# OpenMontage Localization & Dub — guide skill for dubbing & lip sync

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Transcript-first translation of an existing video into subtitles, dubbed audio and optional lip-synced language variants

- **Type:** [Guide](https://varg.ai/how-to/guides.md) · [Dubbing & lip sync](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/dubbing.md)
- **Slug:** `openmontage-localization-dub`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Calesthio (community)
- **License:** AGPL-3.0
- **Source:** https://github.com/calesthio/OpenMontage/tree/main/skills/pipelines/localization-dub/
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw
- **Requires:** Python 3.10+, ffmpeg, Node.js 18+, an AI coding assistant
- **Cost:** Free/open source; generation billed by providers you connect

## What it does

Transcript-first translation of an existing video into subtitles, dubbed audio and optional lip-synced language variants, preserving timing per locale. One of OpenMontage's 12 production pipelines: a YAML manifest (`pipeline_defs/localization-dub.yaml`) plus per-stage director skills in `skills/pipelines/localization-dub/` that the agent reads before it calls the repo's Python tools (ffmpeg, WhisperX, scene detection, face-tracked reframe, Remotion or HyperFrames rendering). It checkpoints state, stops for approval at creative gates and self-reviews the render with ffprobe, frame samples and audio levels. Open the OpenMontage folder in your agent and ask for this kind of edit; the agent routes to the pipeline.

## Use when

- Asked for a localization & dub edit of footage you already have
- Want a staged pipeline with approval gates instead of one prompt

## Not for

- A single drop-in skill (it runs inside the OpenMontage repo)

## Install

- Claude Code: `git clone https://github.com/calesthio/OpenMontage.git && cd OpenMontage && make setup`

## More dubbing & lip sync skills

- [ElevenLabs Dubbing](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/elevenlabs-dubbing.md): Dub video and audio into other languages while keeping each original speaker's voice.
- [ElevenLabs Dubbing (inference.sh)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-elevenlabs-dubbing.md): Dub audio or video into 29 languages while keeping the speaker's voice, via inference.sh.
- [VideoLingo](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/videolingo.md): One-click subtitle cutting, translation, alignment and dubbing with Netflix-style subtitle rules.
- [pyVideoTrans](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/pyvideotrans.md): Full video translation: ASR, subtitle translation, multi-voice dubbing and muxing, with a headless CLI.
- [OpenCreator (formerly KrillinAI)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/opencreator.md): Creator workspace on Codex CLI: download, translate, dub and edit video with reusable Skills and Agents.
- [Sync. lipsync MCP](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/sync-lipsync.md): Official MCP for the sync. lipsync API: re-time mouths in existing footage to new or translated audio.