How to Use Kling AI: Kling 3.0 for Text and Image to Video

Kuaishou launched Kling in 2024 and has shipped new versions in quick succession since, each sold for a while beside the last. That is why a search for Kling turns up 2.1, 2.5 Turbo, 2.6, 3.0 and O3 at once. Here is where each stands as of October 2026, and which ones run on DreamClip.

Kling AI is also the name of Kuaishou's own app, with its own credits and features. DreamClip is a separate studio that runs the models in the right-hand column; features that live only in Kling's app, such as Kling Elements, are covered further down.

Each cell is taken from our catalog: what the studio lets you pick for Kling, not the maximum Kuaishou advertises elsewhere.

All five render any whole number of seconds from 3 to 15, in 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1, and all five take a start frame. They differ in size and sound. The two 4K cards render native 4K only. Kling 3.0 and Kling 3.0 4K put sound on the clip by default, the two O3 Omni cards are silent unless you switch sound on, while Kling V3 Turbo has no soundtrack. Every card below plays a preview its own model made.

• KlingKling 3.03 to 15 s · 720p, 1080p
• KlingKling 3.0 4K3 to 15 s · 4K
• KlingKling O3 Omni3 to 15 s · 720p, 1080p
• KlingKling O3 Omni 4K3 to 15 s · 4K

Today no Kling model on DreamClip accepts an end frame or reference photos. For an ending on a second image, Seedance 2.0 accepts a start and an end frame; Seedance 2.0 Fast and its reference mode handle several subject photos in one clip.

1. Open the Video studio on Kling 3.0. The mode label says Text to Video, and the model card shows the price Kling 3.0 starts from.
2. Pick the shape and the size: 9:16 for Reels and TikTok, 16:9 for YouTube, 1:1 for a feed post; 720p to draft, 1080p for the keeper.
3. Pick the length. Start at 5 seconds: long enough for one action, short enough to stay cheap while you find the shot.
4. Write the prompt in this order: shot and camera, subject and action, setting and light, sound. For example: low tracking shot, a cyclist sprints out of the saddle up a wet cobbled climb, spectators leaning over the barriers, grey morning light, tyres hissing on the stones and the crowd roaring.
5. Run it. Credits are held when the run starts and settled only when the clip arrives; a run that fails releases them. Watch the clip once muted and once with sound, change one thing, and run it again.

Once a draft works, raise the length or the size, not both at once. Kling 3.0 takes prompts up to 2,500 characters, and good ones use a small fraction of that. Our text to video page has more starting prompts, and the Kling page collects product prompts written for this family.

Kling image to video is the same studio with a photo attached as the start frame. The model animates from your photo, which is how a product keeps its real label, shape and colour. Open Kling 3.0 with a start frame, check that the mode reads Frame to Video, and add the photo.

1. Use a clean photo with the whole product in frame and room around it, in the shape the clip will be.
2. Describe the motion, not the product: a slow orbit, a bar of light across the glass, a splash of water around the base.
3. Keep the first second calm, so the product holds its shape.
4. Run 5 seconds at 720p first, then render the keeper at 1080p, or on Kling 3.0 4K for a large screen.

Kling tends to hold an object's shape over a longer run, which suits a product that turns a full circle. Our image to video page covers the method across every model.

Motion Transfer puts a move from one clip onto a person in a photo. You give it a character photo and a driving clip, and the person in the photo performs the movement from the clip. It is built on Kling 2.6's motion control model, and it is the closest thing on DreamClip to Kling video to video. Kling has since launched motion control for its 3.0 models in its own app (checked October 2026); ours runs the 2.6 model.

1. Open the Motion Library and pick a dance or a move, or upload your own clip of someone moving, trimmed to 3 to 30 seconds.
2. Add the character photo. The face and the whole upper body must be in view with nothing covering them; the model refuses a photo it cannot read as a body.
3. Add a short prompt if you want to steer the look, then run it. The clip renders at 720p, and its length follows the driving clip.

The same tool sits in the Editor as the Motion Transfer mode. Pick a driving clip whose framing matches your photo: an upper body moving in place transfers better than a wide shot. To keep a clip's own motion and change only its look, use Video Restyle instead.

In Kling's own app, Video 3.0 Omni reads several inputs in one request: reference images, a short video clip and saved elements beside the prompt (Kling's user guide, checked October 2026). On DreamClip, Kling O3 Omni and Kling O3 Omni 4K run from a prompt or a start frame, like the other Kling cards. They take no reference photos here, and they start silent until you switch sound on.

Keep O3 Omni for the shot Kling 3.0 keeps getting wrong: the same words on Kling O3 Omni show whether the problem is the prompt or the model. Its preview above, two friends under an umbrella on a rainy Tokyo crossing, is its own render.

Kling Elements, and what to use instead

Kling Elements is a feature of Kuaishou's own Kling app, now kept in an Element Library: a character or an object saved from several images or a short clip, which the Omni model then places in a scene. DreamClip does not offer Kling Elements. Two of our features cover the same need in a different way.

• References saves a character, a prop, a location or a style as a name, a description and an image. Mention it with @ in any prompt and its description goes in with it, so a face or a product is described the same way in every shot.
• Characters stores reference images, so the same photo can be the start frame of every Kling clip in a set, the surest way to keep one person across shots.

When one clip needs several subject photos at once, use Seedance 2.0 Fast, the one model here with a reference mode. Our guide on how to use Seedance 2.0 covers it.

The two 4K cards, Kling 3.0 4K and Kling O3 Omni 4K, produce native 4K at any length from 3 to 15 seconds: the model draws the clip at that size rather than enlarging a smaller one, so fine texture and distant detail hold up on a large screen. It is also the most expensive way to run Kling per second, so it comes last.

The method that wastes the least: prove the prompt at 720p, render it at 1080p on Kling 3.0, and only then run the same prompt on Kling 3.0 4K. Its preview, a mechanical watch movement under a jeweller's lamp, is the kind of shot where native 4K shows.

Kling rewards physical, specific prompts that say what moves and how: weight, speed, material.

• Lead with the kind of shot: product commercial, close-up, aerial, handheld. The first words set the look.
• Give one subject one action, with a verb that has weight: rotates, pours, leaps, unfurls.
• Name the material and the light together: wet black floor and rim light, frosted glass and a soft key light.
• Say slow motion when you want it. Liquid, fabric and splashes read best at slow speeds.
• Write the sound as a source: the pour, footsteps on gravel, an engine. Switch sound off for a clip you will score later, which also lowers the cost per second on Kling 3.0.
• Keep words out of the frame. Text on a sign or a label rarely survives a moving camera.

Yes, for motion. Kling's reputation rests on bodies and objects that move with weight, and on product shots that keep their shape over 10 or 15 seconds. The shortfalls are just as real, so read them before you plan a project around it.

• No end frame and no reference photos on DreamClip, on any Kling card.
• 15 seconds is the longest single clip, so a longer story is cut from several clips.
• Spoken dialogue is not its strongest suit. For a character who speaks on camera, try Veo 3.1 first; our Veo 3.1 vs Kling 3.0 comparison covers the split.
• Fast hands close to the lens and words in the frame still slip, as they do on every video model.
• Kling V3 Turbo is silent, and the O3 Omni cards stay silent until you switch sound on.

1. Open Compare, keep it on video, and pick Kling 3.0 plus up to three others, such as Kling O3 Omni, Veo 3.1 (with audio) and Seedance 2.0.
2. Write the prompt once and run it. Compare skips the start frame and renders every pick in 16:9 at its shortest length and smallest size, so a first round of up to four clips costs little.
3. Every pick is charged as its own run when its clip lands; a pick that fails is released and costs nothing.
4. Open the winner in the Video studio and render the length, size and shape you need.

That is the fastest answer to whether Kling is good for your shot: one prompt, up to four clips, and your own eyes.