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"name": "Generate ultra-realistic shorts with Veo 3.1 on Pollo API",
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"content": "## Generate ultra-realistic shorts with Veo 3.1 on Pollo API\n\n\n### Overview\nAutomate the creation of ultra-realistic AI video shorts using [Pollo API](https://api.pollo.ai)'s [Veo 3.1 API](https://docs.pollo.ai/m/google/veo3-1) through this intuitive n8n workflow. Veo 3.1 is especially suited for cinematic short-form clips that need natural motion, believable camera direction, synced audio, and tighter visual guidance from prompts or reference images.\n\n\n**Key Benefits:**\n- \ud83c\udfa5 Ultra-realistic motion, lighting, and scene detail for camera-like short-form clips.\n- \ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f Up to 3 reference images for tighter subject, style, and visual direction.\n- \ud83c\udfa7 Improved audio-visual synchronization with dialogue, ambience, and sound effects.\n- \ud83c\udfac Advanced frame-to-frame control for more coherent cinematic progression.\n\n\n### Perfect for\nShort-form creators, social media teams, ad producers, e-commerce brands, creative agencies, and automation builders that need realistic video clips with controlled visuals and synced audio.\n\n\n### Prerequisites\n- [Pollo API account](https://api.pollo.ai) and API key ([Get your API key here](https://api.pollo.ai/api-keys)).\n- Active n8n instance with form submission capabilities.\n- AI prompts and optional source or reference image URLs for video generation.\n\n\n### Quick Setup\n\n\n#### 1. **Get API Key**\nRegister at [api.pollo.ai](https://api.pollo.ai) and generate your API key.\n\n\n#### 2. **Configure Form Fields**\nSet up these fields in your \"On Form Submission\" node:\n- **`prompt`** (Required): Detailed text description of the video short you want to generate.\n- **`image_url`** (Optional): Source or reference image URLs for guided video generation (up to 3 images, separate multiple URLs with commas); leave blank for text-to-video.\n- **`model_path`** (Required): Enter `google/veo3-1` to route the request to the Veo 3.1 model.\n- **`api_key`** (Required): Your Pollo AI API key for authentication.\n\n\n#### 3. **Test & Use**\n- Execute the workflow.\n- Access the generated form URL.\n- Fill in your details and submit.\n- Wait for processing.\n- Results will be displayed automatically.\n\n\n### Usage Tips\n\n\n**Reference-First Realism:**\nUse reference images when the clip needs a specific product, character, outfit, setting, or visual style. For stronger direction, make each reference image clear, well-lit, and focused on one visual role.\n\n\n**Better Prompts:**\nDescribe the subject, setting, camera movement, lighting, physical action, emotional tone, and audio cues so Veo 3.1 can shape the clip like a short cinematic scene.\n\n\n**Example:** \"Ultra-realistic handheld shot of a fashion model walking through a rainy Tokyo street at night, neon reflections on wet pavement, soft cinematic lighting, subtle ambient street noise, confident slow-motion movement, luxury editorial mood.\"\n\n\n**Common Uses:**\n- Realistic social media video shorts\n- Cinematic product teaser clips\n- UGC-style ad variations\n- Fashion and lifestyle motion concepts\n- Reference-guided brand visuals\n- Short narrative scene drafts\n\n\n### Troubleshooting\n- **API Key Invalid**: Ensure your API key is correct and active.\n- **Generation Fails**: Check whether your source or reference image URLs are publicly accessible and not behind a login. Also, make sure your prompt follows safety guidelines.\n\n\n**Keywords:** Veo 3.1 API, Pollo API, multi-image video generation, Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, automated video ads, e-commerce video, reference-to-video, native audio sync, n8n template, AI video workflow"
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"content": "## Capture and submit prompt\n\nStarts the workflow from a form submission and sends the entered prompt and generation settings to the Pollo video generation API."
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"content": "## Poll generation status\n\nWaits for Pollo to process the video, queries the task status, and loops back to wait again until the generation is complete."
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"content": "## Display generated video\n\nFormats the completed generation response for output, including task ID, status, video URL, and media type."
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About this workflow
This workflow collects a prompt and optional image URL via an n8n form, submits a Veo 3.1 generation request to the Pollo API, then polls Pollo until the video task succeeds or fails and returns the final video URL and metadata. Receives a submission from an n8n form containing…
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