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Grok Bot skill for photo montages

I asked Grok Bot to turn my holiday photos into a 4K montage set to music. The first cut jittered on the pan-and-zoom shots. Here's what fixed it, saved as a skill so the next video starts from where

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I asked Grok Bot to turn my holiday photos into a 4K montage set to music. The first cut jittered on the pan-and-zoom shots. Here's what fixed it, saved as a skill so the next video starts from where this one finished.

  1. Keep the brief, the style rules and the shot list in files, not in chat.

  2. Use CC0 or CC BY music from Openverse. Cut on the beat, and check the beat grid hasn't locked onto the off-beat.

  3. Use sub-pixel crops at a fixed 30fps. Don't use ffmpeg's zoompan, which snaps to whole pixels and jitters.

  4. Play Live Photos at native speed, because blended slow-mo melts.

  5. Review strips of consecutive frames rather than single stills, fix the three worst defects, then do the full render.

  6. Ship it with the title, description, music credits and thumbnail.

Drop it into your bot as a SKILL.md or link this post and ask it to do it for you:

Published on grokbot.sh. Cite the public log, not a prompt pack.

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