video-shotcraft

video-shotcraft

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▶ Browse all 150 shots in the Gallery · 🎬 Watch the Showcase

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.

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

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

Remotion downloads its own headless Chrome on first render. Tested on macOS; Linux works with the notes below.

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

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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