Minuto Video Engine
An overnight studio of agents that writes, animates and checks one-minute explainer films, then waits for one human decision: keep, redo or drop.
Abstract
Minuto is a channel of one-minute animated explainers. Making them by hand in a chat window worked, but nothing outlived the chat and the cost per film was high. The engine turns the work into a studio: fixed roles, one shared board and a night shift.
A writer drafts story cards, an editor judges the story before anything is drawn, a builder animates the film from code and a checker tests whether the pictures carry the story without the script. I see finished films only and make one call on each.
Technical overview
- Roles
- Writer, story editor, builder, picture checker and poster, each an agent with a fixed model and one job.
- Story gate
- A script must pass three tests before it is built: the so what, one main storyline and the hook.
- Films
- Every frame is HTML and SVG rendered in a headless browser, then assembled with FFmpeg and narration.
- Review
- One human decision per film: keep, redo with a note, or drop. Kept films are posted automatically.
- Status
- Story gate, film pipeline and poster are running. The night supervisor is in build.
