Turn a Script Into a Shot List and AI Video Prompts — workflow skill for cinematic & short films

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Script, prose or a keyframe to beats, blocking, shot list with coverage, keyframe and motion prompts for Runway, Veo, Kling, Seedance.

What it does

The cinematic-director skill runs a 13-step pass from intake to QC: beat map, director's book, blocking and staging, shot list with coverage (size, lens, angle, camera, start-motion-end blocking, light direction, continuity anchors, risk), keyframe strategy, model-shaped motion prompts, a sound plan and an edit plan. Twenty optional director lenses apply one style coherently across the plan, and 19 coded failure modes map each bad take to its cheapest fix. Adapters cover Runway, Veo, Kling, Luma, Sora-class, Hailuo, Pika, Vidu, Seedance, Wan and ComfyUI models. MIT.

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varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.