Creating Video

Claude cannot render video itself, but it can direct a generator. This skill drives a multi-clip pipeline — script → per-scene generation → review → assembly — with Claude as the editing agent overseeing continuity and cut.

Requires ffmpeg/ffprobe and Cloudflare AI Gateway creds (/mnt/project/proxy.env).

Default model: Gemini Omni Flash (gemini-omni-flash-preview, Interactions API) — Google's own guidance as of 2026-07. It beats Veo on character consistency, reference-image control, text rendering, and conversational editing, and generates faster (~30–90 s/clip vs 1–3 min). Fall back to Veo 3.1 (scripts/veo_generate.py, kept intact) only for scene extension, first+last-frame interpolation, or legacy pipelines — Omni supports neither.

The five stages