Audio Podcast Clip With Moving Sound Bars

An audio-only podcast clip with sound bars that move with the voice.

Pipeline: Motion graphics (vector): everything in a basic edit plus animated titles, charts, screens and tracked objects.
Format: 9:16
Upload: The episode's audio file and its cover art (a photo or image).

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 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.

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.
[SHOW NAME]: Your podcast's name and the episode number, as it should read on screen.
[TOPIC]: What the video is about, in one sentence.
[BACKGROUND COLOR]: The color behind everything, ideally one from your cover art, as a hex code.
[CAPTION COLOR]: The color of the highlighted word in the captions, as a name or a hex code like #FFD23F.

Tips

The bars read the real sound, so a loud laugh or a pause shows in the picture. Pick a lively stretch.
Ask for the pick list first if the episode is long; inspecting with moments finds the lively parts for free.

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Basic edit9:16

Talking Head With Jump Cuts

A tight talking-head video with the silences cut, punch-ins and captions.

Upload: One or more takes of you talking to the camera.

I recorded a talking-head video about [TOPIC]. Inspect it with a transcript and use the speech cuts.

- Keep only the best take of each sentence and cut every silence and "um". The finished video is about [LENGTH IN SECONDS] seconds.
- Start on "[HOOK LINE]" even if I said it later.
- A punch-in zoom (about 1.2x) every 2 or 3 cuts, on the words that matter, so it never looks like one static shot.
- Captions: bold preset, upper case, 2 to 3 words per line, highlight [CAPTION COLOR], just under the middle of the frame.
- Clean my voice: denoise 40 and enhance. [LOOK] look, a little sharpening.
Show me the timeline (each kept line with its time) before you render.

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Basic edit9:16

Podcast Clip With Two Speakers

A podcast clip with both speakers stacked in a split screen and captions.

Upload: The two camera files of the podcast (one per speaker), or one wide shot of both.

I uploaded a podcast episode with [GUEST NAME] and me. Inspect it with a transcript and moments, and find the best [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second exchange about [TOPIC].

- 9:16 split screen in rows: the person speaking on top, the other below, with a 12 px gap. Switch who is on top when the speaker changes.
- If there is only one wide shot, crop each person out of it into their own cell.
- Captions from the speech in the middle, between the two rows: clean preset, highlight [CAPTION COLOR].
- A lower third for [GUEST NAME] in the first 3 seconds with "[GUEST TITLE]".
- Clean both voices: denoise and enhance.
List the candidate exchanges with their times before rendering.

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Motion graphics9:16

Narrated App Tour From a Screen Recording

A narrated vertical tour of your app from one screen recording.

Upload: A screen recording of your app or site, landscape is fine.

Make a [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second 9:16 narrated tour of [YOUR PRODUCT] from the screen recording I uploaded. Inspect it first (contact sheets) and pick the moments where [KEY SCREENS] are on screen. Use fit blur so the landscape recording sits in the vertical frame, with slow punch-ins on the part the voice talks about.

Voice-over: make it with audio, [VOICE], this exact script:
"[SCRIPT]"

Captions from the voice track: bold preset, highlight [CAPTION COLOR], bottom third, 2 lines at most.
A whoosh on each section change (built-in sound effects). [MUSIC] under the voice, ducked.
End card for the last 2.5 seconds on [BRAND COLORS]: the logo or the name, and "[CALL TO ACTION]".
Show me the timeline before you render.

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