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Install the Recharm video effects skill: download https://recharm-growth-staging.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/website/downloads/recharm-video-effects.zip and unzip it into ~/.claude/skillsAsk for the effect
Add a digital pan and tilt to input.mp4 How far in the crop window sits: 1.25 Second the move begins: 0.5
Several videos, several effects, one ask
Put your clips in the folder, mention them with @, and ask for everything at once. Claude runs one tested script after another on each clip, then joins them.
Add a digital pan and tilt to @clip1.mp4, put a sale badge on @clip2.mp4, give @clip3.mp4 a VHS look, then join all three with crossfades.
Settings you can change
Ask Claude to change any of these, or edit them at the top of the command.
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
ZOOM | 1.25 | How far in the crop window sits. 1.25 shows 80% of the frame's width and height. |
START | 0.5 | Second the move begins. |
LENGTH | 3.5 | Seconds it takes to glide from the bottom-left corner to the top-right. |
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Don’t want to install the skill? Paste this prompt into Claude Code and Claude writes the command itself.
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In input.mp4 (540x960), add a digital pan and tilt with a moving crop: take a 432x768 window (1.25x zoom), scale it back up to 540x960, and move it. Hold it in the bottom-left corner (left edge and bottom edge of the window on the frame's left and bottom edges) until 0.5 seconds, then glide it diagonally to the top-right corner (right and top edges on the frame's edges) by 4.0 seconds, easing in and out with smoothstep (progress p from 0 to 1, position p*p*(3-2*p)), and hold it there to the end. Keep the length, 30fps and the audio. Use ffmpeg and save it as output.mp4.Run it without Claude
This is the exact command we tested. Save it as digital-pan-and-tilt.sh and run:
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#!/bin/sh
# Digital pan and tilt: a crop window 1.25x into the frame glides from the bottom-left corner to the top-right.
# Usage: sh digital-pan-and-tilt.sh input.mp4 output.mp4
set -e
IN="$1"; OUT="$2"
ZOOM=1.25 # how far in the crop window sits (1.25 = 80% of the frame wide and tall)
START=0.5 # second the move begins
LENGTH=3.5 # seconds it takes to glide from corner to corner
SIZE=$(ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=width,height -of csv=s=x:p=0 "$IN")
P="clip((t-$START)/$LENGTH,0,1)" # progress 0..1
S="($P*$P*(3-2*$P))" # eased so it starts and stops gently
ffmpeg -y -i "$IN" -vf "\
crop=w=iw/$ZOOM:h=ih/$ZOOM:x='(iw-ow)*$S':y='(ih-oh)*(1-$S)',\
scale=$SIZE:flags=lanczos,setsar=1,fps=30,format=yuv420p" \
-c:v libx264 -crf 18 -c:a copy "$OUT"
