blitzreels-faceless_skill

Overview

This skill automates faceless AI video creation using BlitzReels workflows: script/topic → images → voiceover → video assembly → export. It guides you through planning, shows cost implications, and requires explicit approval before calling costly generation endpoints. Use it to produce short 10–120s faceless videos in configurable visual styles and voices.

How this skill works

You provide either a topic (AI writes the script) or an exact script where paragraph breaks become scene breaks, plus duration, style, and voice. The pipeline creates a project, generates scene images, synthesizes voiceovers, assembles animated clips or slideshows, then starts an export and returns a download URL. The tool always runs in plan/dry-run mode first and prompts for approval before executing expensive API calls that consume AI credits.

When to use it

• Create short promotional or educational faceless videos (10–120s) quickly from a topic.
• Preview visual direction cheaply using storyboard-only mode before full production.
• Produce narrated slideshows without animation (images + audio) to save credits.
• Iterate on script, voice, or style with dry runs until the plan is approved.
• Batch-generate multiple short videos with consistent voice and style settings.

Best practices

• Always run in --dry-run or plan mode first to review scene count, models, and cost estimates.
• Set duration to match desired scene count (shorter = fewer scenes) and keep 10–120s limits.
• Choose storyboard-only to validate visuals before committing to expensive video generation.
• Provide a clear script when you want exact narration and scene breaks; otherwise supply a concise topic.
• Configure BLITZREELS_ALLOW_EXPENSIVE and API keys only in secure environments and confirm billing consent before running expensive endpoints.

Example use cases

• Turn a blog post topic into a 30s faceless explainer with cinematic visuals and a professional voice.
• Create Instagram Reels in 9:16 aspect by specifying style and duration for quick social clips.
• Generate storyboard-only previews to review visual styles with stakeholders before full video export.
• Produce training microvideos with captions enabled for accessibility and silent autoplay.
• Make slideshow-style narrated recaps by using --no-animated-video to skip clip animation.