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Briefing pack — narrated videos for the ElevenLabs provider site
Hand this folder to the Claude Code session working on SGit-AI__Website__Provider__ElevenLabs.
Read in this order:
BRIEF.md— what the pipeline is, what changes now that the repo is public and the API is reachable, what ElevenLabs buys you that the four shipped reels do not have, costs, and three videos worth making first.ELEVENLABS-FIRST-RUN.md— read before spending a render. TheTTS=elevenlabspath has never been executed. Four likely failure points, each with a concrete fix.materials/tooling/SKILL.md— the actual manual, 244 lines, written to be followed unattended. Everything else here is context for it.
What's in materials/:
| Folder | What |
|---|---|
tooling/ | The whole pipeline, 724 KB, self-contained: bootstrap.sh, the seven scripts, the vendored video-creator render tool, the four TTS shims, reel.template.json, and the upstream design notes. Copy it into your repo and run bootstrap.sh |
examples/ | Four worked reels — reel.json, FINDINGS.md, PUBLISH.md (titles, descriptions, chapters), plus a capture log and a render log. Two shapes: app-driven capture and slide-based, no capture |
reference-videos/ | Two finished MP4s — a 1:55 landscape and a 1:22 portrait. Watch these first; they are the target |
elevenlabs/ | The API notes that matter for the pipeline (TTS, models/voices, timestamps→SRT, pronunciation, pricing, auth/errors), the plan, the starting PLS lexicon, and the example shell scripts |
claude/ | The make-a-video skill, the lessons file, and two slash commands, if you want them in your own .claude/ |
The four things to get right:
- Write
reel.jsonfirst, before shooting anything. 2.1 words per second is the length; count before any audio exists. - The
TTS=elevenlabspath is unrun. One scene first, not a full reel. - The repo is public. The key goes in the environment for the life of one command and nowhere else. Grep before every commit.
- Portrait cuts must land under 3:00 with real margin, or YouTube will not treat them as Shorts.
env.sh is deliberately not included — it is container-specific and bootstrap.sh rewrites it. Run bootstrap.sh again after every pull; a stale env.sh from another machine is the cause of the spawnSync …/ffmpeg… ENOENT failure at the end of a render.
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