Video Shotcraft
4/5 out of 5. Read the verdictDark indigo films where one number carries every shot, with tap dots and a soft lavender end card. For cinematic product launches.
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Every video skill gets the same brief: a 20-second launch film for BentoMoney, our own iPhone app, from its real screens. One skill per clean project. How we test
Our verdict
4/5 out of 5
Passed the cut
Video Shotcraft keeps one number on screen from $3,200 to $15.33, labels it honestly as income, and syncs the three taps to the real recording with progress dots. It was the most expensive run, about $8.60, partly because a reviewer agent checked its work.
Pick it for
- cinematic product launch films
- films with music and sound effects built in
- shot-by-shot control from recipe cards
Skip it for
- quick, cheap runs
- companies over three people without a Remotion license
Observations
- the most expensive run of the batch
- small labels like "Income this month" are far under the brief’s 40 px
- an 84 MB install
Install
1 Run in your terminal
npx skills add Vincentwei1021/video-shotcraft2 Or paste a prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Gemini
It tells your tool to install this from its source repository.
An 84 MB skill: a Remotion template, 150 shot recipe cards and 149 sound effects. Uses uv for beat analysis. Remotion is free for individuals and companies of up to three people.
Taken from the project README. Check the source (opens in a new tab) for the latest instructions.
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Machine Learning, Computer Science, Mathematics, Music
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- Motion and video
Test runOpus 5.5Claude Code 2.1.309Oct 22, 2026medium effortmade in 24 min139 turnsabout $8.63 at API pricescommit 43bd349
All attempts: 2 runs, about $18 and 55 min, counting a first round, redone so every skill ran on the same ffmpeg build ($9.60). Only the final run's film is shown.
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