About

Everything you need to make a short video that works, as cards: shot sizes, angles, camera moves, lenses, light, colour looks, transitions, effects, sound, expressions, hooks, scripts, formats, presets, and which model for what.

Every card has prompt instructions. Pick your model, copy the prompt, paste it. Where a card has a reference clip you can watch it, download it, and its address sits in the prompt so your AI can fetch it too.

It is free. There is no account, no paywall, no newsletter and no affiliate link.

The whole library is open data. Point your agent at it, or drop the skill into Claude or ChatGPT.

• director-chair-skill.zip: a skill file, the library as JSON and the prompt engine
• /api/library.json: every card, category and model in one file
• /api/move/dolly-in.json: one card, with its prompts per model (the pattern is /api/category/card.json)
• /move/dolly-in.md: every card page as markdown (add .md to its address)
• /llms.txt: the index for language models

• Code: MIT.
• Our texts and data: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Use them, change them, sell what you make with them; say where they came from.
• Reference clips and the makers' own card texts: they belong to their makers and are shown here with permission and credit. They are not covered by the two licences above.

• AI Camera Movements: 46 reference clips and their card texts, with permission.
• Emotion Direction: 25 reference clips and their card texts, with permission.
• Icons: Lucide, ISC licence.
• Typeface: Figtree, SIL Open Font License.

Director Chair (2026). The video craft library for AI video. https://directorchair.ai

For one card, cite its own address, for example https://directorchair.ai/move/dolly-in, with the date on the card.

Made by the people behind Not A Video.