Is your hook too slow? Check a short video script before you film
You wrote a script for a Reel, a TikTok or a Short. It reads well. Then you film it and the first sentence takes six seconds to say, and the whole thing runs a minute over. Re-shooting is the expensive way to find that out. I made a small Hermes skill, short-video-script, that handles the part before the camera. You give your agent a topic, the platform and the one thing you want viewers to do at…
A script for a short video can be too long before you even film it. The Hermes skill, short-video-script, helps avoid this problem. Provide the platform, desired viewer action, and Hermes will generate a well-structured script with a hook, beats, a turn, and a call-to-action. Each line includes a visual note for screen changes. A tiny Python file estimates the time it takes to say each line, flags issues like a hook that's too long, and splits the text into caption-friendly chunks.
Run the script and adjust the pace if needed. The skill is MIT licensed and available at the Hermes skills repository.
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