Video Explainer Skill

Create professional explainer videos across multiple platforms with consistent branding and intelligent automation.

Configuration

The skill reads configuration from ~/.config/video-explainer/:

• config.yaml - Global settings including video_explainer path
• brands/ - Brand definitions (voice, colors, typography, assets)
• platforms/ - Platform profiles (aspect ratio, duration, pacing)
• styles/ - Style overlays (minimal, energetic, corporate)

Commands

Setup & Configuration

• /video setup - Configure video_explainer path and initial settings
• /video brands - List available brands
• /video brands create - Interactive brand creation wizard
• /video platforms - List available platform profiles
• /video styles - List available style overlays

Project Management

• /video new [name] - Create new video project (wizard or --quick)
• /video list - List all video projects
• /video status [project] - Show project progress, outputs, versions

Pipeline Control

• /video script [project] - Generate script from source document
• /video scenes [project] - Generate scenes from script
• /video render [project] - Render all outputs
• /video render [project] --only main,tiktok - Specific outputs only

Iteration & Feedback

• /video feedback [project] "message" - Apply feedback and re-render
• /video compare [project] [output] v1 v2 - Side-by-side version review
• /video promote [project] [output] [version] - Promote version to final

Learning & Skills

• /video learn "instruction" - Teach a new preference
• /video memory - Show learning summary
• /video skills - List loaded technique skills

Orchestrator

The intelligent orchestrator analyzes tasks and decides:

• Foreground vs Background - User-interactive steps run foreground
• Parallel vs Sequential - Independent tasks run in parallel
• Dependencies - Tracks what each step needs

Requirements

This skill wraps the video_explainer Python CLI tool. Configure the path via /video setup or in ~/.config/video-explainer/config.yaml.