Video to Superprompt Skill for Rebuilding UI Motion

Frontend teams use a video-to-superprompt skill when a UI motion reference needs to become a rebuild-ready brief instead of a vague visual imitation. It records what is visible, what remains unknown, and how a builder should reproduce the layout, motion, asset boundaries, and accessible fallbacks.

Skill Summary

MengTo’s official skill turns an accessible reference recording into one paste-ready prompt for either an exact recreation or a clearly bounded inspired adaptation. It is a build-handoff skill, not a video generator, and it does not fill in hidden screens or missing assets as facts.

Where This Skill Fits

Use it before a frontend rebuild when the reference contains scroll timing, pinned cards, masks, hover states, video scrubbing, or layered movement that static screenshots cannot explain. The result gives a coding model or implementation team a bounded visual and motion specification.

Who It Helps

• Frontend teams: need a traceable handoff from a reference clip to implementation work.
• Designers: need motion chronology and asset uncertainty documented before build.
• Operators: need responsive, reduced-motion, and performance conditions written alongside the visual direction.

Access / Install Links

Read the official video-to-superprompt SKILL.md and its superprompt template. Repository revision: 46abf7860d716c33de8217b6ff9f75debf28afaf.

Setup Steps

• Provide a reachable local file, uploaded recording, URL, or browser-visible video.
• Inspect source HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or supplied assets when an exact recreation is requested.
• Record missing material as a placeholder instead of guessing it.

Example Inputs

ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration,size:stream=width,height,r_frame_rate -of json 

ffmpeg -y -i  -vf fps=1 [frames directory]/frame-%03d.jpg

Expected Outputs

The handoff contains an asset map, section anatomy, exact motion chronology, likely implementation primitives, responsive rules, reduced-motion behavior, performance constraints, and acceptance checks. The official demo observes a quiet hero at 0–4 seconds, a title and image transition at 4–10 seconds, stacked pinned cards at 10–16 seconds, and a footer reveal at 16–20 seconds.

Build [exact interface] from [reference video] as [exact recreation or inspired adaptation].

ASSET MAP
- Supplied assets: [URLs or local filenames]
- Missing assets: [named placeholders]

MOTION CHRONOLOGY
- [time range]: [visible layout and motion]

REQUIREMENTS
- Define desktop, tablet, and mobile behavior.
- Provide a prefers-reduced-motion fallback.
- Lazy-load heavy media and preserve keyboard focus.
- Fail if the build guesses unseen assets or replaces scroll behavior with autoplay-only media.

Use Cases

• Motion rebuild: translate a landing-page recording into section-level implementation instructions.
• Design handoff: separate supplied assets from missing material before engineering starts.
• Accessibility review: specify static and reduced-motion alternatives for movement-heavy references.

Limitations

The skill cannot recover implementation details or assets that the video never shows. Exact recreation still needs reachable source material and human review; where evidence is absent, the handoff must use placeholders or state the boundary.

Common Mistakes & Fixes

• Guessing unseen media: label it as a placeholder or request the source asset.
• Writing “make it beautiful”: replace it with observed type, spacing, timing, and interaction rules.
• Ignoring fallback behavior: state mobile, touch, keyboard, and reduced-motion behavior before sign-off.

Related Tools / Prompts

For the broader repository context, browse the complete MengTo/Skills Agent Skills collection.

FAQ

• Q: What does a video-to-superprompt skill do?
  A: It converts observable UI video evidence into a bounded rebuild brief with an asset map, motion chronology, and implementation requirements.
• Q: How do I use a reference recording without guessing hidden details?
  A: Inspect supplied assets and code first, then mark unseen material as a placeholder.
• Q: Can the build brief include accessibility requirements?
  A: Yes. Include responsive behavior, keyboard states, and a reduced-motion fallback.

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Big Prompt Hub Review

This skill is useful because it turns a motion reference into an accountable build brief instead of a loose style request. Its practical limit is clear: a video cannot prove what it does not show, so teams must keep unknown assets and implementation choices explicit.