video-shots — Shot Breakdown & Interactive Shot-List Report

Breaks a finished video into a per-shot analysis table (duration, shot size, category, camera move, framing) plus a single-file interactive shot-list report.

Image & VideoIntermediate★ 885⑂ 111AI score 9/10Last updated: Oct 9, 2026

What it does

Uses ffmpeg scene detection + ffprobe to measure cut points, durations, frame rate and per-shot motion (median of inter-frame differences) — numbers come from code, never from model guessing.
The model only fills in the five judgment fields: shot size, category, camera move, framing description, rhythm.
Extracts two keyframes per shot (15% and 85%) and tiles them into contact sheets so ~25 shots can be judged at once; comparing a/b reveals the camera move.
15 deterministic quality gates, including a motion cross-check that blocks the classic hallucination "claims a push/pan but measured motion is ~0".
Outputs shots.json, a Markdown shot table, and a zero-dependency single-file HTML report: synced video player, rhythm strip, searchable/filterable/sortable shot table, distribution stats, cast, gate results, JSON export.
Missed or spurious cuts are fixed with recut --split/--merge, which renumbers and recomputes automatically.

Who it's for

Filmmakers and editors reverse-engineering reference footage.
Marketers auditing ad/short-form pacing and asset composition.
Film-study teachers and students needing accurate shot lists.

Example uses

Run seed → frames → sheet → validate → render on a 3-minute brand film to get 53 shots with average shot length and cuts-per-minute.
Break down a competitor's short-form video to report "58% dialogue shots, 55% static camera" as evidence in a creative brief.
Patch a dissolve the detector missed via recut --split 63.5, re-extract frames, and iterate until all 15 gates pass.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Copy the skills/video-shots folder from the GitHub repo eternityspring/reelbench-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/video-shots/.
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git clone https://github.com/eternityspring/reelbench-skills.git /tmp/reelbench-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/reelbench-skills/skills/video-shots ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

Check prerequisites: run node -v (needs >= 18), ffmpeg -version, ffprobe -version. On macOS install with brew install node ffmpeg; on Ubuntu sudo apt install nodejs ffmpeg.
Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/eternityspring/reelbench-skills.git
Copy the skill: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r reelbench-skills/skills/video-shots ~/.claude/skills/
Verify: run node ~/.claude/skills/video-shots/scripts/selftest.mjs and confirm all 449 assertions pass (no API calls, no cost).
Restart Claude Code, then ask something like "do a shot breakdown of this video" or "build a shot list from video.mp4".
Give the video path and an output directory; results land as shots.json, frames/, sheets/, shots.md and shots-report.html (open by double-clicking).

View source on GitHub ↗License: Apache-2.0