How I Added AI Video Production to Claude Code in One Afternoon | by Tim McAllister | Medium
I woke up this morning, watched Nate B. Jones talk about AI tools that most people are sleeping on, and by lunch I had a working video production pipeline inside my CLI. One slash command. Full branded video. My own cloned voice narrating it. Here’s exactly how I built it, what I vetted before installing anything, and the prompts you need to do the same. Type /video in Claude Code. Describe what you want to say. Get back a branded MP4 with animated text, data visualizations, smooth transitions, and a voiceover that sounds like you. My first real output: a 58-second YouTube Short about the EU Cyber Resilience Act deadline. Eight narrative beats (hook, problem, three stats, insight, solution, CTA), animated transitions, and my voice clone delivering the narration. Total hands-on time after the pipeline was built: about 10 minutes of prompting and reviewing. Three pieces, all free or cheap: Claude Code writes the React compositions, generates the render props, calls ElevenLabs for voiceov