# Music Video Director — workflow skill for music videos

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Direct an AI music video the way top X creators do: song map, beat-grid storyboard, stills first, Seedance, lip-sync.

- **Type:** [Workflow](https://skills.varg.ai/workflows.md) · [Music videos](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/music.md)
- **Slug:** `varg-music-video`
- **Status:** beta
- **Publisher:** varg (varg, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/vargHQ/skills/tree/main/varg-music-video
- **Works in:** Claude.ai, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw
- **Requires:** varg MCP connection, Song file and lyric sheet, or a brief to generate the song, Headless browser (Playwright) for lyrics drawn in code, Demucs for stem separation (not in varg yet)
- **Cost:** up to ~5,000 credits / 30 s video (estimate) — Converted from the skill's creator-reported budgets: a first 30 s video has a ceiling of about 5,000 credits, a 4-minute song with one shot per lyric line runs ~30,000–45,000, and dialogue roughly doubles that. Every batch is quoted with estimate_cost before "Go".

## What it does

Encodes how the most-watched AI music videos on X are made (Obie Fernandez's slopcore guide, anabology's Claudia videos, Framer_X, EXM7777, zealcaiden) as a gated pipeline: measure the song into `songmap.json`, pitch the concept and lyric surfaces, cast and lock a reference bible, storyboard every cut on a downbeat, approve stills at full size, then pilot, quote and wait for "Go" before Seedance 2.5 clips. Every singing or talking shot gets a mandatory lip-sync pass against the real vocal, and lyrics and graphics are drawn in code, never by the video model. Steps varg cannot do yet are tagged `[varg: missing]` with a workaround, so the skill doubles as a build list for varg.

## Use when

- A music video or a singing character
- A "clip with a song" or slopcore
- A launch video or promo set to a track

## Install

- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg`
- Codex: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-music-video -a codex -y`
- Cursor: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-music-video -a cursor -y`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-music-video -a gemini-cli -y`
- OpenClaw: `npx clawhub@latest install varg-music-video`

**Models it drives:** seedance_2_5, gpt_image_2_5, nano_banana_2, soul, sync_v2_pro, sync_v3, groq_whisper_large_v3_turbo, lyria_3_5, eleven_music_v2_5, seedvr_video

## Used for

- [AI music video](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/music-video.md): A music video for your song: concept, a consistent lead character, shots cut on the beat, lip-sync on vocals.
- [Lyric video](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/lyric-video.md): Lyrics synced to the song: the sung line big and highlighted, karaoke-style, over art or a shader.

## More music videos skills

- [Prod by Claude](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes-prod-by-claude.md): A square video of a Strudel live-coding track where every code token lights up on the note it plays.
- [Motion Graphics Music Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/motion-graphics-music-video.md): Animated character music videos from your song and a prompt: storyboard, fal generation, p5 motion graphics, VFX.