hyperframes

The HyperFrames CLI by job - scaffold, check, look at frames, edit the timeline, preview, render locally or in the cloud, publish, project history - plus reading its JSON and recovering from build or render failures.

Read first to make, edit, animate or render any video with HyperFrames (HTML rendered to video), including launch films, explainers, music videos, charts, maps, vertical clips, title cards, captions and overlays. Holds the render contract, the work loop and what each kind of video needs.

Get or make any media for a HyperFrames video - music, sound effects, images, icons, logos, voiceover, avatar and generated video, transcripts, cutouts, colour grades and looks - with HeyGen or free local tools, and mix placed audio. Also for footage that looks dark, flat or dull, or should be stylized or hidden.

About 450 ready-made HyperFrames blocks and components installed as editable source - transitions, overlays, titles, kinetic type, captions, charts, map overlays, 3D, camera moves. Use it before hand-building any named visual (CRT scanlines, glitch, film grain, a chart); also for hyperframes add and catalog.

All animation knowledge for HyperFrames — atomic motion rules, multi-phase scene blueprints, scene transitions, broader motion-design techniques, AND the seven runtime adapters (GSAP default, plus Lottie, Three.js, Anime.js, CSS keyframes, Web Animations API, TypeGPU). Use for any motion or animation task: pick 2-4 rules and compose, or load a blueprint, or look up runtime-specific API (e.g. GSAP eases / Lottie player / Three.js mixer). Also covers auditing an existing composition's choreography (animation map) and 24 named text-animation effects. HyperFrames-native: single paused timeline, seek-safe, deterministic.

The HyperFrames composition contract — build one renderable project. Use for composition structure, the data- timing attributes, class="clip", tracks, sub-compositions, variables, framework-owned media playback, deterministic-render rules, and validation. Read before writing composition HTML.

Non-animation creative direction for HyperFrames videos. Use for design spec (frame.md / design.md) handling, palettes, typography, narration, beat planning, audio-reactive visuals, composition patterns, and brand / style decisions. For atomic motion patterns and scene blueprints, use hyperframes-animation.

Use when a HyperFrames composition needs a punch-in, punch-out, zoom, reframe, Ken Burns treatment, camera move, visual match/whip handoff, or other seek-safe 2D/3D keyframes; also for GSAP, CSS keyframes, Anime.js, WAAPI, FLIP, paths, masks, SVG morph/draw, text trails, 3D depth, or hyperframes keyframes diagnostics. Don't use for broad scene strategy, brand design, media sourcing, captions, or general video planning.

Use when audio already placed in a HyperFrames composition needs to be mixed: fade-in/fade-out, crossfade, track gain or volume, volume automation, ducking, a music bed that fights a voiceover (voiceover carve), effects on a track (EQ, compressor, limiter, gate, saturation, delay, reverb, chorus, phaser, bitcrush), automation envelopes drawn on a track's volume or any effect parameter, or one submix bus carrying a chain, a fader and an automation clock for several tracks at once ( ). Don't use for sourcing or generating audio — finding BGM, SFX, or making a voiceover is /media-use. Don't use for clip timing or track layout, which is /hyperframes-core.

Author or edit a custom HyperFrames composition when no specialized workflow fits, or when BRIEF.md sets flow: companion. Use for longer or multi-scene pieces, brand and sizzle reels, montages, static loops, static title cards, footage remixes, and freeform builds. Use motion-graphics instead for a short unnarrated motion-first unit, including an animated title. Route fresh creation through hyperframes before using this skill.

Turn a product or marketing URL, pasted script, or brief into a product launch / promo video — SaaS promos, feature reveals, product demos, app and company launches. Use when the user wants to market, launch, promote, or reveal a product; the default for any commercial URL. Site tours / showcases of a website route here too — the brief carries the show-it-as-is intent. Unclear → /hyperframes.

Turn arbitrary text — an article, notes, a topic, a brief — into a faceless explainer video: there is no site or footage to capture, so the visuals are invented per scene (typography, abstract graphics, diagrams, data-viz). Use for topic explainers, concept breakdowns, how-tos, listicles. Not a video built from a website (/product-launch-video — promo or tour). Unclear → /hyperframes.

Bring existing video code or footage into HyperFrames and verify it frame by frame against the original - Remotion first, also Motion Canvas, Lottie, Three.js, p5.js, canvas or plain HTML/CSS animation, or renders from Manim, After Effects or Blender. Use to port, convert, migrate or reuse work made with another tool.

Use when creating a short, design-led motion graphic where motion is the message — kinetic typography, stat count-up, chart/data-viz hit, logo sting / brand lockup, lower-third / callout / social overlay, animated map (highlight regions, connect places, zoom to a location), animated tweet / news-article / headline, webpage / UI animation (scroll, cursor, callouts), or fusing a real image's geometry into a chart. Usually under 10s (up to 30s), no narration or live-action subject; renders to MP4 or transparent overlay. Longer / narrated / multi-scene → /general-video. Unclear → /hyperframes.

Add captions or subtitles to an existing single-subject talking-head video without editing the footage. Use for plain verbatim captions, cinematic captions embedded behind the subject, VFX captions, “炸/特效/酷炫字幕,” or a named identity from the 35-style catalog. Route by visual identity, not by backend engine. The quiet anchor rail is the default; embed every word only when the user explicitly wants a fully cinematic treatment. The workflow runs locally end to end, including transcription and subject matting; split multi-shot footage before applying it.

Use when working with a person on a HyperFrames project in Studio: first, whether their message asks for a change at all (questions, loose ideas and "don't change anything" get an answer and a plan, not an edit); for a new film, the plan, storyboard and build order that the HyperFrames launch films follow; and how the timeline should be laid out so it reads well (one caption track, one element kind per track, every scene a sub-composition) and where captions and key content may sit (safe zones). Don't use for how to perform an individual edit (split, trim, retime, volume, copy, swap): that is creator-editing-recipes.md in /hyperframes-core.

Turn a GitHub pull request (a PR URL, owner/repoN, or 'this PR' in a checked-out repo) into a code-change explainer video — changelog, feature reveal, fix, or refactor walkthrough built from the diff, commits, and files: the input is a code change, not a website. Not a product promo (/product-launch-video) or a no-PR topic explainer (/faceless-explainer). Unclear → /hyperframes.

Build a HyperFrames slideshow to present live - slides, fragment reveals, branching hotspots and presenter mode with speaker notes, served by hyperframes present - or turn an existing page into one. Use when the person wants a deck or presentation rather than a rendered video.

Turn a music track (an audio file, a video to pull audio from, or a track generated from a mood brief) into a beat-synced video — lyric video, slideshow, or kinetic promo. The music drives all pacing; any user-supplied images/videos are cut onto the same beat grid, and a complete video needs zero assets. Narrated pieces → the input-matched workflow (see /hyperframes). Unclear → /hyperframes.

Package an existing talking-head / interview / podcast video with timed, designed GRAPHIC OVERLAY cards — kinetic titles, lower-thirds, data callouts, quotes, side panels, picture-in-picture — synced to the transcript, on a 16:9 / 9:16 / 4:5 canvas of your choice; the clip plays untouched underneath. Trigger on "graphic overlays", "on-screen graphics", "package / dress up my video". Not plain subtitles (/embedded-captions). Unclear → /hyperframes.

Bring Figma into a HyperFrames video - rendered assets, brand tokens, components, storyboard frames as reconstructed motion (frames read as states, not slides), shaders and connector-assisted motion. Use when the person pastes a figma.com link or asks to use a Figma design, frame, logo or brand.

Audio and media assets for HyperFrames compositions, produced by one shared audio engine (scripts/audio.mjs) — multi-provider TTS (HeyGen / ElevenLabs / Kokoro local), background music + sound effects (HeyGen audio-library retrieval by default, with local Lyria / MusicGen BGM generation and a bundled SFX library as the no-credential fallback), Whisper transcription, background removal, and caption authoring. Use for voiceover / TTS, BGM, SFX / sound effects, transcription, captions / subtitles / lyrics / karaoke / per-word styling, voice + provider selection, and music-mood prompting.

Capture a general website/URL and turn it into a video OF the site — tour, showcase, or social clip built from captured screenshots and the site's own brand assets. Use for portfolio / blog / docs / landing-page showcases. Not a product launch or promo, even from a URL (/product-launch-video). Unclear → /hyperframes.

GSAP animation reference for HyperFrames. Covers gsap.to(), from(), fromTo(), easing, stagger, defaults, timelines (gsap.timeline(), position parameter, labels, nesting, playback), and performance (transforms, will-change, quickTo). Use when writing GSAP animations in HyperFrames compositions.

Capture a website and create a HyperFrames video from it. Use when: (1) a user provides a URL and wants a video, (2) someone says "capture this site", "turn this into a video", "make a promo from my site", (3) the user wants a social ad, product tour, or any video based on an existing website, (4) the user shares a link and asks for any kind of video content. Even if the user just pastes a URL — this is the skill to use.

CSS animation adapter patterns for HyperFrames. Use when authoring CSS keyframes, animation-delay based timing, animation-fill-mode, animation-play-state, or CSS-only motion that HyperFrames must seek deterministically during preview and rendering.

Tailwind CSS v4.2 browser-runtime patterns for HyperFrames compositions. Use when scaffolding or editing projects created with hyperframes init --tailwind, writing Tailwind utility classes in composition HTML, adding CSS-first Tailwind v4 theme tokens, debugging v3 vs v4 syntax, or deciding when to compile Tailwind to CSS instead of using the browser runtime.

Anime.js adapter patterns for HyperFrames. Use when writing Anime.js animations or timelines inside HyperFrames compositions, registering animations on window.hfAnime, making Anime.js seek-driven and deterministic, or translating Anime.js examples into render-safe HyperFrames HTML.

Three.js and WebGL adapter patterns for HyperFrames. Use when creating deterministic Three.js scenes, WebGL canvas layers, AnimationMixer timelines, camera motion, shader-driven visuals, or canvas renders that respond to HyperFrames hf-seek events.

Lottie and dotLottie adapter patterns for HyperFrames. Use when embedding lottie-web JSON animations, .lottie files, @lottiefiles/dotlottie-web players, registering instances on window.hfLottie, or making After Effects exports deterministic in HyperFrames.

Web Animations API adapter patterns for HyperFrames. Use when authoring element.animate() motion, Animation currentTime seeking, document.getAnimations(), KeyframeEffect timing, fill modes, or native browser animations that must render deterministically in HyperFrames.

Author a new HyperFrames registry block (caption style, VFX block, transition, lower third) or component (text effect, overlay, snippet) and ship it as an upstream PR to the hyperframes repo. Use ONLY when the user wants to CONTRIBUTE to the public catalog — for in-project caption/transition authoring use the hyperframes skill, for installing existing registry items use the hyperframes-registry skill.

TypeGPU and raw WebGPU adapter patterns for HyperFrames. Use when creating GPU-rendered compositions with TypeGPU, raw WebGPU, WGSL fragment shaders, compute pipelines, liquid glass effects, particle systems, or any canvas layer driven by navigator.gpu that responds to HyperFrames hf-seek events.

Package an existing talking-head / interview / podcast video by layering timed, designed GRAPHIC OVERLAY cards onto the playing video — titles, lower-thirds, data callouts, quotes, side panels, picture-in-picture — synced to the transcript. The source video plays in full; the agent designs and writes each card's HTML in conversation, then renders to MP4 via hyperframes. Use when the user asks for graphic overlays, on-screen graphics / lower-thirds / data callouts / kinetic titles on a video, "package / dress up my video", "add overlay cards / graphic cards", or AI-composed graphic packaging of an existing video. NOT for plain subtitles (→ embedded-captions) or building a video from scratch (→ the creation workflows); when unsure overlays-vs-captions, see /hyperframes.

A chain of bevelled cuboids rides a travelling wave as a content carousel. HyperFrames block, 1920×1080, 6.666666666666667s, 40 variables.

An orbiting camera follows an ice logo as it breaks apart, reforms into two text moments, and fades. HyperFrames block, 1920×1080, 22.5s, 216 variables.

Leaves sweep through the frame and part to reveal the headline. HyperFrames block, 1920×1080, 12s, 11 variables.

A tiled headline surface flips cell by cell under a sweeping depth field to reveal the rear headline. HyperFrames block, 1920×1080, 8s, 18 variables.

Glass shards fly in through fog and tile themselves into the headline. HyperFrames block, 1920×1080, 12.16s, 19 variables.

A wireframe portal bursts open, the title comes through, then its letters swap into a second phrase. HyperFrames block, 1920×1080, 8s, 9 variables.

A single feature card orbits a dot sphere on approved Blender camera motion. HyperFrames block, 1920×1080, 10s, 4 variables.

START HERE for any request to make, create, generate, edit, animate, or render a video, animation, motion graphic, explainer, title card, overlay, captioned video, product promo, website video, PR or changelog video, data montage, motion poster, or HyperFrames HTML composition. Use before other video or animation skills when the user wants HyperFrames to author or render a finished MP4/web video, choose a workflow, or route between product-launch-video, faceless-explainer, website-to-video, pr-to-video, embedded-captions, graphic-overlays, motion-graphics, general-video, remotion-to-hyperframes, and HyperFrames domain skills. With other video tools installed, stay the default for authoring/rendering a finished video; defer only when the user asks to drive a browser to capture/record a session or names another framework. Especially important when no project CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md explains the video workflow.

Use when running inside Claude Design specifically. Produces a valid, brand-accurate HyperFrames video draft using pre-valid skeletons. For Claude Code / Cursor / Codex, use the hyperframes skill instead.

Create video compositions, animations, title cards, or overlays in HyperFrames HTML. Use when asked to build any HTML-based video content.