> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.clueso.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Chat with Director
> Learn how to use Director — Clueso's AI assistant that builds and edits videos from your instructions
Director is the AI that builds videos and articles for you inside Clueso. You describe what you want, it does the work — writes the script, records the voiceover, lays out every slide, animates your logo, adds music, and hands you a finished project you can still edit by hand.
How well it works depends almost entirely on what you say in that first message.
**The one idea to take away:** Treat Director like a freelance video editor you just hired, not a search box. A good brief takes ninety extra seconds to write and saves you twenty minutes of back-and-forth.
## Opening Director
Open the menu at the top right of the editor and click **Chat with Director**. You can also press **Cmd+I** (or **Ctrl+I** on Windows) to open it quickly.
## What Director can do
Director can do more than most people ask it to.
**Build the whole thing**
* Make a video from scratch, from an idea, or from a template
* Turn a PowerPoint, Word doc, or PDF into a video
* Turn a screen recording into a polished product demo
* Write a help-centre article alongside the video (or instead of it)
**Write and speak**
* Write the script and narration
* Generate the voiceover in the voice you pick
* Add background music
* Time the narration to what's happening on screen
**Design and animate**
* Lay out every slide — text, shapes, images, colours, fonts
* Animate elements and transitions
**Ask it to look.** Director can view the frames it has built. "Look at clip 4 and tell me if anything's off" is genuinely useful — it will often spot a spacing or contrast problem you couldn't articulate.
## Writing a good first message
The most common message people send Director is the word "animate". The second most common is "I want to create a video". Both tell Director nothing — and both trigger a follow-up question, so you never save time.
A good first message covers three things:
1. **What you want** — the type of video, the topic, and the key points
2. **Who it's for** — your audience and what they already know
3. **How it should feel** — the tone, style, and length
Attach your files — logo, footage, deck, or document — in the same message, not after.
## Starter prompts you can copy
### Product announcement
> Make a 30-second announcement video for the launch of \[feature]. Audience is existing customers who already use \[product]. Modern and premium — this should feel like a product launch, not a tutorial. Use our brand colours (navy #1A3D7C and white) and keep the animation subtle. Focus on the outcome for the user, not a feature list. Ending frame: our logo plus "Available now." Logo attached.
### Logo animation
> Create a 5-second logo reveal from the attached logo. Keep the logo exactly as it is — don't redesign or recolour it. Style: minimal and premium, white background, one accent colour taken from the logo. The wordmark should appear after the mark, not at the same time. No sound.
### Turning a deck into a video
> Here's our pitch deck (attached). Turn it into a 90-second explainer video. Keep the slide order but cut the detail — one idea per clip. Confident, plain-English narration, no buzzwords. Use the deck's own colours and fonts. Skip the team and pricing slides.
### Screen recording into a demo
> I've attached a screen recording of our dashboard. Turn it into a 45-second product demo for prospects who've never seen the product. Trim the dead time at the start, zoom in when I click into the reports section, and write narration that explains what I'm doing and why it matters. Add light background music.
### Help article
> Write a help-centre article explaining how to \[do the thing], based on the attached recording. Audience is non-technical end users. Numbered steps, screenshots for each step, short sentences. No video needed.
## Steering Director mid-build
Once Director starts building, you'll want to guide it rather than start over.
* **Be specific about what to change.** "Fix clip 3 — the title text is too small and the background should be darker" is much better than "this doesn't look right."
* **Name the clip and name the fix.** Director works best when you point at exactly where the problem is.
* **If you like 90% of it, say so.** Then describe the 10% you want changed. Otherwise you risk losing the parts that were working.
* **Use undo to roll back.** Every message has an undo button. If the last few changes made things worse, roll back rather than trying to describe your way out.
* **It's fine to change direction.** "Actually, forget the intro, start at the demo" works at any point.
## Common mistakes to avoid
"animate", "go", "start", "yes" — these always trigger a follow-up question, so you never save time. Give Director something to work with.
"Animate this logo" or "use this image" with no file attached. Always attach files in the same message where you reference them.
"Make a video on flowers" describes a topic. It says nothing about the point, the audience, or the length — so Director has to invent all three. Add context.
If most of the video is working, don't ask Director to redo it. Name the specific clips and changes you want instead.
Director doesn't know your brand colours, your competitors, or last quarter's launch unless it's in the conversation, in a clueprint, or in a file you attached.
## Quick reference
1. Say what you want, who it's for, and how it should feel — before anything else.
2. Attach your logo, footage, deck, or link in the same message.
3. Use a clueprint if one fits — it does most of the design work for you.
4. Answer Director's questions with a sentence, not a single click.
5. When something's wrong, name the clip and name the fix.
The habit that matters most: write the first message like you're briefing a person, and everything after that gets easier.
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Start a video by describing what you want