video-podcast-maker

Video Podcast Maker

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Automated pipeline to create professional video podcasts from a topic. Supports Bilibili, YouTube, Xiaohongshu, Douyin, and WeChat Channels with multi-language output (zh-CN, en-US). Combines research, script generation, local TTS (edge free, plus azure), Remotion rendering, and FFmpeg mixing. Current release: v5.3.0 — see CHANGELOG.md for version history.

Works with: Claude Code · OpenClaw · OpenCode · Codex · Pi — any coding agent that supports SKILL.md

Publish to: Bilibili · YouTube · Xiaohongshu · Douyin · WeChat Channels

> No coding required! Just describe your topic in plain language — the coding agent guides you through each step interactively. You make creative decisions, the agent handles all the technical details.

> Note: This project is still under active development and may not be fully mature yet. Your feedback is greatly appreciated — feel free to open an issue.

Features

- Topic → 4K video - research, narration script, TTS audio, Remotion composition, 4K render + BGM in one pipeline
- Local TTS backends - Edge (free, no key) and Azure — synthesized in-house, no external component skill required
- Asset engine - per-video manifest with license provenance; producers are user files, assetseeker stock, imagencn AI stills, videogencn AI B-roll, and Hyperframes overlays — paid generation always asks first
- 4K output + Remotion-native subtitles - 3840×2160; SRT rendered in React at 4K (legacy FFmpeg burn-in available)
- Design learning - extract style profiles from reference videos/images; auto-applied when topics match
- Vertical shorts - 9:16 highlight clips generated from long-form sections
- Multi-platform & multi-language - Bilibili / YouTube / Xiaohongshu / Douyin / WeChat Channels × zh-CN / en-US, with per-platform publish info
- Pronunciation control - global + per-project phoneme dictionaries for Chinese polyphones

Quick Start

1. Install: with the skills CLI, pointing at the full skill:

bash
npx skills add Agents365-ai/video-podcast-maker/skills/video-podcast-maker -g

Drop the /skills/video-podcast-maker suffix to install all three variants (full, -lite, -nano), or clone this repo instead. Paths below are written from the repo root; under a skills CLI install the same files live in the agent's ${SKILL_DIR}.

2. Set up — Python 3.8+, Node.js 18+, FFmpeg, and a Remotion project:

bash
brew install ffmpeg node python3          # macOS (Ubuntu: sudo apt install ffmpeg nodejs python3)
pip install -r skills/video-podcast-maker/requirements.txt
npx create-video@latest my-video-project   # or reuse an existing Remotion project
cd my-video-project && npm i

> One-time cost: a fresh Remotion project downloads ~2.2 GB of npm packages
> plus a ~90 MB Chrome headless shell. Prefer reusing an existing Remotion
> project (with node_modules/ already installed) for your next video — the
> heavy install happens once per project, not per video. Lottie animations are
> optional (@remotion/lottie + lottie-web); install them per project only if
> you use LottieAnimation.

3. Configure — set TTS_BACKEND plus its API keys (see TTS Backends and Environment Variables).

4. Tell your agent:

> "Create a video podcas

……（后略，见原文）