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Updated 1 October 2026 · Markdown

Templates

A template is a finished film that Claude remakes as yours. It is an example, not a form: you tell Claude what your film is for, in a few words, and Claude remakes the film with your content, at the template's own length. Change anything you like by saying so. A template is the quick way to a film that is already known to work, such as a promo for an event.

Templates live at kitcut.ai/templates, open to everyone.

The pages

  • kitcut.ai/templates: every template, with its length, its sound (music only or narrated), its frames and how many films were made from it ("New" below five). Pointing at a card plays its film.
  • A category (for example kitcut.ai/templates/events): the templates of one kind.
  • A template's page (for example kitcut.ai/templates/conference-speaker-promo):
    • its film, in each frame it is made in, with Use this template;
    • Make it yours, the box where you say what your film is for;
    • the films people made from it and shared publicly;
    • a description and common questions.

Using a template

  1. Open the template's page and press Use this template, or go straight to Make it yours under the film.
  2. Tell Claude what this film is for. A few words are enough: for an event, its name or its website. The box shows an example. Say anything you want changed too: other words, other colours, which people to feature, what to leave out.
  3. Attach pictures if you have them with Add pictures: a logo, photos of the people to feature, several at once. A template takes as many pictures as its page says, a line-up of speakers more than most. Text files (.txt, .md) can be attached too, such as a programme or notes. Each picture is made smaller in your browser (at most 2048 pixels on its longest side) and sent as soon as you are signed in.
  4. Pick the frame when the template has more than one: a wide 16:9 film or a square 1:1 one.
  5. Press Make my film. Sign in first if you are not signed in: what you wrote and attached is kept in your browser, and you come back to it. The film's own page then opens and shows it being made, as for any film (Your films).

Claude reads what you write and anything you attach, and finds the rest itself, on the web too when it needs to: for an event, its dates, its venue, its speakers and their photos, its logo and its colours. What you give is used instead of what it finds.

  • What you wrote and attached stays in your browser until you press Start over, so the same prompt makes the other frame, or a second film, in a click.
  • A picture is kept by KitCut for 24 hours once it is sent, and a film keeps its own copy. After that, or for the next film, the page sends it again from your browser; it asks you to add a picture again only when your browser no longer has it.
  • A template that changes while its page is open says so: reload the page, and what you wrote is still there.
  • Nothing written and nothing attached is the one thing a template cannot start from: the page asks for a few words first.

What it uses

  • Credits: the template's length rounded up to the next 5 seconds, and at least 30, like any film. A 26-second template uses 30 credits. The page says how many before you start, and how many you have.
  • Held, then charged, and given back automatically when the film fails or is stopped, as for any film (Plans and credits).
  • The Free plan: a film from a template carries the small KitCut mark, as every Free film does (Your films).
  • Time: about as long as a film of its length; the template's page says roughly how long.
  • The same limits as any film: how many films an account makes a day and at once (Limits).

Frames

A template is made in one or more frames: wide 16:9 (YouTube, websites, screens) and square 1:1 (LinkedIn, Instagram and X feeds). Each frame is its own film and uses its own credits. Make the one you need, then use the template again with the same prompt and pictures for the other.

What a template keeps

  • Its length. A film from a template is the template's length; it cannot be made longer or shorter. For a film of another length, type an idea on the home page instead (Making a film).
  • Its look: drawn, painted or collage, as the template was made.
  • Pictures, text files and voice notes can be attached; people drawn as talking characters and projects are for films from an idea (People in films, Characters and projects).

A film made from a template

  • It is your film, with its own making page and share page, in your films and on the account page, and you can publish it to YouTube (Publishing to YouTube).
  • It says where it came from: one line under its title, "Made from the title template · by author", linking to the template's page.
  • Public or link-only, like any film made on the website. A film made through an assistant is link-only unless you ask for it to be public.
  • Films made from it that are public can be shown on the template's page.

Who can see a template

  • Public: in the gallery, its category and search engines.
  • Link-only: anyone with its link can open and use it, but it is not in the gallery or in search.
  • Removed: its page says it was removed and offers templates like it. Films already made from it keep their pages and links.

KitCut makes and reviews every template. Making your own template is not possible yet.

Templates through an assistant

An assistant connected to KitCut can find and use templates for you (Assistants):

  • list_templates lists them; get_template says what one is, gives an example of what to ask for, and how many pictures it takes.
  • make_film with template (its slug or id), idea (what the film is for; a few words are enough) and frame makes a film from it. Pictures are optional, passed as for any film: picture_urls, files attached in the chat, or upload_ids.
  • The film is link-only unless you ask for it to be public.

Not possible yet

  • Making your own template, or changing one.
  • A template's film longer or shorter than the template.