How I cut my Veo3 Spend Down from $500 to $80 with Improved Quality

Spent $500 Last month on around 250ish Veo3 generations on some client work and marketting for personal projects and this month for basically the same iterations and stuff i am at $80

Found some patterns that completely changed how I approach video generation:

1. Veo3 Fast for 90% of project content (found a provider at veo3gen[.]co that's 70% cheaper than Google's direct pricing)
2. Use veo3 fast and generate a lot of variation with small tweeks in the prompts
3. Choose the best one
4. Veo3 Quality for scenes with a lot of movement

The actual base template I use now:

[SHOT TYPE] + [SUBJECT] + [ACTION] + [SETTING] + [LIGHTING] + [CAMERA MOVE]

Example: Wide shot of businessman walking through rain-soaked Tokyo street at night with neon reflections, slow dolly follow

The cost savings let me test 3x more variations, which means better final outputs.

Doing More Vairations like i am also able to provide Clients with More options to post from and choose <3