Video Shotcraft is an open-source Claude Code / Codex skill for producing cinematic, storyboarded product videos. It ships 152 shot recipe cards, 209 styles, and 209 motion previews, plus a production-ready Remotion template with 2.5D camera moves, beat-synced cuts, and film-grade sound design — letting an AI agent direct and assemble polished product promos. Apache-2.0 licensed, 4,500+ GitHub stars.
Video Shotcraft is an open source skill for Claude Code and Codex that turns an agent into a motion design assistant for product video. Instead of asking a model to invent a video from nothing, it supplies the vocabulary a director would use: a large library of shot recipe cards, a matching set of styles, and motion previews showing what each one looks like. The agent picks from those and assembles a storyboard, which is then rendered through an included Remotion template. Remotion matters here because it renders video from React code, so the output is a programmatic project you can version, diff, and regenerate rather than a binary export from a timeline editor. The template ships with the kind of details that separate a promo from a screen recording: camera moves with depth, cuts timed to a beat, and a sound design pass. It is Apache licensed.
This fits an indie developer or a small team that needs a launch video and has neither a motion designer nor the weeks it takes to learn one of the professional tools. If you can describe the product and the feeling you want, the shot library does the part most people get wrong, which is knowing what shots to use and in what order. Familiarity with React helps a great deal, since the render path is Remotion and customization means editing code. It is a poor fit for footage heavy work such as interviews or documentary editing, where a timeline editor is the right tool. Expect to iterate: the first render establishes the structure, and the polish comes from adjusting timing and style afterward.
img2threejs also converts a prompt or an image into code you can run, in that case a Three.js scene, so both share the premise that generated visuals should arrive as editable source rather than as a finished file. Its output is an interactive scene rather than a cut video. Taste Skill and Marketing Skills operate on the message rather than the pictures, one raising the quality of the writing and the other supplying campaign structure, and both pair naturally with this since a good looking video still needs a script worth hearing. Video Shotcraft is the only one of the group that produces a rendered video, and its real contribution is the shot library that tells the agent what a competent edit looks like.
Compare with: img2threejs, Taste Skill, Marketing Skills
The catalog records Video Shotcraft as free, and the project is Apache 2.0 licensed, which permits commercial use. There is no subscription of the kind video tools usually carry. The costs are indirect: model tokens while the agent plans and writes the composition, and compute time to render, which is local unless you push rendering to a server. Any stock footage, music, or fonts you add come with their own licensing, and that is where most people trip up when a promo goes public. Check those separately.
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