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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

AvailableFull-film skill

Vertical Short

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

Install it in your coding agent from its skill page: the install prompt, what it needs and the price are there.

Install or buy

$4.90 once, with its updates · or every skill from $9.90 a month

Good fit for

  • A fact, a number or a how-it-works, in 20–35 seconds
  • Turning a script or a thread into a vertical video

Not for

  • Editing your own talking-head footage
  • Claims you cannot source
Example prompt
Use the shorts-director skill to make a 25-second vertical short explaining this fact, with its sources on screen.

More example films

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.

Built-in styles

Kinetic Type

Words that slam, slide and stack on the beat.

Collage

Cut-out photos, paper and highlights, like a news explainer.

Example film from Timeline Video

Retro Pixel

CRT glow, pixels and terminals, for culture and games.

Example film from Event Promo

Data Story

Charts that grow from the real numbers, one point at a time.

Just one look

Smaller jobs of this film type, each in one fixed look: $4.90 each, included in every plan.

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