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News Short
A news short that reads with the sound off, every number with its source.
News Short: 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 news-director skill to make a 40-second vertical news short from this year's annual report of [an energy or health agency], with its sources on screen.
Style prompt (Claude Motion or Opus 5.5)
Make a 40-second 9:16 news short from [the report or dataset, with its link]: read the primary source, the biggest true number on the first frame, every number with a source tag in the same shot, the source's key sentence shown and highlighted, one turn the sources give, licence-checked footage credited in the shot, and the sources on the last frame for [who will watch, e.g. people following the story]. Use only the facts and quotes in the sources I give below; don't change a word or number. End on the sources, 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.