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Timeline Video
Events in order, every date and claim sourced.
Timeline Video: 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 document, article or script
- Photos and images
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 timeline-director skill to make a 1-minute film of the race to the South Pole, 1911–1912.
Style prompt (Claude Motion or Opus 5.5)
Make a 1-minute 16:9 timeline film for [viewers] about [period or story] for [who will watch, e.g. people who know the story only by name]. Use the people's own accounts and a reliable history from [sources]; pick five to nine moments, place them by their real dates on a time axis drawn to scale, quote the people who were there, and make the interval the story is about visible. Use only the dates and quotes in the sources I give below; don't change a word or number. End on the interval that matters, 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.