Outline
The result
Promise one result the viewer can check, and show it before you teach it.
The viewer ends with a shared folder where your editor can find every clip.
About 67 words
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Idea to Recording Kit
Turn a rough idea into an outline, a script you can say out loud and a plan for the recording day.
2:30skeleton runtime
05 min target
Outline
1. The result
The viewer ends with a shared folder where your editor can find every clip.
Say it
By the end of this video, you will have a shared folder where your editor can find every clip.
Shoot it
Screen
Show the finished result: a shared folder where your editor can find every clip.
Part 1 of 7, from a made-up tutorial.
Sample
A sample storyboard
How to hand raw footage to an editor so they never have to ask where a file is.
Format: Tutorial. 6 short prompts answered.
Tutorial
How to hand raw footage to an editor so they never have to ask where a file is
- Spoken words
- 186
- Speech
- 1:14
- Screen and b-roll
- 1:16
- Target
- 5 min
This is a skeleton, so the runtime is where it stands now. At 150 words a minute, a 5 minute video needs about 560 spoken words once the shots are counted. Each part below has its share.
- Starts at 0:00
Say it
By the end of this video, you will have a shared folder where your editor can find every clip.
Here is what that looks like.
25 words, 10 s spoken
Shoot it
- Camera1a Say the promise to camera, then pause.
- Screen1b Show the finished result: a shared folder where your editor can find every clip.
- Starts at 0:18
Outline
Where you start
Name the starting state, so the viewer can tell they are in the same place.
They start with a laptop full of raw clips and no folders.
About 45 words
Say it
We start with a laptop full of raw clips and no folders.
12 words, 5 s spoken
Shoot it
- Screen2a Capture the real starting screen or file before you touch anything.
- Starts at 0:31
Outline
What you need
Say what is needed before the step that needs it. Cut this part if nothing is required.
They need: A cloud storage account; The clips on your laptop; Time to rename the files.
About 45 words
Say it
Before you begin, you need three things.
A cloud storage account.
The clips on your laptop.
Time to rename the files.
21 words, 8 s spoken
Shoot it
- B-roll3a Show each item as you name it, or say the list to camera.
The first 3 of 7 parts. The rest, the recording day checklist and the markdown export open up with the tool.
Plan your own video
- Seven outline formats, with one suggested from your idea
- A script skeleton with the lines already in your words
- A runtime estimate and a shot list for every part
- Copy or download it, and print the recording checklist
- The Idea to Recording skill kit, so your assistant plans videos the same way
Set it up where you already work
- Claude app
- In Settings, then Capabilities, turn on code execution and file creation. Then open Customize, then Skills, press +, choose Create skill, then Upload a skill, and pick the ZIP.
- Claude Code or Codex
- Unzip it and move the
idea-to-recordingfolder into~/.claude/skills/for Claude Code, or into~/.agents/skills/for Codex. - Any other chat assistant
- Open the paste-in file from the ZIP and paste it at the start of a chat, or into the assistant's custom instructions.
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