The Best Prompts for Editing Sports Highlights
When you use AI like ChatGPT, Claude or Eddie to edit your sports highlights, here are the best prompts to use.
Nothing is said during a goal, so sports prompts describe what happens in the picture. Eddie watches the match for the plays you name, then builds the reel, the replays and the clips.
Replace the parts in [square brackets] with your own details. Each prompt asks for one result, so you can run them in order or pick the one you need.
Rough cut
The full reel
Make a [2.5]-minute highlight reel of the plays you found, in match order. Start each one [5] seconds before the play and hold [3] seconds of the celebration after it.
Eddie builds a clip sequence from the found moments with the handles you asked for.
One player's game
Find every play involving [our number 9 in the white kit] and make a [90]-second reel of them.
Eddie searches the picture for the player you describe. Check the results, since a number can be hard to read at a distance.
Highlights
Find every key play
Watch both halves and find every [goal], every [save by our keeper] and any [shot that hits the post]. Give me the time, a one-line description and how sure you are.
Eddie quotes the credits for the footage length, then searches the picture and sound and returns each play with a confidence.
Just the goals
Find only the goals in this match and make a [45]-second reel of them with the score after each.
Eddie finds the goals, builds the reel and adds a title after each.
Captions
Score and names on screen
Add a title after each goal with the scorer and the score, such as "[Name], 1-0", and "Final, [2-1]" at the end.
Eddie places each title after the play you named.
Coach's words captioned
Open the reel with the coach's line "[line from the post-match interview]" with captions.
Eddie takes the line from the transcribed interview and captions it.
B-roll
Eddie uses your own b-roll first. Where you have nothing that fits, it searches stock footage: free Pexels clips, plus your own Shutterstock catalog if you connect it. When neither has the shot, it can generate a short b-roll clip. It quotes the credits first and generates nothing until you agree. You can also tell it to use only your own footage.
The crowd between plays
Between plays, add [2]-second shots of the crowd and the bench from the [sideline camera].
Eddie places your own coverage between the plays.
Music
Driving music on the beat
Put a driving [rock] track under the reel and snap the cuts to the beat.
Eddie attaches or generates the track, measures the beat grid and moves the cuts onto it.
Slow-motion replays
After each goal, add a replay from the [goal-end camera] ramped to [40]% speed and back.
Eddie adds the replay from your second camera with a speed ramp.
Export
Reel and clips
Export the full reel as a 1080p MP4 and each goal clip as a vertical MP4.
Eddie renders every edit in the cloud.
A sharp 4K reel
Quote me a 4K upscaled export of the full reel, and start it only when I confirm the price.
Eddie prices the 4K upscale first and starts nothing until you confirm.
Questions
- Can Eddie find plays with no commentary?
- Yes. Eddie searches video by watching the picture with its sound, so commentary is not needed.
- Which sports does this work for?
- Any sport you can describe in words: every try, every three-pointer, every wicket, every ace.
- Do these prompts work with ChatGPT or Claude?
- Yes, when ChatGPT or Claude is connected to Eddie through its MCP server, which does the watching and editing.
Social clips
A clip per goal
Make a 9:16 clip of each goal with its replay, cropped to the [goal-mouth] side of the frame.
Eddie builds a vertical edit per goal with a fixed crop on the part of the frame you named.