Kling 4.0 rewards planning: asset roles, timed beats and a 30-second canvas. Below are the six jobs that structure fits best, each with the mode to pick and a prompt outline. Build yours in the free storyboard prompt builder, or learn the format first in the step-by-step guide.
Kling’s official 4.0 structure. Every use case below is that one line, expanded.
Mode: Keyframes. Why: the product must look exactly like the photo at the hero moments. Pin the reveal and the hero hold as keyframes; let the text describe the transitions between them.
Outline. Assets: “@Image1 is the product on a clean surface”. Beats: 0–4s light sweep reveals the silhouette; 4–9s camera slides in, label catches the light; 9–13s a hand lifts and turns the product once; 13–15s hero hold. Audio: quiet studio room tone, one soft click. Negatives: no subtitles, no background music.
Mode: Omni Reference. Why: the presenter's face and voice profile stay locked across the whole spot while the scene moves freely around them.
Outline. Assets: “@Image2 is the presenter, mid-30s, denim jacket” plus a voice reference. Beats carry one short line per beat — one speaker, one line, clean lip-sync: 0–6s presenter turns to camera and greets; 6–14s walks to the product shelf while explaining; 14–20s close on the product as the closing line lands.
Mode: Keyframes. Why: a walkthrough is a chain of exact views — entrance, living space, the window view — and keyframes pin each one so the tour reads as one continuous property.
Outline. Keyframes: front door, hallway, main room, terrace view. Beats between them are pure camera movement: “slow push forward through the doorway”, “pan left across the room to the windows”. 30 seconds covers a full small-property tour in one generation.
Mode: Omni Reference. Why: the hook lives in the first beat; the rest of the clip can stay loose and energetic around a locked product or character.
Outline. Beat 1 (0–3s) is the pattern interrupt — the product in an unexpected place, a hand slapping it onto the table, a before-state nobody wants. Beats 2–4 deliver the demo; the final beat holds the result with space for the caption. Vertical creators: write the beats tight — a beat every 3–5 seconds, not every 8.
Mode: Either — Keyframes if steps must match diagrams, Omni if a presenter carries it. Why: timed beats map one-to-one onto explanation steps, so the script and the storyboard are the same document.
Outline. One beat per step: problem (0–5s), step one (5–12s), step two (12–20s), result (20–27s), logo hold (27–30s). Dialogue lines double as the voiceover script — write them at speaking length, roughly 2.5 words per second.
Mode: Omni Reference, same asset set every episode. Why: a mascot or presenter who changes face between episodes kills the series; the reference set is what makes episode 12 look like episode 1.
Outline. Write the character's asset block once — appearance, wardrobe, voice — save it, and paste it verbatim into every prompt. Change only the global settings and the beats. The rule from Kling's own guide culture: describe the character identically, never paraphrase.
Kling 4.0 Director's Pack — $9.99
40 production storyboard templates in the official structure covering every job above: product ads, dialogue scenes, keyframe reveals, social hooks, real-estate and travel walkthroughs, explainers and service ads — mode, beat timings, asset roles and audio lines written out.
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Short structured video where the shots are planned in advance: product ads and reveals, dialogue spots, walkthroughs, social hooks and explainers. The 30-second multi-beat structure and asset referencing reward planned storyboards over single-sentence prompts.
Keyframes when the product must appear exactly as photographed at specific moments — reveals, before/after, unboxings. Omni Reference when the product needs to stay consistent inside a freer scene with a presenter or environment.
Yes. Keep one asset block describing the character and reuse it word for word in every episode's prompt, with the same Omni Reference set. Consistency comes from identical descriptions, not from re-describing the character creatively each time.
Independent tool, not affiliated with Kuaishou or Kling AI. Feature facts checked against Kling's published 4.0 guide, November 4, 2026.