Travel Reel From Your Trip Clips

A travel reel from your trip clips with a look, speed ramps and music.

Pipeline: Basic edit (cut): cuts, captions, looks, speed, split screens, stock, voices and music.
Format: 9:16
Upload: Your trip clips and photos, and a music track if you have one.

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 travel reel of my trip to [PLACE] from my clips. Look at the contact sheets of every clip first.

- Open on the most striking shot with "[HOOK LINE]" in the middle, then the trip in order: arrival, places, food, people, the last evening.
- Cuts on the beat of [MUSIC]. Speed ramps on movement (walking, driving, waves): fast, then slow on the best frame.
- Photos get a slow zoom. Two or three transitions at most; the rest hard cuts.
- Small location labels for each place, bottom left, a clean sans.
- Look: [LOOK], the same on every clip.
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.
[PLACE]: Where you went, for example "Lisbon" or "the Dolomites".
[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".
[LOOK]: The color look by mood, for example "warm and soft", "teal and orange", "crisp and bright", "black and white", "film".

Tips

Shaky clips work as short cuts. Ask your AI to keep the steady ones for the longer shots.
One look over everything makes a phone and a camera feel like one trip.

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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Basic edit16:9

Day in the Life Vlog With a Voice-Over

A day in the life vlog with your narration, time stamps and music.

Upload: Your clips from the day and a voice memo narrating it (or a script to make the voice from).

Make a [LENGTH IN SECONDS]-second 16:9 day in the life vlog from my clips, in the order they were shot. My narration is [MY VOICE MEMO OR A SCRIPT].

- Cut the clips to follow what the voice talks about; inspect them first so every shot matches the line over it.
- A small time stamp text in the top left as the day goes on ("7:10 AM", "12:30 PM"...), mono font.
- Clean my voice (denoise, enhance). [MUSIC] under it, ducked, louder in the parts with no voice.
- [LOOK] look. Captions from the voice, minimal preset.
End on [THE LAST SHOT]. Show me the timeline 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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Basic edit9:16 and 16:9

Teaser for a New YouTube Video

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.

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