Let an AI agent study your favorite creator's editing and cut your videos the same way

What you'll get

Pick an explainer video you like. Have your AI agent use the ChatCut editing tool to figure out how it's cut, save that as a "style card," then use the card to cut your own recorded footage. You don't need to open an editing app or understand timelines. This article has 3 prompts you can copy and paste.

Your AI agent does the watching and the cutting. You pick the reference video, record the footage, and tell it what's wrong. You only make the style card once. After that, you can reuse it for every video.

Why make a style card first

If you keep telling your agent "cut it like so-and-so," it understands the request a little differently each time, so the results go up and down. If you write the editing style down as a list of rules and save it, your agent has a fixed standard. You can also point at the card and say which rule to change.

A good explainer video usually comes down to a few things:

• Pacing: how often the picture changes, and how well pauses and filler get cut.

• Subtitles and on-screen text: size, position, and which words get highlighted.

• Motion graphics: when numbers and charts pop up, and how long they stay.

• Sound: whether there's background music, and where the sound effects land.

Step 1: Connect the editing tool to your AI agent

ChatCut is an AI editing tool you control by chatting. It has setup steps for several common AI agents. Find the one you use on its plugin page. Every setup works the same way: send the one line the official page gives you to your agent. It reads the install instructions itself. Partway through, you'll be asked to approve access once and log in to your ChatCut account.

For example, with Grok Bot, which works on your phone, send this line:

Read ChatCut.io/grok to connect the ChatCut app

According to the official instructions, this setup doesn't install anything on your phone or computer. The editing happens in the cloud. You need a ChatCut account and a working subscription to an AI agent.

When you authorize, only type your password on the login page that pops up. If your agent asks for a password or verification code in the chat, don't give it.

Step 2: Have it study the reference video and write a style card

Choose a reference video in the same genre as your content. Keep it short. A few minutes is best. Send the link or file to your agent, then send this prompt:

Writing the style as "rules" matters, because vague words like "snappy" or "has a great feel" give your agent nothing to follow next time. Reading it back to you before saving makes changes easy. Changing one sentence now is much simpler than redoing the whole cut later.

If the link won't open, upload the video file instead, as long as you have the right to use it.

Step 3: Hand over your footage to be cut

Record your own talking-head video (you on camera or an AI avatar both work). Send it to your agent, then send this prompt:

Please use ChatCut to cut the footage I just sent, following the skill [my explainer video style].
1. Only cut the first 30 seconds so I can review them. I'll tell you when to cut the rest.
2. Remove slips of the tongue, repeats, and long pauses first. Then add subtitles, motion graphics, and music.
3. Where a chart or number is needed, only use what I said in my talking part. Don't make up data.
4. For anything that costs ChatCut credits (AI visuals, voiceover, music), tell me what you'll make and roughly how many credits it costs first. Wait for my approval before starting.
5. When it's done, send me the finished video and tell me where to open the project so I can fine-tune it myself.

Checking the first 30 seconds saves most of the rework. If the style is wrong, you've only wasted a short clip. Only using numbers from your talking part stops the agent from making up a chart just to look good.

Step 4: Watch the cut and say what to change

Once the cut is ready, give notes the way you would to a human editor: "Make the subtitles a bit bigger," "The second chart shows up too early," "Turn the music down." Every change it makes stays in your ChatCut project. You can also open the web editor and adjust things yourself.

If the same problem shows up twice, ask your agent to write the fix into the style card. For the next video, just say "cut it using my style card," and you won't need to send the reference video again.

If you'd rather not build a style card yourself, you can use ChatCut's ready-made talking-head recreate skill. It works the same way: you give it a reference video and your own recording. According to the official page, it only uses your own footage. It doesn't swap faces or generate shots.

Notes

• Learn the editing, don't copy the content. You can learn the pacing, the subtitle style, and how the piece is laid out. If you copy someone else's footage, music, or whole package, it can be judged as infringement, and viewers will see it as a knockoff.

• The free plan is enough to test, not to produce at volume. According to the official pricing page, the free plan includes basic editing, motion graphics, and AI subtitles, but web exports have a total length limit. AI-generated visuals and music use credits, and paid plans give you credits every month.

• Your agent's usage limit drains too. Analyzing a long video and revising a cut over and over uses a lot. Pick a short reference video, and collect your notes so you can send them all at once. If you use Grok Bot, read this experience first: Grok Bot's quota runs out in two days.

• Don't expect a perfect match the first time. It usually takes two or three rounds of revising the style card before it's stable. After that is when it really starts saving you time.

References

• ChatCut website: chatcut.io

• Setup for each AI agent: ChatCut plugin page

• Pricing: chatcut.io/pricing

If you want the whole playbook behind a viral video, not just the editing, read this tutorial: Don't just bookmark viral videos, have an agent pull out the formula and swap in your product.