What it does
Tell Claude Code or Codex "make a promo for my product". The agent captures your real pages, picks shots from a library of tuned motion recipes, storyboards the film, animates it with Remotion, cuts it to the beat, adds sound design, checks every frame and hands you a finished MP4 you can keep editing.
It is not a video generator. Every frame is drawn by code from your own screenshots and copy, so the result is sharp, on-brand and fully editable.
How it works
What's new
Important
🎬 2026-10 · Shot library refresh
All 216 demos were polished and reviewed. The best versions now make up 124 cards / 150 shots, with fresh Gallery previews and video-shotcraft branding.
- 2026-09 · Motion Workbench. Keep editing the delivered film in a CapCut-style browser editor.
- 2026-08 · video-talkcraft, the narration-video sibling: script + voiceover in, every motion beat locked to the voice (78 narration previews).
- 2026-08 · JianYing (CapCut CN) export. The final film becomes an editable JianYing draft: per-shot clips, native caption tracks, separate SFX/BGM tracks. Verified on JianYing Pro 11.2 for macOS (guide).
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Install
Built and tuned for Claude Code and Codex. The simplest way is to hand your agent the link:
Install this skill for me: https://github.com/Vincentwei1021/video-shotcraft
Or with the skills CLI:
npx skills add Vincentwei1021/video-shotcraft
Or by hand:
git clone https://github.com/Vincentwei1021/video-shotcraft.git cd video-shotcraft ln -s "$(pwd)" ~/.claude/skills/video-shotcraft # Claude Code ln -s "$(pwd)" ~/.codex/skills/video-shotcraft # Codex
In mainland China, clone from the AtomGit mirror if GitHub is slow:
git clone https://atomgit.com/VincentWei/video-shotcraft.git.
Use
Just describe the film. No command needed.
| Say | What happens |
|---|---|
Use video-shotcraft to make a promo for my product. |
The agent introduces the Ink Press template and asks whether to use it, then captures your pages and builds the film |
Make a launch film for this repo with the Ink Press template. |
The fastest path: your screenshots, copy and logo dropped into a validated template |
Use the deck-deal-flyin and row-embed shot cards to present this feature. |
You pick the shots by name (copy names straight from the Gallery) |
Design a product close-up inspired by spotlight-hero-card. |
One shot, adapted to your product |
Shot library
124 recipe cards in 10 categories, 150 shots in total. Search, filter and copy card names in the Gallery.
Opening & Brand · 11 shots text-as-mask: the product shows through the title |
Camera · 13 shots exploded-view: the page tilts and comes apart |
Transitions · 19 shots card-flock-tumble: a flock of cards becomes the headline |
Typography · 25 shots flying-words: a word tunnel resolves into the motto |
UI Entrance · 22 shots card-stack: a fan of cards deals into place |
Interaction · 13 shots palette-theme-ripple: a new theme ripples across the UI |
Data · 9 shots axis-rescale-shock: the spike breaks the axis |
Light & Emphasis · 23 shots spotlight-sweep: a stage light finds the title |
Rhythm · 8 shots paparazzi-flash: three flashes, three crops, one number |
Outro · 7 shots input-morph-assemble: the chat box builds the logo |
Each card lives in references/shots/<category>/<card>.md, with its Remotion implementation in
demos/<category>/<card>/ (see demos/README.md for how to wire one into your project).
Motion Workbench
After delivery the skill opens a CapCut-style editor in your browser
(node workbench/scripts/open.mjs <project>). The film is split into shot, transition, caption and SFX tracks
exactly as authored. Select any shot to edit its copy, font sizes and colours, move, trim or speed-ramp clips,
drag in any of the 150 library shots, then export with Remotion. Preview and render are frame-identical.
Workbench guide, every panel with screenshots (Chinese) · Integration contract
What you get
| Output | Details |
|---|---|
| Final film | MP4, 1920×1080, 30 fps, h264, with music and sound design |
| Remotion project | The full source of your film: every shot is a React component you or the agent can change |
| Motion Workbench | Opens after delivery: tracks, inspector, retime, swap shots, export (details) |
| JianYing draft | Optional: an editable JianYing (CapCut CN) project with per-shot clips, captions and audio tracks |
| Social publishing | Optional, when you ask: publish the finished film via Upload-Post to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, X and more. Confirm caption and platforms, then dry-run before posting (guide) |
Also in the box: reusable Remotion components (2.5D page camera, captions, flash cuts, digit rolls), 149 SFX and 5 BGM tracks, page-capture scripts, and the production method itself (capture, visual direction, storyboarding, sound design, beat sync, final QA) in references/.
Showcase
Share your film. Made something with video-shotcraft? Submit it with the Showcase issue form. After review it appears on the Showcase page.
Requirements
| Needs | For |
|---|---|
| Node.js and npm | Remotion rendering, the template and the workbench |
| ffmpeg / ffprobe | Frame checks and final QA |
| uv | Only for BGM beat analysis (runs a one-off Python script) |
| puppeteer | Only for page capture; the capture script installs it on demand |
Remotion downloads its own headless Chrome on first render. Tested on macOS; Linux works with the notes below.
Headless Linux / CI notes
Rendering on a headless Linux box (tested: 2 cores, Node 22) hits three walls:
- Concurrency cap.
remotion still/renderfails with "Maximum for --concurrency is 2" on low-core machines. Pass--concurrency=1. - Old headless removal. Recent Chrome/Chromium dropped the old headless mode, so pointing Remotion at system Chromium fails to launch. Use a chrome-headless-shell binary instead of full Chrome.
- Blocked CDN. If remotion.media is unreachable (common in mainland China), the automatic headless-shell
download fails. Pass
--browser-executable=<path-to-local chrome-headless-shell>.
With these three flags, frame renders from the bundled template work.
Repository structure
video-shotcraft/
├── SKILL.md # Agent entry point and core production rules
├── references/
│ ├── pipeline.md # End-to-end production workflow
│ ├── shots/ # 124 shot recipe cards in 10 functional categories
│ ├── sequences/ # Reusable full-video structures and sequence patterns
│ ├── aesthetic-rules.md # Visual QA criteria
│ ├── music-beat-sync.md # BGM analysis and beat-sync methodology
│ ├── sound-design.md # Sound-design guidance and examples
│ ├── jianying-export.md # JianYing (CapCut CN) project-export guide
│ ├── publish-upload-post.md # Optional social publishing (Upload-Post API)
│ └── workbench.md # Motion workbench: manifest contract + editability rules
├── demos/ # Remotion reference implementations (same categories)
├── gallery/ # Static motion-preview Gallery
├── template/ # Runnable complete video template
├── jianying-export/ # JianYing draft installers (mac tested / win untested)
├── publish/ # Optional social publisher (stdlib-only Python) + offline tests
├── workbench/ # Post-delivery motion workbench (Vite + Remotion Player)
└── assets/
├── lib/ # Reusable Remotion components
├── scripts/ # Page-asset capture scripts
└── audio/ # Audio assets
├── bgm/ # 5 BGM options
└── sfx/<category>/ # 149 SFX across 16 scene categories
For the full workflow see SKILL.md, the production pipeline and the visual QA criteria.
Audio and assets
SFX are organized into 16 scene and material categories (transition impact riser camera ui text
paper film light data scifi mech glass fluid crowd counter): pick the category first, then
the timbre. See sound-design.md for the index and per-file usage, and
ATTRIBUTION.md for sources and licenses.
Product screenshots bundled with the template are demonstration assets. Replace them with screenshots of your product before publishing, and check whether any product, customer or personal data needs to be anonymized.
License
- Code and docs: Apache-2.0.
- Audio under
assets/audio/: each file under its own license, see ATTRIBUTION.md. - Remotion has its own license: free for individuals and small teams, companies may need a paid license.
Acknowledgements
Many recipes were distilled by studying the motion language of outstanding official product films, including promos from ClickUp, Perplexity, Slack, Notion, Figma, Framer, Bear, Raycast, Pitch, Miro, Superhuman and Loom. The cards document techniques (timing, easing, choreography) re-implemented from scratch; no footage, artwork or brand assets from these films are included. All trademarks belong to their owners, and none of these companies are affiliated with or endorse this project.
Thanks also to Remotion, which powers every demo and template here; Mixkit, the source of the bundled SFX and music under its free license; the game-feel and animation communities whose published principles inform several cards; and Claude Code, with which this library was built, iterated and QA'd using the same workflow the skill teaches.
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