The YouTube job this page covers is the upload kit: the titles, description, tags, chapters and thumbnail text that go with each video. It is a Skill and Workflow job, and one kit takes one sitting of about thirty minutes once the video is recorded. You give the AI the transcript and a few notes, it drafts the whole kit, and you check it and publish. Thumbnail sizes and Shorts dimensions live on their own pages, so this page stays with the words around the video.
- Shape
- SkillWorkflow
- Sitting
- one sitting
The shape: Skill and Workflow
The upload kit is a Skill because one saved brief writes it for every video. It reads a transcript faster than you can, finds where the topic changes, and writes eight title options without getting tired. That is drafting from material you supply, which is the work an AI does best. The goal is a prompt you save once and reuse on every upload.
The channel is a Workflow because each kit has a check between drafting and publishing: transcript in, kit out, timestamps and claims checked against the video, then publish.
What this means for you: spend your first sitting on the prompt and your notes. Every sitting after that is mostly checking.
What you give the AI
Bring these, named and pasted, before you ask for anything:
- The transcript with timestamps. YouTube Studio usually makes automatic captions after upload, which you can download with timestamps, and many editing apps export one. This is the input that matters most.
- The question the video answers. One sentence, in the words a customer would use.
- Who should watch. "Homeowners deciding whether to repair or replace a water heater" works. "Everyone" does not.
- The one next step. The page, booking link or phone number you want viewers to use, written out in full.
- Words people search for. Three to five phrases customers say when they ask you about this topic, including any common misspellings.
- Your last few titles that worked. If your channel has history, paste the titles of the videos that held viewers best, so the AI matches your style.
- Things never to say. Prices that change, promises you cannot make, claims your field does not allow.
If the video is a long one, the long-form video page covers planning it before you record. This page starts after the recording is done.
What comes back
Paste your notes and the transcript under this prompt. Save the prompt somewhere you can find it, because it is the Skill half of the job.
Act as the upload editor for my YouTube channel.
Below are my notes and the full transcript with timestamps.
Use only facts in the notes and the transcript.
If something is missing, ask before you invent it.
The question this video answers:
Who should watch:
The one next step (with the full link):
Words people search for:
Recent titles that worked on my channel:
Things never to say:
Transcript:
[paste here]
Give me:
1. Eight title options under 70 characters, each naming the question or the outcome plainly. Put the most searched words near the start.
2. A description. The first two lines say what the video covers and who it is for. Then the next step with the full link. Then the chapters. Then two or three sentences of detail. No hashtags beyond three.
3. Chapters taken from the transcript. The first is 00:00. At least three, in order, each at least ten seconds long, each named in five words or fewer.
4. Up to ten tags, including any common misspellings from my notes.
5. Six options for thumbnail text, two to four words each, that add something the title does not already say.
6. One pinned comment that asks a single question viewers can answer.
Do not use the words ultimate, secret or game-changing.
Never promise a result, a price or a timeline not given above.What you get back is a block of plain text you can paste field by field into YouTube Studio. The titles come as a list to choose from. The chapters arrive already formatted as timestamps for the description. The thumbnail text comes as short lines you take to whatever tool makes your thumbnail. For the image itself, our guide to YouTube thumbnail size has the dimensions and file limits.
If one part is weak, ask the AI to redo that part only. "Give me eight more titles, shorter, and lead with the mistake" fixes the titles without touching the chapters.
How to judge it
You can reject a weak kit in about a minute. Look for these:
- Titles that could sit on anyone's video. "Everything you need to know about roofing" names no question and no viewer. A good title is one a customer would type or click on.
- Clickbait the video does not deliver. A title that promises something the video never covers costs you viewers in the first minute.
- Chapters that do not match the video. Play the video at two or three of the timestamps. If the chapter name and the moment disagree, the transcript drifted or the AI guessed.
- A first chapter that is not 00:00. YouTube's chapter rules need it, and without it the chapters will not show.
- A description that buries the point. If the first two lines are a greeting or a list of social handles, move the summary and the next step up.
- Facts you did not give it. A price, a number, a guarantee, a "studies show". Anything not in your notes or the transcript comes out.
- Thumbnail text that repeats the title. The two sit side by side, so the same words twice waste the space.
- Twenty tags. YouTube's own help page on titles, descriptions and tags says tags play a minimal role in discovery. A long list is a sign the AI was padding.
If the whole kit reads generic, the fault is usually the notes. Sharpen the question and the viewer, then run it again.
What stays with you
The AI writes the kit. These parts are yours:
- The title you choose. The AI gives you options; picking the one that sounds like you and fits your viewer is a judgment only you can make.
- The timestamps. Check each one against the video. A chapter that lands mid-sentence looks careless.
- Every claim. Check any figure, rule or deadline against its source. Health, legal, financial and real estate work have rules about what you may say, and they apply in a description.
- The links. Click every link in the description before you publish. A broken booking link loses the one viewer who wanted to act.
- The thumbnail image. The AI gives you words. The photo, the layout and the check at phone size are yours.
- The publish button. Visibility, audience settings and the schedule are set by you in Studio.
- The comments. Questions under a video are often the next video, and the replies are yours to write.
A worked example
This is an editorial example with an invented business. Say you run a small plumbing company, and you post one video a week answering a question customers ask on the phone.
This week's video answers whether a forty-gallon water heater can be repaired or should be replaced. The notes name the viewer as homeowners with an older water heater that has started making noise. The next step is the booking page, written out in full. The search words are "water heater making noise", "repair or replace water heater" and the common phrasing "hot water heater". The never list says no prices, because they change with the part and the job.
The AI returns eight titles. Two lead with "Ultimate guide", so they get cut. The owner picks "Water heater making noise? Repair or replace" because it uses the words callers say. The chapters come back as five timestamps starting at 00:00. One of them lands four seconds early, so the owner fixes it after checking it against the video. The thumbnail text options include "Fix it or replace it", which adds the decision the title only hints at. The description opens with the question and the booking link, then the chapters.
Next week, the same prompt and the same notes come out again. Only the transcript, the question and the viewer change.
A weekly show
If you run a podcast or a weekly show on YouTube, the upload kit is only half the work. Each episode also needs posts on your other channels, and that part comes back every week. Our Creator Studio starts from the episode you upload to YouTube and turns it into quote videos, images and captions for your connected channels. For vertical clips you post as Shorts, the Shorts size guide covers the dimensions and length.
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