Prompts

Vlog b-roll prompts

These prompts pull the right shots from your uploads for a vlog (talking to camera at each stop, b-roll of hands, food, places, walking) and place them on…

By Sulan Zhang, co-founder of Vyra · Updated 2026-09-24

Format: Vlog
Step: B-roll
Length: 60-90s short, 8-20 min long
Aspect: 9:16 short, 16:9 long
Platforms: YouTube, TikTok, Reels, Shorts

Real examples from @sulansart

At a glance


Shot list	Talking to camera at each stop. B-roll of hands, food, places, walking. Doors and cars as transitions. A closing talk.
Pacing	Talking 5-15 seconds, b-roll 2-4 seconds
Caption style	Phrase captions on speech, none on b-roll
Avoid	40 seconds of talking with no cut; No point to the day; Music over your voice

Prompt it in Vyra

Minimal:

Add b-roll from my clips over the parts where I talk about something you can show.

Standard:

Add b-roll to my vlog from the clips I uploaded.
Look for these shots. Talking to camera at each stop. B-roll of hands, food, places, walking. Doors and cars as transitions. A closing talk.
Pacing: talking 5-15 seconds, b-roll 2-4 seconds.
Put each clip on the words it shows and keep my audio running underneath.

Full:

Add b-roll to my vlog from the clips I uploaded.
Look for these shots. Talking to camera at each stop. B-roll of hands, food, places, walking. Doors and cars as transitions. A closing talk.
Pacing: talking 5-15 seconds, b-roll 2-4 seconds.
Put each clip on the words it shows and keep my audio running underneath.
Keep captions on during b-roll.
Avoid these. 40 seconds of talking with no cut. No point to the day. Music over your voice.
Don't use any clip twice. When you're done, list which clip went where with timestamps.

Why these settings

The shot list is the one from our vlog page. Asking for shots by what's in them is faster than digging up file names.
"Keep my audio running" stops it from cutting your voice along with the picture.
The pacing line (talking 5-15 seconds, b-roll 2-4 seconds) sets how long b-roll stays before it cuts back.
A list of placements with timestamps makes the result quick to check.

Fixes

B-roll stays too long. "Come back to my face after 3 seconds of b-roll."
Wrong shot. "At 0:22 use the close-up of my hands instead."
Cuts away mid-word. "Only cut to b-roll at the end of a word."

FAQ

Does it use stock footage? No. It only uses the clips you upload. We don't generate footage.

Do I need every shot before I start? No. Run it with what you have. Then film the rest of the shot list (talking to camera at each stop, b-roll of hands, food, places, walking, doors and cars as transitions, a closing talk), upload it to the same project, and run the prompt again.