# Prompt bar

Edit / Edit effect / Overlays and inserts. Checked 2026-11-13.

Shows the instruction that caused what follows.

- Use when: AI product demos, edits made by an agent.
- Phrase: a chat input opens at the bottom of the frame, the instruction types itself, sends, and a check mark appears
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/effect/prompt-bar
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/effect/prompt-bar.json

## Watch out

- Drive the letters and the key clicks from one list of character times, so every click lands on its letter. (practitioner; Director Chair notes on A Blender film from one request (Riley Brown, Claude Fable 5.2))

## Prompts

### Any chat model

```
Give me an edit brief: where it goes on the timeline, the exact settings, and what to check before export, for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. The technique is prompt bar: shows the instruction that caused what follows. How it works: a chat input opens at the bottom of the frame, the instruction types itself, sends, and a check mark appears. It is right for: aI product demos, edits made by an agent. Drive the letters and the key clicks from one list of character times, so every click lands on its letter. Be concrete: numbers, seconds and settings, no theory. Ask me one question first if something you need is missing.
```

## Goes well with

- One clock for picture and sound: https://directorchair.ai/sound/one-clock-for-sound
- Show the making: https://directorchair.ai/effect/show-the-making

## Source

Own words from Director Chair notes on Reel Kit (Justyn The AI Guy) (described from the frames of two clips; no result per effect was measured) and Director Chair notes on A Blender film from one request (Riley Brown, Claude Fable 5.2)

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.