Prompts for video creators: ideas, scripts, and descriptions

You've just spent six hours editing a video about restoring old bikes. It's done, the export is running, and what's left is writing the title, the description, and the chapters. You type "give me a catchy title" and you get "This abandoned bike will SHOCK you!" That isn't your channel, and you know it.

This is what the AI most often does: it produces the average of what's said on the platform. Your viewers came for the way you talk and for what you know about the subject. So the prompts below always start from you: your tone, your past videos, your facts.

Finding ideas that fit your channel

A list of ideas about "bikes" is unusable. A list built from what has worked for you is more useful.

I run a video channel about [SPECIFIC SUBJECT, E.G., RESTORING VINTAGE BIKES], for [AUDIENCE: LEVEL, APPROXIMATE AGE, WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR].

My three best-performing videos: [TITLES AND ONE LINE ON WHY, IN MY VIEW].
My two worst-performing: [TITLES].
What I can do that few people do: [SKILL, ACCESS, EQUIPMENT].
What I don't want to do: [E.G., CLICKBAIT, VIDEOS OVER 15 MINUTES].

Suggest 12 video ideas. For each one: the working title, the promise made to the viewer in one sentence, and the scene or demonstration that would be the heart of the video.
Rule out generic ideas that any channel on the subject could make. For each idea, say which of my strengths it uses.

An AI doesn't know your channel's real audience or how the platform's recommendations currently work. Treat its list as brainstorming material and test your ideas against your own analytics.

Writing the hook and the structure of a script

Most viewers decide very quickly whether they're staying. The first seconds must say what the video will give them, with a precise image or fact.

I'm preparing a [LENGTH] video about [SUBJECT]. Promise: [WHAT THE VIEWER WILL HAVE AT THE END].

Here are my notes and the sequences I've already shot:
[NOTES, SEQUENCES, ANECDOTES, VERIFIED FIGURES]

Propose a structure in parts with, for each, the goal and the approximate duration. Write three versions of the hook (15 seconds maximum out loud): one that starts from a scene, one from a concrete question, one from a result.
Stay in my tone: I speak directly, with a bit of dry humor, in the first person. Invent no anecdote and no figure; flag the places where I'm missing a piece of information or an image.

Read the text out loud. Written text reads differently from spoken, and a sentence that works on the page can be impossible to say. If you want the AI to pick up your style, the article on style explains how to build a voice sheet from your past scripts.

Titles, description, and chapters from a finished video

This part saves time without losing quality, because you supply complete material: the transcript.

Here is the transcript of my video, with timestamps:

[PASTE THE TRANSCRIPT]

1. Suggest 8 titles, 60 characters maximum, faithful to the actual content of the video. None of them promises something the video doesn't show.
2. Write the description: two sentences saying what you learn, then the list of chapters with their timestamps (in 00:00 format), then the list of equipment mentioned.
3. Pick out the links or tools I mentioned out loud that I need to remember to add.

Use only what is said in the transcript. If a timestamp is uncertain, say so.

Check the timestamps and the names of the products cited: those are the places where the AI makes mistakes without warning. To get output in an exact format, the article on imposing a format will be useful.

What you keep under your control

• The truth of your titles. A title that promises more than the video delivers drives viewers away the next minute.
• Rights. If you ask for AI-generated images, music, or voice, check the tool's commercial-use terms. This article gives the reference points for images.
• The platform's disclosures. Platforms have rules on labeling content produced or altered by AI, especially when it looks real. Read those of yours; they change.
• Anything sensitive. Don't reuse a medical, legal, or financial fact proposed by the AI without checking it.

To try today, take your latest published video, paste its transcript into the third prompt, and compare the titles you get with yours. Keep a word or a turn of phrase you wouldn't have found, and throw out the rest.