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Explainer Video

Teaches one idea in plain words, with the thing itself moving, every fact from a textbook or primary source, with music.

Explainer Video: its example films and styles →

How it works

  1. 1Copy the install prompt and paste it into your agent.
  2. 2Your agent runs mo doctor to check Node.js, FFmpeg and Chrome, and tells you how to install anything missing.
  3. 3Give it your material. It renders an MP4 on your computer, and you ask for changes in plain words.

Install Explainer Video

Paste one sentence into your AI agent: it reads the install guide, installs it, and makes a first film with it.

Say to your agent

Read https://claude-motion.com/skills/explainer-director/install.md and follow it to install the "explainer-director" skill, then make a first video with it.

Works in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and any agent that reads Agent Skills. The first install signs you in through the browser.

Paste into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any agent that supports skills.

Films it made

All its films →

All it takes

No API key

This is all it needs

  • A document, article or script

Dependencies

Node.js 22+, FFmpeg, Chrome. No API keys.

Before it starts, your agent runs mo doctor to check Node.js, FFmpeg and Chrome and tells you how to install anything missing; if this skill needs more (such as whisper for captions), its instructions say so.

Example prompt
Use the explainer-director skill to make a 45-second explainer for students about why we have seasons.
Style prompt (Claude Motion or Opus 5.5)
Make a 45-second 16:9 explainer for [audience, e.g for [who will watch, e.g. curious people with no background in this]. 12-year-olds] about [the question, e.g. why we have seasons]. Show the thing itself moving, not bullet points; check every fact against [a textbook or source] and keep the source on screen. Start with the question (or the common wrong answer), land the idea on the music's lift, end on one takeaway sentence held 2 seconds. Use only the facts in the source I give below; don't change a word or number. End on the idea in one line, held for 3 seconds.

Nothing to install: paste this into Claude Motion (Team or Enterprise) or give it to Opus 5.5 for a similar look. The result changes from run to run; the skill works from your own material and renders on your computer.

Made with this skill

Make your film with Explainer Video

Copy install prompt