Briefing a video

Choose the presenter, styles and format a video is made from.

The Choose Presenter picker open below the brief, with an Include defaults checkbox, a Find Presenter search and one presenter card, Bent, carrying a speaker icon to hear the voice and a plus to choose it.

A brief is the set of choices Prism makes a video from. Three are required, and the rest shape the result.

Start from a preset

If your account has presets, start there. The first four sit as cards in the PRESETS row, and the rest are under More presets, which shows how many more there are. Each one summarises its format on one line, such as 1:00 · 16:9 · ENGLISH.

Choosing one fills the format, the presenter and both styles, and the brief is ready to create. CLEAR, above the row, empties the brief so you can start again.

You can change anything a preset filled. Presets covers making your own.

Choose a presenter

ADD A PRESENTER opens Choose Presenter below the brief. It lists your account's presenters, with Find Presenter to search them. Tick Include defaults to add Prism's own.

The speaker icon on a card plays a sample of the voice. Choose a presenter with the + on its card.

The slot then shows the presenter's name and mode, such as PERSONALITY IN SCRIPT · VOICE ONLY. Synthetic voices explains the modes.

Choose a script style

ADD A SCRIPT STYLE opens Choose script style, with Find script style to search it. Each card carries a name and a line on how that style writes. Choose one with the + on its card.

Script styles covers what a style holds.

Choose a video style

ADD A VIDEO STYLE opens Choose video style, with Find video style to search it. The style decides the pacing, graphics, music and framing.

Video styles covers what a style holds.

Change a choice

A filled slot carries a pencil. Choose it to open the picker again, and pick something else. The rest of the brief stays as it was.

When a video style takes over

Some video styles bring their own presenter, their own script rules, or both. Choose one, and the slot it replaces greys out with a padlock and the badge SET BY VIDEO STYLE. What you picked there is not used.

The brief with a vertical cutdown video style chosen: the presenter and script style cards are greyed out, each carrying a padlock and the badge Set by video style, while both create buttons stay available.

Set the format

LENGTH is a dial: step it with the arrows, from 0:45 up to 4:45. ASPECT RATIO is 16:9 for landscape or 9:16 for vertical. LANGUAGE sets the language of the video.

Add instructions

Additional Instructions (Optional) carries anything else Prism should know about the assignment, in your own words: an angle to lead with, a name to get right, a point to leave out.

For a writing rule that applies to every video, use a guide instead.

Save a brief that works

When a video comes out right, open its menu in Project Outputs and choose Save as Preset. The next brief is then one click.