video-shotcraft 🎬
An agent skill for crafting cinematic product videos: 106 shot recipe cards · 162 styles · 161 motion previews · a production-ready template
video-shotcraft is an AI agent skill that turns Claude Code or Codex 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.
🎬 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 and motion preview online: Gallery — search, filter, switch between variants, and copy selected shot-card names.
🚀 Quick start
The most direct way: hand the repo link to your agent. In Claude Code / Codex or a similar agent, just say:
Install this skill for me: https://github.com/Vincentwei1021/video-shotcraft
The agent will clone the repo and link it into your skills directory. Or install with the skills CLI / manually:
npx skills add Vincentwei1021/video-shotcraft
git clone https://github.com/Vincentwei1021/video-shotcraft.git
cd video-shotcraft
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.
📦 What's included
| Content | Description |
|---|---|
| 106 shot recipe cards | Purpose, energy, suggested duration, parameters, implementation notes, and known pitfalls |
| 161 motion previews | Covering 162 styles; searchable and filterable in the online Gallery |
| 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 |
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/ # 106 shot recipe cards
│ ├── 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
├── demos/ # Remotion reference implementations for shot cards
├── gallery/ # Static motion-preview Gallery
├── template/ # Runnable complete video template
└── assets/
├── lib/ # Reusable Remotion components
├── scripts/ # Page-asset capture scripts
└── audio/ # SFX and attribution details
For the complete workflow and implementation requirements, see SKILL.md, the production pipeline, and the visual QA criteria.
🔊 Audio and asset notes
Audio files under assets/audio/ may be used according to their respective license terms.
See ATTRIBUTION.md for sources and license details.
Product screenshots bundled with the template are demonstration assets. Replace them with screenshots from the target product before publishing, and verify whether any product, customer, or personal data needs to be anonymized.
🙏 Acknowledgements
Many shot recipes in this library 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 motion techniques (timing, easing, choreography) re-implemented from scratch; no footage, artwork, or brand assets from these films are included in this repository. All trademarks belong to their respective owners, and none of these companies are affiliated with or endorse this project.
Special thanks to:
- Remotion — the React-based video framework that powers every demo and template here. Note that Remotion has its own license (free for individuals and small teams; companies may need a paid license).
- Mixkit — source of the SFX and music assets bundled under their free commercial license.
- The game-feel and animation communities whose published principles (e.g. Vlambeer's screenshake talks, classic animation timing) inform several cards.
- Claude Code — this library itself was built, iterated, and QA'd with an AI coding agent, using the same workflow the skill teaches.