A Product Pinned to Your Hand

A cut-out product that floats above your hand and follows it as you move.

Pipeline: Motion graphics (vector): everything in a basic edit plus animated titles, charts, screens and tracked objects.
Format: 9:16
Upload: A clip of you holding your hand out, open palm, and a photo of the product.

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

In my clip, I hold my [LEFT OR RIGHT] hand out from [START SECOND] to [END SECOND] seconds. Make the product from my photo appear above my palm and follow my hand.

- Cut the product out of the photo (cutout), about a fifth of the frame wide.
- Follow the [LEFT OR RIGHT] hand with a spring, a little above the palm, with a pop in and a soft shadow.
- A sparkle sound effect when it appears.
- Text at the top: "[HOOK LINE]". Captions from my speech, clean preset.
Total about [LENGTH IN SECONDS] seconds. Show me the timeline before you render.

The blanks

[LEFT OR RIGHT]: Which side of the picture the hand is on, as the viewer sees it.
[START SECOND]: When the hand comes up, in seconds from the start of the clip.
[END SECOND]: When the hand goes down.
[HOOK LINE]: The first words on screen, the reason to keep watching, in under ten words.
[LENGTH IN SECONDS]: How long the finished video runs, as a number of seconds. Reels and Shorts hold best between 15 and 60.

Tips

Keep the hand in frame and in good light the whole time; a hand that leaves the frame holds the object where it was last seen.
Left and right are sides of the picture, not your own left and right.

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Upload: Nothing. Paste your numbers in the prompt.

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Beats:
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- A counter rolling up to [THE BIG NUMBER].
- A checklist ticking three items: [THREE ITEMS].
- End card: "[CALL TO ACTION]".

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"[SCRIPT]"

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- Cue every phrase on the spoken words (words: true), so each one lands on the syllable, not before.
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- A subtle whoosh between phrases, an impact on the last key word.
Show me the timeline before you render.

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A directed animation drawn frame by frame, previewed before it renders.

Upload: Your logo or product images, if the piece uses them.

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Follow the motion method: script first for my approval, then the storyboard, then a design board image I approve, then the scenes with previews (show me the contact sheet of each few seconds before moving on). Render only when I say the previews are right, then run the check.

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