A prompt is a text phrase that the ClipAnything AI interprets to clip your videos. You can type your prompt to find a scene, action, character, event, emotional moment, social-worthy topic, and more. A well-crafted prompt can help our AI find the exact moments you want from your original video.

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Use prompts to…

✅ Find a moment/scene

  • Examples

    • Find the moments most likely to go viral on social media

    • Show me moments with strong opinions or words

    • Give me the part where Patrick Mahomes throws a 3-yard touchdown

    • Find me the most hilarious part of Snoop Dogg narrating Animal Planet

✅ Find action

  • Examples

    • Show me the host unboxing a new tech gadget and explaining its features

    • Show me the jaguar killing the snake

    • Find the moment of Will Smith smacking Chris Rock

✅ Find emotion

  • Examples

    • Clip my exciting reactions to tasting shawarma

    • Find all the laughing scenes

    • Find the moments when the two actors argue and one of them cries

✅ Find a character

  • Examples

    • Find Spiderman

    • Find Emma Stone walking down the red carpet

✅ Create a compilation video

  • Examples

    • Compile all Man City’s scoring

    • Find all the scenes with laughter

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Do not use prompts to…

❌ Edit the visual or audio aspects of the video

  • Examples

    • Remove the flickering

    • Clean up the audio

    • Change aspect ratio to 9:16

    • Add emojis

    • Add transition

    • Focus on the screenshare and what’s on the screen

Do it in the brand template, or in the editing page after the clip is generated.

❌ Control clip length

  • Examples

    • Separate videos from 30 seconds to 1 minute with subtitles

    • Turn this into a ten minute video?

Do it in submission box: select preferred “Clip Length”

❌ Apply a cinematic effect to the video

  • Examples

    • Add the fade transition at the end of the clip

    • Add a lens flare effect at the beginning of the clip

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Prompting guidelines

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Use clear wording

Try to be clear about any context or details that are important to you. Think about:

  • Subject: person, animal, character, location, object

  • Visual: the women in yellow dress,

  • Action: Patrick Mahomes throws a touchdown, the host reviews the product

  • Sentiment: happy, laugh, excited, cry, sad, surprise, angry

  • Sound: Audience cheering, door open, dog bark, vehicle horn

❌ Do not use descriptions that are too vague

  • Examples

    • Create videos

    • For Instagram stories

    • Do it

❌ Do not use random input

  • Examples

    • jfgx

    • n/a

❌ Do not write prompt in non-English language

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Focus on what you want

It is better to focus on finding moments in the video that you want, instead of what you don’t want.