video-production

name

video-production

description

AI video production pipeline for creating animated videos, motion graphics, and cinematic content. Structured workflow: style guide → story/script → asset extraction → shot list → render. Ensures visual consistency and cinematic quality across frames. Activate on "create a video", "animate this", "make a video", "storyboard", "motion graphics", "AI video", "film this concept", or any video/animation production task.

Video Production Skill

A professional pipeline for transforming concepts into AI-animated videos, prioritizing visual continuity and technical precision.

High-Agency Pipeline (The 6-Step Flow)

Follow this sequence strictly. Each step is a mandatory "Review Gate."

Step 0: Visual DNA & Style Guide

• Action: Before any generation, define the "Visual DNA."
• Constraints:
  • Specify Art Style (e.g., Cinematic 3D, Hand-drawn, Anime).
  • Define Lighting Palette (e.g., Neon-Noir, Golden Hour, Moody Flat).
  • Define Camera Language (e.g., Wide-angle, shallow depth of field, handheld).
• Goal: Create a master style_guide.json used to prefix every future prompt.

Step 1: Story & Scripting

• Action: Analyze genre/tone and match the target duration (30s, 60s, 2m+).
• Mandate: Every scene must have a clear "Visual Hook" and emotional beat.
• Output: story.md.

2. Asset Extraction (Consistency Layer)

• Action: Identify and extract unique entities into characters.json and backgrounds.json.
• Anti-Lazy Rule: Every character must have a "Visual Anchor" (e.g., "always wearing a red scarf", "glowing blue eyes") to stabilize identity across frames.

3. Asset Generation

• Action: Call Image APIs (Flux, DALL-E 3, etc.).
• Mandate: Generate "Reference Sheets" for characters and "Clean Plates" for environments.
• Caching: Use the VIDEO_PROD_CACHE to reuse assets across projects.

4. Shot Listing (Director's Cut)

• Action: Break scenes into cinematic beats (default: 8s).
• Prompt Pattern: [Style Guide Prefix], [Shot Type], [Action], [Environment], [Lighting], [Motion Hint].
• Output: shots.json.

5. Synthesis & Rendering

• Action:
  • Composite: Layer character sprites onto backgrounds via FFmpeg.
  • Animate: Send to Video Gen APIs (Providers are abstracted; focus on the Prompt).
  • Finalize: Merge, Grade, and Audio-sync via FFmpeg.

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Output Policy (Anti-Lazy)

ABSOLUTE BANS:

• No generic prompts like "a man walking." Prompts must be descriptive and follow the DNA.
• No placeholders in shots.json.
• No skipping the "Step 0" Style Guide.

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State Recovery & Verification

• Idempotency: Every script must check for existing JSON manifests before calling APIs.
• Validation: Before resuming, verify that characters.json contains valid URLs/paths, not just IDs.

Data Augmentation

This skill is enhanced by curated prompts and style seeds synced via:

../../scripts/sync-remotes.sh --apply

Cache Location

• VIDEO_PROD_CACHE or ~/.cache/video-production-skill.

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Rules

1. Visual DNA First: Never generate assets before the Style Guide is approved.
2. Character Anchors: Every character prompt MUST include their visual anchor.
3. No Truncation: Deliver full JSON manifests and scripts.
4. Cinematic Intent: Camera movements must be purposeful (Pan to reveal, Zoom for emotion).