Prompt cookbook for faceless YouTubers
Copy-paste prompts for the niches we see most: comic, history, finance, sleep, scary, tech.
These prompts are battle-tested against the agent. Tweak the bolded parts.
### Comic / superhero facts (Shorts)
> Make a **30s** vertical Short — 5 comic-style facts about **a flying hero with a cape**. Red + yellow palette, halftone dots, big chromatic title cards, whoosh between facts. End with "follow for more" frame.
### Anime facts (Shorts)
> 25s vertical anime-style facts hook about **legendary ninja clans**. Pink + cyan + speed lines, chromatic title, glitch on every fact reveal, electronic build under the music.
### Historical mystery (long-form intro)
> 45s 16:9 intro for a video titled **"What really happened at Roanoke?"** Sepia tones, slow ken-burns on parchment, candle flicker, low brass drone. Ends on the title held for 3 seconds.
### Finance hook (Shorts)
> 20s vertical finance hook: **3 ways the rich think differently about money**. Black + gold + green palette. Ticker tape strip at the bottom. Each fact pops in with a coin clink.
### Sleep story intro (long-form)
> 60s 16:9 intro for a sleep story about **an ancient forgotten library**. Indigo + soft amber, slow ambient pads, fog drifting, no quick cuts, no flashes. Whisper-quiet narration cue at 0:55.
### Scary story (Shorts)
> 30s vertical horror hook — **"The thing my neighbor saw on his lawn"**. Dark blue + sickly green, vignette, low rumbling, glitch on the title, sudden cut to a frozen frame at the end.
### Tech tutorial intro
> 15s 16:9 intro for **"How I built a $10k app in a weekend"**. Dark UI aesthetic, terminal-green accents, code rain background, animated arrow pointing to a number that ticks up to $10,000.
### Long-form intro + chapters (10-min YouTube)
> 10-minute (600s) 16:9 long-form video about **the unsolved mystery of the Voynich manuscript**. Sepia palette, serif type, slow ken-burns on parchment, 5 chapter title cards spaced ~2 minutes apart with held silence between them, no flashes, low brass drone bed. End with a "subscribe for part 2" frame.
Long-form briefs work best when you specify chapter count and let the agent space them. Compositions can be up to 15 minutes (`totalDurationSeconds` cap = 900).
### Tips that always work
- **Specify duration explicitly.** "30s" beats "short". For long-form use "600s" or "10 minutes".
- **Name the palette.** Two or three colors is better than five.
- **Say what you DON'T want.** "No flashes" / "no quick cuts" / "no sound effects on this one" — the agent obeys negative constraints.
- **Reference vibes, not IP.** Say "comic superhero", not the actual character name.
- **Give the title text.** The agent will design around it.
- **For long-form, ask for chapters.** "5 chapter title cards" lets the agent structure pacing properly.