music-video-production

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name: music-video-production
description: Provider-independent production workflow for AI agents creating music videos, lyric videos, visualizers, performance/narrative/dance videos, social cutdowns, album or single launch assets, and generated-media clips synchronized to songs. Use when planning, directing, prompting, editing, reviewing, or delivering video content built around a recorded song, artist performance, lyrics, beat timing, choreography, platform variants, music rights, likeness consent, accessibility, or synthetic-media disclosure.
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# Music Video Production

Use this skill to turn a song into a coherent, rights-aware, platform-ready video package. Treat the song as the fixed spine: the video exists to amplify its structure, artist identity, lyrics, and release goal.

Do not treat this as generic video generation. Music videos need beat maps, phrase maps, lyric accuracy, sync review, rights notes, performance direction, platform-specific cutdowns, and approval checkpoints.

## Ground rules

- Keep the master audio unchanged unless the artist, label, or client approves a radio edit, clean edit, stem edit, speed change, fade, or shortened version.
- Never invent rights clearance. Record what is cleared, unknown, platform-provided, licensed, royalty-free, public-domain, or generated.
- Do not provide legal advice. Flag clearance, likeness, endorsement, union, label, distributor, or platform-risk questions for the client, rights holder, label, manager, or counsel.
- Re-check platform rules at production time. Music libraries, AI labels, commercial disclosure tools, ad specs, and upload limits change often.
- Separate documented facts from production heuristics. Facts should trace to current sources; heuristics are creative recommendations.
- Preserve provenance: song source, lyric source, stems, edits, models, prompts, seeds when available, consent documents, licenses, platform checks, and review notes.

## Intake

Collect enough information before concepting:

1. Song package
   - final audio file, duration, sample rate, bit depth, loudness target if known
   - song title, artist name, featured artists, version name, ISRC/UPC if released
   - approved lyrics, explicit/clean status, lyric translation if needed
   - optional stems: vocal, instrumental, drums, bass, melody, ad-libs
   - BPM, key, time signature, section labels if known
2. Release and audience
   - goal: premiere, visualizer, lyric video, fan engagement, paid campaign, tour promo, album rollout, short-form hook testing
   - target platforms and aspect ratios
   - due date, review approvers, approval order, locked brand/artist guidelines
3. Rights and safety
   - who owns or controls the master and composition
   - whether sync use, social use, paid ad use, territory, term, and platform rights are cleared
   - whether any samples, interpolations, remixes, covers, or third-party stems are present
   - whether any brand, product, venue, artwork, tattoo, logo, prop, or recognizable person needs clearance
   - whether AI-generated video, voice, likeness, choreography references, or style references will be used
4. Creative references
   - 2-5 reference videos with what to borrow: pacing, lighting, blocking, edit rhythm, typographic treatment, camera language, color, surrealism level
   - what not to copy: artist likenesses, exact choreography, protected logos, distinctive set pieces, shot-for-shot structures

If rights status is unknown, proceed only with planning or internal mockups. Do not recommend publishing, paid promotion, distribution delivery, or public release until clearance is resolved.

## Choose the concept route

Pick one primary route and one secondary texture. A video can blend modes, but it should not feel like six unrelated concepts.

- Performance video: artist or performer carries the emotional center. Best when charisma, vocal delivery, band energy, or star identity matters.
- Narrative video: story scenes dramatize the song's emot