# Promo video skill

> The promo video skill helps Claude turn your software product into short, narrated marketing videos. You answer a few questions, approve a storyboard, record a voiceover with ElevenLabs, and receive finished MP4 videos.

## Start here

- [What the promo video skill does](overview.md): The promo video skill lets Claude make narrated marketing videos for a software product. It works from the product's own code, website, and brand, so the videos show your real product, your real colors, and the words your customers already know.
- [Before you begin](prerequisites.md): This page lists everything you need before you make your first promo video. Check each item. If something is missing, Set up the skill explains how to add the tools.
- [Set up the skill](getting-started.md): This page takes you from nothing installed to a skill that's ready to make videos. You do this once per computer.
- [Quick start: make your first video](quick-start.md): This quick start takes you from a request to a finished promo video with the default settings. It uses the manual voiceover route, where you generate the voice yourself at elevenlabs.io, because it works for everyone.

## Make and change videos

- [How a promo video gets made](how-it-works.md): When you ask for a promo video, Claude follows the same stages every time. This page explains each stage and what you do in it, so you know what to expect and when Claude needs you.
- [Prepare for your first video](how-to/prepare-for-your-video.md): Use this checklist before you ask Claude for a video. The more of it you have ready, the fewer questions Claude asks and the closer the first draft is to what you want.
- [Review and approve the storyboard](how-to/review-the-storyboard.md): The storyboard review is the first of two approval points. Use it to agree on the words and the pictures before anyone records a real voice. Changes are cheap at this stage and cost nothing in ElevenLabs.
- [Create the voiceover](how-to/create-the-voiceover.md): After you approve the storyboard, each cut needs a voice recording, called a take. ElevenLabs generates the takes. There are two ways to do it:
- [Review and approve the final videos](how-to/review-the-final-videos.md): The final review is the second approval point. Use it to check the finished videos with the real voice before you publish them.
- [Change a finished video](how-to/change-a-video.md): You can change a video at any time after it's made: new words, a new voice take, a different length, another format, or updated branding. You describe the change to Claude, and Claude picks up the project where it left off.
- [Add screenshots, footage, or music](how-to/add-screenshots-footage-music.md): By default, the video uses animation only: recreated product screens, animated scenes, and no music. You can make it more real with screenshots of your app, your own video clips, or a music bed under the voice.
- [Continue or save a project](how-to/continue-or-save-a-project.md): A video project lives inside your product's folder, so you can stop at any stage and come back later. This page explains how to pick up where you left off, where your files are, and how to save the project.

## Get help

- [Troubleshooting](troubleshooting.md): Use this page when something goes wrong while you make a video. Problems are grouped by when they usually happen. Each one lists what you see, why it happens, and what to do.
- [Frequently asked questions](faq.md): Quick answers to common questions about the promo video skill. For step-by-step instructions, see the how-to guides. For errors, see Troubleshooting.
- [Glossary](glossary.md): These are the terms you'll meet while you make a video with the promo video skill.