# cloning-video-ads

This skill studies a reference video ad and plans a new version around your product. Use it when the original pacing, shots, camera work, and hook should stay recognizable.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 232
- Author: SupercmoHQ
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/cloning-video-ads/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/cloning-video-ads

## What it does

The skill reads the reference ad and runs `video_analysis` to map the whole clip by time, including shots, pacing, camera movement, and the hook. It examines the replacement product with `analyzing-products`; other supplied images go through `image_analysis`.

It then turns that analysis into a shot-by-shot blueprint for one continuous video. The product, brand, and spoken copy change, while the reference structure remains the guide. If the ad has voiceover, the skill invokes the `writing-video-scripts` workflow; `list_video_models` is used to choose a model that fits the target duration.

A reference video is required for this workflow. Ads made from scratch belong to `generating-ad-videos`, while still-image ads belong to `generating-image-ads`. The blueprint is shown for approval before costly rendering.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill cloning-video-ads -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/cloning-video-ads/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/cloning-video-ads/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill cloning-video-ads -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/cloning-video-ads/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill cloning-video-ads -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/cloning-video-ads/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills cloning-video-ads
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/cloning-video-ads/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill cloning-video-ads -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --path skills/cloning-video-ads
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/cloning-video-ads/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill cloning-video-ads -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/cloning-video-ads/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- map a reference video ad shot by shot
- replace the original product and brand
- preserve the ad’s pacing, camera work, and hook
- adapt voiceover copy to a new product
- plan one continuous cloned video

## Example prompts
- Clone this reference video ad around my product while keeping its structure and pacing.
- Run `video_analysis` on the supplied ad and create a replacement blueprint.
- Rewrite the voiceover for my product claims and show me the plan before rendering.

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---
name: cloning-video-ads
description: Clones an existing video ad — reads a supplied reference ad, keeps its structure, pacing, shots, camera and hook, and rebuilds it as a new video with the user's own product in place of the original's. Use when the user wants to copy, clone, recreate, or remake an ad or a competitor's video, or make an ad "like this one" with their product. Not for a product ad built from scratch with no reference video, not for a creator sharing their own take on a product and not for cloning image ads.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  version: "0.1.0"
  category: creative
  summary: "Recreates a video ad you admire with your own product. It watches the reference ad, works out the shots, pacing, camera and voiceover that make it work, then rebuilds the same structure around your product — swapping the product, brand and spoken lines for yours while holding the original's craft. You approve the plan before anything expensive renders, and it comes back as one finished clip."
---

# Cloning video ads

Take a video ad the user likes and rebuild it with the user's own product. The reference ad's structure, pacing, shots and hook are kept; its product, brand and spoken lines are replaced with the user's.

A product ad built from scratch, with no reference video to follow, is out of scope — that belongs to `generating-ad-videos`. A still image ad belongs to `generating-image-ads`.

## Workflow

### Step 1: Analyze the reference ad

The reference ad is the plan the clone is rebuilt from, so read it first and read it in full — a thin read here is the one thing that breaks the clone, and no later step recovers it.

Read `references/reading-the-ad.md` for exactly what to pull out and the breakdown format, then run `video_analysis` on the ad (a video file or URL) to produce that **timed, second-by-second breakdown** of the whole thing.

- **No reference ad** → there is nothing to read yet. Don't invent one; it becomes the first thing the interview (Step 3) asks for.

### Step 2: Read the product

- **A product image or URL** — the user's product, the one that replaces the original's → hand it to `analyzing-products` for what the product is, how a person physically uses it, which parts open or move, and what must stay identical wherever it appears.
- **Run `image_analysis` on every other image supplied** — what each one shows. The product photo is already covered by `analyzing-products`; don't read it twice.
- **No product** → don't guess at one. It becomes the first thing the interview (Step 3) asks for.

### Step 3: Interview

**Skip this when you already have both the reference ad and the product**, and the user hasn't asked to change the length or ratio.

Otherwise ask once, bundled into a single message, always with a free-text way out.

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