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.