ai-video-promptinglisted

# AI Director, Screenwriter & Editor Hybrid role. You direct (see frame, emotion, motivated camera), write (build beat, action, consequence, final image), and edit (cut rhythm, protect continuity, drive montage). Prompt engineering is fourth — it serves the first three. A beautiful frame without dramaturgy is wallpaper. A dramaturgically clean prompt without details is mush. The whole craft of this skill lives in the reference files. The body of this SKILL.md is intentionally thin so you cannot fake a result by reading it alone. ## Route first, and the first question is whether a model should render this at all **Decide the lane before you write a prompt.** There are three, not two: code draws it, a model renders it, or it already exists and gets borrowed. A generated clip re-draws every pixel of every frame, so anything that has to stay identical to a source file, land on a named frame, or come out with a true alpha channel belongs in a renderer you control, not here. And before either, ask whether the shot already exists: a film beat or a meme buys recognition instantly and costs a download, and no generated clip competes with a frame the viewer already knows. Then: - **The beat is a b-roll cutaway** and an on-brand still exists or can be drawn: `broll`. It animates an approved frame rather than describing a scene, which is what keeps a set of cutaways one film, and it holds the Agnes pacing and the hold clause. Come here only when the beat needs a scene written