“Make a 20-second launch video for Tidepool from its landing page and the real app UI, with music and subtle sound effects, no voice-over.”
Site capture, scripted app recording with camera pushes, live Markdown render, SFX
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Thirty examples and five demos, each made from a single request by an agent acting as a user. Hover to preview, press play for the full video with sound, or open the story behind it.
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The three requests people make most: a launch video, a narrated explainer, and an edit of your own footage.
“Make a 45-second explainer video with voiceover about how a heat pump heats a home in winter.”
Procedural canvas film, narration fitted to length, synthesized score, sidecar captions
“Cut the ums and long pauses out of this interview clip, add captions, and make a vertical 9:16 version for Reels plus a 16:9 version.”
Transcript cut, face-tracked reframe, punch-ins, grade, two caption styles
Explainers 8
Narrated explainers from a topic, a Wikipedia article, a PDF or a prize announcement; some stop and ask the viewer.
The guides behind these: explainer · localize · paper-explainer · diagram
New in 0.4“Physics 2026 explainer for nobel-2026-lab: a telescope made of ice, ~2 min, three stop-and-ask questions, interactive export, 60 s vertical cut; publish today”
Questions that stop the HTML video until the viewer answers, a roadmap, real IceCube data, two critic rounds
New in 0.4“Full Chemistry 2026 explainer (~2:10, 16:9) for the nobel-2026-lab: Frank's recipe, Kagan's bend, Soai's copier, the 2003 staircase, the coin flip, our mirror-race toy, caveats, medicines. NOT socratic: no questions to the viewer. American voice (af_bella; not the British female). Paperback lab-notebook look, CC0 bed, showtime credited (corner mark, end card, closing line). Must look great; post soon.”
A storyboard table to a 2:30 film in a light look signature, then the whole film in Spanish: voice, strings, captions
“Make a 45-second explainer video with voiceover about how a heat pump heats a home in winter.”
Procedural canvas film, narration fitted to length, synthesized score, sidecar captions
“Turn the Wikipedia article on the waggle dance into a 60-second animated explainer, and make a French version too.”
Article capture, research footage, diagrams, French version (CC BY-SA 4.0)
“Make a narrated 70-second math explainer showing why the area of a circle is pi r squared, with real animated equations.”
Manim proof, animated equations timed to narration, Shorts cut
“Here's a USGS PDF about the 2018 Kīlauea eruption. Make a 75-second narrated summary video, and a Spanish version with subtitles.”
PDF import, facts only from the source, stabilized footage, burned Spanish subtitles
“Now make the Spanish version of the heat pump explainer.”
Localization: Spanish voice and text, every cut retimed, round-trip transcript check
New in 0.4“Show what happens when you press Enter in a coding agent, as a diagram that builds itself, and a live version people can poke.”
showtime new diagram --example enter as a film, and export html --interactive: a board you hover, step through and tune, offline
Your footage 4
Real recordings, edited: cards over a talking head, a long panel cut into clips, an interview tightened, a podcast as an audiogram.
The guides behind these: footage-edit · editing
New in 0.4“Dress up this NASA interview with Sarah Jones about the GOLD mission: name tag, a data callout, a pull-quote, a list or chapter, a side panel and captions with emphasis; a 16:9 and a 9:16 cut.”
Cards anchored to the words, side panel and 9:16 splits, captions kept off the face, caption emphasis, a critic round
New in 0.4“Find the best 30-60 s moments of this 58-minute NASA panel (Apollo 17 legends and Artemis leaders) and make three vertical clips with captions”
edit moments ranks an hour's best moments, edit clips cuts three captioned vertical clips, qa on each
“Cut the ums and long pauses out of this interview clip, add captions, and make a vertical 9:16 version for Reels plus a 16:9 version.”
Transcript cut, face-tracked reframe, punch-ins, grade, two caption styles
“Cut a 40-second vertical audiogram from this NASA podcast episode for Reels, TikTok and Shorts, with captions and the speakers' names.”
Speaker names, audiogram waveform, captions, loops
Products and brands 8
Launch videos, promos, tutorials and brand motion, from a landing page, a running app, a repo or a Claude Design export.
The guides behind these: launch-video · tutorial · components
New in 0.4“Make 'Showtime Test (12s, 16 9)-html.zip' an MP4, with a music bed.”
Two Claude Design exports adopted unchanged: laid out again at 1080p, fonts copied, one seamless loop, a bed on the phrase
“Make a 20-second launch video for Tidepool from its landing page and the real app UI, with music and subtle sound effects, no voice-over.”
Site capture, scripted app recording with camera pushes, live Markdown render, SFX
“Make a 40-60 second tutorial showing how to create a note, tag it and find it with search in Tidepool.”
App recording, auto-zoom, keycaps, step cards, clicks on the narration
“Make a 30-second launch video for showtime itself. Show real things: real renders, real terminal commands, the studio board. Plus a square cut-down.”
Real renders and terminal output, local narration, square cut-down
“Build a two-episode tutorial series for Tidepool as canvas films: "Capture a note in seconds" and "Find anything with search and tags".”
Series kit shared across episodes, UI drawn from CSS tokens, cursor and callouts
“Make a 20-second square product promo from these museum photos of Christopher Dresser's teapot: sleek, but only facts from the museum record. Plus a 6-second bumper.”
Museum CC0 photos, facts from the record, bumper, platform exports
“Using our brand, give me a motion pack: a 3D logo sting in wide, square and vertical, four lower thirds my editor can drop into Premiere, and a couple of branded transitions. Show me concepts first.”
3D logo sting, lower thirds, transition stingers, sound logo, studio mode, MCP
“Record a 75-second narrated tutorial showing how to use the showtime studio board: open it, compare concepts, react, pick one, and send feedback. And a vertical cut for Shorts.”
Recording of the real studio board, narration, Shorts cut with burned captions
Code and data 6
Charts that move, and videos made from a release, a pull request, an agent's session or a failing test.
The guides behind these: data-story · changelog-video · recap · repro
New in 0.4“Turn showtime's pull request #7 into a short video I can paste into its description.”
showtime pr-video in one command: the PR's own words, files and a real hunk, secrets masked, a copy under 10 MB
New in 0.4“Make a short video of what my agent did in this Claude Code session.”
showtime recap on the test session: the numbers, a living timeline, the edit, the tests red to green, from allow-listed facts only
New in 0.4“Turn this failing Playwright test into a video I can attach to the bug report.”
showtime repro on a trace: each step on its screenshots, the failure slowed down, typed values covered, repro.md for the issue
“Make a 30-second data story from this CSV.”
CSV import, warming stripes, ranked bars, one takeaway per scene
“Make a one-minute narrated video from the EIA's electricity generation data showing how the US power mix changed: coal, gas, wind and solar.”
EIA data, line chart and bar race, narration, crew hand-offs, critic review
“Make a 35-second what's-new video for Black 26.1.0: show what the 2026 stable style actually changes in people's code.”
Real before/after diffs, terminal, changelog; a size-capped copy for GitHub
Social and trailers 5
Vertical shorts, montages cut on the beat, trailers and a travel slideshow.
The guides behind these: social-short · trailer · slideshow
“Make a 15-second vertical short for Reels: 3 keyboard shortcuts that make Tidepool fast.”
Hook in the first second, karaoke captions, SFX on cuts, loopable ending
“Make a 20-second beat-synced montage of space photos.”
Archive search, cuts on the beat grid, ken-burns, automatic CC-BY credits
“Let's brainstorm a trailer for Tidepool first. Show me options.”
Studio board: concepts, style frames, beds, storyboard, animatic sign-off
“Make a 30-second cinematic book trailer for The War of the Worlds using public-domain illustrations and lines from the novel, plus a vertical 15-second teaser.”
Public-domain illustrations, film look, burned captions, vertical teaser
“Make a 45-second travel slideshow of an Iceland ring-road trip from these CC0 photos, cut to the music, with a little map showing where each place is. Also a vertical version for Reels.”
CC0 photos cut to the music, live map inset, native vertical re-layout
Looks and motion 4
Look signatures, WebGL looks, the shutter blur and the showreel template: what a video looks like before it says a word.
The guides behind these: components §7 · tones
New in 0.4“Render the showreel template as it ships, with no edits, at 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5.”
Fourteen techniques in 15 s, recomposed for each shape with no edits; flash words under the shutter blur
New in 0.4“Show one project in each of the twelve look signatures: a contact sheet of all twelve, and a 24-second loop that changes look every 2 seconds.”
new --look for each of the twelve signatures, signature apply, a contact sheet, 2 s of each cut on the beat
New in 0.4“Show the seven WebGL looks in one short page, one scene each, rendered without a GPU.”
Fluted glass, tilt-shift, liquid metal, god rays, mesh gradient, marble and metaballs, in showtime's own WebGL
New in 0.4“Show the shutter blur on four snaps: a whip, a slam, a scale punch, and the same whip without and with it.”
data-st-blur on the element that moves: smeared on its fast frames, sharp on the frame it lands
Videos that are web pages
Every project also exports as one HTML file that plays offline: the same frames as the MP4, chapters, keyboard control and links to a moment. This one is live; click it and press ?.
- How a heat pump heats a homeheat-pump.html
- The same film, in Spanishbomba-de-calor.html
- Studio-mode trailerstudio-board.html
- Tutorial seriesfinal.html
- Tutorial seriesfinal.html
- Energy reportus-power-mix.html
- A Wikipedia article, explained13-wikipedia-waggle-dance--waggle-dance.html
- A Wikipedia article, explained13-wikipedia-waggle-dance--danse-fretillante.html
- Product promo, 1:1dresser-teapot.html
- Brand motion packcurtain-call-sting-player.html
- Brand motion packcurtain-call-sting-embed.html
- An explainer that stops and asksindex.html