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Three templates in Picsart Flow run Kling, and the interesting thing about them is not the prompt. It is what each one hands the model before the prompt is even read. One starts from a single photo. One starts from a character reference sheet. One starts from footage you already shot, plus a written script. That choice decides more about the finished clip than any adjective in the prompt box.
What the Kling settings on a Flow canvas actually decide
Every generation node in Flow carries a row of settings above the run button, and on these three templates that row is the real workflow. It names the model, the mode, the aspect ratio, the clip length, whether audio is generated, and which quality tier runs.
Read the three rows side by side and the pattern is hard to miss. The spectator template runs Frames mode at 5 seconds on the Pro tier with audio off. The kids song template runs 16:9 at 5 seconds with audio on. The hook template runs 9:16 at 15 seconds, also with audio on.
The settings shift because the starting point shifts. A template handing Kling one still needs Frames mode and leaves the sound for later. A template built to sing needs audio generated in the clip itself.
All three keep Multi-Shot off, so each node produces one continuous shot rather than a cut sequence.
Types of Kling workflow chains
The three templates are three chain shapes, and the shape is more useful to learn than the template.
Extend a single frame. One image goes in, one styled still comes out of an intermediate node, and the video nodes animate that still. The chain is linear and short.
Lock an identity, then fan out. A character reference sheet is generated first, then several video nodes run against that same sheet in parallel. The sheet is what lets separate generations agree on one character.
Fan out from footage. A clip you already shot feeds several video nodes at once, each carrying different written lines. Nothing is generated from scratch, so the work is comparison rather than creation.
| Chain shape | What you start with | What comes out | What Kling decides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extend a single frame | One photo of a person | Two short atmosphere clips | Almost all the motion |
| Lock an identity, then fan out | A character and a song idea | Three verse clips plus a stitched video | Motion and performance, within a locked identity |
| Fan out from footage | Footage you shot, and a script | Several alternative openings | The least, since the frame and the words are set |
Which Kling model to use where
Two Kling models appear across the three canvases. The spectator and hook templates run Kling 3.0 Omni, and the kids song template runs Kling 3.0.
The mode matters as much as the model. Only the spectator template uses Frames mode, which is what you reach for when a finished still already exists and the job is motion rather than invention.
Audio is the other fork. Leave it on when the clip has to carry its own sound, as the sung verses and the spoken opening do. Switch it off when the sound is arriving from an edit later.
No template locks you to its model. The picker sits on the node, Picsart runs a wider Kling line, and these are the video models worth knowing before you switch one:
- Kling 3.0 Omni for reference-based generation with native audio. Picsart lists Flow as one of the places it runs.
- Kling 3.0 for precision motion, built for realism and detail in the movement itself.
- Kling V3 Turbo the faster V3 variant, for while you are still iterating rather than finishing.
- Kling 2.6 the native-audio model, carrying voice and sound effects alongside motion control.
Photo to video: a broadcast-style clip from one still
The lightest starting point is one image. The Trendy Sports Game Spectator Video template takes an uploaded photo of a person, restyles it into a stadium broadcast still, then animates that still into two clips of about five and three seconds.
The canvas is only four nodes wide, which makes it the clearest example in the set. Image in, one styled frame, two video outputs. The prompt on the styling node instructs the model to read the attached photo, keep the person seated in the stadium seats, and hold their facial detail while the scene is rebuilt around them.
This is where Frames mode earns its place. The node is not asked to invent a scene from a description. It is handed a finished frame and asked what happens next in it, so Kling spends its whole budget on motion. Generating that still as its own node is the part worth copying.
Character consistency: three verse clips that keep one face
One step up, the starting point is an identity. The Create a Cartoon Kids Song Video template turns a character and a topic into a three verse sing along, and it solves the hardest problem in multi clip video before any video is generated.
The build starts with an input image of a character. That image feeds a node producing a character reference sheet showing the same character in three poses. Only then do the video nodes run, three of them, one per verse, each pointing back at that sheet. The three clips at five seconds each stitch into a full song video of fifteen seconds.
Two text nodes carry the writing. One holds the song topic in a single line of about eleven words. The other holds the lyrics for all three verses, around seventy words in total.
Keeping them separate is what makes the template reusable. Change the topic line and the lyrics, keep the character, and the whole song is new.
The reference sheet is the move to copy. Describing a character in words gets you a different character every generation, because each run reads the description fresh.
Handing every node the same sheet gives them one source of truth for the face, the proportions and the palette. Consistency becomes something the canvas enforces.
Try this prompt
A playful nursery rhyme scene in a new colorful setting, the character singing and dancing, gentle motion, audio on, no warping. Bright cheerful 3D storybook style, soft rounded shapes, pastel colors, warm friendly lighting, consistent character design across every shot.
Hook variations: several openings from one clip
The heaviest starting point is real video plus written words. The Viral video hook generator template starts from a clip you already shot and generates several alternative openings for it, so one piece of footage gets tested a few ways without a reshoot.
It is by far the largest canvas of the three. A single uploaded video fans out to four video outputs, alongside a text node holding scripted opening lines and a cluster of image nodes covering wardrobe and camera angle variations.
The settings tell you what it is for. Vertical at 9:16, fifteen seconds, audio on, which is the shape of a short form opener with a spoken line in it.
Fifteen seconds is three times the length of the other two, because an opening has to deliver a sentence rather than a mood. Comparing finished variants side by side beats iterating on one node and trying to remember the last version.
How to run any of these Kling templates
All three canvases follow the same working order. Open Picsart Flow and load the template closest to the material you already have.
1.
Open the template and look before you run The nodes arrive already wired. Trace the chain left to right so you know which node produces what.
2.
Read the settings row on every generation node Model, mode, ratio, length, audio and tier are set here, and they matter more than the prompt wording.
3.
Replace the input Swap in your own photo, character image or footage. This is the asset the rest of the canvas reads.
4.
Edit the text nodes Each template has at least one, holding a topic line, lyrics or scripted lines. Keep the existing structure, since the video nodes are wired to it.
5.
Run the intermediate node first A styled still or character sheet sits between input and video on two of the three chains. Approve it before spending a generation on motion.
6.
Generate the video nodes Run them one at a time so you can judge each output on its own rather than waiting on the whole canvas.
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Check the final node That is a stitched video, a pair of clips or a set of variants. Watch it through and confirm nothing drifted.
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Re-run single nodes, then export Every output regenerates on its own, so fix the weak one, not the whole build. Exporting usually needs you to be signed in. Five seconds and fifteen seconds want very different amounts of action in one continuous shot. A generated soundtrack fights a voiceover or track you add afterwards. A reference sheet survives across separate generations in a way that written details do not. All three templates split styling and motion into separate steps rather than asking for both at once. Every output regenerates on its own, so a single weak clip is cheap to fix. It is a canvas where one or more generation nodes run Kling, wired to the inputs that feed them. The input, any styling steps and every output sit together, so the whole build stays visible and each part can be re-run on its own.
Tips for steering Kling in Flow
Set the clip length before you write the prompt
Turn audio off when you plan to score the clip later
Lock identity in an image, not in a description
Give each node one job
Re-run one node instead of the whole canvas
Get answers to common questions
Start with the chain shape that matches your material
Pick the template by what you already have rather than by which output looks nicest. A photo, a character, or a clip you shot this morning each has a chain built for it. Open Picsart Flow to browse the templates, or go to the Flow editor and wire your own.
