# Day in the Life Vlog With a Voice-Over > A day in the life vlog with your narration, time stamps and music. A ready prompt for Claude or ChatGPT: fill the blanks, Cut Express renders the video. Canonical: https://cut.express/prompts/day-in-the-life-vlog [Travel and vlog](https://cut.express/prompts#travel-and-vlog) A day in the life vlog with your narration, time stamps and music. - **Pipeline**: Basic edit (cut): cuts, captions, looks, speed, split screens, stock, voices and music. - **Format**: 16:9 - **Upload**: Your clips from the day and a voice memo narrating it (or a script to make the voice from). ## The prompt Type your own words into the fields: the [BLANKS] fill in as you go. Copy it and send it to Claude or ChatGPT with Cut Express connected. Prompt ``` Make a [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second 16:9 day in the life vlog from my clips, in the order they were shot. My narration is [MY VOICE MEMO OR A SCRIPT]. - Cut the clips to follow what the voice talks about; inspect them first so every shot matches the line over it. - A small time stamp text in the top left as the day goes on ("7:10 AM", "12:30 PM"...), mono font. - Clean my voice (denoise, enhance). [MUSIC] under it, ducked, louder in the parts with no voice. - [LOOK] look. Captions from the voice, minimal preset. End on [THE LAST SHOT]. Show me the timeline before you render. ``` ## The blanks - **[LENGTH IN SECONDS]**: How long the finished video runs, as a number of seconds. Reels and Shorts hold best between 15 and 60. - **[MY VOICE MEMO OR A SCRIPT]**: Either "my voice memo, day.m4a" or the script to make the voice from. - **[MUSIC]**: A track you uploaded (say its file name), or a mood and genre for the stock music search, like "upbeat lo-fi" or "cinematic, builds slowly". - **[LOOK]**: The color look by mood, for example "warm and soft", "teal and orange", "crisp and bright", "black and white", "film". - **[THE LAST SHOT]**: The image the vlog ends on, for example "the sunset from the balcony". ## Tips - Record the narration after the day, in one take; your AI cuts the pauses out. - Ask for the music louder where you don't speak; it gives the vlog room to breathe. New to prompting video? [How to write a good prompt for Cut Express](https://cut.express/prompts/guide) covers the story, the hook, captions, sound, pace and how to iterate with versions. ## Paste it in Claude. Get the MP4. [Start your 7-day free trial](https://cut.express/#pricing) [Or get the Mac app](https://cut.express/#desktop) 7 days free, then $19/mo. Cancel before day 7 and you pay nothing. Related prompts [All 35 prompts](https://cut.express/prompts) Basic edit9:16 ### [Travel Reel From Your Trip Clips](https://cut.express/prompts/travel-reel) A travel reel from your trip clips with a look, speed ramps and music. Upload: Your trip clips and photos, and a music track if you have one. ``` Make a [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second 9:16 travel reel of my trip to [PLACE] from my clips. Look at the contact sheets of every clip first. - Open on the most striking shot with "[HOOK LINE]" in the middle, then the trip in order: arrival, places, food, people, the last evening. - Cuts on the beat of [MUSIC]. Speed ramps on movement (walking, driving, waves): fast, then slow on the best frame. - Photos get a slow zoom. Two or three transitions at most; the rest hard cuts. - Small location labels for each place, bottom left, a clean sans. - Look: [LOOK], the same on every clip. Show me the timeline before you render. ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/travel-reel#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/travel-reel) Basic edit9:16 ### [Shorts From One Long Video](https://cut.express/prompts/shorts-from-a-long-video) Several vertical Shorts cut from one long video, each with captions. Upload: One long video with speech (a podcast, a talk, a stream, a course lesson). ``` I uploaded [LONG VIDEO], about [TOPIC]. Inspect it with moments and a transcript, then find the [NUMBER OF CLIPS] strongest moments that make sense on their own, each about [LENGTH IN SECONDS] seconds. Before you render, list them for me: the in and out times, the first line said and why it works as a hook. Wait for my pick. For each one I pick: - Start on the hook line, no warm-up. Cut the silences and the false starts on the speech. - 9:16, cover crop kept on the speaker's face. A slow punch-in on the key sentence. - Captions from the speech: bold preset, 3 words per line, the key word in [CAPTION COLOR], bottom third. - Clean the voice (denoise and enhance). No music unless I ask. Render each as its own video titled "[SERIES NAME] 1", "2", and so on. ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/shorts-from-a-long-video#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/shorts-from-a-long-video) Basic edit9:16 and 16:9 ### [Teaser for a New YouTube Video](https://cut.express/prompts/youtube-video-teaser) A 30-second teaser that sells your new YouTube video without spoiling it. Upload: Your finished YouTube video. ``` I uploaded my new YouTube video, "[VIDEO TITLE]". Make a [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second teaser for it. Inspect it with a transcript and moments first. - Open on the most surprising line or image in the video, then 4 to 6 fast cuts of the best moments, never the ending: [WHAT NOT TO SPOIL]. - A text at the top for the first 2 seconds: "[HOOK LINE]", white with a black stroke. - Captions from the speech, pop preset, highlight [CAPTION COLOR]. - End card for 2 seconds: "Full video on my channel" over a dark frame of the video. - [MUSIC] under the voices, ducked when anyone speaks. Render it in 9:16 first. Then render the same timeline again as 16:9 for the community tab, as the next version. ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/youtube-video-teaser#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/youtube-video-teaser)