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Viral Fast-Cut Short

Video / Short

Turns a topic and talking-head footage into a high-energy vertical (9:16) short; produces a second-by-second production package consisting of a hook, a timestamped script, punch-cap markers, a shot list, and an audio/music map.

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Viral Fast-Cut Short

Takes a topic/headline and raw talking-head footage and turns it into a high-energy, vertical (9:16) short. The signature style: a constant micro-zoom pulse (never a static frame), camera shake + impact SFX on punch words, "pop-in-and-settle" punch-cap typography (giant white caps, black stroke, red offset shadow), a fast flash B-roll montage, and an immersive music bed + speech-aware ducking. It adapts the reference implementation of the StyleViral composition in Remotion to new footage.

When to use it: for topics with a shock/reveal opening ("X was banned," "everyone panicked"), an urgency + provocation tone, hooks that need to grab in the first 2 seconds, and short-form content aiming to maximize scroll-stop / retention / CTR. If you need a calm / authority / documentary tone, choose the documentary or Cleo-Abram style instead.

What it produces: a second-by-second production package — hook (0–3s), a timestamped full script, on-screen text (punch-cap) markers, a shot list table, and an audio/music map (bed segments, ducking, beat-drop, ms-synced SFX set). All shake / SFX / punch-cap timings are tied to the actual SRT timecode. In the final step, the StilViral composition is rendered to MP4 with npx remotion render. Rule: punch-caps are 1–4 words, at most 2 beat-drops, and no faces/legible text in B-roll (everything legible is a Remotion mockup).

How do I use this skill?

You don't "run" a skill — after installing it you just tell the agent your task (e.g. ask for the relevant job), and the skill kicks in by itself when its description matches.

Upload the short-stil-viral.zip you downloaded as-is — no packaging needed, the format is already correct (folder at root).

  1. Open Settings → Customize → Skills
  2. Upload → select the short-stil-viral.zip you downloaded
  3. Claude reads SKILL.md; the name + description appear. Ready ✅

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