# Beat-synced slideshow — how to make it with code and an AI agent

> **For AI agents:** find the right skill in one call — `curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"` returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.

Photos cut on the beat of a track, with a title and an end card.

**Output:** 9:16 or 16:9 · 15–60 s · **Input:** Photos and a track

## Skills that make it end to end

- [Music Video Director](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-music-video.md)

## Ready templates

- [Anime Triple Split](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.anime-triple-split.md) — Three live video panels slam onto screentone paper one per beat — ink borders, slanted gutters, an impact flash and a katakana SFX stamp — then the page tears away. · install: `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/anime-triple-split && bash make.command`
- [Stamp Carousel](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.stamp-carousel.md) — An iPhone swiping through your pictures as perforated postage stamps, the screen colour following each stamp. MP4 on a background or with alpha. · install: `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/stamp-carousel && bash make.command`

## Recipe, beat by beat

Each beat lists components that build it; install any with its command, then fill its slots.

**Open** (Intros & hooks)

- [ASCII Trail Reveal](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.ascii-trail-reveal.md) — An authored S-curve sweeps through a deterministic ASCII grid, flipping cells away to reveal a labeled panel. · `npx hyperframes add ascii-trail-reveal`
- [Blue Sweater Intro Video](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.blue-sweater-intro-video.md) — Warm AI creator intro sequence that resolves into an X follow card for @_blue_sweater_. · `npx hyperframes add blue-sweater-intro-video`
- [Facet Morph](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.facet-morph.md) — A faceted low-poly mass of 36 triangles continuously reshapes between three authored silhouettes (blob, mark, badge) with per-facet flat sha · `npx hyperframes add facet-morph`

**Photos** (Galleries & carousels, Beat sync, Transitions)

- [Card Catalog Explainer](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.card-catalog-explainer.md) — A 56 s explainer: a wall of code-made videos, then one request travels through a card catalog to the finished MP4. Point config.json at any  · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/card-catalog-explainer && bash make.command`
- [Stamp Carousel](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.stamp-carousel.md) — An iPhone swiping through your pictures as perforated postage stamps, the screen colour following each stamp. MP4 on a background or with al · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/stamp-carousel && bash make.command`
- [Camera Shake](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.camera-shake.md) — Procedural handheld, telephoto and rig camera shake for any wrapper: nine measured profiles with per-lens projection, closed-form and seek-s · `npx hyperframes add camera-shake`
- [Anime Triple Split](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.anime-triple-split.md) — Three live video panels slam onto screentone paper one per beat — ink borders, slanted gutters, an impact flash and a katakana SFX stamp — t · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/anime-triple-split && bash make.command`
- [varg Music Video](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.music-video.md) — An AI music video from a song: song map with beats and word timings, a beat-grid storyboard, Seedance scenes with QA, a frame-exact cut on t · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && python3 code2video-templates/varg-music-video/scripts/songmap.py song.mp3 --lyrics lyrics.txt --out songmap.json`
- [Beat Accent](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.beat-accent.md) — A single music-hit sting: impact flash, micro scale-pulse on the subject, immediate decay. · `npx hyperframes add beat-accent`
- [Avatar Group Hover](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.avatar-group-hover.md) — A distance-falloff avatar group lift with bouncy hover return · `npx hyperframes add avatar-group-hover`

**Title** (Kinetic type)

- [Anime JP Subtitles](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.anime-jp-subtitles.md) — Japanese captions in four anime styles from one subs.json: fansub lines with a karaoke sweep, TV telop with popping letters, a vertical tate · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/anime-jp-subtitles && bash make.command`
- [Liquid Thorn Logo](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.liquid-thorn-logo.md) — Any word as a black-metal chrome logo that a cursor smears with a WebGL fluid. · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/liquid-thorn-logo && bun render.ts --text "WORD"`
- [Apple Money Count](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.apple-money-count.md) — Apple-style finance counter that counts from $0 to $10,000, flashes green, and bursts money icons with sound. · `npx hyperframes add apple-money-count`

**End** (CTAs & end cards)

- [CTA Close](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.cta-close.md) — A display-scale action line lands per word and fills the frame with air, one generous CTA capsule pops beneath it with a single overshoot, a · `npx hyperframes add cta-close`
- [CTA Lockup](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.cta-lockup.md) — A canonical closing lockup that reveals an action line, pops in an accent CTA capsule, settles supporting microcopy, and holds with confiden · `npx hyperframes add cta-lockup`
- [Logo Brand Close](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.logo-brand-close.md) — A display-scale wordmark cascades letter by letter into a centered lockup, the accent brand period lands last, an optional tagline and wide- · `npx hyperframes add logo-brand-close`

**Across the whole video:** Filters & grades

## Generated footage, voice and music

Code renders the layout for free. Anything generated — AI shots, voiceover, music, lip-sync — runs on varg with one key: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai`, the Claude Code plugin `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg`, or the MCP `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp`.
