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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 framed video card to input.mp4 Second the video starts to shrink: 0.5 Seconds the shrink takes: 0.6
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 framed video card to @clip1.mp4, put a sale badge on @clip2.mp4, give @clip3.mp4 a VHS look, then join all three with crossfades.
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| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
START | 0.5 | Second the video starts to shrink. |
SHRINK | 0.6 | Seconds the shrink takes. |
SIZE | 0.80 | Card size as a share of the frame. |
RADIUS | 0.06 | Corner radius as a share of the frame width. |
BACKDROP | (247, 201, 72) | Backdrop color. |
SHADOW | 0.45 | Shadow strength (0-1). |
SHADOW_BLUR, SHADOW_DROP | 0.035, 0.025 | Shadow softness and how far it falls below the card, as shares of the frame width. |
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Turn input.mp4 into a framed video card. Play it full screen until 0.5 seconds, then over 0.6 seconds (ease-out) shrink it to 80% of the frame's width and height, centered, with its corners rounding to a radius of 6% of the frame width, onto a solid (247, 201, 72) yellow backdrop. Give the card a soft black drop shadow at 45% opacity, blurred by 3.5% of the frame width and shifted down by 2.5% of the frame width. Hold the card to the end. Use Python with Pillow for the mask and shadow (draw anything with Pillow, not ffmpeg's drawtext) and ffmpeg to read and write the video, keep the audio and the original size, and save it as output.mp4.Run it without Claude
This is the exact script we tested. Save it as framed-video-card.py and run:
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Framed video card: the video shrinks onto a butter-yellow backdrop as a rounded card with a soft shadow.
Usage: python3 framed-video-card.py input.mp4 output.mp4
Needs ffmpeg and Pillow (pip install pillow).
"""
import json
import subprocess
import sys
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFilter
START = 0.5 # second the video starts to shrink
SHRINK = 0.6 # seconds the shrink takes
SIZE = 0.80 # card width and height as a share of the frame
RADIUS = 0.06 # corner radius as a share of the frame width
BACKDROP = (247, 201, 72) # backdrop color (butter yellow)
SHADOW = 0.45 # shadow strength (0-1)
SHADOW_BLUR = 0.035 # shadow softness as a share of the frame width
SHADOW_DROP = 0.025 # how far the shadow falls below the card, as a share of the frame width
def ease_out_cubic(p):
p = min(max(p, 0), 1)
return 1 - (1 - p) ** 3
def card_frame(video, t):
"""The frame at time t: the video scaled down and rounded, on the backdrop with its shadow."""
p = ease_out_cubic((t - START) / SHRINK)
if p == 0:
return video
scale = 1 - (1 - SIZE) * p
cw, ch = round(w * scale), round(h * scale)
x, y = (w - cw) // 2, (h - ch) // 2
radius = round(w * RADIUS * p)
mask = Image.new("L", (cw, ch))
ImageDraw.Draw(mask).rounded_rectangle([0, 0, cw - 1, ch - 1], radius, fill=255)
shadow = Image.new("L", (w, h))
drop = round(w * SHADOW_DROP * p)
ImageDraw.Draw(shadow).rounded_rectangle([x, y + drop, x + cw - 1, y + ch - 1 + drop], radius, fill=round(255 * SHADOW * p))
shadow = shadow.filter(ImageFilter.GaussianBlur(w * SHADOW_BLUR))
img = Image.new("RGB", (w, h), BACKDROP)
img.paste((0, 0, 0), (0, 0), shadow)
img.paste(video.resize((cw, ch), Image.LANCZOS), (x, y), mask)
return img
def probe(path):
info = json.loads(subprocess.check_output(["ffprobe", "-v", "error", "-select_streams", "v:0", "-show_entries",
"stream=width,height,r_frame_rate", "-of", "json", path]))
s = info["streams"][0]
num, den = s["r_frame_rate"].split("/")
return s["width"], s["height"], s["r_frame_rate"], float(num) / float(den)
src, out = sys.argv[1:3]
w, h, rate, fps = probe(src)
reader = subprocess.Popen(["ffmpeg", "-v", "error", "-i", src, "-f", "rawvideo", "-pix_fmt", "rgb24", "-"],
stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
writer = subprocess.Popen(["ffmpeg", "-y", "-v", "error", "-f", "rawvideo", "-pix_fmt", "rgb24", "-s", f"{w}x{h}",
"-r", rate, "-i", "-", "-i", src, "-map", "0:v", "-map", "1:a?",
"-c:v", "libx264", "-crf", "18", "-pix_fmt", "yuv420p", "-c:a", "copy", "-shortest", out],
stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
i = 0
while chunk := reader.stdout.read(w * h * 3):
writer.stdin.write(card_frame(Image.frombytes("RGB", (w, h), chunk), i / fps).tobytes())
i += 1
writer.stdin.close()
if reader.wait() or writer.wait():
sys.exit("ffmpeg failed")





