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url: https://superduperai.co/library/broll/
title: B-roll
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# B-roll

Finding, generating and placing cutaways that show what is being said.

- [From a sentence to five search queries and one generation prompt](https://superduperai.co/library/broll-search-query-generator-prompt.md): A prompt that turns each line needing a cutaway into five queries for your own footage or a stock site, ordered from literal to loose, plus one generation prompt as the fallback when nothing is found.
- [B-roll shot list from a transcript: the table to film or generate from](https://superduperai.co/library/broll-shot-list-from-transcript-table.md): An agent prompt that reads a transcript and returns a shot table (timestamp, line, shot, source: have / film / generate) for a camera or a video model, grouped so each location is filmed once.
- [Cutaway matching: sentence to a literal visual, same place and time](https://superduperai.co/library/cutaway-matching-sentence-to-visual-prompt.md): A prompt that reads each sentence of a transcript and names the one picture that shows it, with the place and time it must come from, so the shot list is a list of things, not moods.
- [Generated b-roll or real: the decision rule](https://superduperai.co/library/generated-vs-real-broll-decision-rule.md): When a generated cutaway is fine (faceless, no logos, no claim about a real place or time) and when only footage from the same day will do. Five questions, in order, before you open a video model.
- [A mentioned object must be seen, ideally just before the line about it](https://superduperai.co/library/mentioned-object-must-be-seen-checklist.md): The rule that turns 'X is mentioned, never shown' from a viewer complaint into a check you run on the transcript: every named thing gets a shot, placed just before or on the line.
- [Screen-recording b-roll for app demos: what to record, size, cursor](https://superduperai.co/library/screen-recording-broll-rules-app-demos.md): Rules for screen captures used as cutaways in a product video: real-looking data, output-size or 2x resolution, a slow cursor, one action per clip, and what makes a recording unusable.