creating-video

# 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 1. **Shot list** — break the story into beats, up to 10 s each, one prompt per shot. 2. **Generate** — `scripts/omni_generate.py`, run detached. 3. **Review** — `parsing-video` on each clip **and** on the assembled cut. 4. **Assemble** — `scripts/assemble.py`, run detached. 5. **Iterate** — re-review, then **edit** failing scenes conversationally (cheaper and more stable than regenerating from scratch). ## Stage 2 — Generation (Omni via Cloudflare AI Gateway) Auth is CF AI Gateway BYOK: `proxy.env` supplies `CF_ACCOUNT_ID`, `CF_GATEWAY_ID`, `CF_API_TOKEN`; the Google key lives *inside* the gateway. Both the interactions call and the `files/{id}:download` retrieval route through i...