Higgsfield Faceless Video
Higgsfield AIOfficialPublished by Higgsfield AI
- Skill
- Content generator
- Design and creative
- MIT
- Low risk
- Has scripts
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The higgsfield-faceless-video skill provides a structured process for creating finished faceless video content. It supports various formats such as illustrated explainers, documentaries, illustrated stories, and children's music videos. The skill manages the end-to-end production workflow, including script validation, voice selection, asset management, and final assembly of video and audio blocks. It also provides capabilities for editing previously generated videos and adding subtitles.
What it does
- Generates finished faceless videos based on user-provided topics and scripts.
- Supports multiple production modes including illustrated explainers, channel-style motion, and children's songs.
- Validates scripts against duration requirements and timing gates before generation.
- Manages voice selection and dialogue generation using specified presets.
- Assembles video and audio blocks into a final output file.
- Adds subtitles to videos using local transcription models.
When to use it
- When you need to create a narrated explainer or documentary video.
- When you want to produce a children's song video with consistent visuals.
- When you need to edit or update a previously generated faceless video.
- When you require a video with a specific visual style and structured narration.
Advantages
- Ensures consistent visual identity across video blocks.
- Provides tools to verify script timing and narration duration before incurring costs.
- Supports specific production modes for different content types like diagrams or stories.
- Enables precise assembly of video and audio pairs without altering speech speed.
Usage examples
- “make a faceless video about the history of the steam engine”
- The agent will initiate the production workflow to create a documentary-style video, including script validation and asset generation.
- “make a children's song video about counting apples”
- The agent will use the song production mode to generate a synchronized music video based on the provided topic.
- “edit this faceless video to change the narration in the second block”
- The agent will use the editing workflow to update the specified block while preserving the rest of the video's production state.
- “create a narrated explainer about photosynthesis”
- The agent will generate an illustrated explainer video using diagram-led scenes and narration.
Install
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https://autogineer.com/agent-skills/higgsfield-ai/higgsfield-faceless-video/downloadUnzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:
mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip higgsfield-faceless-video.zip -d .agents/skills
Documentation by Higgsfield AI
Faceless video
Create one finished video with a consistent visual style and narration. For an illustrated explainer use deliberate, diagram-led scenes; for a story or documentary adapt the pacing and visuals to the brief. Do not treat an explainer as a request for rapid cuts. Preserve choices and assets supplied by the user.
Choose the requested mode before generating: illustrated explainers use references/production.md; fast-cut channel motion uses references/channel-motion.md; stills and picture stories use references/picture-story.md; a sung children's music video uses references/song.md; explicitly requested talking characters use references/talking-characters.md; a requested presenter overlay uses references/presenter.md alongside the motion workflow; edits to a previously generated video use references/editing.md. A request for background music alone is not a song request. Never infer a presenter from an incidental photo.
When the brief supplies animation_mode, treat fully_animated as motion and scene_based as stills without asking again. Resolve song intent from the complete brief, including topic and script; an explicitly sung children's video uses song mode even when a voice is supplied. Preserve the production mode when continuing or editing an existing video.
Before spending credits
Resolve missing topic, approximate duration, aspect ratio, language, visual style, voice, music and subtitle choices. Never invent a preset or voice ID. Use higgsfield preset list video-explainer --json and higgsfield voices list --json for current choices, and resolve a selected preset with higgsfield preset resolve video-explainer <id> --json. Confirm photo roles before using reference images. Honor the requested duration; never silently round it up.
Find this skill's installed directory and retain its absolute path as SKILL_DIR. Keep all work in a persistent session directory, not the skill directory. Before generation verify higgsfield account status, ffmpeg, ffprobe, python3, curl, and awk, and inspect the live schemas using higgsfield model get for each planned model. Estimate generation costs with higgsfield generate cost where supported; if an estimate is unavailable, disclose that before generation. If any required stage, model, dependency, or requested feature is unavailable, explain and stop before paid work. Do not call explainer_video or video_explainer.
Read references/production.md for the generation, assembly, QC, recovery and delivery procedure. For subtitles, read references/captions.md and check its dependencies before paid generation. Read references/creative.md for style, assets, long-form planning and review, references/styles.md for style guidance, and references/prompts.md when writing the scene plan. The executable helper scripts/assemble_blocks.sh assembles ordered video/audio pairs without changing speech speed; read its usage before running it. The previous skill name is supported for existing installations.
Files
- ATTRIBUTION.mdAdded by AutoGineer890 B
- LICENSELicence file added by AutoGineer1.0 KiB
- SKILL.md3.5 KiB
- references/captions.md1.3 KiB
- references/channel-motion.md3.8 KiB
- references/creative.md2.6 KiB
- references/editing.md1.3 KiB
- references/picture-story.md3.3 KiB
- references/presenter.md2.1 KiB
- references/production.md4.0 KiB
- references/prompts.md903 B
- references/song.md2.7 KiB
- references/styles.md1.9 KiB
- references/talking-characters.md1.7 KiB
- scripts/assemble_blocks.shScript15.1 KiB
- scripts/assemble_final.shScript24.6 KiB
- scripts/assemble_partial_edit.shScript10.7 KiB
- scripts/assemble_slides.shScript26.1 KiB
- scripts/audio_to_captions.pyScript26.2 KiB
- scripts/bind_scene_frame_results.pyScript6.3 KiB
- scripts/build_scene_timeline.pyScript9.3 KiB
- scripts/burn_captions.shScript3.8 KiB
- scripts/check_voice.shScript1.0 KiB
- scripts/measure_narration_takes.pyScript5.4 KiB
- scripts/presenter_composite.shScript8.4 KiB
- scripts/speech_metrics.shScript3.1 KiB
- scripts/tests/test_assembly.pyScript2.5 KiB
- scripts/tests/test_captions.pyScript953 B
- scripts/tests/test_channel.pyScript3.0 KiB
- scripts/tests/test_modes.pyScript7.8 KiB
- scripts/tests/test_song.pyScript1.1 KiB
- scripts/tests/test_timeline.pyScript2.5 KiB
- scripts/trim_static_head.shScript2.2 KiB
- scripts/validate_motion_script.pyScript33.5 KiB
- scripts/validate_song_prompt.pyScript8.6 KiB
scripts/build_scene_timeline.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Build the deterministic scene-based manifest v2 from narration timestamps."""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import math
import re
from difflib import SequenceMatcher
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any
WORD_PATTERN = re.compile(r"[\w]+(?:[-'’][\w]+)*", re.UNICODE)
MIN_FRAME_SECONDS = 0.7
TARGET_MAX_FRAME_SECONDS = 1.2
HARD_MAX_FRAME_SECONDS = 1.5
REQUESTED_DURATION_TOLERANCE_RATIO = 0.10
REQUESTED_DURATION_MINIMUM_TOLERANCE_SECONDS = 3.0
def _tokens(value: str) -> list[str]:
return [token.casefold() for token in WORD_PATTERN.findall(value)]
def _word_items(payload: Any) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
if isinstance(payload, list):
candidates = payload
elif isinstance(payload, dict) and isinstance(payload.get("words"), list):
candidates = payload["words"]
elif isinstance(payload, dict) and isinstance(payload.get("segments"), list):
candidates = [
word
for segment in payload["segments"]
if isinstance(segment, dict)
for word in segment.get("words", [])
if isinstance(word, dict)
]
else:
raise ValueError("timestamps must contain a words array")
words = []
for item in candidates:
if not isinstance(item, dict):
continue
text = str(item.get("word") or item.get("text") or "").strip()
start = item.get("start")
end = item.get("end")
if (
text
and isinstance(start, (int, float))
and isinstance(end, (int, float))
and 0 <= start < end
):
words.append({"word": text, "start": float(start), "end": float(end)})
if not words:
raise ValueError("timestamps contain no usable timed words")
return words
def _beat_phrase(beat: dict[str, Any]) -> str:
return str(beat.get("phrase") or beat.get("vo_line") or "").strip()
def _aligned_beat_spans(
beats: list[dict[str, Any]],
words: list[dict[str, Any]],
audio_duration: float,
) -> tuple[list[tuple[float, float]], float]:
authored_tokens = [
token
for beat in beats
for token in _tokens(_beat_phrase(beat))
]
spoken_tokens = [
token
for word in words
for token in _tokens(str(word["word"]))
]
matcher = SequenceMatcher(a=authored_tokens, b=spoken_tokens, autojunk=False)
similarity = matcher.ratio()
if similarity < 0.5:
raise ValueError(
f"narration/script similarity {similarity:.3f} is below 0.500"
)
authored_to_spoken: dict[int, int] = {}
for block in matcher.get_matching_blocks():
for offset in range(block.size):
authored_to_spoken[block.a + offset] = block.b + offset
raw_spans: list[tuple[float, float]] = []
authored_offset = 0
for beat in beats:
count = len(_tokens(_beat_phrase(beat)))
spoken_indexes = [
authored_to_spoken[index]
for index in range(authored_offset, authored_offset + count)
if index in authored_to_spoken
]
if not spoken_indexes:
raise ValueError(f"beat {beat.get('n')} has no aligned narration words")
raw_spans.append(
(
words[min(spoken_indexes)]["start"],
words[max(spoken_indexes)]["end"],
)
)
authored_offset += count
boundaries = [0.0]
for index in range(len(raw_spans) - 1):
left_end = raw_spans[index][1]
right_start = raw_spans[index + 1][0]
boundaries.append(max(boundaries[-1], (left_end + right_start) / 2))
boundaries.append(audio_duration)
spans = [
(boundaries[index], boundaries[index + 1])
for index in range(len(beats))
]
return spans, similarity
def _frame_count(duration: float) -> int:
if duration <= 0:
raise ValueError("beat span must be positive")
count = max(1, math.ceil(duration / TARGET_MAX_FRAME_SECONDS))
while count > 1 and duration / count < MIN_FRAME_SECONDS:
count -= 1
if duration / count > HARD_MAX_FRAME_SECONDS:
raise ValueError(
f"beat span {duration:.3f}s cannot satisfy the {HARD_MAX_FRAME_SECONDS}s "
"hard frame hold limit"
)
return count
def build_scene_manifest(
script: dict[str, Any],
timestamps: Any,
audio_duration: float,
requested_duration_seconds: float | None = None,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
beats = script.get("beats")
if not isinstance(beats, list) or not beats:
raise ValueError("script manifest must contain a non-empty beats array")
if audio_duration <= 0:
raise ValueError("audio_duration must be positive")
if requested_duration_seconds is not None:
if requested_duration_seconds <= 0:
raise ValueError("requested_duration_seconds must be positive")
tolerance_seconds = max(
REQUESTED_DURATION_MINIMUM_TOLERANCE_SECONDS,
requested_duration_seconds * REQUESTED_DURATION_TOLERANCE_RATIO,
)
if abs(audio_duration - requested_duration_seconds) > tolerance_seconds:
raise ValueError(
f"narration duration {audio_duration:.3f}s is outside the allowed "
f"range for {requested_duration_seconds:.3f}s requested duration"
)
normalized_beats = []
for index, raw_beat in enumerate(beats, start=1):
if not isinstance(raw_beat, dict) or raw_beat.get("n") != index:
raise ValueError(f"beat {index} is invalid")
if not _beat_phrase(raw_beat):
raise ValueError(f"beat {index} has no phrase")
normalized_beats.append(raw_beat)
words = _word_items(timestamps)
spans, similarity = _aligned_beat_spans(
normalized_beats,
words,
audio_duration,
)
frames: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
variation_depth = 0
if len(normalized_beats) != len(spans):
raise ValueError("beat and timing counts differ")
for beat, (start, end) in zip(normalized_beats, spans):
duration = end - start
count = _frame_count(duration)
for part in range(count):
frame_start = start + duration * part / count
frame_end = start + duration * (part + 1) / count
frame_number = len(frames) + 1
wants_variation = part > 0 or (
bool(frames) and beat.get("image_mode") == "variation"
)
is_variation = (
bool(frames)
and wants_variation
and variation_depth < 2
)
variation_depth = variation_depth + 1 if is_variation else 0
frame = {
"n": frame_number,
"beat_n": beat["n"],
"start": round(frame_start, 3),
"end": round(frame_end, 3),
"duration": round(frame_end - frame_start, 3),
"output_slot": f"frame-{frame_number:03d}",
"image_mode": "variation" if is_variation else "new",
"generation_wave": variation_depth,
}
if is_variation:
frame["variation_of_frame"] = frame_number - 1
frame["reference_output_slot"] = f"frame-{frame_number - 1:03d}"
frame["change_only"] = (
str(beat.get("change_only") or "advance the named action")
)
frames.append(frame)
generation_waves = [
{
"wave": wave,
"output_slots": [
frame["output_slot"]
for frame in frames
if frame["generation_wave"] == wave
],
}
for wave in range(3)
if any(frame["generation_wave"] == wave for frame in frames)
]
return {
**script,
"manifest_version": 2,
"narration": {
"audio_duration_seconds": round(audio_duration, 3),
"alignment_similarity": round(similarity, 4),
"timeline_source": "whisper_word_timestamps",
},
"frames": frames,
"generation_waves": generation_waves,
}
def _main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("--script", required=True, type=Path)
parser.add_argument("--timestamps", required=True, type=Path)
parser.add_argument("--audio-duration", required=True, type=float)
parser.add_argument("--requested-duration", type=float)
parser.add_argument("--out", required=True, type=Path)
arguments = parser.parse_args()
script = json.loads(arguments.script.read_text())
timestamps = json.loads(arguments.timestamps.read_text())
manifest = build_scene_manifest(
script,
timestamps,
arguments.audio_duration,
arguments.requested_duration,
)
temporary = arguments.out.with_suffix(arguments.out.suffix + ".tmp")
temporary.write_text(json.dumps(manifest, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False) + "\n")
temporary.replace(arguments.out)
print(
json.dumps(
{
"valid": True,
"manifest_version": 2,
"beats": len(manifest["beats"]),
"frames": len(manifest["frames"]),
"duration_seconds": arguments.audio_duration,
}
)
)
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
raise SystemExit(_main())
Requirements and compatibility
Written for: Claude Code
Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta
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Needs: Declares allowed tools, Claude Code frontmatter, Needs Python
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Attribution and licence
- Published by
- Higgsfield AI
- Publisher
- Higgsfield AI (Official)
- Source
- higgsfield-ai/skills · higgsfield-faceless-video · commit 2700040
- Licence
- MIT License (redistribution allowed)
- LICENSE (added by AutoGineer from LICENSE)
- ATTRIBUTION.md (written by AutoGineer)
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