Gameplay Highlights Edit
A short edit of your best plays from hours of gameplay, cut on the beat.
- Pipeline
- Basic edit (cut)
- Format
- 9:16
- Upload
- Your gameplay recording (long is fine) and, if you want, an intro clip and a music track.
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 9:16 edit from my gameplay of [GAME]. Inspect it with moments and pick the best [WHAT COUNTS AS A HIGHLIGHT]. - Open on [OPENING] with the text "[HOOK LINE]" at the top: heavy font, white with a black stroke, one word in [CAPTION COLOR]. - Then hard cuts on the beat of [MUSIC], one play per cut, the game sound low under the music. - End on the best moment: slow it down with a speed ramp, then freeze on it. - Look: [LOOK] with a bit of sharpening. Fade the music out at the end. Show me the moments you picked, with their times, 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.
- [GAME]
- The game's name, as your audience calls it.
- [WHAT COUNTS AS A HIGHLIGHT]
- What a great moment is in this game, for example "clutches and multi-kills" or "the grinds and the big jump".
- [OPENING]
- The first shot, for example "my facecam reaction" or "the intro clip I uploaded".
- [HOOK LINE]
- The first words on screen, the reason to keep watching, in under ten words.
- [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".
Tips
- Say what a highlight is in your game. Moments finds where something happens; you know which of those matter.
- Long recordings are fine. Moments ranks the stretches for free, and your AI zooms into the good ones.
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.
The real render behind this prompt
This prompt was written from one we used to make a video for this site. Here is that video and the exact prompt that made it.
The exact prompt
Make a 20-second 9:16 skate edit from the two clips I uploaded: a phone video of my laptop and a 4-minute recording of a skate game. Inspect the gameplay with moments and pick the best lines: the grinds, the ledges and the big jump. Open on the laptop clip (2.4 s) with the text "out of tokens at **2AM**" at the top: Montserrat Black, white with a black stroke, "2AM" in yellow. Then hard cuts on the beat of my track, one trick per cut, keeping the game sound low under the music. End on the bail: slow it down, black and white, and freeze on it. Look: a light crisp grade with a bit of sharpening. Fade the music out at the end.