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Website to Video
Capture a website, produce a professional video from it. Use when the user provides a URL and wants a video — social ad, product tour, 30-second promo, etc.
The workflow has 7 steps. Each produces an artifact that gates the next. Do not skip steps — each artifact prevents a downstream failure mode.
Step 1: Capture & Understand
npx hyperframes capture https://example.com -o example-video
Produces example-video/capture/ with:
capture/screenshots/— above-the-fold + section screenshots (up to--max-screenshots)capture/assets/— logos, hero images, background video (if any)capture/extracted/tokens.json— colors, fonts, and spacing tokenscapture/extracted/visible-text.txt— extracted headings, paragraphs, CTAscapture/extracted/fonts.json— font families and stacks detected in computed stylescapture/asset-descriptions.md— auto-generated asset catalog
All subsequent steps read from the capture/ subfolder — capture/extracted/tokens.json, capture/assets/hero.png, etc. Never strip the capture/ prefix when referencing these files.
Gate: Print a site summary — name, top 3 colors, primary + display fonts, hero asset path, one-sentence vibe. Keep it in your context — don't re-capture.
Step 2: Write DESIGN.md
Small brand reference at the project root. 6 sections, ~90 lines. This is the cheat sheet — not the creative plan.
# DESIGN
## Brand
- Name: Example Co.
- One-line mission: "…"
## Colors
- Background: #0B0F14
- Primary: #00E0A4 (accent, CTA)
- Secondary: #7A8B9B (body text)
- Text: #FFFFFF
## Typography
- Display: "Inter Tight", 700, tight letter-spacing
- Body: "Inter", 400
## Motion
- Mood: precise, technical, confident
- Eases: `power3.out` for entrances, `expo.in` for exits
## Assets
- Logo: `capture/assets/logo.svg`
- Hero image: `capture/assets/hero.png`
## What NOT to Do
- No purple, no pastels, no serif body
- No playful/bubbly eases (`elastic`, `bounce`)
- No drop shadows on text
Gate: DESIGN.md exists in the project directory.
Step 3: Write SCRIPT.md
Narration script. Story backbone. Scene durations come from the narration, not from guessing.
# SCRIPT
## Scene 1 — Hook (0:00–0:04)
"What if your dashboards wrote themselves?"
## Scene 2 — Problem (0:04–0:11)
"Teams spend hours stitching together queries, charts, and callouts — every Monday."
## Scene 3 — Solution (0:11–0:22)
"Example Co. watches your data streams and proposes the dashboard you'd have built — in seconds."
## Scene 4 — CTA (0:22–0:28)
"Try it free at example.com."
Run npx hyperframes tts SCRIPT.md --voice af_nova --output narration.wav to generate TTS audio. Note the exact duration — that's the video's duration.
Gate: SCRIPT.md + narration.wav exist and durations match the plan (±0.3s).
Step 4: Storyboard
Text-only scene plan: for each scene, describe the hero frame — what's on screen at the scene's most-visible moment.
# STORYBOARD
## Scene 1 (0:00–0:04) — Hook
Hero frame: giant "WHAT IF YOUR DASHBOARDS WROTE THEMSELVES?" in display font, centered, on near-black. Logo top-left at 40% opacity.
Entrance: each word staggers in, 0.08s apart.
Transition out: flash-through-white into Scene 2.
One paragraph per scene. Do NOT skip this step — it's where you catch narrative gaps before writing HTML.
Gate: STORYBOARD.md exists. Each scene has: hero frame, entrance, transition.
Step 5: Composition
Write index.html scene-by-scene:
- Each scene is a
<div class="scene scene-N">positioned absolutely, full-bleed. - Static HTML+CSS for the hero frame first (no GSAP).
- Layer the narration
<audio>atdata-start="0"on a high track index. - Add a transitions component (
flash-through-white,liquid-wipe, etc.) between each scene. - THEN add GSAP entrances (
gsap.from()), no exits — transitions own the exit. - Register
window.__timelines["root"] = tl.
Install transitions as needed:
npx hyperframes add flash-through-white
Step 6: Render
npx hyperframes lint --strict # must pass
npx hyperframes validate # WCAG contrast audit
npx hyperframes render --quality draft --output draft.mp4
Watch the draft. Note issues in a REVIEW.md bullet list (scene, timestamp, issue). Fix, re-render.
When happy:
npx hyperframes render --quality high --output final.mp4
Step 7: Deliver
- Report file path + duration + file size to the user.
- If the user wants a vertical cut, re-render with a 9:16 composition (
data-width="1080" data-height="1920") — typically requires a separateindex-vertical.htmlwith tighter typography and re-stacked scene layout.
Common Failure Modes
- Skipped DESIGN.md → colors drift scene-to-scene; output feels like "AI slides."
- Skipped STORYBOARD.md → scenes overlap or hero frames collide with transitions.
- Exit animations before transitions → empty frames when the transition fires.
- Narration longer than
data-duration→ audio clips mid-sentence. Update the composition'sdata-durationto match the TTS output length + 0.5s buffer.