Schizo-Edit AI Music Video — workflow skill for music videos

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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.

Type: Workflow · Music videos
Slug: schizo-edit-music-video
Status: live
Publisher: varg (varg, verified)
License: MIT
Source: https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates/tree/master/schizo-edit-music-video
Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
Requires: python3, uv, ffmpeg, a varg API key for new media (the example needs none)
Cost: Example free; a new 16 s video ≈ $5 in varg credits (≈ $2 stills only)
Runtime: ~1 min to cut; ~6 min to generate a new video

What it does

One JSON config holds the whole video: a music prompt, one look line appended to every still, 20–30 still prompts, 6–8 clip prompts and the edit sections. generate.py makes the media on varg (Nano Banana 2 stills, Seedance 2 Mini clips, ElevenLabs Music) and writes every new url back into the config, so a re-run never pays twice and only retries what failed. edit.py measures the tempo with librosa, cuts each beat into 3–4 shots, gives every shot a slow zoom and one effect (duotone invert, mirror, kaleidoscope, pixelate, RGB split, glitch band, halo rings, light rays, double exposure, flash), lays one grade over everything and builds the track title one letter per cut. The Halofall example (69 cuts at 89 BPM, marble statues and sacred geometry in violet and molten gold) renders free in about a minute from media on s3; a new video costs about $5, or about $2 with stills only. A new --seed gives a new cut of the same media for free.

Use when

A schizo edit or fast-cut AI music video, visualizer or teaser for a track
A hyperpop, breakcore or phonk edit cut on the beat
A "100% AI generated music video" from one config
Remaking a fast-cut reference video's structure with your own images, music and title
Requests like "шизо-эдит", "быстрый монтаж под бит", "клип из нейрокартинок"

Not for

A story-driven music video for your own song with characters and lip-sync (use varg-music-video)
Lyric videos with the sung words on screen (use music-to-video)

Install

Claude Code: git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates ~/code2video-templates && ln -s ~/code2video-templates/schizo-edit-music-video ~/.claude/skills/schizo-edit-music-video

Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/files/72c55813-c0fa-4cf2-9f64-ec4f7ed0e7ae/file_d5195ac48111.mp4 — example (credit: varg)