Launch video with Claude Code

Set up HyperFrames in Claude CodeCopy Anchor Link

You need Node 22 or newer, FFmpeg and Chrome. Then add the plugin inside Claude Code and run npx hyperframes doctor to check your machine. Setup covers plans, effort levels and render times in more detail.

claude plugin marketplace add heygen-com/hyperframes
claude plugin install hyperframes@hyperframes

npx hyperframes init my-video
npx hyperframes preview
npx hyperframes render

Idea and briefCopy Anchor Link

Write the brief before you ask for anything. Name the hook, the scenes, the exact text and the brand rules. Paste this into Claude Code and adapt it.

Make a 40 second launch video for Tally 2.0, a budgeting app, with HyperFrames.
Format: 1920x1080, 30 fps. Later we will make a 1080x1920 version.
Brand: background #0F1B2D, accent #3DDC97, text #F5F7FA, brand font
Satoshi 500/800 (files in ./brand/fonts). Logo in ./brand/logo.svg.
Real app screenshots are in ./screens (dashboard.png, categories.png,
report.png). Use them as they are; do not redraw the UI.
Style references: ./refs/ref-1.mp4 and ./refs/ref-2.mp4. Match their pacing
and type sizes, not their colors.
Scenes:
1. 0 to 4 s: hook text "Where did your money go this month?"
2. 4 to 10 s: the clip ./footage/cafe.mp4 full screen, title "Every coffee
   counts." in the lower third.
3. 10 to 18 s: dashboard.png slides in, the spending chart draws itself.
4. 18 to 26 s: three feature cards, one at a time: "Sorts every payment",
   "Weekly report", "Shared budgets".
5. 26 to 32 s: report.png, the total counts up to 1,240 USD saved.
6. 32 to 40 s: logo reveal, "Tally 2.0. Out now on iOS and Android."
Rules: one idea per scene, large readable text, no more than one animated
element at a time, calm easing. Hold every line 0.3 s per word after it settles.
Banned: centered title on a gradient, everything fading in, glows, particles,
lens flares, bouncy easing, invented numbers.
First give me the scene list and one still frame per scene for approval.
Do not animate until I approve the stills.

Replace Satoshi with your real brand font. Do not fall back to Inter or Poppins just because they are common: HyperFrames lists them among fonts that signal AI output, unless they are your actual brand font. If the on screen text is not English, check that the font covers every character on Fonts. The Brief page explains each line of this prompt and has five more example briefs.

Shot listCopy Anchor Link

Storyboard and referencesCopy Anchor Link

Give Claude 1 to 2 reference videos you like. Without a reference, creators report that the agent defaults to centered text on a gradient background with everything fading in. Use real UI screenshots, not redrawn ones. Then follow a simple review loop that one team shared: approve the hook and scene list, approve one still per scene, only then animate, and review readability at the end. Iterate shows how to give notes and when to stop.

The generated shotCopy Anchor Link

Make scene 2 in Google Flow with Veo 3.1 Fast. Flow is available in Vietnam for users 18 and over, and English prompts are recommended. For Veo, put the camera first, and describe sound with SFX: and Ambient noise: labels.

Slow push in, eye level, 50mm, shallow depth of field. A phone lies face up
on a wooden café table next to a cup of iced coffee. The phone screen lights
up and the phone buzzes once, the ice in the cup shifts slightly. Morning
window light from the left, warm wood and soft green tones, calm and quiet
mood. The phone screen shows only a soft glow, no readable text.
SFX: one short phone vibration on the table.
Ambient noise: quiet café murmur, a cup set down in the distance.

Generate at 8 seconds, pick the best take, and save it as ./footage/cafe.mp4. Any text on the phone screen will be garbled, so all text in this scene comes from code. Flow clips carry their own audio track and a small watermark: tell Claude to keep the clip's sound here (it holds the vibration), and check the corners. Mixing footage covers placing and grading generated shots. Free daily credits work for Veo 3.1 Lite, Fast and Quality only, and video may be unavailable for free users from 2 PM to 5 PM UTC.

Editing: build, preview and reviewCopy Anchor Link

Let Claude build the composition, run npx hyperframes check --snapshots, then preview it with npx hyperframes preview. Watch it at full size and on a phone. Check four things: every text stays on screen long enough to read twice, only one element moves at a time, the screenshots are sharp, and the café clip starts on motion. Ask for changes one scene at a time and keep earlier versions; a hands on test of Claude Code editing video found it works best as a supervised operator.

AudioCopy Anchor Link

Add a music bed and, if you want, a voiceover. ElevenLabs Starter (6 USD/month) includes commercial use; the free plan does not. For music, use a track from a paid Suno plan or a free library. Ask Claude to place the audio file in the composition and to time the logo reveal to a beat in the music. Audio and sync explains beat maps, voice timing and mix levels.

Finishing: render and variantsCopy Anchor Link

Render the master with npx hyperframes render to MP4. For YouTube, use H.264 with AAC audio at 48 kHz, about 8 Mbps at 1080p. Then ask Claude for the 9:16 version: same scenes, text sizes adjusted, screenshots stacked vertically. In HyperFrames each aspect ratio is its own composition sharing the same assets, so this is a re layout, not a crop. Rendering variants is where code saves the most time; see Output.

Pure motion graphics do not need an AI label on YouTube; the rules target realistic synthetic content. The generated café shot is realistic, so if it stays in the video, use YouTube's altered or synthetic content setting.