KLING VIDEO O1 User Guide

A multimodal video model & brand-new creative engine for creators.

Kling AI•Dec 1, 2025•9 min read•🎬

Kling Video O1 Skills

Transformation

In Kling O1, you can freely combine multimodal inputs — texts and images — to easily add, modify, or remove subjects and backgrounds from the original video. You can also change the video's style, environment, colors, shot composition, angles, and more.

Video Content Addition

Prompt Structure:

Add [describe content to add] from [@Image] to [@Video]
Add the monster from [@Image1] in the distant background behind the subject in [@Video], and have the monster slowly walk toward the subject from afar.

Prompt Structure:

Add [describe content to add] to [@Video]
Outside the spaceship window in [@Video], a whale appears.

Video Content Removal

Prompt Structure:

Remove [describe content to remove] from [@Video]
[@Video] remove the robotic humanoid but keep the wine bottle and wine alass in the scene.
Delete the pedestrians on both sides of the road in [@Video], and keep the carriage.

Changing Angle or Composition

Prompt Structure:

Generate [another angle/composition, e.g, close-up, wide shot] in [@Video]
[@Video] generate an extreme close-up from the side, with depth of feld and a shaky camera effect.
[@Video] Change the angle to worm's eye view.

Modify Video Content

Modify Subject

Prompt Structure:

Change [describe specified subject] in [@Video] to [describe target subject].
Replace the statue in [@Video] with a giant Christmas tree, decorated with exquisite gifts and gift boxes.

Prompt Structure:

Change [describe specified subject] in [@Video] to [describe target subject] from [@Image]
Replace the statue in [@Video] with the gingerbread man from [@Image].
Modify Video Background

Prompt Structure:

Change the background in [@Video] with [describe specified background]
Change the background of the [@Video] to a snowy scene.

Prompt Structure:

Change the background in [@Video] with [@Image]
Convert the ocean in the video into the city in [@Image1]
Localized Modification

Prompt Structure:

Change [describe specified content] in [@Video] to [describe target content]
Replace the sword in [@video] with a faming blade. As it is slowly drawn from the scabbard, fames ignite and spread along the metal surface, revealing a superheated red-hot glow that causes subtle heat distortion in the air.

Prompt Structure:

Change [describe specified content] in [@Video] to [describe target content] from [@Image]
Replace the sword being drawn in [@Video] with the 8-bit digital blade effect from [@Image1], leaving the scabbard untouched. As the blade emerges, flickering pixels form retro light patterns and jumping digital blocks.
Video Restyle

Prompt Structure:

Change [@Video] to [Style words: American cartoon, Japanese anime, wool felt, cyberpunk, pixel art, ink wash painting, oil painting, etc] style

American Cartoon

Convert [@Video] to an American cartoon style

Japanese Anime

Convert [@Video] to a Japanese anime style.

Cyberpunk

Convert [@Video] to a cyberpunk style.

Pixel Art

Convert [@Video] to a pixel art style.

Ink Wash Painting

Convert [@Video] to an ink wash painting style.

Watercolor style

Convert [@Video] to a watercolor style.

Clay style

Convert [@Video] to a clay style.

Figure style

Convert [@Video] to a fgurine style.
Convert [@Video] to the Monet style.
Convert [@Video] to a wool felt style.

Prompt Structure:

Change [@Video] to the style of [@Image1]
Convert to [@video] the animation of [@Image1].
Recolor Video Element

Prompt Structure:

Change the [item] in the [@Video] to [color]
Replace the girl's hair in [@Video] with rainbow colors.

Prompt Structure:

Change the [item] in the [@Video] to [color] from [@Image]
Change the orange-yellow on the little fox in [@Video] to the color from [@Image1].
Change Weather/Environment

Prompt Structure:

Change [@Video] to [describe weather, like "a rainy day"]
Change the weather in [@Video] to evening with a sunset.
Change the weather in [@Video] to a rainy night with lightning.
Change the weather in [@Video] to an overcast rainy day.
Change the weather in [@Video] to heavy snow.
Green Screen Keying in Video

Prompt Structure:

Change the background in [@Video] to a green screen, and keep [describe content to keep]
Change the background of [@video] to a green screen, keeping the people and jellyfsh in the scene.

Video creative effects

You can directly add flames to elements in the video or freeze the environment in the video via text commands. You can also add facial textures or red-eye effects to characters in the video. Additionally, you can reimagine and redraw the image of the main subject in the video, then replace the original subject to achieve more engaging visual effects.

Make the dragon in [@Video] have magma-burning patterns all over its body and wings, sparking flames.
Cover the pavilion in the background of [@Video] with thick ice.
Change the leopard in [@video] to the form in [@Image1], body liquefed into flowing metal, smooth reflective surface,fluid dynamics soft, eyes shimmering silver-blue, liquid metal dripping, moving steadily.
The man's eyes in [@Video] turn red, and red dark markings appear on his face.

Video Reference

You can upload a 3-10s video as a reference to generate the previous/next shot within the same context. Or with text, images, create a completely new scene referencing actions or camera movements in the video.

Generate Next Shot

Prompt Structure:

Based on [@Video], generate the next shot: [describe shot content]
Based on [@Video], generate the previous shot: the camera tracks right, following the middle-aged man in a black suit as he walks to the driver's door, opens it with his left hand, and gets in, causing a sight shake. The young man in the let foreground speaks while looking at him.

Based on [@video], generate the next shot: from the back seat, show a medium shot of a middle-aged man and a young man in front. They angle slightly apart, forming a tense, restrained opposition as they turn to look out their windows. The background is blurred, and soft natural light creates muted olive-green and brown tones with light film grain.

Generate Previous Shot

Prompt Structure:

Based on [@Video], generate the previous shot: [describe shot content]
Based on [@video], generate the next shot: from the back seat, show a medium shot of a midle-aged man and a young man in front.They angle slightly apart, forming a tense, restrained opposition as they turn to look out their windows. The background is blurred, andsoft natural light creates muted olive-green and brown tones with light film grain.

Based on [@Video], generate the previous shot: the camera tracks right, following the middle-aged man in a black suit as he walks to the driver's door, opens it with his left hand, and gets in, causing a slight shake. The young man in the left foreground speaks while looking at him.

Reference Video for Camera Movements

Prompt Structure:

Take [@Image] as the start frame. Generate a new video following the camera movement of the [@video]
Use [@Image1] as the frst frame, and apply the camera movement from [@Video] to [@Image1].
Use [@Image1] as the frst frame, and apply the camera movement from [@Video] to [@Image1].

Reference Video for Actions

Prompt Structure:

Animate the character in [@Image1] with the same motion as the character in the [@Video]
Animate the girl in [@Image1] with the same motion as the girl in the [@Video]
Animate the fox character in [@Image1] with the same motion as the girl in the [@Video]

Frames

You can specify the start and end frames, and describe scene transitions, camera movement, or character actions to control the entire video from beginning to end.

Prompt Structure:

Take [@Image1] as the start frame, [describe changes in subsequent frames]

or

Take [@Image1] as the start frame, take [@Image2] as the end frame, [describe the changes between start and end frames]

You can also click the "Start & End Frames" icon to open the upload slots for the start & end images, making the workflow clearer.

(Generation with only an end frame is not supported for now.)

Use [@Image1] as the frst frame, with the tiger runningforward at high speed and transforming into an off-roadvehicle.
Use [@Image1] as the start frame and [@Image2] as theend frame, with the character running rapidly as flamesignite, then jumping onto a motorcycle and starting it.

Text-to-Video

Text-to-Video generation can be done by entering text in the input area without uploading any material. For text-to-video, the level of details in the prompt determines the richness of content in the generated video.

Prompt Structure:

Subject (subject description) + Movement + Scene (scene description) + (Cinematic +guage + Lighting + Atmosphere)
American cartoon style animation. On a sunny summerafternoon, wildflowers bloom on a wide green hillside, skyblue with foating clouds. Two boys aged 8-10, wearingcasual T-shirts and shorts, baseball caps, chasingbutterflies on the hill. Wide-angle shot frst shows themrunning over the rolling grass, then low-angle close-upcaptures determined and exaggerated expressions whileswinging nets. One boy jumps to catch butterflies, anotherpoints excitedly. A car appears on the road in thebackground. Camera follows the car approaching, boysstop, holding nets, watching curiously. Car stops nearby,kicking up light dust, boys still in curious stance. Bright andcolorful lighting, full of summer adventure joy.

American cartoon style animation. On a sunny summer afternoon, wildflowers bloom on a wide green hillside, sky blue with floating clouds. Two boys aged 8-10, wearing casual T-shirts and shorts, baseball caps, chasing butterflies on the hill. Wide-angle shot first shows them running over the rolling grass, then low-angle close-up captures determined and exaggerated expressions while swinging nets. One boy jumps to catch butterflies, another points excitedly. A car appears on the road in the background. Camera follows the car approaching, boys stop, holding nets, watching curiously. Car stops nearby, kicking up light dust, boys still in curious stance. Bright and colorful lighting, full of summer adventure joy.

Cyberpunk style, thrilling tomb-raiding yellow weasel.

Cyberpunk style, thrilling tomb-raiding yellow weasel.

More Skill Combos

Besides the abilities above, you can also combine different types of inputs and fully unleash your imagination to achieve even more surprising results. For example, 「image/subject reference + style modification」, 「remove subject + add subject」, 「background modification + add subject + style modification」, 「add subject + style modification」, etc.

Change the background of [@Video] to [@Image1] and add the sailboat from [@Image2] on the sea.
Add a [@Image1] small car driving along the road in [@Video], and change the video style to felt wool.
Add a [@Image1] hot air balloon in the sky in [@Video], remove the snow mountain in the background.
Generate a mid-long shot of [@Video], add a hairband from [@Image1] to the girl.
Based on [@Video], generate the next shot: side view outside the car, camera tracking an old car driving away.Background: parking lot. Cinematic style, muted olive green and brown tones, subtle flm grain. Add a man from[@Image1] watching the car leave.
Change the background of [@Video] to [@Image1], add the platform from [@Image2] on the right side of the train, several white birds flying in the sky, turn the whole video into fgurine style.