demo-video

What This Skill Does

The demo-video skill is an advanced automation toolkit designed to transform manual web application interactions into high-quality product demo videos. By leveraging Playwright's CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol) screencast capabilities, the skill captures frame-by-frame visual data of a live browser session. It then uses FFmpeg to process these raw assets into polished, professional-grade videos. This skill bridges the gap between functional UI testing and marketing-ready content, allowing developers and product managers to showcase their software workflows with ease.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, use the command-line interface provided by the OpenClaw ecosystem: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/0xs4m1337/demo-video

Ensure that you have a functioning FFmpeg installation on your host machine to handle the video encoding process. You will also need the Clawdbot browser profile initialized via browser action=start profile=clawd to begin recording sessions.

Use Cases

• Product Walkthroughs: Automate the navigation of complex dashboards or onboarding flows for potential customers.
• UI Showcase: Highlight specific animations, hover states, and responsive design behaviors in a controlled environment.
• Support Tutorials: Generate repeatable, consistent screen recordings to demonstrate feature usage or bug reproduction steps for support tickets.
• Documentation Enrichment: Create animated GIFs or short clips to embed directly into Markdown files, providing dynamic visual context where static screenshots fall short.

Example Prompts

1. "Create a demo video for our dashboard login and initial setup flow using the demo-video skill."
2. "Record a 30-second product showcase for the new search filtering feature; ensure the video is exported in MP4 format."
3. "Automate a walkthrough of the billing page workflow and output it as a loopable GIF for the README documentation."

Tips & Limitations

To achieve the best results, aim for a consistent pacing: allow at least 2 seconds for initial page loads and 0.5 to 1 second between specific UI interactions to maintain viewer engagement. If file size becomes a concern, adjust the FRAME_SKIP parameter in your recording script; a setting of 3-5 provides a good balance for smoothness, while 8-10 is better for web-ready, compact files. Note that the output resolution is strictly tied to the browser window size used during recording, so ensure your viewport settings match your target aspect ratio before starting. Always ensure the browser is active and in focus during recording to prevent captured frames from showing undesired browser UI elements or minimized windows.