Education and explainers

Explainer With a Voice, Stock and Charts

An explainer with a voice-over, stock shots and animated charts.

Pipeline
Motion graphics (vector): everything in a basic edit plus animated titles, charts, screens and tracked objects.
Format
16:9
Upload
Nothing, or your own footage and voice.

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.

Fill in

Empty fields stay as [brackets] in the copy.

Prompt

Make a [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second 16:9 explainer: "[QUESTION IT ANSWERS]", for [AUDIENCE].

1. Write a script of about [NUMBER OF WORDS] words first and show it to me. When I approve it, make the voice with audio: [VOICE].
2. Picture: stock footage for each idea (look at the previews), with motion graphics where numbers come up: [THE NUMBERS], as a chart or a counter cued on the spoken words.
3. Captions from the voice, clean preset. [MUSIC] low under the voice.
4. End with a summary card of the three key points.
Brand colors for the graphics: [BRAND COLORS]. 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.
[QUESTION IT ANSWERS]
The question the video answers, for example "Why do interest rates move house prices?".
[AUDIENCE]
Who watches it, as precisely as you can, for example "freelance designers who hate invoicing".
[NUMBER OF WORDS]
About 2.5 words per second of video, so 150 words for a minute.
[VOICE]
The voice-over you want, for example "a warm female voice, English, unhurried" or "a deep male voice, Spanish".
[THE NUMBERS]
The real figures with their source, for example "rates went from 3% to 7% (central bank, 2023)".
[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".
[BRAND COLORS]
Your colors as hex codes with their roles, for example "background #0B0B0A, accent #FFD23F".

Tips

  • Give the figures and where they come from. Your AI animates your numbers and never invents data.
  • Approve the script before the voice: changing words after spends voice credits again.

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Upload: A screen recording of the task, with you talking or silent.

Make a [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second 16:9 tutorial: "[HOW TO DO WHAT]", from my screen recording. Inspect it (contact sheets, and a transcript if I talk).

- Cut the waiting and the mistakes; speed up the boring parts (typing, loading) to 2x or more.
- A punch-in zoom on each important click, focused where the click happens.
- An arrow pointing at [THE THINGS TO POINT AT] when they appear, in [CAPTION COLOR].
- A lower third at the start with the title, and a step number text for each step ("Step 1", "Step 2"...).
- Captions from my speech, clean preset. A progress bar at the bottom.
Show me the steps with their times before you render.
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Upload: A recorded lesson or lecture.

I uploaded a lesson on [TOPIC]. Make a transcript and find the [NUMBER OF CLIPS] ideas that can each be explained on their own in under [LENGTH IN SECONDS] seconds.

For each clip:
- Title text for the first 2 seconds: the idea as a question, top third.
- Cut the pauses and side remarks. Cover crop on me, or fit blur if I'm writing on a board.
- Captions from the speech, boxed preset, the key term in [CAPTION COLOR].
- End with the part number ("Part 2 of 5") for a second.
List the ideas with their times first.
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Audio Podcast Clip With Moving Sound Bars

An audio-only podcast clip with sound bars that move with the voice.

Upload: The episode's audio file and its cover art (a photo or image).

Make a [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second clip from my podcast audio, [SHOW NAME]. Inspect the audio with a transcript and pick the line that works best on its own about [TOPIC].

- Picture: my cover art large in the top half on a [BACKGROUND COLOR] background, a slow zoom in over the whole clip.
- Under it, a motion graphic of 24 sound bars that follow the real voice (levels from the mix), in [CAPTION COLOR].
- Captions from the speech under the bars: karaoke preset, 4 words per line.
- The show name and episode number as a small label at the top.
Show me the timeline before you render.
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Basic edit · 16:9

Tutorial With Zooms and Arrows

Upload: A screen recording of the task, with you talking or silent. Blanks explained and tips

Fill in

Empty fields stay as [brackets] in the copy.

Prompt

Make a [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second 16:9 tutorial: "[HOW TO DO WHAT]", from my screen recording. Inspect it (contact sheets, and a transcript if I talk).

- Cut the waiting and the mistakes; speed up the boring parts (typing, loading) to 2x or more.
- A punch-in zoom on each important click, focused where the click happens.
- An arrow pointing at [THE THINGS TO POINT AT] when they appear, in [CAPTION COLOR].
- A lower third at the start with the title, and a step number text for each step ("Step 1", "Step 2"...).
- Captions from my speech, clean preset. A progress bar at the bottom.
Show me the steps with their times before you render.

Basic edit · 9:16

Course Lesson Into Study Shorts

Upload: A recorded lesson or lecture. Blanks explained and tips

Fill in

Empty fields stay as [brackets] in the copy.

Prompt

I uploaded a lesson on [TOPIC]. Make a transcript and find the [NUMBER OF CLIPS] ideas that can each be explained on their own in under [LENGTH IN SECONDS] seconds.

For each clip:
- Title text for the first 2 seconds: the idea as a question, top third.
- Cut the pauses and side remarks. Cover crop on me, or fit blur if I'm writing on a board.
- Captions from the speech, boxed preset, the key term in [CAPTION COLOR].
- End with the part number ("Part 2 of 5") for a second.
List the ideas with their times first.

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Audio Podcast Clip With Moving Sound Bars

Upload: The episode's audio file and its cover art (a photo or image). Blanks explained and tips

Fill in

Empty fields stay as [brackets] in the copy.

Prompt

Make a [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second clip from my podcast audio, [SHOW NAME]. Inspect the audio with a transcript and pick the line that works best on its own about [TOPIC].

- Picture: my cover art large in the top half on a [BACKGROUND COLOR] background, a slow zoom in over the whole clip.
- Under it, a motion graphic of 24 sound bars that follow the real voice (levels from the mix), in [CAPTION COLOR].
- Captions from the speech under the bars: karaoke preset, 4 words per line.
- The show name and episode number as a small label at the top.
Show me the timeline before you render.
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