Choose a recipe
A recipe is a ready-made app: you pick it from Start from a recipe in a project, fill in a few settings, and press Run. Each recipe page below says what to set before you run it, what it costs in words, what you get and what to do when something goes wrong. The exact price of a run shows on the run page before you start it.
Make a promo video from your app
| You want | Use | Needs |
|---|---|---|
| A short promo of your app's real screens | Promo video from your code | Your app's source code in the project |
| The same promo, for a large app, with less reading per step | Promo video from your code (lighter) | Your source code |
| A promo that follows your brand colours, type and product notes | Promo video in your brand | An approved design and product profile |
| A promo with soft animated backgrounds behind the scenes | Promo video with AI backgrounds | Your source code and a video-generation provider |
Edit footage you filmed
| You want | Use | Needs |
|---|---|---|
| Dead air, false starts and retakes cut out | Highlight edit from footage | Your clips |
| A more considered cut on long or story-driven footage | Highlight edit, decided by an editing team | Your clips |
| The same edit with background music | Footage edit with background music | Your clips and a music track you upload |
| The same edit with a narration and captions | Footage edit with narration and captions | Your clips and a voice provider |
| The same edit plus extra AI-generated shots (cold open, cutaways, end card) | Footage edit with AI-generated b-roll | Your clips and a video-generation provider |
Add subtitles to a finished video
| You want | Use | Needs |
|---|---|---|
| Subtitles burned into a finished video, in the language spoken, plus SRT and VTT files | Add subtitles to a video | Your video and a speech-to-text provider |
| The same subtitles translated into another language, with the original timing | Add subtitles to a video | Your video, a speech-to-text provider and a chat AI provider |
The run page has no download button for the SRT and VTT files yet; the page above says where to find them.
Put a screen recording on a screen in a clip
| You want | Use | Needs |
|---|---|---|
| A screen recording, video or picture placed on a green screen in your clip | Green-screen insert | A clip with a green screen and the content to place |
What ReelBolt cannot do yet
- Talking avatars. There is no recipe that makes a presenter appear and speak from a script. For a narrated video, use Footage edit with narration and captions on real footage, or a promo with a voiceover.
- Image carousels. There is no recipe that makes a set of still slides for a social carousel.
- Reformatting a finished video. There is no recipe that takes a finished video and re-cuts it to another shape, such as a landscape film into a vertical one. You choose the shape (Shape in Run settings) before a recipe makes a new video; you cannot change it after.
If your goal is not in the tables, describe it to the assistant. It tells you which recipe is closest, or that none fits, instead of starting a run that cannot give you what you asked for.
Before you press Run
Every recipe shows a short readiness line above Run. A missing clip, code archive, music track, profile or provider is named there, with a link that fixes it. See Run settings for what each setting changes.