# generating-videos

Directs video briefs to suitable AI video models, maintains visual continuity across cuts, and joins rendered scenes into one output file.

- 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/generating-videos/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/generating-videos

## What it does

This skill coordinates AI video generation from text briefs or reference assets. Before calling generation tools, the agent analyzes input media using `image_analysis` and `video_analysis`. When a product is present, it extracts fixed visual anchors, finishes, and dimensions to prevent the item from morphing across shots.

The system sets `seedance-2.0-fast` as its default model. It switches to `seedance-2.5` for continuous shots longer than 15 seconds, routes dialogue requiring lip-sync to `veo-3.1-fast`, and uses `kling-3.0-pro` when a single character must remain consistent across separate angles.

Passing `start_frame_image` alongside any `reference_*` parameter is invalid because a start frame locks the opening composition exclusively. If an API call remains in `pending` status or times out, resubmission is blocked to avoid starting duplicate billed jobs.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills generating-videos
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/generating-videos/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --path skills/generating-videos
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-videos -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/generating-videos/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- route generation briefs to the optimal video model
- preserve character and product continuity across multiple shots
- stitch separate generated scenes into a single video file
- trigger dedicated sub-workflows for UGC and product commercial ads

## Example prompts
- Generate a multi-clip video from this storyboard brief and join the scenes together.
- Animate the product image `bottle.png` while keeping the label finish intact.
- Produce a dialogue clip with accurate lip-sync using the Veo route.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: generating-videos
description: ALWAYS read this skill before generating or animating any video, or calling video_generate — text-to-video, image-to-video, a start→end transition, or a reference / motion / audio-guided clip. Generates a video from a brief — one clip, or several clips joined into a single file at any length. Use when the user wants to make or generate a video, animate a photo, bring an image to life, produce b-roll, film a described scene, or move from one held frame to another. This skill should also be used when the video takes its motion or style from an existing video, or has to run to an existing audio track. 
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  version: "0.8.0"
  category: creative
  summary: "Routes your brief to the best of 10+ SOTA video models (like Veo, Seedance), writes detailed prompts as per model specifications and generates multi-clip stories that hold continuity across cuts, stitched into one file."
---

# Video Generation

Turn a brief into a video.

## Workflow

### Step 1: Read the brief and the media

**Look at everything the user supplied.** Run `image_analysis` on each image and `video_analysis` on
each video. Write down what each one shows — who is in it, where it is, how it is lit, how it is
framed — so the prompt matches it instead of describing something different. Send a product URL or
photo to `analyzing-products`. Skip an image you already know: you made it this turn, or you have
already analyzed it.

**Then read the brief**: how long the video runs, what happens in it, where it will be posted, and
whether anyone speaks.

**Where the video has a product, write one description of it** and reuse it unchanged in every
storyboard — rephrasing it between calls reads as a different product.

- **Material and finish**, surface by surface.
- **Size** — its width and height, and how it sits against a hand.
- **Two to five visual anchors** — features you can verify in the product image and nothing else:
  exact colours, the shape of a closure or handle, the gauge of a chain or strap, a surface finish, a
  distinguishing mark.
- **What may be done with each part** — which parts are fixed to it, and the whole of what the moving
  ones allow. Nothing later does anything to the product that isn't on this list.

**Don't transcribe what the label says.** Spelling out the printing invites the model to redraw it,
and redrawn text comes back warped.

### Step 2: Pick the model and load its parameters

**`seedance-2.0-fast` is the default** — the general-purpose workhorse; a weak result is usually the
prompt's fault, not the model's.

**The storyboard route always runs on `seedance-2.0-fast` unless the user named a model.** The table below
decides a single clip.
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