# Recreate a Reel You Like With Your Clips > The pace and shot lengths of a reel you like, with your footage. A ready prompt for Claude or ChatGPT: fill the blanks, Cut Express renders the video. Canonical: https://cut.express/prompts/recreate-a-reel [Recreate a video](https://cut.express/prompts#recreate-a-video) The pace and shot lengths of a reel you like, with your footage. - **Pipeline**: Basic edit (cut): cuts, captions, looks, speed, split screens, stock, voices and music. - **Format**: 9:16 - **Upload**: The reel you want to copy (as the reference) and your own clips, in the recreate panel. ## 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 ``` I want to recreate a reel I like with my own clips. Open the recreate panel: I'll drop the reference in one box and my media in the other. Then inspect the reference with breakdown and hook: its shots, their lengths, the movement and the beats, and its first 3 seconds frame by frame. Tell me in a few lines what makes it work. Match each shot with the closest clip of mine about [MY SUBJECT], keep its pace, its text style and its caption look, and use [MUSIC]. Never cut the reference itself into the video. Show me the shot-by-shot match before you render. ``` ## The blanks - **[MY SUBJECT]**: What your clips show, for example "my bakery's morning" or "our team at the conference". - **[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 - Pick a reference with a similar subject. A dance edit's pace rarely suits a talking head. - Ask what makes the reference work before matching; it's the part you'll reuse next time. 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) Basic edit9:16 ### [Copy Only the Hook of a Viral Video](https://cut.express/prompts/recreate-a-viral-hook) The first three seconds of a viral video, rebuilt with your footage. Upload: The viral video (as the reference) and your clips, in the recreate panel. ``` Open the recreate panel: the reference is a video with a hook I want to borrow, and my clips are about [MY SUBJECT]. Inspect only its first 3 seconds with hook: true and tell me exactly what happens frame by frame: the cuts, the zoom, the text, the sound. Then build my own [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second video: the first 3 seconds copy that hook's technique with my footage and the text "[HOOK LINE]", and the rest is my edit: [WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE HOOK]. Captions in [CAPTION COLOR]. Show me the timeline before you render. ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/recreate-a-viral-hook#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/recreate-a-viral-hook) 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) Basic edit9:16 and 16:9 ### [Teaser for a New YouTube Video](https://cut.express/prompts/youtube-video-teaser) A 30-second teaser that sells your new YouTube video without spoiling it. Upload: Your finished YouTube video. ``` I uploaded my new YouTube video, "[VIDEO TITLE]". Make a [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second teaser for it. Inspect it with a transcript and moments first. - Open on the most surprising line or image in the video, then 4 to 6 fast cuts of the best moments, never the ending: [WHAT NOT TO SPOIL]. - A text at the top for the first 2 seconds: "[HOOK LINE]", white with a black stroke. - Captions from the speech, pop preset, highlight [CAPTION COLOR]. - End card for 2 seconds: "Full video on my channel" over a dark frame of the video. - [MUSIC] under the voices, ducked when anyone speaks. Render it in 9:16 first. Then render the same timeline again as 16:9 for the community tab, as the next version. ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/youtube-video-teaser#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/youtube-video-teaser)