About AI Video prompts
AI video prompts in this collection cover the two halves of the modern video workflow: generating video with models like Sora, Runway, Veo, and Pika; and producing scripts, edits, and post-production assets for traditional or hybrid video projects. The boundary between "AI video" and "traditional video with AI tools" disappeared in 2025 — most working creators now use both stacks, often in the same project.
For generative video, the prompt structure that consistently produces usable output is camera + subject + action + environment + style + duration. Every prompt in this category follows that structure and includes parameters for the major models (Sora's aspect ratio flags, Runway's motion brush hints, Veo's scene description format). The "shot list" prompt takes a script and produces a sequence of these structured prompts for an entire scene.
For script and edit work, the category covers YouTube long-form scripts (with retention hooks at the right timestamps), podcast outlines, video essay structures, and the post-production prompts that automate the boring parts — generating chapter markers, writing video descriptions optimized for search, producing subtitle files, and extracting social cuts from long-form content. The chapter marker prompt alone saves about 20 minutes per video for serious YouTube creators.
Who this is for
- YouTubers shipping long-form content weekly
- Filmmakers using AI for previsualization and B-roll
- Content marketers producing explainer and demo videos
- Educators and course creators recording at scale
How to use these prompts
- 1 For generative video, follow the camera+subject+action+env+style structure
- 2 For YouTube, run the script prompt before recording — retention scaffolding matters
- 3 Use the shot list prompt to convert scripts into model-ready sequences
- 4 Post-production prompts (chapters, descriptions, subtitles) run after upload