Footage That Does Not Contradict the Voice

Footage That Does Not Contradict the Voice

Replace the auto-picked clips that argue with the narration, repeat a cliche, or show someone else's logo, before anyone sees the video.

pictory video stock-footage b-roll review

What it is for

A review pass on the stock clips a text-to-video tool chose for you, with the specific clips that must be replaced. Run it on every generated video before export. It prevents a picture that contradicts the claim, worn-out stock cliches, and someone else's brand appearing in your video.

The skill

Automatically chosen stock matches keywords, not meaning. The result is a video
where the narration says one thing and the picture says another — and viewers
believe the picture.

Replace any clip where:
- The image contradicts the line. "Cut your costs" over somebody handing a
  card to a cashier.
- It is a stock cliche. Handshake, lightbulb, rising arrow, four people
  laughing at a laptop. These read as filler, and filler is where people leave.
- There is readable text, a logo, a screen or a recognizable app in shot
  and it is not yours. Another company's product inside your video is a claim
  you did not intend to make.
- The people are not your audience. A video for workshop owners with an
  open-plan tech office in every scene tells them it was not made for them.
- The camera moves under your on-screen text. A fast pan plus words makes
  both unreadable. Use the stillest clip you have wherever text sits.

Prefer, in this order: your own footage or screen recordings, then a plain
colour or texture card carrying the sentence, then stock people. A card with
the sentence on it beats a clip that argues with it.

Two more that decide whether it looks made or assembled:
- Match light and colour across scenes. Three clips at three colour
  temperatures reads as three different videos stapled together.
- Reuse an earlier clip rather than reaching for a worse one. Nobody counts
  repeats; everybody notices the scene that does not belong.

Stock that comes with the tool is licensed for what you make in the tool.
Footage you bring in from elsewhere is yours to clear — keep the licence, and
keep it where the next person can find it.

How to install it

1. Open the tool and start a new conversation, project or template.
2. Paste the text below wherever the tool keeps standing instructions
   — usually called system prompt, instructions, or persona.
3. Save it so it applies to every run rather than a single message.

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Where it came from

Skills app Original