Motion Skills

Social

Shorts and motion for social

Vertical shorts for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, your own talking-head takes cut and captioned, kinetic type, title cards and transitions. Your agent works from a script, your footage or a single idea.

Film types: 4 · Example films: 8

Full-film skill

Vertical Short

From a script or an idea to a 9:16 short with a hook in the first second.

Paid

Built-in styles: Kinetic Type · Collage · Retro Pixel · Data Story

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Each card plays a film the skill made. A full-film skill makes a whole film of its type; a single look does one job in one fixed look.

Full films

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Describe it in a sentence: your agent makes a 10–20 second film with its own music. When you want the full film, the full-film skill here picks up the same project.

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Shorts from a script, an idea or your own takes

  1. 01

    A script, an idea or your footage

    For a short, one surprising point; for a talking-head video, your own recording.

  2. 02

    A hook in the first second

    Vertical shorts are 9:16, 15–45 seconds, with a hook you can read before the first swipe.

  3. 03

    Captions and music

    Captions follow the voice, and talking-head captions are proofread against your recording.

  4. 04

    An MP4, or a CapCut draft

    Talking-head videos (15–120 seconds, 16:9 or 9:16) also export as a CapCut or 剪映 draft you can keep editing.

Every full-film skill follows the same standard: directions first, an original score, checks before it renders, and nothing on screen that your material or a named source doesn't say. Read the standard →

News shorts, with a source tag on every number, are on the Documentary & evidence page. →

More example films

All 67 example films →

Each film was directed, scored and rendered by a coding agent with one of our skills, from a short brief. Turn the sound on.

The shortest way to Tokyo

Why the shortest route from New York to Tokyo bends up past the Arctic Circle: the flat map folds into a globe. Airports from OurAirports, map from Natural Earth.

Example of Vertical Short9:16 · 18 s

How Steam splits with big games

Valve's 2018 rule: past $10M Valve keeps 25%, past $50M 20%, only on the dollars past each line, worked for a $60M game.

Example of Vertical Short9:16 · 19 s

From Valve's Steamworks announcement of Nov 30, 2018 (archived copy). Unofficial.

A NASA scientist on space weather, cut and captioned

His recorded answer cut clean (the opening 'All right' and the dead air), his own words as cards, captions checked against the recording, and a CapCut/剪映 draft.

Example of Talking-head Video16:9 · 52 s

NASA's public-domain interview for the TRACERS launch; captions proofread with two transcription models.

Why two spacecraft? A vertical cut of one analogy

9:16: the scientist's 'two boats on an ocean', drawn as he says it while the picture slides down; captions on his words.

Example of Talking-head Video9:16 · 23 s

NASA's public-domain interview; the boats are drawn for the film, after his words.

A day in four places

A transition pack and place labels over four Wikimedia Commons clips: a circle from the cup, a zoom into the sun, the market inside the word NIGHT.

Example of Titles & Transitions16:9 · 21 s

Sample edit; footage CC0 and public domain.

Plainjoint chapter kit

A tutorial channel's opener, four chapter cards on a measuring ruler and a chapter bar over footage.

Example of Titles & Transitions16:9 · 18 s

Sample channel, made up for this example.

Questions

Can an AI agent make vertical shorts?

Yes. With a vertical short or talking-head skill, a coding agent can turn a script, an idea or your recorded footage into a 9:16 film with captions and music, rendered to MP4 on your computer.

Are the facts in a short checked?

Every name, number and quote goes into a sources table with where it came from, and the agent checks the film against it before rendering.

Can it caption my own recording?

Yes. The Talking-head Video skill cuts your take clean (long pauses shortened, restarts dropped, after you approve the plan), adds captions proofread against the recording, renders an MP4 and exports a CapCut or 剪映 draft.