Open-source AI video production assistant

Video Production Buddy

AI-Driven, Human-Curated

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Features & Highlights

Turn the vision in your mind precisely into a piece of art.

Video Production Buddy guides the assistant in clarifying, planning and confirming the production direction before the costly AIGC phase, with human oversight and review.

Workflow

A guided workflow built on best practices, not blind prompting.

01

Idea intake

Start from a plain-language request, such as a product launch, brand ad, story scene, explainer, or social video.

02

Guided clarification

The assistant collects style, audience, duration, budget, core message, product facts, and must-keep constraints before production starts.

03

Script & scene design

It turns the brief into scripts, scene plans, shot ideas, emotional beats, and visual constraints with feedback points along the way.

04

Asset generation & editing

AI-generated clips, images, voice, music, captions, and local editing tools are coordinated as structured production artifacts.

05

Final synthesis

The system assembles the final video, reviews visible quality, and keeps the production decisions traceable for handoff or revision.

Spotlight

Polished video, fully under your control.

Pathways

Multiple production pipelines

Route different briefs through purpose-built paths, including the new ad-video workflow for commercial storytelling.

Intake

Guided requirement forms

Collect needs through structured prompts and form-style feedback so users do not have to hold every detail in a chat thread.

Research

Trend + reference analysis

Search current topics and analyze high-performing references before committing to a concept, rhythm, or visual hook.

Gates

Explicit confirmation gates

Surface style choices, product facts, scene promises, and expensive generation steps for approval before they become sunk cost.

Rhythm

Emotion/rhythm control

Make pacing, emotional beats, captions, music, and scene transitions first-class creative controls instead of afterthoughts.

Continuity

Cross-clip consistency

Keep characters, objects, style, and scene constraints explicit so multi-shot videos stay coherent across generated segments.

Quick Start

Set up in minutes. Start producing now.

No new workflow to learn. Open the repo with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, or an OpenClaw-style agent and start producing.

shell video-production-buddy
git clone https://github.com/video-production-buddy/video-production-buddy.git
cd video-production-buddy
make setup

# Then ask your AI assistant:
"Create a 60-second commercial video for the 14-inch Apple MacBook Pro equipped with the M5 chip."