Teammates at Work

A narrated launch film passes work between sparse, color-coded studio tableaux. Floating task cards show each handoff; a dark abstract interlude widens the claim before human scenes return and a short end card closes it.

Why it works (inferred): The title appears within the first second, while speech starts at 2.62 s. Five hard scene cuts separate functions without rushing the median 9.20 s shot. The near-black fourth shot resets contrast before shot 5 brightens at the measured boundary.

Tools you'll need: a camera shoot · Remotion for motion graphics · ElevenLabs or a recorded voice · Remotion or any video editor · Claude alone: no

Hook formula (inferred): tactile surface + colorful moving objects + Introducing {{FEATURE}}. Why it holds (inferred): The center stays clear enough to read while peripheral objects move. The rapidly enlarging title sets a visual question that the first work tableau answers.

Retention map (inferred): the new sets at beats 2–3 and dark beat 4 refresh the picture; beat 7 carries the payoff. The last picture holds without an end fade.

Mix (inferred): five staged work scenes, one abstract capability scene, one graphic close. Rhythm: Long compositions invite card reading; phrase-led scene changes provide the major punctuation.

Rules this editor follows (inferred):

• Leave one side of a tableau open for floating UI; switch its side to suit the worker and prop layout.
• Keep most staged cameras steady while cards and hands supply local motion. Shot 4 is marked static with low camera confidence; the sheets show moving role cards against a dark field.
• Use hard scene cuts at the measured boundaries, then an opening fade for shot 7.

Look (inferred): Staged workers sit inside seamless color fields with sparse, practical props. The reference uses warm rust, cool teal, olive, ochre and violet; replace those with a coherent sequence derived from {{BRAND_BG}} and {{BRAND_ACCENTS}}. Its glossy toy-like shapes are decoration around editorial type, never a product claim.

Graphics and overlays (inferred): Dark translucent cards float in unused set space. A role label, request, and result arrive as separate states. Use real {{PRODUCT}} captures or a faithful UI rebuilt in code.

Branding and end card (inferred): After the measured dip within shot 7, center {{LOGO}} on black and set {{CTA_URL}} as small but phone-legible text. No closing fade.

Grade and shoot card (inferred)

Shoot five worker setups, one sustained usable take each, plus a clean plate for each set. Use 35–50 mm full-frame lenses for wide tableaux and a 50–70 mm option for the closer portions; camera near seated eye height, level or slightly low, on a locked head or repeatable dolly. Use f/4–f/5.6 so worker and prop stay clear; focus changes are applied to overlaid cards in post at the measured frames. Broad overhead key at roughly 4500 K, soft fill 1.5–2 stops below it, then a narrow edge light to separate the worker. Grade with restrained contrast, gently lifted shadow detail on set shots, saturated backgrounds but natural skin; preserve the measured dark interlude and black end. Shoot 4K 16:9, 30 fps for the crops and shot 2's push. Record isolated narration, room tone, and prop foley. Reserve clean negative space on the card side of each take.

:root { --brand-bg: {{BRAND_BG}}; --brand-accent: {{BRAND_ACCENTS}}; --card-ink: rgba(10,12,16,.76); }
.floating-card { background: var(--card-ink); color: white; border: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,.12); border-radius: 14px; box-shadow: 0 20px 60px rgba(0,0,0,.20); backdrop-filter: blur(18px); }
.card-glow { filter: drop-shadow(0 0 24px color-mix(in srgb, var(--brand-accent) 28%, transparent)); }

No 3D is needed. Make the abstract forms from layered SVG/CSS shapes, gradients, 12–30 px Gaussian blur and gentle 24 px glow at 0.25 opacity; the filmed sets supply physical depth.

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Measured: About 97 words in the v2 speech count; 149 wpm while speaking in v1 analysis, with 16 pauses ≥0.25 s and a 0.95 s median pause. The voice begins at 2.62 s.

Voice direction (inferred): Calm low-register announcement voice, about 145–150 wpm during lines. Slightly stress the action verb, then leave the longer spaces for UI results. Use a human recording or TTS voice without imitating any identifiable person. Do not add word-by-word subtitles; cards carry the visual information.

Music (inferred): Tonal electronic bed under narration, with a soft pulse and warm sustained notes. The detected 136 BPM is uncertain and only one scene cut sits near a tracked beat, so let phrase endings and visual events drive the edit.

Effects (inferred): Light interface ticks on task state changes, a softened low hit near shot 4's card movement, and a restrained accent on the shot 7 dip. Several strongest measured “voice?” cues coincide with words: do not double them with effects.

Silence and space (inferred): Duck the bed about 3 dB under spoken phrases and leave pauses breathable. Let the outro fall as measured rather than filling it with extra speech.

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Title (inferred): Introducing {{FEATURE}} for {{PRODUCT}}. Cover (inferred): A tactile field in {{BRAND_BG}}, a few accent objects, and one clear two-line promise in {{BRAND_FONT}}; keep the exact reference texture and shapes out. Post copy (inferred): One-sentence announcement, two verified work benefits, availability, then {{CTA_URL}}. Audience signals: Captured context lists 127,056 views; no replay graph or comment sample is supplied.

Narration-led: target about 97 words at roughly 149 spoken wpm. Time lines to the phrases in the timeline JSON; allow card reading between clauses. UI copy is original and must state only verified {{FEATURE}} behavior.

[beat 1 · shot 1 · ~24 spoken words] Name {{FEATURE}}, the work it accepts, and a concrete first action. On screen: ≤4-word title, then one real task and one result.
[beat 2 · shot 2 · ~13 words] Explain the handoff between two roles. On screen: sender state → receiver state.
[beat 3 · shot 3 · ~11 words] Explain which authorized context travels with the work. On screen: one status and one deliverable.
[beat 4 · shot 4 · ~13 words] Name several distinct jobs, one noun phrase each. On screen: short role cards, not a paragraph.
[beat 5 · shot 5 · ~13 words] State how a correction changes later work. On screen: feedback → acknowledged change.
[beat 6 · shot 6 · ~18 words] Explain colleague access and continued work. On screen: request → checklist.
[beat 7 · shot 7 · ~5 words] Give one compact benefit. On screen: payoff, then {{LOGO}} and {{CTA_URL}}.

Two routes (inferred)

Minimum: Remotion. Claude can construct the graphics, card UI, CSS shapes, camera transforms, edit, and synthesized original music in one code stack, reaching roughly 80% of the structure. It simplifies the filmed scenes to user-supplied stills or clips and gives up the reference's believable actor movements, live set lighting, and physical props. User-supplied footage and a recorded or TTS narrator are required; this is not Claude alone.

Full: camera shoot → recorded voice or ElevenLabs → Remotion. Film five color-coded worker clips and clean plates at 3840×2160, 30 fps; hand over ProRes 422 or high-bitrate clips with slate and matching camera metadata. Record narration as 48 kHz/24-bit WAV. Build cards and abstract graphics in Remotion at 1920×1080, 30 fps; camera and element keyframes live in JSON, any external graphic plate arrives as RGBA PNG sequence with alpha at 1920×1080/30 fps, and music arrives as 48 kHz WAV plus a click-track WAV. Remotion outputs the H.264 master.

Asset honesty: Use real {{PRODUCT}} captures or its UI rebuilt in code; when there is no image, show a truthful type tile. Never generate product UI, invent results, screenshots, metrics, or reviews. In this film, each visible task completion must correspond to a capability supplied for {{FEATURE}}.

Script prompt

Write about 97 original words for a narration-led film about {{PRODUCT}} and {{FEATURE}}. Use the seven numbered beats in plate 4, with practical work verbs and claims checked against supplied product evidence. Aim near 149 wpm while speaking, leaving pauses for task cards. Return timestamped narration and concise card copy. End with an original five-word-or-shorter benefit, then {{LOGO}} and {{CTA_URL}} as text. Do not copy reference wording or invent a product result.

Music prompt

Original sparse D-minor electronic bed with a loose 136 BPM pulse; pads, muted mallets and subtle sub. Leave room for speech, reduce density in beat 4, warm again in beats 5–6, and finish with a quiet resolved chord. No vocals or recognizable existing melody.

How it's built (inferred)

Signature move — the work relay: Keep the worker and set as a readable base layer; put task cards above the plate, then connect an outgoing card state to an incoming one through the narration and a scene cut. The move is a spatial handoff, not a camera whip. Shoot the same task direction in adjacent tableaux, place cards in free negative space, and switch palettes only at f508, f784, f975, f1289 and f1562. In shot 2, start the measured 12 f lateral entry at f508, using the plate 5 travel of −12.2% with cubic-bezier(.16,1,.3,1); later use the measured ×1.50 push from 18.93–23.27 s, cubic-bezier(.45,0,.55,1). Motion runs on ones. Use 180° shutter-equivalent directional blur during fast entry, then turn it off for readable cards. A card that seems to travel across the cut should be two separate, truthful UI states, with a shared accent, rather than a fake screenshot morph.

Opening construction: Animate glossy forms around the title with CSS/SVG gradients over the ribbed {{BRAND_BG}} surface. Use the measured shot 1 ×4.21 scale during 0.47–3.07 s with ease-in, then make the hard cut at f96 to the filmed tableau. The sheets show the title enlarging until it fills the frame immediately before that cut. The later ×1.28 push segment and long ×1.10 drift belong to the live tableau, not a continuous title-to-set zoom. Keep the shot 1 focus change at f188 over 56 f (edge sharpness ×1.8) and f366 over 54 f (×0.6) as masked blur/sharpen passes on UI; do not shift the whole picture out of focus.

Other measured moves and changes: Shot 3 pulls out to ×0.60 across f784–974, approximately linear; at f872, sharpen its card over 26 f (×1.6). Shot 4's camera is marked static with low confidence; the sheets show cards and abstract forms changing while the background remains dark. Animate the measured card region from 30 · 43 · 24 · 18 toward 32 · 31 · 20 · 31 across 32.83–42.90 s with short vertical swaps, not a single 2330 px continuous slide; the measured total is a tracking hint for multiple cards. In shot 5, move the foreground element left during 42.97–43.90 s and use its measured later rotations; sharpen the card from f1303 over 40 f (×1.8). In shot 6, scale the element region to ×0.51 during 52.07–59.87 s with ease-out, sharpen from f1590 over 24 f (×1.9), then soften from f1720 over 10 f (×0.6). Keep cards as separate overlaid layers so people never blur with UI.

Close: Fade shot 7 in from black over 7 f beginning f1920. Animate the abstract forms on ones around the payoff. At f2000, dip to 10% light over 13 f and reveal the {{LOGO}} picture after the dip; the sheets show a new logo image after the dark passage, while the measured shot table keeps it within shot 7. Do not insert a hard cut there or fade the final frame to black. Ease forms with cubic-bezier(.22,1,.36,1), but leave the logo still. Use subframe rendering or 180° shutter blur for fast form motion, and avoid blending moving UI text into illegible ghosts.

Build order

1. Record original beat 1–7 narration and place its phrases against the JSON; make a 30 fps animatic of the measured shot boundaries.
2. Shoot beats 1–3 and 5–6 with clean negative space; ingest the five filmed clips and matching clean plates.
3. Build beat 1 title, beat 4 abstract field, and beat 7 close in Remotion; then add truthful UI states for each work beat.
4. Apply plate 5 motion and every internal change above; composite cards over footage, then grade by the plate 6 brightness relationships.
5. Mix original bed and cue accents under narration, export 1920×1080/30 fps H.264, and run plate 14 checks.

• Scene boundaries land at f508, f784, f975, f1289 and f1562 within ±1 f; f96 is a separate internal hard cut.
• Shot 7 begins with a 7 f fade from black at f1920; the f2000 dip lasts 13 f; the end has no fade.
• All six measured focus changes use their listed start frames and lengths within ±1 f.
• Every essential UI word has cap height ≥38 px at 1920×1080; decorative microtext is not needed to understand the claim.
• The main handoff retains readable worker, task, and result layers during the shot 2 move; no text is motion-blurred during its reading hold.
• Original cues align to intended JSON events within ±3 f and avoid stressed words; scene cuts are phrase-led, not forced to the beat grid.
• X/LinkedIn master measures near −14 LUFS integrated with true peak ≤−1 dBTP; narration stays intelligible in every beat.
• Every displayed product state and claim is backed by supplied {{PRODUCT}} evidence; no reference logo, palette, shapes, wording, or track remains.

Brand slots

What this film avoids (inferred): No talking heads addressing camera, stock office montage, dense feature list, QR code, store badges, word-by-word subtitles, or UI chrome unrelated to the demonstrated workflow.

Brand-distance warning (inferred): Reusing the rust ribbed field, glossy multicolor shapes, editorial serif, and exact two-line promise together would read as the original brand. Change the title surface and shape language first, then apply your own palette and type.

Adapt the aspect (inferred):

• 9:16: Re-lay out every tableau, placing worker/prop in the middle and cards in upper or lower free space; a centre crop preserves only the middle 31.6% of the source width and loses most measured boxes. Essential cap height ≥22 px at 1080×1920, preferably larger; keep copy clear of top account UI and bottom caption/action zones.
• 1:1: Re-lay out rather than center-crop: only 50 of 94 measured boxes survive the crop. Move cards toward the center and reduce decorative set width; essential cap height ≥22 px at 1080×1080, with top/bottom UI margins for feed overlays.

Adapt the length (inferred):

• 15 s: Keep beat 1's title move and the signature handoff of beat 2, compress spoken copy to one claim and one result, then retain beat 7's brand close; omit optional work examples.
• 30 s: Keep beats 1–2, one of beats 3–5 as verified proof, beat 6 as a brief consequence, and beat 7; rewrite narration rather than speeding it up.
• 60 s: Keep the full relay and add a new verified result inside beats 3–6, rather than stretching the fixed hook or end-card hold.

The creator's signature (don't copy): its brand mark, warm ribbed opening, glossy abstract characters, exact palette sequence, card copy, and signature phrasing. The transferable format (do copy): narrated work relay, staged negative space, floating truthful task states, dark breadth reset, and a restrained graphic close.

Source: https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/2118389326459670825 · measured with dissect 1.1 and timeline v2 on 2026-11-06 · (measured) = read off the film · (inferred) = construction reading