video-talkcraft: talking-head motion overlays — workflow skill for talking heads & avatars

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Give it a voiceover script and the recorded voice: it aligns word-level timestamps, writes a SHOTBOOK and renders a narrated explainer with kinetic cards, evide

What it does

Talking-head chapter of the video-shotcraft series (video-shotcraft and mg-styles-15 are in the catalog). 108 motion recipe cards (online gallery), seven-layer anti-PPT shot system, triple QA; new 2026-09-11: voice_trim.py removes filler words, stutters and long pauses before alignment. Remotion renderer.

Use when

Not for

Install

Models it drives: remotion

Example output

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Vincentwei1021/video-talkcraft/main/assets/gallery-zh.png — Overlay styles the skill adds to a talking-head clip (README gallery) (credit: Vincent Wei (README), https://github.com/Vincentwei1021/video-talkcraft)

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