Legible Film · 2026 · 1:47
Legible Film launch film
The launch film for Legible Film 2.1, my open-source Agent Skill for making and editing video. Claude Code made it with the skill, and I directed it.
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- 0:00
An AI chat opens on “Legible Film, an Agent Skill for Claude Code and Codex” and the line “Your coding agent can make and edit videos for you.” A request is typed: “Make a launch film for Atlasfold, my offline photo-map app.”
- 0:06
The agent’s film plays, labelled “Made by the agent · Atlasfold is an invented app”: photos gather into a map, then title cards for a searchable map that runs offline, and “Atlasfold, out today”.
- 0:16
“Turn an idea into a launch film.” A second request asks for a scene to be cut into a short captioned clip.
- 0:23
“Change the format of your videos without losing focus.” A 21-second scene from Tears of Steel becomes a 6-second captioned 4:5 clip that keeps the speaker’s face in frame.
- 0:30
“Clean up your recordings without losing a word.” In the paper edit of a reading, a 1.49-second gap is cut, then put back by editing one line of text. Tightening is labelled experimental.
- 0:37
A third request asks for a 25-to-30-second trailer of a 7½-minute animated short. “Turn a film you love into a trailer.” The agent maps 459 words and 76 shots, gives each cut a reason, and cuts around a shot that flickers about 12 times a second.
- 0:54
“Time your sound to the frame.” A sound peaks 165 ms before she speaks, and her voice stays at least 12 dB above it.
- 1:00
“Change your cut by saying what you want.” An example review note becomes an exact edit, 2.58 seconds shorter with one line removed, and every version is kept.
- 1:07
“Hand off to your editor, and check what comes back.” In the editor’s returned cut, it finds a caption 1.6 seconds late and proposes a fix, marked “proposed, not applied”. The XML hand-off is labelled experimental.
- 1:14
“Know what’s left to check before you post.” The trailer’s delivered file: 15 checks pass, 4 to look at, and 3 need a person, who watches it muted, hears it with sound and checks names and numbers in its captions.
- 1:21
Short examples: words on screen as they’re spoken, captions timed to every word, shorts from one long video, titles behind a moving subject, and a note pinned to one frame of a cut, labelled as an example.
- 1:34
“And more.” It also scores cuts, converts files and checks your setup.
- 1:39
“This film was made with Claude Code and Legible Film.” The end card gives the repository, github.com/JamesDimachkie/legible-film, the install command and the credits.
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Pepper & Carrot: Episode 6, The Potion Contest. Animation: Morevna Project; illustrations and story: David Revoy; music: Grégoire Lourme. CC BY-SA 4.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0. The excerpts here are edited and captioned, and shared under the same licence: morevnaproject.org/pepper-and-carrot/episode-6. Sintel (durian.blender.org) and Tears of Steel (mango.blender.org): © Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0. Both are excerpted, reframed and captioned here. A Tale of Two Cities, read for LibriVox: public domain. Stock from Envato Elements.