YouTube Hook

How it works

Turn your intro script or recording into a YouTube intro hook that keeps people watching: the proof on screen in the first seconds, why it matters, three promises, then straight into your video.

Bring the video's topic and title, your intro as a script, a camera take or a screen recording, and any proof you can show, like the launch post, the product or a result. Your agent shapes it into four beats: the hook with the proof by second 5, one line of context, a promise of exactly three things, and "So let's dive in."

With only a script, it tightens the words and asks you to record them. With a take, it transcribes it for free with local whisper, removes the retakes and shortens every pause to about 0.12 seconds.

There are two layouts. An edited talking head gets punch-ins on sentence boundaries, keyword captions of 1 to 4 words, one full-screen graphic on the context line, pop-up cards and a quiet music bed if you have one you're allowed to use. A framed screen take puts your screen on a gradient with your camera beside it, adds hand-drawn arrows on key lines and skips captions and music.

Every graphic lands just before the word it belongs to, and the last second stays clean, so the intro cuts straight onto the start of your long video.

Your agent renders it and opens it in FrameJam. Pin a comment on the frame where the proof shows up too late or a caption covers your face, and it fixes it and sends the next version.

The example

The example is the intro of Moritz Kremb's video "How to Create Insane Motion Graphics With Opus 5.5", a 23.7-second edited talking head that ends on its proof instead of a promise. The stills show a full-screen cutaway of an AI-made video, the talking head, a card with a list of FrameJam projects and a card with a post of that video. The player at the top also has a version in Riley Brown, made with this playbook.

Example prompts

With FrameJam installed, paste one of these into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor and change the details to yours.

Questions