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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 phone-shot UGC look to input.mp4 How far the handheld drift wanders from center, in pixels: 9 Blur sigma in pixels that takes the studio crispness off: 1.4
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 phone-shot ugc look 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 |
|---|---|---|
SWAY | 9 | How far the handheld drift wanders from center, in pixels. |
SOFTNESS | 1.4 | Blur sigma in pixels that takes the studio crispness off. 0 keeps full detail. |
GRAIN | 14 | Strength of the moving sensor grain (0-100). |
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Make input.mp4 look like it was filmed on a phone (UGC style) for the whole clip. First scale the frame up 8% and crop it back to the original size (540x960) with a slowly drifting crop window, so it sways like a handheld camera: offset the crop from center by x = 9*(0.7*sin(2.3t+1.1) + 0.3*sin(5.9t+0.4)) pixels and y = 9*(0.7*sin(1.7t+2.0) + 0.3*sin(6.7t+2.9)) pixels, where t is the time in seconds. Then soften the detail with a Gaussian blur of sigma 1.4 px and add moving sensor grain that changes every frame (ffmpeg's noise filter with alls=14:allf=t). Don't show black edges. Keep the size, 30fps, 6 seconds and the audio. Use ffmpeg, encode H.264 yuv420p and save it as output.mp4.Run it without Claude
This is the exact command we tested. Save it as phone-shot-ugc-look.sh and run:
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#!/bin/sh
# Phone-shot UGC look: polished footage gets a gentle handheld sway, softer detail and phone-camera grain.
# Usage: sh phone-shot-ugc-look.sh input.mp4 output.mp4
# Needs ffmpeg.
set -e
IN="$1"; OUT="$2"
SWAY=9 # how far the handheld drift wanders, in pixels
SOFTNESS=1.4 # blur sigma in pixels, to take the studio crispness off
GRAIN=14 # strength of the moving sensor grain (0-100)
SIZE=$(ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=width,height -of csv=s=x:p=0 "$IN")
W=${SIZE%x*}; H=${SIZE#*x}
# scale up 8% so the drifting crop never shows an edge; two slow sine waves per axis make an uneven, hand-held wander
ffmpeg -y -v error -i "$IN" -vf "scale=trunc(iw*1.08/2)*2:-2,\
crop=$W:$H:x='(in_w-out_w)/2+$SWAY*(0.7*sin(t*2.3+1.1)+0.3*sin(t*5.9+0.4))':y='(in_h-out_h)/2+$SWAY*(0.7*sin(t*1.7+2.0)+0.3*sin(t*6.7+2.9))',\
gblur=sigma=$SOFTNESS,noise=alls=$GRAIN:allf=t,fps=30,format=yuv420p" \
-c:v libx264 -crf 20 -c:a copy "$OUT"
