Video Brief Generator
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Give it a topic — a stock ticker, product category, trend, brand name, anything. It runs research, pulls real stats, writes 3-4 hook options with different angles, sources 10-12 YouTube URLs for b-roll (with clickable links and notes on what to pull), writes a beat-by-beat montage sequence timed to your video length, formats key stats as text overlays, and outputs a copy-paste yt-dlp command that batch downloads everything into organized folders.
Built for short-form vertical video (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) but works for any format.
Drop the skill file into your .claude/skills/ folder. Run /video-brief [TOPIC]. Get a full brief back in minutes instead of hours.
Requires Claude Code. Optionally uses Firecrawl MCP for faster research (falls back to built-in web search). yt-dlp + aria2 + ffmpeg for video downloads (install instructions included).