# Captioned talking clip — how to make it with code and an AI agent

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Someone talking to camera, made watchable on mute: word captions, name tag, emphasis and punch-ins.

**Output:** 9:16 · 15–90 s · **Input:** Footage and a word-timed transcript

## Skills that make it end to end

- [Agent Caption](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/agent-caption.md)
- [Caption Animation](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/iart-caption-animation.md)
- [Remotion Captions](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/remotion-captions.md)
- [Cinematic Caption](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/cinematic-caption-audrey.md)
- [3D Camera Captions](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes-camera-3d-captions.md)
- [Clipify](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/clipify.md)

## Recipe, beat by beat

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

**Hook** (Headlines & quotes, Captions & subtitles)

- [Canopy Part Title](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.canopy-part-title.md) — Leaves sweep through the frame and part to reveal the headline. · `npx hyperframes add canopy-part-title`
- [Char Slam Explode](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.char-slam-explode.md) — Headline glyphs hold in a deterministic scatter, then reassemble with an overshooting slam and a three-frame landing shake. · `npx hyperframes add char-slam-explode`
- [Code Slice Hero](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.code-slice-hero.md) — A tiled headline surface flips cell by cell under a sweeping depth field to reveal the rear headline. · `npx hyperframes add code-slice-hero`
- [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`
- [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`
- [Blend Difference](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.caption-blend-difference.md) — Auto-inverting text using mix-blend-mode: difference — flips between white and black per-pixel against the background · `npx hyperframes add caption-blend-difference`

**Talk** (Captions & subtitles, Lower thirds, Callouts & annotations)

- [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`
- [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`
- [Blend Difference](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.caption-blend-difference.md) — Auto-inverting text using mix-blend-mode: difference — flips between white and black per-pixel against the background · `npx hyperframes add caption-blend-difference`
- [Lower Third — BILD Style](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.lower-third-bild.md) — News-style lower third with tight-fit text boxes: white headline bar with red drop-shadow, red sub-line with white drop-shadow. · `npx hyperframes add lower-third-bild`
- [Lower Third — Accent Underline](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.lt-accent-underline.md) — Cardless lower third for footage overlay: name rises, an accent rule draws left-to-right, role fades in; text-shadowed for legibility · `npx hyperframes add lt-accent-underline`
- [Lower Third — Bold Block](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.lt-bold-block.md) — High-energy podcast lower third: solid dark block wipes in, uppercase name slams up, accent tag pops · `npx hyperframes add lt-bold-block`
- [AI Answer Rank](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.ai-answer-rank.md) — Is your brand in the AI answer? A question types into a chat card, the assistant answers with a ranked list of three picks, then re-ranks: t · `npx hyperframes add ai-answer-rank`
- [Animated Bar Chart](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.animated-bar-chart.md) — A compact data card with deterministic bar growth and value callouts. · `npx hyperframes add animated-bar-chart`
- [Arc Motion Path](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.arc-motion-path.md) — A GSAP MotionPath primitive that flies a callout along a curved arc with autorotation. · `npx hyperframes add arc-motion-path`

**Emphasis** (Icons & stickers, Entrances & emphasis, Camera moves)

- [Activity](https://skills.varg.ai/component/remocn.icon-activity.md) — Animated Lucide activity icon — the pulse line sweeps through like an EKG, popping at the peak. Loops by default. · `npx shadcn@latest add @remocn/icon-activity`
- [Alert Triangle](https://skills.varg.ai/component/remocn.icon-alert-triangle.md) — Animated Lucide triangle-alert icon — the outline draws on, the mark pops in, then the exclamation blinks to flag a risk or warning. · `npx shadcn@latest add @remocn/icon-alert-triangle`
- [Arrow Down](https://skills.varg.ai/component/remocn.icon-arrow-down.md) — Animated Lucide arrow-down icon — the shaft and head draw on, then the arrow nudges down for cost/latency reduction beats or scroll cues. · `npx shadcn@latest add @remocn/icon-arrow-down`
- [Agent Cursor](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.agent-cursor.md) — An AI agent operating a UI: a cursor with an accent name label that types out each step, clicks each target with a small ring, and ends on a · `npx hyperframes add agent-cursor`
- [AI Chat Reveal](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.ai-chat-reveal.md) — A question is typed on a rising keyboard, sent, and answered by an AI that streams its reply word by word on a measured token rhythm - think · `npx hyperframes add ai-chat-reveal`
- [ASCII Render Pass](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.ascii-render-pass.md) — A slotted scene renders as live ASCII: a canvas samples the source's luminance grid (rasterized once at mount) and draws glyphs from a densi · `npx hyperframes add ascii-render-pass`
- [varg Previz](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.previz.md) — A three.js grey-box previz of every shot on the timeline — auto cameras from storyboard words, a posable mannequin — then one Seedance 2.5 v · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && python3 code2video-templates/varg-previz/scripts/new_previz.py my-previz`
- [Camcorder HUD](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.camcorder-hud.md) — Responsive REC, battery, editable date placeholder, and timeline-driven counter overlay for creator-camera and camcorder treatments · `npx hyperframes add camcorder-hud`
- [Dolly Zoom (Vertigo Shot)](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.camera-dolly-zoom.md) — Camera tracks toward or away from the subject while the field of view changes the opposite way, so the subject holds its frame size while th · `npx hyperframes add camera-dolly-zoom`

**Follow** (Social posts & cards, CTAs & end cards)

- [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`
- [Camera Follow Captions](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.caption-camera-follow.md) — One sentence written across a world far larger than the frame. Each word is sized against everything already written, so the block grows geo · `npx hyperframes add caption-camera-follow`
- [Highlight](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.caption-highlight.md) — Red background sweep behind each active word, TikTok-style · `npx hyperframes add caption-highlight`
- [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:** Captions & subtitles, 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`.