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.