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Data Director

Finds the story in your numbers and draws it to scale, with the source on screen and music.

Data Director: its example films and styles →

Paste into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any agent that supports skills.

Needs: Node.js 22+, FFmpeg, Chrome. No API keys.

Install prompt
Read https://claude-motion.com/skills/data-director/install.md and follow it to install the "data-director" skill, then make a first video with it.

Paste into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any agent that supports skills.

Example prompt
Use the data-director skill to turn this CSV into a 25-second film about the month we passed 10,000 users.
Style prompt (Claude Motion or Opus 5.5)
Make a 25-second 16:9 film from the attached data about [the point, e.g for [who will watch, e.g. people who follow our updates]. when our signups passed our waitlist]. Draw the chart on one scale from zero, at a steady rate, label anything unusual in the data where it is, and land the point on the music's lift. Keep the source and the date on screen. Use only the data and source I give below; don't change a word or number. End on the point and the source, held for 3 seconds.

Data: [file or link]
Point: [one sentence]

Nothing to install: paste this into Claude Motion (Team or Enterprise) or give it to Opus 5.5 for a similar look. The result changes from run to run; the skill works from your own material and renders on your computer.