# Quote Video From Stock Photos > A calm quote or motivation video from stock photos, text and music. A ready prompt for Claude or ChatGPT: fill the blanks, Cut Express renders the video. Canonical: https://cut.express/prompts/quote-video-from-photos [Stock-only videos](https://cut.express/prompts#stock-only-videos) 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](https://cut.express/prompts/guide) covers the story, the hook, captions, sound, pace and how to iterate with versions. ## 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) Motion graphics16:9 ### [Cinematic Montage From Stock Only](https://cut.express/prompts/stock-footage-montage) 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. ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/stock-footage-montage#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/stock-footage-montage) Basic edit9:16 and 16:9 ### [Faceless Channel Video From a Script](https://cut.express/prompts/faceless-channel-video) 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. ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/faceless-channel-video#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/faceless-channel-video) 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)