# Explainer With a Voice, Stock and Charts > An explainer with a voice-over, stock shots and animated charts. A ready prompt for Claude or ChatGPT: fill the blanks, Cut Express renders the video. Canonical: https://cut.express/prompts/explainer-with-voice-and-charts [Education and explainers](https://cut.express/prompts#education-and-explainers) 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. 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. 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 edit16:9 ### [Tutorial With Zooms and Arrows](https://cut.express/prompts/tutorial-with-zooms-and-arrows) A screen tutorial with zooms on each click, arrows and captions. 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. ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/tutorial-with-zooms-and-arrows#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/tutorial-with-zooms-and-arrows) Basic edit9:16 ### [Course Lesson Into Study Shorts](https://cut.express/prompts/lesson-to-study-shorts) A recorded lesson cut into short study clips, one idea per clip. 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. ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/lesson-to-study-shorts#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/lesson-to-study-shorts) Motion graphics9:16 ### [Audio Podcast Clip With Moving Sound Bars](https://cut.express/prompts/podcast-audiogram-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. ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/podcast-audiogram-sound-bars#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/podcast-audiogram-sound-bars)