YouTube Video Factory

How to install the skill, plus a look at every image style and caption style it can produce.

⏱ 5 min setup 🎨 10 image styles + custom
⬇ Download the .zip

Unzip it first — then install only the .skill file inside.
Full steps in Section 03 below.

Section 01

What This Skill Does

Turns a topic into a finished narrated video: script, AI voiceover, styled 16:9 images, and an assembled MP4 with captions, a thumbnail, and upload-ready titles, description, and tags. Built for faceless channels, explainers, video essays, and documentary-style narration.

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The approval gate: the skill stops for your sign-off on the script before it generates any voice or images. That's the cheapest place in the pipeline to change something, since voice and images cost real money and both get thrown away if paragraph two changes.

Section 02

Requirements

Python 3 & ffmpeg

Used to plan beats, assemble the final MP4, and write captions. Usually already present in a Claude Cowork or Claude Code environment.

Higgsfield MCP

The image and (optionally) voiceover engine. Connect the Higgsfield MCP server and the skill uses its generate_image_batch / generate_audio_batch tools directly, no API key required.

Voiceover, option B

ElevenLabs for the best voice quality, if you'd rather use it instead of Higgsfield's voices. Needs your own API key in the ELEVENLABS_API_KEY environment variable, never in config.json.

2K image generation

Images render at 2K, 16:9 so the camera moves stay sharp when cropped down to the final 1080p output.

Section 03

Installing

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Unzip before you install. The download is a zip archive with a few files inside it. The one Claude actually needs is youtube-video-factory.skill. Don't drag the whole zip, or the folder it unzips into, into Claude — open just that one .skill file.

In Claude (Cowork / claude.ai)

  1. Download and unzip the package.
    Use the download button above, then unzip it. You'll get a small folder — youtube-video-factory.skill is the file you need from it.
  2. Open the .skill file in Claude.
    Just that one file, not the zip or the folder. When a .skill file is shared into a conversation, Claude offers to save it to your account's skill library. Availability depends on your organization's settings.
  3. Trigger it.
    Say something like "make a YouTube video about X," or invoke it directly with /youtube-video-factory.

In Claude Code (CLI)

  1. Download and unzip the package, then unzip the .skill file into a skills directory.
    The .skill file is itself a zip archive. Target either your user-level skills folder or a project's .claude/skills/ folder.
    unzip Youtube-video-factory.zip -d yvf-download unzip yvf-download/youtube-video-factory.skill -d ~/.claude/skills/youtube-video-factory
  2. Confirm the tools it needs are on PATH.
    python3 --version ffmpeg -version
  3. Connect the Higgsfield MCP server, then invoke the skill in a session by name or by describing what you want.
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First run: if config.json is missing or incomplete, the skill asks six short questions (voice provider, default video length, default image style, niche, audience, channel name) and saves the answers so it never asks again. Never store an API key in config.json itself, since that file gets zipped and shared.

Section 04

Image Style Gallery

Ten built-in art directions, plus a slot for your own. Pick one as your default in config.json, or choose per video.

Cinematic Realism example

Cinematic Realism

Film-still realism. The safest default for serious topics.

Editorial Photography example

Editorial Photography

Clean, bright, documentary-magazine photography.

Painterly Illustration example

Painterly Illustration

Digital oil painting with visible brushwork. Warm and timeless.

Archive Moody example

Archive Moody

Candlelit, aged, documentary-mystery. History and unexplained subjects.

Technical Schematic example

Technical Schematic

Diagram-like cutaways and exploded views. For narration that explains mechanism.

Clean 3D example

Clean 3D

Soft-lit 3D product-viz look. Modern, neutral, works for abstract ideas.

Noir Graphic example

Noir Graphic

High-contrast graphic-novel panels. Bold and stylised.

Ink Wash example

Ink Wash

Watercolour and sumi-e restraint. Elegant, calm, lots of negative space.

Anime Cinematic example

Anime Cinematic

Feature-film anime backgrounds and key art. Strong for younger audiences.

Retro Print example

Retro Print

Mid-century screenprint with a limited palette. Distinctive and cohesive.

+ Custom

Your Own Look

Describe the style you want once. The skill saves it to your config so every future video can reuse it.

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Every style deliberately avoids generated text in the image. Lettering from AI image models is almost always misspelled, and misspelled words on screen are the fastest way a video looks careless. Words go on screen as captions instead.

Section 05

Caption Style Examples

When burning captions into the picture, the look is fully configurable: font, size, bold, text color, outline color and width, drop shadow, and position. A few examples of what's possible:

Classic (default) subtitle example

Classic (default)

DejaVu Sans, bold white, dark outline, bottom-anchored. What you get with no flags set.

Bold statement subtitle example

Bold statement

Larger serif font, yellow fill, bottom-anchored with extra margin.

Minimal top subtitle example

Minimal top

Small, light-weight, unobtrusive, positioned at the top of the frame.

Highlight box subtitle example

Highlight box

Solid background box behind the text instead of an outline, for maximum legibility.