video-shotcraft
Generate cinematic product videos by instructing an AI agent with a library of shot recipes, styles, and templates.
The gist
video-shotcraft is an AI agent skill that provides a toolkit of recipes, styles, and templates to generate cinematic product videos. It instructs AI coding agents like Claude Code or Codex to storyboard, animate, and sound-design promotional content using the Remotion framework. This automates complex motion design tasks, turning a simple prompt into a complete, professional video for a web or desktop product.
What it does
- Generate storyboards, animations, and sound design for product videos via an AI agent.
- Choose from over 100 shot recipe cards and 160 cinematic styles.
- Create a complete promo video using a built-in, production-ready template.
- Incorporate reusable components like 2.5D camera moves, captions, and SFX.
- Browse a searchable online gallery of motion previews to select specific shots.
How it works
A user installs the open-source toolkit from GitHub as a 'skill' for an AI agent like Claude Code or Codex. By providing prompts, the user directs the agent to create a video using the library's templates and shot recipes. The agent generates a video project using the Remotion framework. The toolkit itself is free, but its dependency, Remotion, may require a paid license for commercial use by companies.
Best for
This tool is ideal for developers and technical marketers who use AI coding agents to create promotional or demo videos for web and desktop applications without deep motion design expertise.
Watch out for
The core video framework, Remotion, requires a paid license for companies, though it's free for individuals and small teams. Using the skill requires access to and familiarity with an AI coding agent like Claude Code or Codex.