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 · Music videos
• 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: A music video for your song: concept, a consistent lead character, shots cut on the beat, lip-sync on vocals.
• Lyric video: 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: A square video of a Strudel live-coding track where every code token lights up on the note it plays.
• Motion Graphics Music Video: Animated character music videos from your song and a prompt: storyboard, fal generation, p5 motion graphics, VFX.