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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 notification pop-up to input.mp4 App, when: SHOP, now Title: Your serum is back in stock Body: Only 50 left. Tap to grab yours
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 notification pop-up 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 |
|---|---|---|
APP, WHEN | SHOP, now | App name and time stamp on the top line. |
TITLE | Your serum is back in stock | Bold line. |
BODY | Only 50 left. Tap to grab yours | Grey line under it. |
START | 0.5 | Second the banner starts dropping in. |
HOLD | 3.0 | Seconds it stays down before sliding away. |
ICON_COLOR | (255, 59, 48) | App icon color. |
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Add a phone-style notification to input.mp4: a pure white (255, 255, 255) rounded banner 92% of the frame width, centered across, its top 4% of the way down, with a soft dark shadow. On its left, a red (255, 59, 48) rounded-square app icon 13% of the banner width with a white shopping bag on it; to its right, "SHOP" in small grey, "now" in small grey at the right edge, "Your serum is back in stock" in black bold, and "Only 50 left. Tap to grab yours" in grey under it. The banner drops in from above the top edge at 0.5 seconds over 0.4 seconds with a slight bounce, stays fully down for 3 seconds, then slides back up out of frame over 0.4 seconds (gone by 4.3 seconds). Use Python with Pillow to draw it and ffmpeg to put it on the video (don't rely on ffmpeg's drawtext filter), keep the audio, and save it as output.mp4.Run it without Claude
This is the exact script we tested. Save it as notification-pop-up.py and run:
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Notification pop-up: a phone-style banner drops in from the top edge, sits for a few seconds, then slides away.
Usage: python3 notification-pop-up.py input.mp4 output.mp4
Needs ffmpeg and Pillow (pip install pillow).
"""
import json
import math
import subprocess
import sys
from pathlib import Path
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFilter, ImageFont
APP = "SHOP" # app name in small caps beside the icon
WHEN = "now" # time stamp on the right
TITLE = "Your serum is back in stock" # bold line
BODY = "Only 50 left. Tap to grab yours" # grey line under it
START = 0.5 # second the banner starts dropping in
DROP = 0.4 # seconds the drop takes
HOLD = 3.0 # seconds it stays fully down before sliding back up
WIDTH = 0.92 # banner width as a share of the frame width
TOP = 0.04 # gap above the banner as a share of the frame height
ICON_COLOR = (255, 59, 48) # app icon color
FONTS = ["/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Bold.ttf", # macOS
"/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf", # Linux
"C:/Windows/Fonts/arialbd.ttf"] # Windows
REGULAR_FONTS = ["/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial.ttf", # macOS
"/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf", # Linux
"C:/Windows/Fonts/arial.ttf"] # Windows
FONT_FILE = next((f for f in FONTS if Path(f).exists()), None) or sys.exit("No bold font found: add one to FONTS")
REGULAR_FILE = next((f for f in REGULAR_FONTS if Path(f).exists()), None) or sys.exit("No font found: add one to REGULAR_FONTS")
def banner():
"""The white banner with its soft shadow, drawn once."""
bw = round(w * WIDTH)
pad, icon = round(bw * 0.04), round(bw * 0.13)
bh = icon + 2 * pad + round(bw * 0.03)
shadow = round(bw * 0.04)
img = Image.new("RGBA", (bw + 2 * shadow, bh + 2 * shadow))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
draw.rounded_rectangle([shadow, shadow + 4, shadow + bw, shadow + bh + 4], radius=bh // 4, fill=(0, 0, 0, 70))
img = img.filter(ImageFilter.GaussianBlur(shadow / 2))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
x0, y0 = shadow, shadow
draw.rounded_rectangle([x0, y0, x0 + bw, y0 + bh], radius=bh // 4, fill="white")
ix, iy = x0 + pad, y0 + (bh - icon) // 2
draw.rounded_rectangle([ix, iy, ix + icon, iy + icon], radius=icon // 4, fill=ICON_COLOR)
bag = [ix + icon * 0.28, iy + icon * 0.38, ix + icon * 0.72, iy + icon * 0.78]
draw.rounded_rectangle(bag, radius=icon // 14, fill="white")
draw.arc([ix + icon * 0.37, iy + icon * 0.2, ix + icon * 0.63, iy + icon * 0.52], 180, 360, fill="white", width=max(2, icon // 14))
tx = ix + icon + pad
small = ImageFont.truetype(REGULAR_FILE, round(bw * 0.034))
title = ImageFont.truetype(FONT_FILE, round(bw * 0.050))
body = ImageFont.truetype(REGULAR_FILE, round(bw * 0.046))
top = iy - round(bw * 0.012)
draw.text((tx, top), APP, font=small, fill=(130, 130, 135))
draw.text((x0 + bw - pad, top), WHEN, font=small, fill=(130, 130, 135), anchor="ra")
draw.text((tx, top + round(bw * 0.050)), TITLE, font=title, fill=(20, 20, 20))
draw.text((tx, top + round(bw * 0.112)), BODY, font=body, fill=(70, 70, 75))
return img, shadow
def offset(t):
"""How far the banner has come down: 0 = hidden above the frame, 1 = in place."""
if t < START:
return 0
if t < START + DROP + HOLD:
return ease_out_back((t - START) / DROP)
return 1 - ease_in((t - START - DROP - HOLD) / DROP)
def ease_out_back(p):
"""0 -> 1 with a small overshoot past 1 before settling, so the banner lands with a little bounce."""
p = min(max(p, 0), 1)
return 1 + 2.2 * (p - 1) ** 3 + 1.2 * (p - 1) ** 2
def ease_in(p):
p = min(max(p, 0), 1)
return p * p
def overlay(t):
img = Image.new("RGBA", (w, h))
k = offset(t)
if k > 0:
rest = round(h * TOP) - margin
hidden = -card.height
img.alpha_composite(card, (round((w - card.width) / 2), round(hidden + (rest - hidden) * k)))
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:format=duration", "-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), float(info["format"]["duration"])
def render(src, out):
"""Draw overlay(t) on every frame of src and save to out, keeping the audio."""
ff = subprocess.Popen(["ffmpeg", "-y", "-v", "error", "-i", src,
"-f", "rawvideo", "-pix_fmt", "rgba", "-s", f"{w}x{h}", "-r", rate, "-i", "-",
"-filter_complex", "[0:v][1:v]overlay=shortest=1,format=yuv420p[v]",
"-map", "[v]", "-map", "0:a?", "-c:v", "libx264", "-crf", "18", "-c:a", "copy", out],
stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
for i in range(math.ceil(duration * fps)):
ff.stdin.write(overlay(i / fps).tobytes())
ff.stdin.close()
if ff.wait():
sys.exit("ffmpeg failed")
src, out = sys.argv[1:3]
w, h, rate, fps, duration = probe(src)
card, margin = banner()
render(src, out)





