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# ClipAnything Prompts Manual

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.

# 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

# 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

# Prompting guidelines

## **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**

## **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.