hubeiqiao/how-i-make-videos-with-ai/joe-speaking-release-preview-video

Release preview video

This is a portable teaching adaptation, not Joe's installed project. It was built from the release previews for his app, Joe Speaking: v0.9.3 and v0.9.4, each with a cut for X and a cut for RedNote. Each rule came from a draft Joe rejected.

Read first

Read workflow.md and the input brief. Ask only for decisions that change the video.

Inputs

release notes / a test account with real data / [your phone frame image] / an instrumental track / [your ending card] / languages and sizes.

Output: a 20 to 30 s video with a short hook, at most three scenes (one change each, one first-person voice line each) and your standard ending. v0.9.3 had an English 16:9 cut for X and a Chinese 3:4 cut for RedNote; v0.9.4 used 3:4 for both. This folder is instructions, not a renderer: build or adapt a Remotion project.

Work in visible stages

1. Pick the changes and write the lines. No recording yet.
2. Record the takes, then build the draft.
3. Before showing it, check: every voice line transcribed from the final mix and matched to the script; stills of frame 0, every ring, every zoom and the ending; -14 LUFS from one constant gain; no lurch or frozen run in a frame-difference scan.
4. Deliver both cuts with the copy. Leave tone and name pronunciation to a human ear.

Rules, and why

• Real content only: screen recordings, not screenshots, of the release on a test account with real data. Never fabricate UI or numbers.
• Record only the page, read-only. An early capture caught private windows, so bracket each take with a full-screen marker colour and discard anything outside it. Never click destructive controls.
• The hook is pure motion and does not explain the feature, fully painted at frame 0, with no voice. A result hook and a question hook were both rejected.
• Measure every highlight ring on the recording's pixels. Positions logged during capture were 12 to 20 px off.
• Hold, then glide. In v0.9.4, eased-out moves lurched and froze, and a continuous drift felt slow. Joe wanted a hold, then one quick glide on the beat.
• Duck the music a few dB and cut the voice's band from it, rather than dropping it away. In v0.9.4, a 12 dB duck made it vanish and pump between lines.

The workflow holds the rest: no scrolling, a real phone frame, instrumental music, one voice.

Example invocation

Read the release notes in notes/brief.md. Use this Skill to pick at most three user-visible changes, write one first-person line for each and plan the recordings. Do not record yet.

Done means

Both cuts, the copy (each section naming its video file) and the production notes sit together, drafts are removed and sources are kept for a re-render. Publishing is a separate action.