Guide
ChatGPT can suggest b-roll shots, but it can't put them in your video by itself
Updated
B-roll is the extra footage that plays over your voice. ChatGPT can tell you which shots to use, but an editor has to place each clip on the right words.
In short
- No, ChatGPT can't add b-roll to a video on its own, as of November 2026. It writes shot ideas and search words, and an editor places the clips.
- An app connected to ChatGPT, like ChatCut or invideo, can add b-roll in its own editor. You need an account with that app.
- Cutroom's Magic Editor adds b-roll for you: Jacob, its AI editor, finds clips in your Cutroom library or on Pexels and Pixabay and puts each one on the words it shows.
A coffee creator's 25-second tip, before and after Cutroom's Magic Editor
ChatGPT would give you the idea "close-up of coffee being poured" as text. Jacob puts a stock pour-over clip on the word itself.
Drawing of an example clip, not a customer video
Before · the clip as filmed
A 25-second phone video of a home barista giving a tip in her kitchen
“Okay, so I start every morning with a pour-over. Um, the trick is to wet the, uh, wet the paper filter first, so your coffee doesn't taste like paper.”
struck through = what Jacob cuts
After · Jacob's first edit, Steps style
“I start every morning with a pour-over. the trick is to wet the paper filter first, so your coffee doesn't taste like paper.”
- On “pour-over”: a b-roll clip of coffee being poured, from a stock site
- On “filter”: a b-roll clip of a paper filter being rinsed, from a stock site
- On “paper”: the word paper set big in your brand colour
- Under the whole video: calm music under your voice
Then you ask Jacob
- “Can you find 3 b-roll clips that fit what I'm saying?”v2a new version with three b-roll clips picked for the whole video, each on the line it fits
- “Put a clip on the strongest sentence”v3one more clip on the sentence that carries the tip
What ChatGPT can do for b-roll
ChatGPT can plan your b-roll. Paste in your script, and it suggests a shot for each sentence as plain text.
It doesn't hand back a video with those shots in it. Even OpusClip, which sells a ChatGPT app, says on its own page that ChatGPT can't cut footage by itself.
- It can suggest a shot for each sentence, like "close-up of coffee being poured" for a line about your morning coffee.
- It can tell you which sentences need a clip most, and which are better with just your face.
- It can turn your script into a shot list with search words. Paste your script and type: "For each sentence, suggest one b-roll shot and three search words for Pexels."
- It can't download the clips, place them on your words or export the finished video.
How to put b-roll into your video
B-roll works when the clip appears as you say the word it shows, and leaves before the next idea. That needs an editor that knows when each word is said.
You can do it by hand in any editor: find the word, drop the clip on top and trim it to fit. Or you can let an app do it.
- ChatCut, set up in the ChatGPT desktop app, lists "add B roll" among the changes you can ask for. It needs a ChatCut account.
- invideo's ChatGPT app adds shots to a timeline in invideo's own editor. Its example asks for three b-roll clips of a city at sunrise.
- To do it by hand in an editor like CapCut, put the clip on a track above your video and trim it to the length of the words it shows.
How Cutroom's Magic Editor edits a video like this
Jacob is the AI editor inside Cutroom's Magic Editor: it edits your video for you, then changes it when you ask in a chat.
The 4 styles, as example edits
Steps
Three steps, four angles
Skit
Hook, hard stop, demo card
Verdict
The tester's verdict
Poster
Typography does the talking
Hover or tap an example to play it, without sound. These are example edits of each style; the presenters in them are generated with AI.
- Your take: one video of you talking, up to 3 minutes
- Your style: one of 4: Steps, Skit, Verdict or Poster
- Your files: screenshots, a screen recording or a logo, if you have them
- Your goal: what the video is for, in a few words, if you like
- Jacob makes it: normally 10 to 15 minutes, and you get an email
- Your edit: ask Jacob for changes in a chat, then export
Then you ask Jacob, for example
- “Make this about 10 seconds shorter”
- “Put a clip on the strongest sentence”
- “Change the music to something calmer”
Each change is a new version, and going back is free. First cut 250 credits, each change 40, questions free, export 30 credits per started minute.
How Cutroom's Magic Editor adds b-roll for you
In Cutroom's Magic Editor, you upload one clip of you talking and press "Make my video". Jacob puts at least two b-roll clips into the first edit by itself, each on the words it shows.
You don't write a shot list or search stock sites. If you want more or different clips, you ask Jacob in the chat.
- Jacob uses your own files and your saved library before stock clips. Screenshots, a screen recording or product photos you upload land on the words where you mention them.
- Cutroom works with credits that come with your plan. The first edit costs 250 credits and each change 40. Every change Jacob makes is a new version. The earlier versions stay, and going back to one is free.
- It normally takes 10 to 15 minutes, and you get an email when your first cut is ready.
- Cutroom takes a clip up to 3 minutes and exports one vertical MP4, 1080 by 1920. A long or wide YouTube video needs another editor.
- Jacob doesn't make AI-generated clips. It uses your files, your library and stock. Cutroom is not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.
Questions people ask
- Can ChatGPT add b-roll to a video?
- Not by itself. As of November 2026, ChatGPT can suggest shots and search words, but placing clips in the video takes an editor, such as an app connected to ChatGPT or a separate AI editor.
- Can ChatGPT find b-roll for me?
- It can tell you what to search for, like "close-up of coffee being poured". You then search Pexels or Pixabay yourself, or use an editor that finds and places clips for you.
- Where can I get free b-roll?
- Pexels and Pixabay both say their videos are free to use with no credit needed. Pixabay adds that clips showing brands or logos can't be used commercially.
- Does Cutroom's Magic Editor add b-roll automatically?
- Yes. Jacob puts at least two b-roll clips into every first edit without being asked. You can ask for more or different clips in the chat. The first edit costs 250 credits and each change 40.
Upload one clip of you talking, and Jacob finds the b-roll and puts it on your words. Your first video is free.