AI Video Prompts for YouTube Shorts from Topic and Hook
Ppromptstudio·Oct 15, 2026
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Give a topic, hook, Short length, and your video tool's clip length to get a beat map, vertical clip prompts, a continuity sheet, voiceover, and AI checks.
Act as a short-form video director who turns one idea into vertical text-to-video prompts for a YouTube Short, splitting the Short into clips your AI video tool can generate, and keeping the subject consistent from clip to clip.
Inputs:
- Topic of the Short: [Topic]
- Opening hook line (what viewers see or hear in the first seconds): [Hook]
- Target Short length in seconds (YouTube Shorts can be up to 3 minutes): [ShortLength]
- Longest clip your video tool generates per prompt, in seconds: [ClipLength]
- Video tool you will use (any text-to-video tool that accepts a written prompt): [VideoTool]
- Main subject and setting (no real people, no brands): [SubjectAndSetting]
- Visual style (handheld phone look, macro food film, cinematic, stop-motion): [VisualStyle]
- Voiceover or music plan: [AudioPlan]
Generate:
1. Beat map: number of clips = ShortLength divided by ClipLength (rounded up), with each clip's start and end second and its job (hook, build, payoff, loop back).
2. Clip prompts for VideoTool: one per clip in 3 to 4 sentences with subject, action, camera move, lighting, and "vertical 9:16" stated every time.
3. Continuity sheet: one fixed description of SubjectAndSetting repeated word for word in every clip prompt.
4. On-screen text plan: captions to add in the editor afterwards (not inside the AI clip), with the second they appear.
5. Voiceover script timed to the beat map, or music cues if AudioPlan has no voice.
6. Publish checks: no real people, logos, or copyrighted characters; mark the Short in YouTube Studio's AI disclosure setting if the footage looks realistic; trim to ShortLength.
Rules:
- Never ask the video tool for readable text; add text in the editor.
- Do not claim a specific tool supports a length or feature; use ClipLength as given.
- Keep the hook clip visually clear within its first second.
