How to make a video with AI
For AI agents: find the right skill in one call —
curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add.mdto its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page.
Start from the video you need: product videos, ads and UGC, Shorts and Reels, cinematic films, short dramas, animation and music videos. Each rubric gathers the workflows, effects, prompts and models that make it.
Product videos (7)
Product demos, packshots, 360° spins, e-commerce and before/after videos.
- Higgsfield Product Photoshoot — Workflow: Shoot brand-quality product images in 10 modes: studio, lifestyle, hero banners, ad packs, try-on and more.
- Higgsfield Marketplace Cards — Workflow: Produce marketplace listing images: a compliant main image, secondary shots and A+ content modules.
- ASO App Store Screenshots — Workflow: App Store screenshots from your codebase: finds the core benefits, pairs simulator shots, then composes and enhances.
- fal Commercial — Workflow: Plan and run product photography, e-commerce batches, product reveal videos and lifestyle commercials.
Step-by-step tutorials: How to turn a product photo into a video with AI, How to make AI product photos and listing images, How to make an app demo video with AI, How to make a property listing video with AI
Ads & UGC (10)
Performance ads, UGC creator ads, hooks, testimonials and ad variants for TikTok, Reels and Meta.
- Marketing Video Production — Workflow: Corey Haines' marketing video skill: pick code, a video model or an avatar, then script, prompt and repurpose.
- fal UGC — Workflow: Script and generate UGC-style creator ads: talking heads, demos, testimonials, unboxings and reactions.
- fal Marketing — Workflow: Produce campaign asset matrices: launch kits, paid-social variants, banners and channel deliverables.
- Krea Marketing — Workflow: Make performance marketing creative on Krea: packshots, marketplace cards, UGC and video ads, Meta Ads.
Step-by-step tutorials: How to make a UGC ad video with AI, How to make video ad variants for testing with AI, How to make personalized videos at scale with AI
Shorts & Reels (4)
TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts: faceless videos, clips, memes and viral formats.
- Short Video Script — Guide: Short-video scripts, titles and cover ideas for Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili and WeChat Channels
- Video Producer — Workflow: Topic in, narrated short MP4 out: shot plan, AI stills, per-scene voiceover, Remotion render
- Krea Faceless Video — Workflow: Make narrated faceless explainers, documentaries and kids' stories as finished multi-scene films on Krea.
- AI Social Media Content — Workflow: Produce reels, shorts, images and thumbnails for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X with one toolkit.
Step-by-step tutorials: How to make a faceless YouTube video with AI
Cinematic & short films (31)
Cinematic AI footage, short films, trailers and multi-shot scenes made with Seedance, Kling and Veo.
- Higgsfield Generate — Model: Generate images, video, 3D and audio across 30+ models, plus ad videos and virality scoring, from one CLI.
- Gemini Omni Flash — Model: Generate and edit video with Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: text-to-video, first/last frames, extensions, edits.
- fal Recipes — Workflow: Follow proven multi-step fal pipelines for commercials, product shots, characters, lip-sync and try-on.
- fal Fan Cam — Effect: Put someone into a live sports broadcast: a realistic fan-cam cutaway with scoreboard and channel overlays.
Step-by-step tutorials: How to make an AI short film, How to animate a photo into a video with AI
Stories & short dramas (10)
Scripts, story structure, short dramas, series and multi-shot storytelling.
- Drama Skills (ZenStory) — Guide: Short-drama skills that beat a no-skill control in blind tests: script, assets, storyboard, keyframe and video prompts.
- Screenwriting Skills — Guide: 26 screenwriting and dramaturgy skills, from story structure to writing in the style of Ozu, Chekhov or Succession.
- Shuohao Short-Drama Skills — Workflow: Seven chained skills from novel to AI short drama: characters, outline, art bible, script, staging, storyboard.
- fal Storytelling — Guide: Plan multi-shot stories: storyboards, shot lists, first-to-last-frame chains and continuity across scenes.
Animation & motion graphics (15)
Motion graphics, cartoons, hand-drawn and watercolor films, GSAP, Lottie and Rive animation.
- Remotion Markup — Guide: Write Remotion markup that animates well: timing, transitions, motion blur, effects, audio, fonts and 3D.
- GSAP Core — Guide: Official GSAP core guide: to/from/fromTo tweens, eases, staggers, defaults and transforms for DOM and SVG motion.
- GSAP Timeline — Guide: Official GSAP timeline guide: position parameter, labels, nesting, defaults and time/progress seeking.
- GSAP Plugins — Guide: Official GSAP plugins guide, incl. SplitText chars/words/lines with masks and re-splitting once fonts load.
Music videos (3)
Music videos, lyric and karaoke videos, visualizers and beat-synced edits.
- Prod by Claude — Workflow: A square video of a Strudel live-coding track where every code token lights up on the note it plays.
- Motion Graphics Music Video — Workflow: Animated character music videos from your song and a prompt: storyboard, fal generation, p5 motion graphics, VFX.
- Turn a song into an AI music video — Workflow: Direct an AI music video the way top X creators do: song map, beat-grid storyboard, stills first, Seedance, lip-sync.
Step-by-step tutorials: How to make an AI music video, How to make a lyric video with AI
Launch videos (3)
Product launches, feature announcements, release notes and keynote reveals.
- Orbit Card — Effect: A single feature card orbits a dot sphere on a Blender-made camera move: a 10-second product beat.
- Guizang Product Video — Workflow: Software promos and release-notes videos built from your real product components, with original music and SFX.
- Onetake — Workflow: Launch films that never cut to the next slide: one continuous camera, measured moves, motion blur, a slideshow oracle.
Step-by-step tutorials: How to make a SaaS launch video with AI, How to turn release notes into a changelog video with AI
Explainers (10)
Explainer videos, website-to-video, data stories and math animations.
- HyperFrames — Guide: Turn HTML, CSS and seekable animation into deterministic MP4s: launch films, explainers, captions, title cards.
- HyperFrames Slideshow — Workflow: Build a live, navigable deck with fragment reveals, branching hotspots and presenter notes instead of an MP4.
- Remotion Create — Guide: Scaffold a new Remotion project and lay the video out as clips or scenes before writing any frames.
- Remotion Maps — Effect: Animate maps in Remotion: static maps, Mapbox, MapLibre, MapTiler and CesiumJS 3D flyovers.
Step-by-step tutorials: How to make an explainer video with AI, How to make an animated chart video with AI
Talking heads & avatars (10)
AI avatars, lip sync, presenters, podcasts and dialogue videos.
- Spoken Script Writer — Guide: Writes short-video talking-head scripts in a fixed 7-step story structure for a personal brand
- Jimeng Dream Actor via dLazy — Model: Animate a still character image into an action video with Jimeng Dream Actor, through the dLazy CLI.
- OmniHuman 1.5 via dLazy — Model: Turn a portrait photo and an audio track into a talking digital-human video with OmniHuman 1.5, via the dLazy CLI.
- Lanshu AI Presenter Video — Workflow: Publish-ready explainers led by an AI presenter from an authorized photo, or in one of twelve presenter-free styles.
Step-by-step tutorials: How to make a talking avatar video with AI
Text & titles (8)
Kinetic typography, animated titles, title cards and word-per-beat text.
- Canopy Part Title — Effect: Leaves sweep across the frame and part to reveal your headline: a 12-second 1080p title block.
- Code Slice Hero — Effect: A tiled headline flips cell by cell under a sweeping depth field to reveal a second line: an 8-second hero.
- Glass Shard Title — Effect: Glass shards fly in through fog and tile themselves into your headline, then fly out past the camera.
- Wireframe Portal Title — Effect: A wireframe portal bursts open, the title comes through, then its letters swap into a second phrase.
Logo animations & intros (5)
Logo reveals, 3D logo stings, intros and brand motion.
- HyperFrames Figma — Workflow: Turn a Figma link into video: rendered assets, brand tokens, components and storyboard frames rebuilt as motion.
- Frost Sequence Camera Orbit — Effect: An orbiting camera follows an ice logo as it shatters, reforms into two text moments and fades out.
- Cuboid Carousel — Effect: A chain of bevelled 3D cuboids rides a travelling wave as a content carousel for features or products.
- Pixel2Motion Logo Animation — Effect: Raster logo to clean SVG to a choreographed logo animation in HTML, with geometry and motion QA evidence.
Step-by-step tutorials: How to make a logo animation with AI
3D scenes (5)
Three.js, React Three Fiber and Blender scenes the camera flies through.
- Three.js Skills — Guide: 13 Three.js skills: scenes, geometry, materials, lighting, GLSL and TSL shaders, animation, post-processing, R3F.
- R3F Skills — Guide: 11 React Three Fiber skills checked against Fiber 9.7 and three r185: Canvas, demand loops, loaders, shaders, post.
- Three.js Scene Composition — Guide: Plan, build and capture Three.js scenes for video: absolute-time frames, seeded motion, color-safe glTF, render QA.
- Three.js Architecture Effects — Effect: Self-assembling 3D buildings in three.js: bricks, timber, eaves and PBR, driven by one seekable progress value.
Phone & app screens (6)
iMessage and chat stories, Notes-app ads, app demos, App Store screenshots and device mockups.
- X Posting License — Effect: A 10-second animated 'posting license' card for an X profile, filled with real profile data into a locked template.
- Duo Foldable Phone — Effect: Two HTML screens composited into a photo of hands holding an open foldable phone, for side-by-side meme videos.
- App Store Screenshots — Guide: Make App Store and Google Play screenshots to exact specs: sizes, gallery order, mockups and previews.
- iPhone Duo Fold — Effect: Your screens on Apple's foldable iPhone Duo, unfolding in 3D with its progressive blur. Local, free.
Step-by-step tutorials: How to make a text message story video with AI, How to make a Notes app video ad with AI
Greetings & celebrations (0)
Birthday, holiday and wedding videos, invitations, thank-yous and e-cards.