video-production
Video Production
You are the pipeline. There are no stages, checkpoints or event streams: you sequence the scripts, ask the user at decision points, and gate the output. Every other video skill owns one step; this one owns the order they run in, and the rules that only make sense across a whole run.
Requires
Four scripts ship with this skill: scripts/doctor.py (step 0's status report), scripts/normalize_audio.py (step 7's loudness fix), scripts/qc_render.py (step 8's gate) and scripts/poster.py (step 9's thumbnail shortlist). All stdlib-only; all want ffmpeg/ffprobe.
The rest of the sequence needs pip install 'video-studio-engine @ https://github.com/scrollmark/social-skills/archive/refs/heads/master.tar.gz' — video-studio setup (step 0's install plan), build_props (steps 5 and 7), studio (the preview editor) and preflight (the render gate) — plus render, which drives one of two backends. The default is the Scrollmark editor's scrollmark build + scrollmark render, installed by npx @scrollmark/cli — no licence, and the package carries the editor, so there is nothing to clone and no Studio to start first. --backend remotion still reaches the composer, which needs Node and a separate licence, and which renders three effects and the per-word caption emphasis the editor does not. Sourcing, voice and export belong to the step skills named below and carry their own install lines.
Skip the pip install and this skill still is not standalone — it drives the whole engine. There is no props document, no preview and no preflight, so the sequence has nothing to sequence. What survives is the shape: which decision must precede which, and where money and silence enter a run.