movie-maker

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Docs-first AgentSkill for generating 10-60s mini-movies locally. Provides rules for scripts, shotlists, timing, prompting, providers, rendering (ffmpeg/remotion), and sharing to clawtube.

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Sourcelongstories/movie-maker-skill

Added on2026-02-13

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add longstories/movie-maker-skill movie-maker

SKILL.md Content

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Movie Maker Skill

This repo is docs-first: it ships guidance (rules + schemas), not an executable pipeline. This is a skill created with LongStories.ai Skill SEO Audit.

When to use this skill

Use this skill when a user wants a 10-60s mini-movie with a script, shotlist, and render-ready manifest.

What this skill does NOT do

Does not include a runnable pipeline
Does not store or upload media
Does not include provider keys or secrets

What the agent should produce

A numbered script (lines
```
L001…
```
)
A shotlist divided into scenes (
```
S01…
```
), referencing script lines
A manifest JSON that combines both and is ready to render

Start here (MUST do intake)

Read and follow:

rules/start/start-here.md

Full runbook:

rules/start/end-to-end.md

Intake (copy/paste)

Ask these in one message (use an "ask the user questions" tool if available):

Length: 30s / 45s / 60s?
Aspect ratio: 16:9 or 9:16?
Voice: narrator-only (default) or dialogue?
Characters: names + 1-2 sentence vibe each (we will lock a canonical descriptor)
Music: none (default) or background music?
Style: pick a preset (cinematic / 3D animated / anime / 2D / photoreal)
Quality mode: Draft (480p), Standard (720p), HQ (1080p)
Model preset: Cheap and Fast (Z-Image Turbo + Seedance v1 fast) or High Quality, Expensive (Seedream 4.5 + Seedance 1.5 pro)
Reference images: any character/style refs? (if yes, ask user to paste/attach and say you will save to
```
assets/refs/...
```
)

If the user does not answer, propose defaults and ask:

"If I don't hear back, I'll do 30s, 16:9, narrator-only, 3D animated style, Draft (480p), High Quality, Expensive preset. Confirm?"

Core pipeline (voiceover-first)

text

Script -> Voiceover timing -> Finalize shot durations -> Generate images -> Generate videos -> Render locally -> Share

Model presets (image + video combo)

See:

rules/providers/model-presets.md

Quick summary:

Cheap and Fast: Z-Image Turbo + Seedance v1 fast
High Quality, Expensive: Seedream 4.5 + Seedance 1.5 pro

Pricing verification

Prices change. Use the fal pricing endpoint in:

```
rules/providers/pricing.md
```

Rules index

Ordered discovery path:

rules/index.md

Provider-specific guidance lives under

rules/providers/

. All other rules should remain provider-agnostic, with defaults listed in

rules/providers/defaults.md

.

Start

rules/start/start-here.md
rules/start/requirements.md
rules/start/pipeline-voiceover-first.md
rules/start/end-to-end.md

Planning (script to shotlist)

rules/planning/script-writing.md
rules/planning/word-count.md
rules/planning/scenes.md
rules/planning/shots.md
rules/planning/quality-and-cost.md

Manifest

rules/manifest/schema.md
rules/manifest/script-and-shotlist.md

Audio (provider-agnostic)

rules/audio/pauses-and-roomtone.md
rules/audio/captions-srt.md

Visuals (provider-agnostic)

rules/visuals/image-prompting.md
rules/visuals/video-prompting.md
rules/visuals/style-presets.md
rules/visuals/characters/character-descriptors.md
rules/visuals/characters/consistency.md

Timing

rules/timing/from-timestamps.md
rules/timing/map-lines-to-timestamps.md
rules/timing/clamp-and-trim.md

Providers

rules/providers/defaults.md
rules/providers/model-presets.md
rules/providers/fal/overview.md
rules/providers/fal/api.md
rules/providers/elevenlabs/voiceover.md
rules/providers/fal/voiceover-elevenlabs.md (makes ElevenLabs optional)
rules/providers/elevenlabs/transcription.md
rules/providers/elevenlabs/music.md

Rendering

rules/render/rendering.md
rules/render/assets.md

QA + Troubleshooting

rules/qa/image-review.md
rules/qa/video-spotcheck.md
rules/troubleshooting/common-errors.md

Sharing

rules/sharing/clawtube.md

Examples

```
examples/shipped/
```
(script + shotlist + manifest)

Advanced

rules/advanced/overrides.md (per-scene/per-shot model overrides)

Next rules to add

Provider/model matrix docs
Safety: secrets, prompt injection, and content policies