fal.ai Recipes

Runtime: All endpoint calls run via the genmedia CLI. See the genmedia skill for command syntax; run genmedia init once if not yet installed.

A recipe is a use-case-driven pipeline. It tells you the inputs to collect, the genmedia calls to chain, and the quality bar to verify before returning.

Recipes use genmedia for execution and fal-models-catalog for endpoint defaults. They differ from fal-workflow:

• fal-workflow = how to build a pipeline (JSON authoring or CLI orchestration patterns), generic
• fal-recipes = how to produce a specific kind of content, opinionated by use case

Available recipes

Reference	Use for
cinematography.md	Cinematic stills and video, shot language, lighting, lens, color grade
character-design.md	Original characters with consistent identity across shots
commercial.md	Product photography, ads, e-commerce batches, hero shots
storytelling.md	Multi-shot narratives, short films, ads, brand films, social stories
character-lipsync.md	Talking head / lip-sync video (TTS → animated portrait)
image-restoration.md	Smart-dispatch restoration, deblur, denoise, dehaze, fix faces, document restore
virtual-tryon.md	Apply a garment onto a person photo (with optional cleanup chain)
video-with-audio.md	Add narration / SFX / music to a silent video
product-shot.md	Hero product photography from a packshot reference
realism.md	Photoreal stills (candid, editorial, documentary, archival, food, nature, architectural) with an anti-AI-look checklist

How to choose a recipe

1. Match the user's intent to a use case in the table above.
2. If multiple recipes apply (e.g., "commercial featuring a consistent character"), load both and run the dominant one, usually the more specific one (character-design first, then commercial framing).
3. If no recipe matches but the task is multi-step, fall back to fal-workflow Mode B (CLI orchestration) and design the pipeline from scratch.
4. If the task is a single endpoint call, skip recipes, go directly to the right fal-models-catalog reference.

Universal recipe structure

Every reference follows the same skeleton so the agent knows where to look:

1. Inputs to collect: only what changes the pipeline.
2. Genmedia workflow: endpoint discovery, schema inspection, upload, run, status, download.
3. Prompt build order: domain-specific structure (e.g., SCLCAM for cinema, anchor + variable for character).
4. Patterns / examples: concrete prompt templates and finished examples.
5. Quality bar: explicit checks before returning.

Cross-references

• For endpoint defaults: fal-models-catalog
• For prompt-craft per model family: fal-prompting
• For pipeline patterns (fan-out, sequential, frame-bridging, etc.): fal-workflow Mode B
• For utility endpoints (resize, composite, audio merge, subtitle, etc.): fal-workflow/references/utility-endpoints.md

Information lives in one place. If a recipe needs an endpoint listed in the catalog, it links to the catalog instead of duplicating the list.