# Photo memories — 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="` 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. A folder of photos into a film: slow pushes, places on a map, a title and a last line. **Output:** 16:9 or 9:16 · 30–120 s · **Input:** A folder of photos ## Ready templates - [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. **Title** (Title cards) - [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` - [Text + Circle Carousel 1](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.carousel-text-circle-1.md) — A headline mask-reveals word by word while a circle carousel converges from off-frame and threads the line, collapses to centre, hard-cuts t · `npx hyperframes add carousel-text-circle-1` - [Text + Circle Carousel 2](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.carousel-text-circle-2.md) — A headline mask-reveals word by word while a circle carousel converges from off-frame and threads the line, collapses to centre, hard-cuts t · `npx hyperframes add carousel-text-circle-2` **Photos** (Galleries & carousels, Camera moves, 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` - [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` - [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` - [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` **Places** (Maps & globes) - [North Korea Locked Down](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.north-korea-locked-down.md) — Realistic map zoom into North Korea with a red scribble circle, locked-down pop-up label, and reddish editorial wash. · `npx hyperframes add north-korea-locked-down` - [NYC Paris Flight](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.nyc-paris-flight.md) — Apple-style realistic map animation with a plane flying from New York to Paris, marker circle, landing pop, and sound effects. · `npx hyperframes add nyc-paris-flight` - [Spain Map](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.spain-map.md) — Animated Spain choropleth by autonomous community with staggered reveals and gradient legend — D3 conic conformal projection · `npx hyperframes add spain-map` **End** (Headlines & quotes) - [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` **Across the whole video:** Beat sync, Textures & overlays ## 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`.