Film Maker

film-maker

A Claude Code skill that turns a one-sentence story premise into a finished cinematic video — reel, short film, or multi-episode series — using the [Picsart gen-ai CLI](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@picsart/gen-ai) for image, video, and audio generation and `ffmpeg` for final assembly.

Built for creators who want **cinematic quality, character consistency, and native audio** out of the box. No text-to-video slop; every beat passes a real reference image and every character keeps a locked voice.

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What it does

Given a premise like *"a retired detective gets one last case in a rainy neon city"*, the skill:

1. Writes a plot using a genre playbook (14 genres + tone modifiers including brainrot).
2. Designs a cast — neutral 5-view canonical turnarounds per character, locked ElevenLabs voice IDs.
3. Builds locations and props, each with a canonical plate.
4. Breaks the story into shot-card beats (establishing / reaction / dialog) with real cinematic grammar.
5. Shows you the plan for review before spending any credits.
6. Produces every beat — composite scene image (Nano Banana 2 multi-ref) → video (Kling 3.0 Pro for non-dialog, Kling Avatar for lip-synced dialog, Kling Omni as filter-rescue fallback) → native ambient audio.
7. Concatenates with crossfade into movie.mp4 or episodes/eNN-slug/episode.mp4.
8. Renders social copy for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube per posting character.

Every step is **resume-safe** — re-run at any point and completed work is cached via `metadata.json`.

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Requirements

Tool	Version	Install
Claude Code	latest	—
Node.js	22+	brew install node
@picsart/gen-ai	1.151.0+	npm install -g @picsart/gen-ai
ffmpeg	6+	brew install ffmpeg
jq	1.6+	brew install jq

Authenticate the Picsart CLI once before first run: