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title: "Start from a Recipe"
description: "The fastest way to make a video in Cardboard is to start with a recipe. Recipes are curated templates of a finished video you can customize with your own content."
canonical: "https://www.cardboard.ai/learn/start-from-a-recipe"
---

# Start from a Recipe

The fastest way to make a video in Cardboard is to start with a recipe. Recipes are curated templates of a finished video you can customize with your own content.

Recipes provide starting points for different video formats and editing styles. Browse the current [recipe directory](https://www.cardboard.ai/recipes).

## Step 01: Find a [recipe](https://www.cardboard.ai/recipes) you like

Recipes sit on the Cardboard home page, right below the text box. Scroll through the categories to find one that matches what you want to make, or search for it by what you want to do.

[Searching the recipes for a travel montage](https://www.cardboard.ai/images/learn/recipe-find.mp4)

> **Tip**
>
> Pick the recipe whose video feels the way you want yours to feel. The subject can be anything, because you can change everything about it.

## Step 02: Open it

Click on a recipe to open it. You will see the finished video on the left and your fields on the right.

[Opening a recipe, with the finished video on the left and its fields on the right](https://www.cardboard.ai/images/learn/recipe-open.mp4)

## Step 03: Make it yours

Use the fields on the right to add your own videos, clips and anything else you might want to change.

Remember, everything in the recipe can be customized.

Once you are done, press Remix.

[Adding clips and a new place name to a recipe](https://www.cardboard.ai/images/learn/recipe-make-it-yours.mp4)

## Step 04: Refine

Your recipe video is a first cut, just like any other. Talk to Cardboard to change anything you want. To learn more, read [Refine your Edit](https://www.cardboard.ai/learn/how-to-refine-your-edit).

[The recipe video open in the editor, with the agent's chat on the right](https://www.cardboard.ai/images/learn/recipe-refine.mp4)

## Can't find the recipe you want?

Write your own prompt and Cardboard will build it from scratch. Start with [Make your first video](https://www.cardboard.ai/learn/make-your-first-video), then read [How to prompt in Cardboard](https://www.cardboard.ai/learn/how-to-prompt-in-cardboard).