Quote Video From Stock Photos

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

Pipeline: Basic edit (cut): cuts, captions, looks, speed, split screens, stock, voices and music.
Format: 9:16
Upload: Nothing. Your own photos work too.

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 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.

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.
[QUOTE]: The exact quote.
[AUTHOR]: Who said it.
[MOOD OF THE PHOTOS]: What the photos show, for example "misty mountains at sunrise".
[FONT]: A font from the assets list, or "an elegant serif".
[LOOK]: The color look by mood, for example "warm and soft", "teal and orange", "crisp and bright", "black and white", "film".
[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".

Tips

Check the quote and the author yourself. Your AI writes exactly what you give it.
Quiet photos with empty space (sky, water) leave room for the text.

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 and 16:9

Faceless Channel Video From a Script

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

Upload: Nothing, or your own voice recording of the script.

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.

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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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