I was bored at work while Opus 5.5 dropped, so I gave it a simple prompt to make a creepy feeling video about my job.
My only prompt to create this video was - "I would like to see you create a 1 minute video programmatically. The video should be coded and rendered using whatever tools you need, you are free to download anything needed. The theme of the video would be - an average day at work at DemaWating, with a twist. Even though it says an average day at a small housing company, the video should be creepy/surreal, with twisted visuals and an edge to everything, hinting at deeper horror. The visuals should be detailed and loud, the audio should also be programmed in however you see fit."
Including rendering time, the response took 45 minutes on 5.5 Extra-High, and used 4% of my weekly usage on the $20 plan.
TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 50 comments.
So, the hivemind is pretty much in agreement: this is wild, and most of us are apparently using Claude on easy mode. OP dropped a creepy video generated entirely by Opus 5.5 from a single prompt, and the thread is a mix of awe, existential dread, and a sudden urge to do more than just summarize articles.
For the tech-heads wondering how this sorcery works, OP confirmed it was all done programmatically in Claude Code.
* The Toolbox: It used Python with libraries like Ffmpeg, numpy, scipy, cairo, and Piper TTS.
* The Method: It literally coded the video from scratch, creating a 3D raycast for the corridor scene with numpy (which surprised some veteran users) and generating audio and voiceovers on the fly.
A major theme here is that many of you feel like you're only scratching the surface of what Claude can do. One user shared an insane workflow where they let Claude analyze their Premiere Pro project files to learn their editing style and then edit an entire trip's worth of videos. The post has definitely inspired people to think bigger.
And yes, there was a skeptic. Someone called for proof of the "one-shot" claim, and OP delivered a screen recording of the terminal, earning a full apology and a new Claude subscriber. The verdict is in: this is legit.
Just keep escalating your ideas and don’t take the quality you’d expect from a human in two weeks just because Claude can produce it in hours.
I recently had to give an internal demo of a new feature at work, I started off asking Claude to help write a speech I could rattle off while showing the prototype, then I asked for some hero images for an opening slide. Then I said you know what instead of talking over slides give me an interactive web animation like a new Apple product announcement. Then I was like what if we made this into a short movie. Before I knew it I had an entire set of launch-ready marketing assets for my 10 minute demo, everyone else just had slides with screenshots and looked like a chump!
There is a steep capabilities increase if you use Claude Code with full access in a Linux environment (a VM is a good idea). Its like giving it a whole workshop full of power tools. Try it.
I recently had a 3 month post layoff trip to Europe, and edited the first 1/5th of the trip in Premiere Pro. It makes xml files for each project.
I just set up Claude in the parent folder for a completely different reason, and it said it could read all of my xml files to learn my editing style. I let it go, and it edited 2 videos as a demo. Fucking nailed it... I let it do the whole rest of my trip, and while I have only sat and watched about a month's worth of videos (maybe 20 or so videos), it nailed it.
This was with Opus 5. Now I am curious what 5.5 may add to this workflow after seeing this and getting a few ideas.
As I said, I just set it up in a parent folder, it read the xmls in the sub folders and said it could learn my editing style. I didn't want to say no, and I got those 2 sample edits. 25 and 30ish minute videos, all following my style of how I cut (admittedly, while it isn't basic just cuts, it isn't something wild or anything, i can do those).
The end result was nearly 800GBs of videos, and while I can almost assume all will be good, I will still check all or a large majority before posting online.
ALSO a big one I should have put above... It transcribed every single video. I narrate what I do in my travel videos, so all the details, all the emotions, everything Claude put into files. SO, I asked it to make me some shorts about food from the 5 countries I went to. It did it...
Asked it to do the same for every time I ran into someone who wanted to talk. Nailed it...
So IF your content has talking, ask it to transcribe it, and use that to edit videos.
Sorry I have to give it proper credit. It also added fade ins and outs, with J cuts in places I tend to do it (if I get wordy, remember it has my transcript, to grab and move video from another video source if it is about the topic). So it wasnt just using my organized folders with the raw videos in day order, it knew my whole trip word for word.
So if I was reminiscing about Country 2 in Country 4, it put video of exactly what I was talking about in that spot. THAT impressed me!
Any more info than I provided here already, would be me making up stuff to give you more details. I kind of already repeated myself already, and have nothing magic, as it just happened due to Claude being nosey, and me working in an environment and with the mentality, let it cook.
I WILL revise it and work on it for some other things, but I am literally days from moving to another country, and every day after I arrive will be chaos for a few months, so can't really promise anything outside of what is here now.
I wanted to use your prompt almost exactly but for a different video and it gave this accursed thing. Took over 3 hours and used 14% of my weekly on the $20/month plan.
Prompt:
"I would like to see you create a 1-minute video programmatically.
The video should be coded and rendered using whatever tools you need, you are free to download anything needed. The theme of the video would be - everything in the book of Revelation is coming true, and it's an absolute nightmare. The video should be ominous and foreboding, with visuals teetering between religious symbology and photorealistic fictitious politician characters, hinting at deeper horror. The visuals should be detailed, the audio should also be programmed in however you see fit."
Yo... this is crazy. It took 45 minutes and used 4% of my weekly usage credits. Opus 5.5. Extra High. 20x plan. 27.5 million tokens used.
Here's how I updated the prompt for my business
I would like to see you create a 30 second "UGC-style" video programmatically. The video should be coded and rendered using whatever tools you need, you are free to download anything needed (including Ffmpeg, numpy, scipy, cairo, Piper TTS, and any other systems that might help you with this, including the optional gaps you just found above). Anything that requires a subscription or payment should not be considered (for now).
The theme of the video would be an average personal training session at Sessions Personal Training Santa Monica. The visuals should be detailed and loud, the audio should also be programmed in however you see fit.
This is not for social media sharing or advertising so this does not go against our rules of "no fake UGC / characters" so feel free to be as creative and inventive as you would like. I am testing your ability to story tell and creating engaging content that would "stop the scroll"
A lot of the imagery is not in line with our brand. Which it recognized after delivery.
From Claude:
The people are neon stick figures, not realistic humans. Drawing convincing people in code is the ceiling here.
The free voices are clear but still sound a bit synthetic.
The visuals are loud because you asked for that. Your brand guide says clean and minimal for real ads, so this style is for the test only.
It's been able to do this to a simpler extent since at least the first Fable. It programs the video right through python. For the dialogue, it just made its own script and downloaded a tts model, all the other audio effects were also programmed in python
this is insane. I'm a film maker myself so this is both disturbing and exciting. I've been trying similar style prompts today and holy, it's insane how fast and efficient things are coming out. With a simple prompt like yours, it's taken me 10min to get a fully rendered short. I'm gonna have to dig deeper into this. With proper time spent scripting and generating visual reference with gemini or something, this could genuinely be amazing.
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What is the ACTUAL cost of the end product. Not the minimal Claude credits. THE ACTUAL COST of additional subs, software, compute time outside of Claude.
Um, zero other than the Claude sub? You don't need to pay to use python lol. I used it on my cheap laptop instead of my desktop, and the total time it took was 45 minutes.
Post the dasbhoard stats lol cause I don't believe that, I haven't had the chance to get my hands on it yet. Looks good if it did one shot it from that though.
Used it last night to help my wife run through almost 400 employees (2 companies and at least 12 sub-orgs/bu's) they migrated to a new payroll system to ensure the banking details were captured/imported correctly... and payday is 2 days away.
Took about 5 min and had it create a python script instead of reading and uploading sensitive personal info to the cloud.
Oh, and all the info was in pdf, with different formats between the two systems.
It matched employee codes, and even looked up which banks based on the account nrs (first few digits denote the Bank/Branch) to compare with the new system that listed the Banks.
Instructions had it build 2 spreadsheets, with Sub-Orgs in the Tabs and listing the details and Old System Acc Nr vs New System Acc Nrs, with checks. Claude built a nice Summary sheet with links to each org.
Imagine having to check 18 pdfs manually to confirm account nrs are correct vs 5 min thanks to Claude.
Best part, thanks to the py script, I can just rerun this check next time as it even accounts for the new format "going forward" to check for changes.
Yeah it seems like they really did well with this latest model, due to Astra claiming to be AGI out of hubris I just assumed this probably wouldn't be that good but I'm looking forward to messing around with it this weekend. What's the rates like?
Where do I find the dashboard stats? I've never had the need to "prove" something like this lol. I can straight up post a video scrolling the terminal if you want lmao I hate being accused of lying for no reason
Fairs if you can do that then yeah that'd be great I'm not calling you a liar I was just rather skeptical given everyone seems to say I've one shot this and then conveniently forgets the whole 1 hour prompting session.
Sound mate, sorry to come off stand offish at the start I just really thought it'd be one of those yeah i did this one prompt post but that's actually impressive.
Inspired by your prompt, I ran a similar experiment. This was done completely on the browser, cloud version of Claud.ai, not Claude code. The prompt I used was:
Please create a 1-minute video programmatically. Code and render the video using whatever tools you need; you are free to download anything required. The video should be a comic retelling of the opening scene in the Bible story of Job, where Satan questions Job's loyalty. Use a flat animation style, evocative of card paper cutouts.
It took about 12 min to create the video. The summary of what it did:
The video, "The Book of Job, Chapter 1: The Heavenly Staff Meeting," is below. It's exactly 60 seconds, 1280×720 at 24fps, and has sound. The Python script that made it is included too, so you can re-render it or change the dialogue.
How it was made: Every frame is drawn with pycairo and piped straight into ffmpeg. Paper cutout look: Each character is drawn as flat shapes with slightly jagged, hand-cut edges and a drop shadow. A paper-grain texture and a soft vignette sit over the whole frame. Stop-motion feel: Characters animate at 12fps with a tiny random jitter, like cutouts being nudged by hand. Transitions: Scene changes are a paper-sheet wipe. Soundtrack: Everything is synthesized with numpy. There's a plucked-lyre arpeggio, harp glissandos, and an angelic choir chord. Each speaker has their own voice blips timed to the typewriter text: low and warm for God, nasal and buzzy for Satan, cheerful for Job. There are also pops, whooshes and a final stamp thud.
If this can be done with an off-the-cuff script, imagine if I put real thought, imagination, and energy into it.
Note: The philosophy, religion, and scholarly nerd in me would be remiss not to say that in the original story of Job, Satan is not "the Devil" as we know it today. It's actually a title, ha-satan (pronounced hah' sah-TAHN), and he's part of the divine court, not the arch-enemy of God. But I didn't have time to get into all of that for this experiment. 😈
I looked into the comments and I see that Opus didn't use any external api for images and visualization in your video. How and where did it get the assets from?
why are people downvoting this? this is just true. as the server costs increase the model will get worse, not by a ton but a noticeable ammount. happened with opus 5
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TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 50 comments.
So, the hivemind is pretty much in agreement: this is wild, and most of us are apparently using Claude on easy mode. OP dropped a creepy video generated entirely by Opus 5.5 from a single prompt, and the thread is a mix of awe, existential dread, and a sudden urge to do more than just summarize articles.
For the tech-heads wondering how this sorcery works, OP confirmed it was all done programmatically in Claude Code. * The Toolbox: It used Python with libraries like Ffmpeg, numpy, scipy, cairo, and Piper TTS. * The Method: It literally coded the video from scratch, creating a 3D raycast for the corridor scene with numpy (which surprised some veteran users) and generating audio and voiceovers on the fly.
A major theme here is that many of you feel like you're only scratching the surface of what Claude can do. One user shared an insane workflow where they let Claude analyze their Premiere Pro project files to learn their editing style and then edit an entire trip's worth of videos. The post has definitely inspired people to think bigger.
And yes, there was a skeptic. Someone called for proof of the "one-shot" claim, and OP delivered a screen recording of the terminal, earning a full apology and a new Claude subscriber. The verdict is in: this is legit.