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Video Recap (automated narrated recap pipeline)

Turns a raw video into a finished recap by orchestrating understanding, story planning, cutting, AI voiceover and final assembly.

Image & VideoAdvanced★ 548⑂ 103AI score 9/10Last updated: Oct 3, 2026

What it does

  • Takes an mp4/mov/mkv/webm file and conducts a five-skill chain: video understanding → story plan → cut → voiceover → assembly.
  • Stages communicate only through JSON artifacts in work_dir (clip_plan.json, narration.json, final_qc.json), so the run pauses for your creative approval and resumes with the exact same command.
  • Separate switches for picture (--edit-mode full|cut|dub) and sound (--audio-mode narration|source-mix|adopted-packet-copy); invalid combinations fail fast at startup.
  • Extras: subtitle burn-in with measured placement, voice cloning, a grep-based material library, resource locking, a read-only local dashboard and a deterministic final QC report.

Who it's for

  • Creators running movie/series/documentary recap channels.
  • Content and marketing teams repurposing long footage into narrated short cuts.
  • Command-line comfortable users who can install ffmpeg and manage API keys.

Example uses

  1. Feed one episode with --edit-mode cut --target-duration 10m to get a 10-minute narrated highlight.
  2. Pass ep1.mp4 ep2.mp4 for a multi-source recap where every clip carries a source_id.
  3. Run --edit-mode dub to translate an English talk into Chinese with the original speaker's cloned voice.
  4. Re-package a locked master with --audio-mode adopted-packet-copy so the approved AAC track is frozen untouched.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/video-recap folder from the GitHub repo zenstory-ai/video-recap-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/zenstory-ai-video-recap/.
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git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/video-recap-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r video-recap-skills/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/

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

  1. Install ffmpeg first: brew install ffmpeg (macOS), sudo apt install ffmpeg (Linux) or choco install ffmpeg (Windows). Prefer a build with libass so subtitles can be burned in.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/video-recap-skills.git
  3. Copy all skills into Claude Code: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r video-recap-skills/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/ — keep the sibling video-* skills, the orchestrator needs them.
  4. Export your API key: export MIMO_API_KEY=your_key (add it to your shell profile to persist).
  5. Verify offline config: python3 ~/.claude/skills/video-recap/scripts/recap.py --doctor
  6. Restart Claude Code and ask something like "make a narrated recap from this video".
  7. When the run pauses, write the requested JSON (clip plan or narration) and re-run the identical command to finish rendering.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT