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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.
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