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title: "Kinetic Film by Scenario — AI video effect for text & titles"
description: "Launch films and teasers in kinetic type, written as code: a word on every beat, whip pans, 3D letters, motion blur, 4K. Install in Claude Code, Codex and Grok with one command."
url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/scenario-kinetic-film
updated: 2026-10-30
---

# Kinetic Film by Scenario — effect skill for text & titles

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Launch films and teasers in kinetic type, written as code: a word on every beat, whip pans, 3D letters, motion blur, 4K.

- **Type:** [Effect](https://varg.ai/how-to/effects.md) · [Text & titles](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/kinetic-type.md)
- **Slug:** `scenario-kinetic-film`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Scenario (vendor)
- **License:** Scenario: free download, no license file in the ZIP; fonts SIL OFL
- **Source:** https://www.scenario.com/explorations/kinetic-film/
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
- **Requires:** Claude Code or another agent that reads SKILL.md, Scenario MCP (music, sound effects, pictures), Node 18+ with Playwright (or Google Chrome), ffmpeg and ffprobe, Python 3 with numpy and opencv-python-headless
- **Cost:** The motion renders on your machine for free. Music, sound effects and pictures use Scenario credits, priced with a dry run before each run.
- **Runtime:** a 24 s film renders at 1080p in about 4 minutes and in 4K in about 10 (52 s in 4K: about 18) on a 36 GB laptop

## What it does

Scenario's Kinetic Film skill (https://www.scenario.com/explorations/kinetic-film/) makes fast, high-energy launch films, game teasers, trailers and brand films in kinetic typography, the style of viral motion design reels: huge words on every beat, whip pans, colour flips, extruded 3D letters the camera flies through, and a hard drop. The film is a spec: 13 scene blocks (Words, Strike, Graph, Hero, Prompt, Stretch, Fly, Notes, Counters, Progress, Chain, Rewind, Logo, plus Picture for key art) placed on the music's beat grid, with a palette, a caption track and a logo. The engine turns it into one web page where every frame is a pure function of time, so headless Chrome can seek anywhere and average sub-frames into real motion blur; Python adds bloom and grain and encodes 1080p, 4K (H.264 Level 5.2, under 1 GB) and 9:16. Scenario MCP makes what code cannot: a music bed at the exact tempo, a kit of about 15 one-shot sound effects, and any key art, priced with a dry run first. finish.py fails a film that parks: more than 40 % still frames, a still stretch over 0.6 s, or too little motion. Scenario's own 52 s film "Just code" (174 BPM, 3,108 frames) and a 24 s game teaser spec (Kaiju Postal) come as examples.

## Use when

- A launch film, teaser or trailer for your product, game or brand in kinetic type, cut to music
- "Make it like those viral motion design reels": a word on every beat, whip pans, colour flips, 3D type
- A motion graphics film rendered from code at 4K with real motion blur, no After Effects timeline
- Rebrand a whole film by changing a palette, the words and the logo

## Not for

- Live-action or generated footage (use a video model; the Picture block only cuts in stills)
- Talking heads, UGC ads or narrated explainers
- Calm, slow brand pieces with long holds: the checks fail anything that parks

## Install

- Claude Code: `curl -fsSL -o /tmp/scenario-kinetic-film.zip "https://iieqkinwjorxrzjp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/explorations/2217ab5dbd452185a5c3c1509994da46b1ac20d2ebeaa888536244372ce73ebf/scenario-kinetic-film-skill.zip?download=1" && unzip -oq /tmp/scenario-kinetic-film.zip -d ~/.claude/skills && claude mcp add --transport http scenario https://mcp.scenario.com/mcp`
- Codex: `curl -fsSL -o /tmp/scenario-kinetic-film.zip "https://iieqkinwjorxrzjp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/explorations/2217ab5dbd452185a5c3c1509994da46b1ac20d2ebeaa888536244372ce73ebf/scenario-kinetic-film-skill.zip?download=1" && unzip -oq /tmp/scenario-kinetic-film.zip -d ~/.codex/skills && codex mcp add scenario --url https://mcp.scenario.com/mcp && codex mcp login scenario`
- Any MCP client: `https://mcp.scenario.com/mcp`
- Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install scenario-kinetic-film`

## Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/files/4325c578-378d-4c43-ae53-3cc3218df1ea/file_964c01af8db8.mp4 — 11 s cut from Scenario's film "Just code": EVERY FRAME OF THIS FILM IS CODE, the 3D Hero title, the camera flying through the type, a cut on every beat, JUST CODE. (credit: Scenario, "Just code" (Kinetic Film), https://www.scenario.com/explorations/kinetic-film/)

## More text & titles skills

- [Canopy Part Title](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hyperframes-canopy-part-title.md): Leaves sweep across the frame and part to reveal your headline: a 12-second 1080p title block.
- [Code Slice Hero](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hyperframes-code-slice-hero.md): A tiled headline flips cell by cell under a sweeping depth field to reveal a second line: an 8-second hero.
- [Glass Shard Title](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hyperframes-glass-shard-title.md): Glass shards fly in through fog and tile themselves into your headline, then fly out past the camera.
- [Wireframe Portal Title](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hyperframes-wireframe-portal-title.md): A wireframe portal bursts open, the title comes through, then its letters swap into a second phrase.
- [PixiJS Text](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/pixijs-scene-text.md): Render and animate text in PixiJS v8: canvas Text, BitmapText, HTMLText and per-character SplitText.
- [Kinetic Typography](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/iart-kinetic-typography.md): Kinetic type for web and video: line, word or char splits, mask and blur reveals, variable-font motion, frozen-frame QA.

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- 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
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