# Gameplay Highlights Edit > A short edit of your best plays from hours of gameplay, cut on the beat. A ready prompt for Claude or ChatGPT: fill the blanks, Cut Express renders the video. Canonical: https://cut.express/prompts/gameplay-highlights [Gaming highlights](https://cut.express/prompts#gaming-highlights) A short edit of your best plays from hours of gameplay, cut on the beat. - **Pipeline**: Basic edit (cut): cuts, captions, looks, speed, split screens, stock, voices and music. - **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](https://cut.express/prompts/guide) 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. ``` ## 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 ### [Stream Clip to Vertical With the Facecam on Top](https://cut.express/prompts/stream-clip-with-facecam) A stream moment as a vertical clip, facecam on top and the game below. Upload: Your stream recording (16:9, with the facecam in a corner). ``` My stream recording has the facecam in the [FACECAM CORNER] corner. Inspect it with moments and a transcript and find the best [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second moment about [WHAT HAPPENED]. - 9:16 split screen in rows, ratio 0.35: on top, the facecam cropped out of the recording; below, the gameplay cropped around the action (same recording, same in and out). - Captions from my speech in the middle seam: pop preset, highlight [CAPTION COLOR]. - Start one second before the action, end on my reaction. - Denoise my voice a little. Show me the moment's times before you render. ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/stream-clip-with-facecam#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/stream-clip-with-facecam) Basic edit16:9 ### [Funny Moments Compilation From a Stream](https://cut.express/prompts/stream-funny-moments-compilation) A YouTube compilation of the funniest moments of a long stream. Upload: One or more long stream recordings. ``` Make a [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second 16:9 funny moments compilation from my stream of [GAME]. Inspect it with moments and a transcript: I want [NUMBER OF CLIPS] moments where [WHAT MAKES IT FUNNY]. - Each moment starts a beat before the joke and ends right after the laugh. - A quick punch-in zoom on each punchline, a short title card between moments with a number ("#1", "#2"...) and a whoosh. - Captions from the speech: clean preset, 2 lines. - Keep the stream's own sound; denoise it a little. List the moments with their times and the line that makes each one funny, then wait for my pick. ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/stream-funny-moments-compilation#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/stream-funny-moments-compilation) 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)