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Research Paper Video

One study: what they did, what they found in their own numbers, and how far to trust it.

Research Paper 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 Research Paper 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/paper-director/install.md and follow it to install the "paper-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 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 paper-director skill to make a 1-minute explainer of Ophir, Nass & Wagner (2009), 'Cognitive control in media multitaskers', including what later replications found.
Style prompt (Claude Motion or Opus 5.5)
Make a 1-minute 16:9 explainer of [paper, with DOI] for [who will watch, e.g. students who have not read the paper]. Read the full text. Show the question, who took part and how many, what they did, the key result rebuilt from the paper's own table with units, at least one limit in the authors' words, and any later replication or meta-analysis. Keep the citation on screen. Use only the paper I attach, with its own numbers and wording; don't change a word or number. End on the finding and its limit, with the citation, 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.

Make your film with Research Paper Video

Copy install prompt