stock-footage-edutainment-short

name	stock-footage-edutainment-short
description	Turn a topic, fact, or news hook into a faceless stock-footage explainer short with hard scene structure, timed visual intent, captions, music, and packaging.

Stock Footage Edutainment Short

Canonical lane ID: stock-b-roll-explainer.

Script archetype: explainer or howto.

Use When

• The lane should feel like a classic faceless TikTok or Shorts explainer rather than a motion-graphic-heavy animation piece.
• The concept can be sold with stock clips, simple support visuals, and aggressive narration-led pacing.
• You want the MoneyPrinter family shape, but with stronger scene contracts than topic -> 5 keywords -> render.

Core Approach

1. Write a hard hook in the first beat.
2. Structure the short as hook -> context -> mechanism -> twist -> payoff.
3. Plan visuals per spoken beat, not from one global keyword bucket.
4. Keep scene durations tight: 4s to 8s for most beats.
5. Use captions, music, and support motion to prevent the stock layer from feeling like wallpaper.

Inputs

• topic, thesis, or packaging promise
• optional niche or brand profile
• optional platform target: tiktok, shorts, reels
• optional stock provider preferences

Outputs

• voiceover-first script.json
• beat-aware visuals.json with clip intent per scene
• final vertical MP4 plus review bundle
• packaging text: hook, title, CTA, and caption candidates

Optional Runtime Surface

• Compose with niche-profile-draft when the lane should inherit a niche voice.
• Use faceless-mixed-short as the broader runtime wrapper.
• Use short-form-captions for the caption mode and phrase grouping.
• Use shot-prompt-builder when generated scenes or stronger prompt language are needed.

Proven Example

• User docs: docs/user/examples/stock-footage-edutainment.md
• Embedded preview: docs/demo/demo-10-stock-broll-explainer.mp4
• Use the wave-3 example as the current faceless-information reference, but keep the review caveat visible: OCR caption-sync still needs a stable final pass for the flashed render.

Technical Notes

• Do not stop at one flat list of search terms. Each scene should carry its own visual subject or action.
• If stock cannot sell a beat cleanly, switch that beat to a card, diagram, generated image, or support UI instead of stretching a weak clip.
• Prefer one or two crisp search intents per beat over vague “concept” terms.
• Music and transitions should separate beats; they should not be used to disguise weak visual matching.
• Music beds and SFX need the same source evidence as stock footage; use audio-source-policy before pulling from royalty-free libraries or YouTube-origin sources.
• If a local fallback assembler is used, it still has to emit caption sidecars and go through the same review gate as the canonical render path.
• If the visual lane falls back to static cards or stills, add real motion treatment or swap the beat. Otherwise temporal/freeze review will correctly treat it as a slideshow.

Aggregated From

• harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo
• SaarD00/AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator
• RayVentura/ShortGPT
• rushindrasinha/youtube-shorts-pipeline

Validation Checklist

• The hook lands without waiting for setup.
• Each scene has its own visual job, not just reused generic footage.
• Stock clips feel chosen for the line being spoken.
• The short reads as mobile-native edutainment, not slideshow stock filler.
• Packaging outputs match the script instead of being invented after render.
• Review should be run against the real shipped MP4, not only the scene plan and script.
• Burned captions are visible in the shipped file; OCR review should not come back with “missing captions.”