# Restaurant or Café Promo Reel > A mouth-watering reel for a restaurant or café, with the menu and address. A ready prompt for Claude or ChatGPT: fill the blanks, Cut Express renders the video. Canonical: https://cut.express/prompts/restaurant-promo-reel [Real estate and local business](https://cut.express/prompts#real-estate-and-local-business) A mouth-watering reel for a restaurant or café, with the menu and address. - **Pipeline**: Basic edit (cut): cuts, captions, looks, speed, split screens, stock, voices and music. - **Format**: 9:16 - **Upload**: Clips of the food, the room and the team (phone footage is fine). ## 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 reel for [PLACE NAME], a [KIND OF PLACE]. Inspect my clips first. - Open on the best food close-up with "[HOOK LINE]". - Fast cuts on the beat of [MUSIC]: preparation, plating, the room, people enjoying it. Speed ramps on pours and sizzles, slow on the final plate. - Show [DISHES AND PRICES] as small texts next to each dish. - [LOOK] look, warm and appetizing. - End card: the address "[ADDRESS]" and "[CALL TO ACTION]". ``` ## 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. - **[PLACE NAME]**: The name of the place. - **[KIND OF PLACE]**: For example "family pizzeria" or "specialty coffee bar". - **[HOOK LINE]**: The first words on screen, the reason to keep watching, in under ten words. - **[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". - **[DISHES AND PRICES]**: Two or three dishes with prices, as they should read. - **[LOOK]**: The color look by mood, for example "warm and soft", "teal and orange", "crisp and bright", "black and white", "film". - **[ADDRESS]**: The street and neighbourhood. - **[CALL TO ACTION]**: What the viewer should do at the end, in the words to show, for example "Try it free at lumen.app". ## Tips - Film the food in daylight near a window; the look can warm it, but it can't add light. - Short clips of hands at work (pouring, slicing) make the best cuts on the beat. 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 and 16:9 ### [Property Listing Tour From Photos and Clips](https://cut.express/prompts/property-listing-tour) A listing tour with smooth moves on every photo and the price. Upload: The listing's photos and any walkthrough clips. ``` Make a [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second listing video for [ADDRESS OR AREA] from my photos and clips. - Order: the outside, the entrance, living room, kitchen, bedrooms, bathroom, the view or garden last. - Photos: 2.5 seconds each with a slow pan or zoom, never the same move twice in a row. Clips: the smoothest 3 seconds of each. - A lower third at the start: "[PRICE]" and "[KEY DETAILS]". A small label naming each room. - [LOOK], bright and true to the real colors. - [MUSIC], calm. End card: "[CALL TO ACTION]" with [AGENT NAME]. Render 9:16 first, then 16:9 as the next version. ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/property-listing-tour#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/property-listing-tour) Basic edit9:16 ### [Customer Testimonial for a Local Business](https://cut.express/prompts/local-business-testimonial) A short testimonial video with your customer's words, b-roll and captions. Upload: The customer talking to the camera, and a few clips of your work or shop. ``` Make a [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second testimonial for [YOUR BUSINESS] from my customer's interview. Make a transcript. - Keep the strongest sentences only, starting with the result they got: [THE RESULT]. - Cut to my clips of [THE B-ROLL] while they talk about the work (keep their voice running). - A lower third with "[CUSTOMER NAME]" and "[CUSTOMER DETAIL]" in the first 3 seconds. - Clean their voice (denoise, enhance). Captions, clean preset. - End card: "[CALL TO ACTION]". Show me the sentences you kept before you render. ``` [Fill in](https://cut.express/prompts/local-business-testimonial#fill) [Tips](https://cut.express/prompts/local-business-testimonial) 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)