[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f2qfo55ghdhy9s":3},{"code":4,"message":5,"data":6,"timestamp":46},10000,"success",{"full_name":7,"position":8,"description":9,"language":10,"stars":11,"forks":12,"stars_gained":13,"age_days":14,"hn_threads":15,"one_liner":16,"summary_md":17,"topic":18,"github_topics":21,"license":36,"homepage":37,"updated_at":38,"history":39},"Vincentwei1021\u002Fvideo-shotcraft",7,"AI video skill for Claude Code & Codex — cinematic product videos with Remotion: 152 shot recipe cards, 209 motion previews, a production-ready template","TypeScript",13455,1228,196,97,[],"Gives Claude Code and Codex a library of coded motion recipes so agents can storyboard and render editable product promo videos from your own screenshots.","## The problem\n\nMaking a short product promo usually means either handing a brief to a video editor and waiting, or wrestling with a timeline editor yourself. Generative video tools produce frames you cannot precisely control or edit afterwards. For developer-marketing work — a launch clip for a repo, a feature announcement, a README hero video — the source material is already on screen: your real UI, your copy, your brand colors. The gap is motion design skill, not assets. video-shotcraft addresses this by giving a coding agent a library of pre-tuned motion recipes plus a Remotion template, so the promo is drawn from your captured pages rather than prompted into existence.\n\n## What's different\n\nThe key distinction is that this is a skill for an agent, not an app you operate. You describe the film in natural language inside Claude Code or Codex; the agent captures pages, picks shot cards, storyboards, and renders. The shot library is the substance: 124 recipe cards across opening, camera, transitions, typography, UI entrance, interaction, data, light, rhythm and outro, each with a Remotion implementation and a gallery preview. Adjacent alternatives exist in different forms — Remotion itself is a coding framework with no recipe library; template-driven tools like Motion Canvas focus on explanatory animation rather than product capture; generative video models trade control for convenience. The trade-off here is that output quality is bounded by the recipe set and Remotion's code-drawn aesthetic, not by a diffusion model's imagination.\n\nTwo capabilities genuinely stand out: the named shot cards, which let you request a specific effect by name and get the same tuned result each time, and the export of the delivered film as an editable JianYing (CapCut CN) draft with per-shot clips and separate SFX\u002FBGM tracks, which means the agent's output is a starting point, not a dead end. A browser-based Motion Workbench for post-delivery editing is also claimed.\n\n## Who it's for\n\nDevelopers and DevRel\u002Fmarketing engineers who already work inside Claude Code or Codex and need short, on-brand product videos without a motion designer. It fits teams comfortable reading and tweaking TypeScript\u002FRemotion code. It does not fit people who want a zero-code editor, long-form narrative video, or footage-driven content — the output is UI-and-typography driven, and anyone expecting photorealistic AI generation will be disappointed.\n\n## Cost of adoption\n\nThe workflow assumes Claude Code or Codex; the README's install path is agent-driven or via `npx skills add Vincentwei1021\u002Fvideo-shotcraft`. Remotion is a Node\u002FTypeScript dependency, so you need a JS toolchain and rendering compute. Apache-2.0 keeps commercial use open. Risks: the project is only about three months old, so the recipe catalog and export formats may still shift; the JianYing export is verified only on one platform and version; and the README is heavy on gallery imagery and sponsor content, with thinner detail on frame-QA behavior and failure modes.\n\n## Verdict\n\nThis is a brand-new project, not an established one: created 2026-07-19, roughly 97 days old, with 13.4k stars and a two-day trending run in late October gaining about 200 stars a day. Momentum is real but young, and the star count is far ahead of the visible maintenance history. The recipe-library-plus-agent-skill framing is a sensible answer to a real annoyance for developer marketers. Adopt it as a fast first-draft generator you intend to edit, keep the exported draft and the Remotion code as the durable artifact, and watch whether the card library stabilizes before building a pipeline on it.",{"slug":19,"name":20},"media","Media & Design",[22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35],"agent-skills","ai-agents","ai-video","claude-code","claude-code-skills","claude-skills","codex","motion-design","motion-graphics","product-video","promo-video","remotion","video-generation","video-production","Apache-2.0","https:\u002F\u002Fvincentwei1021.github.io\u002Fvideo-shotcraft\u002F","2026-10-25T00:05:50Z",[40,44],{"date":41,"stars":42,"stars_gained":43},"2026-10-24",13424,198,{"date":45,"stars":11,"stars_gained":13},"2026-10-25",1792901836]