Music Video Generator by Marco van Hylckama Vlieg — workflow skill for music videos
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A full music video from a song: beat-grid analysis, archive.org or your footage, optional AI performers, GPU overlays.
- Type: Workflow · Music videos
- Slug:
claude-music-video - Status: beta
- Publisher: Marco van Hylckama Vlieg (community)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/TheMarco/claude-music-video/tree/main/plugins/music-video-generator/skills/music-video
- Works in: Claude Code
- Requires: Python 3.10–3.13, FFmpeg, GPU with OpenGL 3.3, Optional: a video-generation MCP and its credits
- Cost: Free, MIT; archive-only videos cost nothing, AI clips bill your connected provider
- Adoption: 12 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-11-10)
What it does
A Claude Code plugin that turns a song into a finished music video in 16:9, 9:16 or square. It analyses the beat grid (including tempo drift), sections and lyrics, finds public-domain or openly licensed footage on archive.org or uses your clips and photos, can generate performer and lip-sync clips through whatever video-generation MCP you connect (Hedra, Runway, Kling, fal, varg and others), cuts everything to the beat, and renders through a moderngl shader compositor with per-video overlays, type, grain and audio-reactive graphics over the original audio. It asks its brief questions first, proposes three concepts and shows stills before the full render, and a history file keeps later videos from repeating earlier ones.
Use when
- make a music video, visualizer or lyric video for a song
- cut archive.org or your own footage to a track's beat
- a Reels, TikTok or Shorts cut of a song
- add AI performer and lip-sync clips through a connected video MCP
- change an existing mv/ project: EDL, overlays, grades, re-renders
Not for
- claude.ai chat or Cowork: it needs local Python, ffmpeg and a GPU
- Footage you have no rights to: check archive.org licences before a commercial release
Install
- Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add TheMarco/claude-music-video && claude plugin install music-video-generator@music-video - Any agent, with the vargai CLI:
vargai install claude-music-video
More music videos skills
- Turn a song into an AI music video: Direct an AI music video the way top X creators do: song map, beat-grid storyboard, stills first, Seedance, lip-sync.
- Schizo-Edit AI Music Video: A 16 s vertical AI music video cut 3–4 times per beat: generated stills and clips, one effect per shot, the title built letter by letter.
- Prod by Claude: A square video of a Strudel live-coding track where every code token lights up on the note it plays.
- Nala: Heads Drop (Higgsfield Open-Source Music Video): Higgsfield's 50 s AI music video for "Head Up" by Nala: every frame, character and scene generated.
- Motion Graphics Music Video: Animated character music videos from your song and a prompt: storyboard, fal generation, p5 motion graphics, VFX.
Run the generation on varg
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.
- Any agent with a terminal:
curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh(Windows:irm https://varg.ai/install.ps1 | iex), thenvargai loginand every model is a command —vargai generate_video …,vargai estimate_cost …(https://varg.ai/how-to/cli/) - Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg(skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y - Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect
https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt