🎬 Reverse-engineer any video — get the full recipe to remake it

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The video's secret recipe
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:shortcake: Every finished video is a cake — this reads the cake and hands you the recipe.

 

Hand it any finished video and get the full recipe: every shot, prompt, camera move, cut and sound — free.

 

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the video hides REA-Video hands back
shots the shot list + keyframes
the look a prompt per shot
movement camera moves
pace cut timing on the beat
sound voice + music + SFX
on-screen text captions (SRT/ASS)
🍰 The free remake shelf — 36 tools

:inbox_tray: Feed it any video

yt-dlp — github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp · downloads video from nearly any site, free
cobalt.tools — cobalt.tools · paste a link, grab the clip, no install
OBS Studio — obsproject.com · record your screen or a window cleanly
JDownloader — jdownloader.org · queues and grabs media links fast
Streamlink — streamlink.github.io · pulls live streams straight to a file

:artist_palette: Rebuild the shots

Pinokio — pinokio.computer · one-click installs for AI tools, no terminal
WanGP — github.com/deepbeepmeep/Wan2GP · free model that turns images into short clips
FramePack — github.com/lllyasviel/framepack · grows one image into a long clip
HunyuanVideo 1.5 — github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanVideo-1.5 · open model for longer, smoother shots
Qwen-Image 2.1 — github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image-2.1 · free model that makes images from prompts
LTX-2.5 — github.com/Lightricks/LTX-Video · fast open model for quick video clips

:movie_camera: Camera + spot AI

MotionCtrl — github.com/TencentARC/MotionCtrl · adds camera pans and zooms to clips
ComfyUI-WanCameraAdvanced — github.com/thepororo/ComfyUI-WanCameraAdvanced · steers the camera inside ComfyUI
LivePortrait — github.com/KlingAIResearch/LivePortrait · animates a face photo into motion
PySceneDetect — github.com/Breakthrough/PySceneDetect · finds where each shot starts and ends
DeMamba — github.com/chenhaoxing/DeMamba · flags AI-made footage vs real

:speaker_high_volume: Recreate the sound

edge-tts — github.com/rany2/edge-tts · free neural text-to-speech voices
Kokoro TTS — github.com/hexgrad/kokoro · small local voice model, runs offline
RVC — github.com/RVC-Project/Retrieval-based-Voice-Conversion-WebUI · clone or swap a voice, free
Stable Audio Open — github.com/Stability-AI/stable-audio-tools · makes music and sound effects from text
Freesound — freesound.org · huge free library of sound effects
keyandbpm — github.com/mikeyfarina/keyandbpm · reads tempo and key of any track

:scissors: Cut + subtitle + sharpen

Kdenlive — kdenlive.org · free editor for cuts, titles, and exports
auto-editor — github.com/WyattBlue/auto-editor · auto-trims silence and empty gaps
faster-whisper — github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper · fast local speech-to-text for captions
Video2X — github.com/k4yt3x/video2x · upscales video to a higher resolution
RIFE — github.com/hzwer/ECCV2022-RIFE · adds smooth frames between your shots
FFmpeg — ffmpeg.org · the all-round tool for audio and video

:puzzle_piece: Out-of-the-box crazier

Remotion — remotion.dev · makes videos from code, programmatically
PixelPeeper — pixelpeeper.com · reveals hidden edits inside any image
screenshot-to-code — github.com/abi/screenshot-to-code · turns a screenshot into working code
Ultimate Vocal Remover — ultimatevocalremover.com · strips or isolates vocals from tracks
ComfyUI-Workflows-ZHO — github.com/ZHO-ZHO-ZHO/ComfyUI-Workflows-ZHO · ready-made node workflows for ComfyUI
Storyboarder — wonderunit.com/storyboarder · sketches your shots into a storyboard

:brain: The $0 brain

Ollama — ollama.com · runs big vision models locally, free
Qwen2.5-VL — ollama.com/library/qwen2.5vl · free vision model that reads your frames

:shortcake: Read any video, get the full remake recipe — free.

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superb sharing, keep up the good work…