Video Shortform Skill
Short-form (≤ 10s) is the sweet spot for current text-to-video models — they're great at one shot with one idea, weaker at multi-cut narratives. Plan one shot per call.
Special case: hyperframes-html is not a photoreal text-to-video
model. It's a local HTML-to-MP4 renderer. For that model, do not roleplay
cinematography or "real-world" camera physics. Treat the brief as a motion
design card / title-frame / product interstitial, ask at most one
clarifying question, then dispatch immediately.
Resource map
video-shortform/
├── SKILL.md
└── example.html
Workflow
Step 0 — Read the project metadata
videoModel, videoLength (seconds), videoAspect. These are
hard-locks — clamp the prompt to whatever the chosen model supports
(Seedance 2 caps at 10s; Kling 4 supports up to 10s + image-to-video;
Veo 3 supports 8s with audio).
Step 1 — Plan the shot
Write the shotlist BEFORE calling the model:
| Slot | Content |
|---|---|
| Subject | What's in frame? |
| Camera | Static / pan / push-in / orbit? |
| Lighting | Key direction + temperature |
| Motion | What moves, at what pace? Subject motion vs camera motion. |
| Sound | … |
