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Automate video creation

This is real work, not a feature someone invented — it comes from real job ads and real questions people asked. Below are four ready AI prompts: get it done, make it easy for the next person to say yes to, work out the right move when you are stuck, and stop it coming back.

3prompts

The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AImprove — make it easier to acceptThis animation for the new product launch feels a bit flat. Can you suggest some ways to add…+
This animation for the new product launch feels a bit flat. Can you suggest some ways to add more dynamic movement to the logo reveal without making it too chaotic, so it really pops on social media?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
BDecide — diagnose the stuck momentI just got feedback that the client wants the entire explainer video to feel more 'energetic'…+
I just got feedback that the client wants the entire explainer video to feel more 'energetic' but also 'professional'.
I just got feedback that the client wants the entire explainer video to feel more 'energetic' but also 'professional'. I'm not sure if they mean faster cuts, more vibrant colors, or different transitions. My usual go-to's aren't hitting the mark, and I'm afraid of going down the wrong path and wasting time. What's the best way to interpret this feedback and start experimenting without overhauling everything?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CBecome — change the patternI often struggle to estimate how long complex motion graphics will take, leading to missed…+
I often struggle to estimate how long complex motion graphics will take, leading to missed deadlines.
I often struggle to estimate how long complex motion graphics will take, leading to missed deadlines and frustrated project managers. I tend to underestimate the time for revisions and rendering. What habit should I change to get better at scoping out motion graphics projects, so my time estimates are more accurate and I don't overpromise?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

Questions people actually ask

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from Adobe After Effects's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.