HyperFrames Student Kit
Nate Herk's reusable video-editing kit for Codex and Claude Code.
Bring your own footage. Cut dead air, review mistakes, plan the story, and build
motion graphics with HyperFrames and GSAP.
Examples
Four finished videos made with this kit.
YouTube motion showreel
Made with the motion-showreel skill: 15 seconds, 1920x1080, 60fps, cut to a
129 BPM grid. The red scrubber dot travels through seven craft chapters and
lands as the play button in the logo.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/056b46e9-7379-4e71-b825-20fb9f8e9555
The three short-form videos below were created by Nate. Press Play on any video
to watch it here in the README.
Curiosity reel: unlock your project
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/920cc3b7-6ef0-4324-aa98-870c1c2a07c5
Curiosity reel: build a better AI system
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ba468302-fe07-4e4c-949b-68951dd84625
AIS Live ad
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4ad48761-d14c-407a-9dec-1b76a9afb04a
What's included
- 15 skills, mirrored for both assistants, with their helper scripts and references.
- 406 draft motion-graphics cards across two styles, with manifests, CSS tokens, and editable slots.
- Two scene templates: dark graph paper and a left glass popout.
- Transcription, silence cutting, mistake detection, reviewed cut rendering,
transcript retiming, EDL review, beat-sync validation, and preflight tools.
- Short-form editing: reels, YouTube Shorts, hook and payoff planning, precise captions, moving B-roll, and audio review.
- 12 existing teaching projects preserved from the original student kit.
- A synthetic starter composition and editing fixture that need no footage or API key.
Nate uses ElevenLabs Scribe to transcribe and Kie.ai to generate videos and
image assets. Bring your own API keys and credits when using those services.
You can ask the assistant to use OpenAI Whisper or local Whisper instead, or
supply an existing word-level transcript. Generated assets are optional.
The local starter needs no paid transcription or generation API. See the
tools, accounts, and API-key guide for required tools,
optional services, setup details, and prompts you can copy.
Install
Install Node.js 22 or newer, Git, FFmpeg (including ffprobe), and Chrome or
Chromium. Make node, ffmpeg, and ffprobe available in your terminal.
Then run these commands in PowerShell, macOS Terminal, or a Linux shell:
git clone https://github.com/nateherkai/hyperframes-student-kit.git
cd hyperframes-student-kit
npm ci
npm run setup
npm test
Setup checks the tools and creates .env only if it is absent. Add only the keys
for services you choose. The included transcription helper uses ElevenLabs;
Whisper and Kie.ai integrations need the setup described in the
tools guide. Setup and troubleshooting.
Render your first example
npm run demo
cd video-projects/demo
npx hyperframes lint
npx hyperframes preview
Scrub the eight-second animation in Studio. After reviewing it, stop the preview
with Ctrl+C, then render:
npx hyperframes render --quality draft --output renders/demo.mp4
The demo uses local GSAP. HyperFrames may download and cache its font substitutions on the first render. It has no voiceover. The separate
synthetic transcript exercises the cutting tools;
it is fictional test data, not a transcript of the title animation.
Open this repository folder in Codex or Claude Code and say:
Use edit-video to edit my recording at [local path]. Keep my examples and core
lessons. Tighten dead air, show me the proposed mistake cuts, and use the dark
graph-paper style with occasional glass cards. Produce a reviewed draft.
Codex: $edit-video. Claude Code: /edit-video. For a single operation use
cut-silences, cut-mistakes, video-storytelling, or style-library.
See the step-by-step workflow, prompt recipes,
and storytelling workbook.
Create a reel or YouTube Short
Use short-form-edit to turn my recording at [local path] into a 9:16 reel.
Build a truthful hook and payoff, preserve my meaning, tighten mistakes, and
add precise captions, purposeful moving footage, and sound design. Prepare
a draft for review. Use my existing footage before proposing generated assets.
Codex: $short-form-edit. Claude Code: /short-form-edit.
The skill includes planning references and validators for caption timing, source
mapping, scene coverage, and footage reuse. It is an agent-guided workflow;
review the actual motion and audio before publishing.
Short-form walkthrough and validation commands.
Make a motion-design showreel
Use motion-showreel to make a 15-second showreel for [brand]. Study my reference
reel at [local path] if I give one. Pick one motif that transforms through every
chapter, cut on the music's beat grid, and end on the logo. Show me the storyboard
and beat sheet before building, and confirm before any paid music or asset generation.
Codex: $motion-showreel. Claude Code: /motion-showreel.
The skill includes a measured breakdown of the reel it was built from, a chapter
technique library, a HUD template, and Node tools to analyze a reference video,
measure a music take's beat grid, splice it onto the cut grid, and premix sound effects.
Existing examples and migration
This is the main student-kit repository. The newer video-pipeline kit has been
merged here with both Git histories preserved. The original 12 projects remain
in video-projects/, alongside the original shared brand examples and the
make-a-video, short-form-video, and website-to-hyperframes skills.
Use short-form-edit for new reels; short-form-video documents the older May
Shorts compositions. Migration and compatibility notes.
Explore and customize
The cards are reusable draft assets. Test the cards you choose with your text
and footage. Library templates may load GSAP and Google Fonts from their public
CDNs; localize these dependencies when assembling a final project.
The three showcase videos were explicitly supplied for public sharing. No other
private recordings, transcripts, credentials, or private workspace settings were
imported. Previously public examples remain in the repository. New folders
under video-projects/ and raw-media/ are ignored automatically; files already
tracked by Git remain tracked. Create a new project for your own footage.
HyperFrames Student Kit 是 Nate Herk 的可复用视频剪辑套件，可接入 Codex 和 Claude Code，让它们获得剪掉冷场、发现问题、加字幕以及用你自己的素材制作 GSAP 动效图形等技能。