Faceless Channel Video From a Script

A faceless video from your script, with a voice, stock clips and captions.

Pipeline: Basic edit (cut): cuts, captions, looks, speed, split screens, stock, voices and music.
Format: 9:16 and 16:9
Upload: Nothing, or your own voice recording of the script.

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 faceless [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second video about [TOPIC] for [PLATFORM].

1. Voice: make it with audio, [VOICE], from this script: "[SCRIPT]". Ask me before making it if the script is long.
2. Footage: search stock videos for each sentence of the script (one shot per sentence, 2 to 4 seconds each), look at the previews and pick the ones that show what the voice says.
3. Captions from the voice track: bold preset, highlight [CAPTION COLOR].
4. [MUSIC] from the stock music, ducked under the voice. [LOOK] look over everything so the clips match.
Format [FORMAT]. Show me the shot list (sentence, stock clip) 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.
[TOPIC]: What the video is about, in one sentence.
[PLATFORM]: Where the video goes (TikTok, Reels, Shorts, YouTube, LinkedIn); it sets the pace and the safe areas.
[VOICE]: The voice-over you want, for example "a warm female voice, English, unhurried" or "a deep male voice, Spanish".
[SCRIPT]: The exact words. About 2.5 words a second of video.
[CAPTION COLOR]: The color of the highlighted word in the captions, as a name or a hex code like #FFD23F.
[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".
[FORMAT]: 9:16 for Shorts and TikTok, or 16:9 for YouTube.

Tips

One look over the whole video makes stock clips from different people look like one film.
Ask for the shot list first; swapping a clip before rendering costs nothing.

New to prompting video? How to write a good prompt for Cut Express covers the story, the hook, captions, sound, pace and how to iterate with versions.

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Motion graphics16:9

Cinematic Montage From Stock Only

A cinematic montage built only from stock footage, photos and music.

Upload: Nothing. Everything comes from the stock search.

Make a [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second 16:9 video using only stock: search footage, photos and music with the stock tool and look at the previews before you pick.

Concept: "[CONCEPT]".
- Footage: [NUMBER OF SHOTS] horizontal clips of [WHAT TO SHOW].
- Music: [MUSIC], building to a peak around two thirds in.
- Motion graphics: [A GRAPHIC THAT RUNS THROUGH IT], and an animated lower third naming each place or idea as it appears.
- Rhythm: calm with dissolves at first, then faster cuts and a 2x2 split screen at the peak, then a final wide shot.
- End: a title card "[CLOSING LINE]" with a whoosh and an impact.
- Look: [LOOK], thin letterbox bars, a soft music fade at the end.

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Basic edit9:16

Quote Video From Stock Photos

A calm quote or motivation video from stock photos, text and music.

Upload: Nothing. Your own photos work too.

Make a [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second 9:16 quote video. Quote: "[QUOTE]", by [AUTHOR].

- Search stock photos of [MOOD OF THE PHOTOS], vertical, and pick 4 that feel like one set.
- Each photo 3 to 4 seconds with a slow zoom or pan, crossfades between them.
- The quote appears a few words at a time across the photos, centered, [FONT] font, white with a soft shadow; the author's name on the last photo.
- [LOOK] look over all photos. [MUSIC], fading out at the end.

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Basic edit9:16

Shorts From One 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.

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