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Investigation Film
One question, answered on screen from the records themselves.
Investigation Film: its example films and styles →
How it works
- 1Copy the install prompt and paste it into your agent.
- 2Your agent runs mo doctor to check Node.js, FFmpeg and Chrome, and tells you how to install anything missing.
- 3Give it your material. It renders an MP4 on your computer, and you ask for changes in plain words.
Paste into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any agent that supports skills.
Films it made
All it takes
No API keyAny one of these is enough
- A spreadsheet or data
- 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 investigation-director skill to make a 90-second film answering how we know [a historical fact], from the original records, with each page on screen.
Style prompt (Claude Motion or Opus 5.5)
Make a 90-second 16:9 visual investigation answering [one question about a historical event] from its primary records: each record on screen tagged with its page, the words that matter highlighted as they are said, a clock, evidence that fails set aside with the reason, what was recorded kept apart from what was inferred, and the sources on the last frame for [who will watch, e.g. people who have heard the story but not the record]. Use only the documents I give below, quoted exactly; don't change a word or number. End on the answer the record supports, 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.