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Spotlight Film: Apple-style launch films for your product

A skill that turns a product brief, screenshots and screen recordings into a keynote-style launch film: a black stage, beams of light carrying your UI out of one anchor, giant type and hard cuts, all rendered from code.

In short: A skill that turns a product brief, screenshots and screen recordings into a keynote-style launch film: a black stage, beams of light carrying your UI out of one anchor, giant type and hard cuts, all rendered from code. It is a free skill for people who use Claude Code, Codex or Cursor and want help with motion graphics.

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Claude CodePaid Claude plan or APIclaude.com/claude-code
CodexChatGPT plan or APIopenai.com/codex
CursorFree tier + paidcursor.com
GitHub repoOpen source · ★ 1ridemountainpig/spotlight-film
Spotlight Film: Apple-style launch films for your product

Image: from the GitHub README, shown with credit.

Try it in 60 seconds

npx skills add ridemountainpig/spotlight-film
cp -r skills/spotlight-film ~/.claude/skills/

Install command copied from the project README. Check the README for the latest version.

What it does

A skill that turns a product brief, screenshots and screen recordings into a keynote-style launch film: a black stage, beams of light carrying your UI out of one anchor, giant type and hard cuts, all rendered from code.

Spotlight Film plans a short product film with you and then renders it frame by frame from HTML, three.js, Playwright and ffmpeg, so every frame is repeatable and can be reviewed. The look is fixed on purpose: a black…

Short excerpt from the README of ridemountainpig/spotlight-film. Read the full README on GitHub.

Inside the repo

DemosInstallUseLicense

A prompt to try

Use spotlight-film to make a 30-second launch film for our app from README.md, the three screenshots in /marketing and editor-demo.mp4. Show me the plan and stills before the final render.

Written by us so you can reuse it. Replace each [bracket] with your details.

Step by step

  1. Open the GitHub repo and watch the three demo films.
  2. Install it with npx skills add ridemountainpig/spotlight-film (or copy skills/spotlight-film into ~/.claude/skills/).
  3. Give your agent the README, a few screenshots and a screen recording of your product, and ask for a 30-second launch film.
  4. Review the plan and the stills it renders, then let it render the preview and the final silent MP4; add your own music.

Watch out for

The film has no sound, so you need music you are allowed to use. It only uses the material you give it, so good screenshots and recordings matter. The demo films are the author's unofficial tests with other brands' products, not ads by those brands.

Docs, demos & materials

Common questions

What does Spotlight Film do?

A skill that turns a product brief, screenshots and screen recordings into a keynote-style launch film: a black stage, beams of light carrying your UI out of one anchor, giant type and hard cuts, all rendered from code.

Which AI agents can use Spotlight Film?

It works with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. The code is on GitHub at ridemountainpig/spotlight-film.

Is Spotlight Film free?

Free & open source (MIT). No account or API key. Runs with the agent plan you already pay for, plus free local tools (Node.js, Playwright, ffmpeg).

How do I install Spotlight Film?

Run the install command from the README: “npx skills add ridemountainpig/spotlight-film”. Check the README on GitHub for the latest version, then follow the steps on this page.

Is Spotlight Film safe to install?

We read 37 instruction and code files in the repo and found no red flags. That is not a guarantee, so review anything that runs commands on your machine. How to check a skill before you install it →

Sources & credit

All credit to the original authors. We rewrite in our own words and link back. Something wrong? Report it.

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