brake lights streak. Fast, urgent pacing. Shot on an action camera, slightly wide-angle, high contrast, desaturated tones with vivid red and white light trails. The clip ends as the courier disappears around a corner.

Tips & Best Practices

Describe the End Frame

Tell LTX how the clip should end: "ends on a static hold", "fades to black", "subject exits frame right". This prevents abrupt or random clip endings.

Name Every Moving Element

List all motion: subject movement, camera movement, and environmental movement separately. LTX needs all three described to feel alive.

Set the Pace Explicitly

Use pacing words: "slow and contemplative", "fast and urgent", "gradual and meditative". LTX adjusts motion speed and cut rhythm accordingly.

Avoid Multiple Scene Cuts

LTX 2.3 generates single continuous shots best. Don't describe multiple scenes or hard cuts in one prompt — keep to a single unbroken sequence.

Lighting Tells the Story

Describe how light behaves over time: "light flickers", "shadows lengthen", "sun breaks through cloud mid-shot". Temporal lighting sells the scene.

Reference Real Filmmakers

"In the style of Wong Kar-wai", "Tarkovsky-inspired long take", "Roger Deakins cinematography". LTX responds to directorial and cinematographic references.

Negative Prompts

Video negative prompts help avoid common generation failures like jumpiness, flickering, or incoherent motion.

Example Negative Prompt

static, no movement, flickering, jittery motion, morphing faces, dissolving objects, inconsistent lighting, blurry, low frame rate, choppy, watermark, text overlay, jump cuts

Try It — Build Your Prompt

Fill in the fields below to assemble a prompt using LTX 2.3's recommended structure.

Prompt Builder

LTX 2.3 · structured format

Subject & Spatial Blocking

Who/what, and where are they positioned in frame?

Kinetic Action

Explicit physical movements — use active verbs, no abstract concepts.

Camera Direction

dolly in, pan right, tracking shot, static…

Environment, Texture & Lighting

Materials, time of day, light sources — LTX excels at textures.

Audio Cues

Synchronized sound — tone, dialogue, ambient noise.

Style & Pacing

Visual finish and tempo of the clip.

Negative Prompt

What to exclude.

Your LTX 2.3 Prompt:

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