# writing-video-prompts

Writes the motion prompt for a video clip: what moves, how the camera behaves, the physics and the audio. Text only, nothing is generated.

- 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/writing-video-prompts/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/writing-video-prompts

## What it does

The skill turns a scene into a prompt shaped for a specific video model. It works from a brief alone, a start frame, a source video, or a storyboard sheet where each panel becomes a cut. One clip or a whole set — you get one prompt per clip.

The workflow is staged. First it settles the model and duration; when no model is named it falls back to `seedance-2.0-fast`. Then it picks the clip's form, reads the guide for the chosen model from `references/` (`seedance-2.5`, `veo-3.1`, `kling-3.0-pro`, `wan-3.0` and others), labels the media, and reads a storyboard with `image_analysis`. Every prompt is built from the same sections in the same order: the look, what the clip is, the beats, the audio, the closing block.

The model guide owns layout only — element order, how references are labelled, how speech is marked. Which sections a prompt has, and their order, stay the same across models. When a storyboard disagrees with the plan, the skill writes to the panel, because that is what the model will see.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill writing-video-prompts -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/writing-video-prompts/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- write a motion prompt for a named video model
- split a storyboard sheet into separate cuts
- label a start frame and reference images inside a prompt
- produce prompts for every clip in one video
- work around known rendering limits when describing motion

## Example prompts
- Write the prompt for this clip: model `veo-3.1`, 5 seconds, a woman opens a jar and sets it on the table.
- Read `storyboard.png` and give me one prompt per panel.
- Draft prompts for the three clips in this video — model `kling-3.0-pro`, start frame `frame01.png`.

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

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---
name: writing-video-prompts
description: Writes the motion prompt for a video clip — what moves, how the camera behaves, the physics and the audio, in the shape the chosen model wants. Works from a brief alone, from a start frame, from a source video, or from a storyboard sheet where each panel becomes a cut. Handles one clip or a whole set, returning one prompt per clip. Nothing is generated here. Use when a clip's model, duration and content are settled and it needs the prompt written.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  version: "0.6.0"
  category: creative
  summary: "Translates your scenes into the highly specific, detailed instructions that different video models require. It times the camera motion and steers around known AI rendering limits to match your exact visual brief."
---

# Clip prompts

Turn a clip into a prompt its video model will honour. **Text only — nothing is generated here.**

**A video may be one clip or several.** Write a prompt for every clip in it, then hand them all back
together. Clips in one video share a model, an aspect ratio and a look.

Write only what the clip actually has. No person on camera means no performance direction, no product
means no product rules, no speech means no dialogue.

## Workflow

### Step 1: Read what the clip has

Ask only for what would change the prompt and can't be defaulted.

- **The model and the duration.** Where no model was named, use `seedance-2.0-fast` and say so. The
  aspect ratio is a call parameter rather than prompt text — carry it if it was given, don't ask.
- **What happens in the clip** — as beats, or as a single action.
- **The media, and what each one is for** — a storyboard sheet, a start frame, an end frame,
  reference images, a source video, an audio track. **Any of them may be absent**, and they differ from
  clip to clip.
- **The dialog segment**, where anyone speaks, and whether they are on camera or heard over the
  picture.

### Step 2: Pick the clip's form

**With a storyboard sheet, one cut per panel** — panel 1 is the first cut, panel 2 the second, hard
cut between them. 

Without a sheet, cut only where the brief asks for one.

**Where a beat's opening frame is fixed** — by a panel or by a start frame — the hands, the grip, the
product, the props and the positions are already there when it opens. Write what happens next, not
how it starts.
Write "a hand reaches in" or "she brings it into frame" only when the frame genuinely has no such
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