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title: "video-talkcraft: talking-head motion overlays — AI video generator workflow for talking heads & avatars"
description: "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 Install in Claude Code, Codex and Grok with one command."
url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/video-talkcraft
updated: 2026-11-03
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# 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

- **Type:** [Workflow](https://varg.ai/how-to/workflows.md) · [Talking heads & avatars](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/talking-head.md)
- **Slug:** `video-talkcraft`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Vincent Wei (community)
- **License:** PolyForm
- **Source:** https://github.com/Vincentwei1021/video-talkcraft
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex
- **Requires:** Node, Remotion, ffmpeg, a recorded or TTS voiceover
- **Adoption:** 2,027 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-11-02)

## 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

- talking-head or voiceover videos that need motion cards on keywords
- knowledge creators turning a recording into a polished short

## Not for

- commercial use without the author's permission
- generated footage

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add Vincentwei1021/video-talkcraft`
- Codex: `npx skills add Vincentwei1021/video-talkcraft`
- Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install video-talkcraft`

**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)

## More talking heads & avatars skills

- [Character Keynote](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-character-keynote.md): One render call: a Soul character delivers a keynote-style ad line on a generated stage, voiced by Seedance 2.5.
- [Turn a script into a two-person podcast video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-podcast-video.md): Two-character podcast or debate clips: one studio set, locked camera angles, MiniMax H3 Max with native audio.
- [Talking Head Production](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-talking-head-production.md): Produce talking-head videos with AI avatars, lip-sync and voiceover, from portrait specs to final cut.
- [AI Avatar Video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-ai-avatar-video.md): Create talking-head avatar videos from a portrait and a script, with a lip-synced voice.
- [P-Video Avatar](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-p-video-avatar.md): Turn one portrait into a speaking avatar video with Pruna P-Video-Avatar, its built-in TTS or your audio.
- [AI Podcast Video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-ai-podcast.md): Generate a multi-person talking-head podcast video from scratch: characters, voices, avatars, stitching.

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- 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`
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