Product Screenshot-to-Promo Video Prompt

What this prompt is for

Use this prompt with a writing or planning model to create a production-ready storyboard, then build the motion in an editor or code animation system. Generative video may be useful for a background or a lifestyle shot, but an app interface should usually remain a real screenshot so the product is represented accurately.

Prepare your variables

Full prompt template

Act as a product video storyboard editor. Build a [DURATION]-second [FORMAT] promo from these approved screenshots: [ASSET LIST].
Product: [PRODUCT]. Audience: [AUDIENCE]. Demonstrate only this supported benefit: [ONE CLAIM].
Return a timed table with scene, source asset, framing, movement, cursor action, caption, transition and audio notes. Open with the problem or outcome, demonstrate one feature, then end on [APPROVED CTA].
Keep all interface text, icons, numbers and layout unchanged. Animate the source screenshots as flat layers; do not redraw them with a generative model. Cursor movement must point to an existing control and stop before any claimed result. If an interaction is not shown in the assets, mark it “capture required” rather than inventing it.
Use short captions added in editing. State safe-area and legibility checks separately for portrait and landscape. Avoid promising a result that the screenshots do not prove.
End with a delivery checklist and identify any missing assets or unsupported claims before rendering.

Negative instructions

Fabricated interface controls, invented product metrics, false before-and-after results, unreadable generated UI text, endless spinning device mockups, cursor clicks with no demonstrated outcome, unsupported pricing claims.

Use a dedicated negative field only when the selected model supports one. Otherwise describe the desired stable behavior positively in the main prompt.

Filled example

Product: a fictional task planner. Audience: freelance designers. Assets: 01-board.png shows an approved empty project; 02-task.png shows a task with a due date; 03-review.png shows the review column. Benefit: keep one project’s tasks visible in one place. Make a 15-second 9:16 storyboard: 0–3s show the project board; 3–8s frame the existing task card and due date; 8–12s show the real review column; 12–15s hold the approved “Explore the planner” CTA. Keep screenshots flat and legible. Use two restrained transitions. Mark a drag-and-drop demonstration “capture required” unless a recording is supplied. Provide a separate 16:9 framing plan.

Target result and acceptance check

A timed shot list that can be handed to an editor or implemented as code animation. It does not produce a video file by itself and does not demonstrate that a real product has the fictional example’s features.

1. Watch once at normal speed for the intended action.
2. Inspect the beginning, middle and end for face, hands, objects and background changes.
3. Compare with your reference and brief. Keep the prompt, settings and reference together so revisions can change one factor at a time.

If the first result fails

UI text is distorted

Replace the generated screen with the original screenshot and animate only its position, scale or highlight layers.

Portrait text is too small

Show a relevant crop or split the feature into two scenes; do not squeeze the full desktop UI into a phone frame.

A caption makes a stronger claim than the evidence

Rewrite it as a visible action or obtain a supporting demonstration.

The clip has too many features

Choose the single feature that earns the CTA. Save the rest for another clip.

Frequently asked questions

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