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video-shotcraft
Create cinematic product videos from shot recipe cards, a validated template, and code/audio assets (Remotion + real page screenshots + 2.5D camera moves + beat-synced cuts + sound design). Use when the user asks to turn a frontend project or webpage into a product video, says "use video-shotcraft to make a video/promo", names the Ink Press template or asks to reproduce its effect, or wants a single shot card's motion. 用镜头配方卡 + 已验收模板 + 代码/音频资产制作电影感产品视频（Remotion + 真实页面截图 + 2.5D 运镜 + 节奏卡点 + 声音设计）。当用户要求"用 video-shotcraft 做视频/宣传片"、把前端项目/网页做成产品视频、点名 Ink Press 模板或要求复刻模板片效果，或要用镜头卡做单个动效镜头时使用。
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// RATINGS
// README
An agent skill for crafting cinematic product videos: 152 shot recipe cards · 209 styles · reusable Remotion demos · a production-ready template
video-shotcraft is a DeepSeek Harness agent skill that turns your workspace into a motion-design studio: point it at your product and it storyboards, animates, and sound-designs a cinematic promo, marketing, launch, or demo video with Remotion — real page captures, 2.5D camera moves, beat-synced cuts, and film-grade SFX included.
🖼️ Browse all 152 cards and 209 styles in the local Gallery index »
✨ What's new
[!IMPORTANT]
🆕 2026-08 · 48 new shot recipe cards
The library grows from 104 to 152 cards / 209 styles. Distilled from 209 candidate motions through eight rounds of frame-by-frame review against reference footage, then folded into the regular Gallery categories with full recipe cards, native Remotion components (
demos/<category>/<name>/<Component>.tsx, deterministic and driven by the normalized progresst— see demos/README.md for the wiring snippet), and implementation recipes. All de-branded: neutral placeholder copy and a single swappableACCENTcolor variable.
- 2026-08 · JianYing (CapCut CN) project export — after final delivery the film can be exported as an editable JianYing draft: the plate is cut per shot (retime/reorder/grade), captions are rebuilt as native text tracks (content/size/color editable), SFX/BGM land on separate audio tracks. Verified on JianYing Pro 11.2 for macOS; see references/jianying-export.md.
- 2026-07 · Audio library restructure —
bgm/+sfx/<category>/with 149 SFX across 16 scene/material categories, md5-deduplicated with license URLs restored. - 2026-07 · Gallery upgrades — multi-category card tags and a flat, alphabetized local index for searching and copying recipe names.
🎬 Showcase
The 38-second Gallery intro below was itself produced with this skill — storyboard, shot implementation, and sound design were all done by an agent following the toolkit's methodology:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cba2df8a-4b2e-4247-bace-d0b1dea9c2bd
Browse every shot card in the local Gallery index — search, filter, switch between variants, and copy selected shot-card names.
🚀 Quick start
DeepSeek Harness
Windows PowerShell:
git clone https://github.com/kingselyjoe/video-shotcraft-dsh.git
cd video-shotcraft-dsh
.\\install-dsh.ps1
macOS / Linux:
git clone https://github.com/kingselyjoe/video-shotcraft-dsh.git
cd video-shotcraft-dsh
bash install-dsh.sh
Run python scripts/dsh_manager.py doctor after installation. See the
DeepSeek Harness guide for safety, update, and uninstall details.
Other Agent Skills environments
The most direct way: hand the repo link to your agent. In DeepSeek Harness / Claude Code / Codex or a similar agent, just say:
Install this skill for me: https://github.com/kingselyjoe/video-shotcraft-dsh
The agent will clone the repo and link it into your skills directory. Or install with the skills CLI / manually:
npx skills add kingselyjoe/video-shotcraft-dsh
git clone https://github.com/kingselyjoe/video-shotcraft-dsh.git
cd video-shotcraft-dsh
ln -s "$(pwd)" ~/.claude/skills/video-shotcraft # Claude Code
# or
ln -s "$(pwd)" ~/.codex/skills/video-shotcraft # Codex
Then make requests like:
Use video-shotcraft to create a promo for my desktop product.
Use the deck-deal-flyin and row-embed shot cards to present this feature.
Design a product close-up inspired by spotlight-hero-card.
If no shot card is specified, the skill introduces the built-in video template first and asks whether to use it; you can also pick shots in the Gallery before starting.
📼 Video template: Ink Press
The skill ships with Ink Press — a validated, complete promo template: 36.2 seconds, 1920×1080, 30fps, 10 shots in a paper-ink-amber style, with 2.5D real-page camera moves, title cards, transitions, and a fully pinned cinematic SFX pass:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4cf5af51-98f3-4af2-8ab2-7267f470513d
To use it, just tell your agent:
Use video-shotcraft to make a promo for my product with the Ink Press template.
The agent swaps in your product's screenshots, copy, and branding to reproduce the same quality — the fastest, most reliable path to a finished film.
More templates are on the way.
Headless / CI notes
Rendering on a headless Linux box (tested: 2 cores, Node 22) hits three walls worth knowing:
- Concurrency cap —
remotion still/renderfails with "Maximum for --concurrency is 2" on low-core machines. Fix: pass--concurrency=1. - Old Headless removal — recent Chrome/Chromium dropped old headless mode; pointing Remotion at system chromium fails to launch. Fix: use a chrome-headless-shell binary instead of full Chrome.
- Blocked CDN — if remotion.media is unreachable, the automatic
headless-shell download is rejected. Fix:
--browser-executable=<path-to-local chrome-headless-shell>.
With these three flags, frame renders from the bundled template work.
📦 What's included
| Content | Description |
|---|---|
| 152 shot recipe cards | Purpose, energy, suggested duration, parameters, implementation notes, and known pitfalls |
| 209 indexed styles | Searchable and filterable in the local Gallery; each maps to a recipe and demo source |
| Remotion implementations | Tuned TSX demos containing the actual easing and timing parameters for each card |
| Complete video template | A validated 36.2-second, 1920×1080, 30fps product promo with 10 shots |
| Components and assets | 2.5D page camera, captions, flash cuts, digit rolls, SFX, and capture scripts |
| Production methodology | Capture, visual direction, storyboarding, sound design, beat sync, and final QA |
| JianYing project export | Load the film into JianYing (CapCut CN) for further editing — per-shot speed, captions, and audio all editable (verified on macOS 11.2) |
The toolkit primarily targets web and desktop product promos, while individual shot cards can also be used in feature demos, brand films, launch videos, and other motion projects.
🗂 Repository structure
video-shotcraft/
├── SKILL.md # Agent entry point and core production rules
├── references/
│ ├── pipeline.md # End-to-end production workflow
│ ├── shots/ # 152 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 analys
// HOW IT'S BUILT
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