Claude Opus 5.5 Video Music Video Prompts

Sixty real videos made with Claude Opus 5.5, each credited to its creator and linked to the original post, with the toolchain they used and, where they published it, the prompt word for word. Opus 5.5 does not draw pixels: every clip here was rendered from code it wrote, or cut together from video models it directed.

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Last updated: 2026-10-06 · Claude Opus 5.5 model & pricing · API docs

TL;DR

Claude Opus 5.5 (model id claude-opus-5-5, released by Anthropic on 22 September 2026) is a language model. Anthropic's documentation lists text and image input and text output only, states that Claude cannot generate or edit images, and offers no video input: an animated GIF is read as its first frame. The videos credited to it are made in one of three ways. It writes animation code (a self-contained HTML page driven by a seek(t) function, Remotion or HyperFrames compositions, Manim scenes, Three.js and WebGL shaders, Blender Python) that a headless browser or renderer turns into frames and FFmpeg encodes into an MP4. It directs video, image and music models through APIs, writing the shot list and every prompt, then edits the results. Or it edits existing footage through FFmpeg, After Effects or DaVinci Resolve. A video billed as "one prompt" is often a brief of several thousand characters, run inside an agent with skills, API keys and hours of autonomous work, so each case below records what the creator actually supplied and what they reported spending. The 60 cases were posted between 22 September and 3 October 2026 and each was checked against the original post. On apimodels.app, Opus 5.5 is $2.40 per 1M input tokens and $12 per 1M output tokens, against Anthropic's $4 / $20 list.

Source: Anthropic · Claude Opus 5.5 (the model vendor’s official site)

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"Claude Pop" music video: a dictated brief and a 12-hour autonomous run

I've included an MP4 file and an original link to a video that is called "Claude Pop." It's a pop song that is about increasing rate of progress and the experience of the singularity approaching. I want you to independently do an end-to-end complete pass on making an updated version of this video. Use the exact same audio track and think and feel very deeply about what is the best way to visually represent all of the lyrics on screen. You do not need to anchor to the current style, you can do truly anything that you think might best let you visually express yourself, including abstract motion graphics. …… I think after that, what might be fun is if you use your visual reasoning skills and your ability to build animations in JavaScript, and then reconstruct the video from scratch as sort of an overlay, so that the visual continuity of the base is really there. It's like that animation technique where you shoot first in traditional film and then draw over top of it. …… You're going to want to watch the entire video multiple times, take screenshots at individual parts, and think about if something is really up to the bar of quality that we need here. …… make no mistakes.

Model:: Post: "I made this with one prompt using Opus 5.5. I spoke to my computer for 5mins, claude worked for 12 hours".
About the prompt:: Excerpt. The full brief is about 9,500 characters, in the post's replies; a full transcript is at claudevideo.org/videos/pixel-flower-illustrates-ai-time-horizon-progress-data. The "……" marks are cuts.
Toolchain:: Five minutes of dictation became the brief; Opus read a local reference library and skills; generated character sheets and scenes through an image API; used Seedance 2.5 for base footage with people and physics, split by lyric with lip-sync attempts; ElevenLabs for sound effects; then redrew the whole film in JavaScript over the footage ("shoot first, draw over"), watching it repeatedly and critiquing screenshots.
Reported cost:: A Max plan, a generation budget capped at about $2,000, and an ElevenLabs key; the brief told the agent to spend all available usage.
Clip:: About 141.5 s, 1920x1080, about 3.91M views.
Pitfalls:: "One prompt" here means a long brief plus a full environment. The brief has been copied widely; one analysis found 87% vocabulary overlap with another popular template.

by @donaldjewkes Source

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1990s demoscene demo in C/C++ and OpenGL, synced to an S3M track

I would like you to create a kickass, impressive 1990s style demoscene demo using this S3M track as the music. Prior to getting to work, please see how to best play and analyze the S3M track. This will be important since synchronization of effects and appropriateness of scenes to the musical vibe (and this song does have a variety of sections with different attitude) is essential to a great demoscene demo. Also prior to getting started, please research what kinds of effects, physics, etc. would be good to use in combination. Please use C/C++ -- with appropriate demoscene/embedded/console gamedev sensibilities to avoid needlessly bloating compile times -- with OpenGL. In some cases, blitting to surfaces in realtime may be appropriate.. while in others, using OpenGL or even shaders is appropriate as well. It should be planned and polished to be spectacular and shocking. This is Claude's way of really showing off to the world that it kicks ass.

Model:: Post: "Opus 5.5 just one-shot this 90s-style demoscene demo for me… genuine one-shot (in colloquial X post sense - single prompt)".
Toolchain:: C/C++ with OpenGL, analysing and playing the S3M module for sync; the clip is a screen recording.
Source material:: Music: "Second Reality" by Purple Motion (Future Crew), supplied by the creator; copyright belongs to its authors. Shown here only as the creator's own demo, via the original post.
Clip:: About 382.7 s (6.4 minutes), 1920x1080.

by @gandamu_ml Source

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"I'm Upping My P(Doom)" music video painted with p5.brush and parallel subagents

Summary

Gave Claude Code the lyrics and the audio. Pass one (medium effort): use the Clawd character and give every lyric line an interesting visual and transition, with no scene ideas specified. Pass two (xhigh): switch to p5 brush strokes, make the scenes more interesting and have each scene flow into the next.

Model:: Post: "Claude Opus 5.5 has the best visual design of any model I have tested so far"; repo README: first generation Claude Opus 5.5 (Medium), second generation Claude Opus 5.5.
Toolchain:: Opus wrote an ANIMATION_GUIDE.md for parallel subagents (reported as seven) and a STORYBOARD.md; nine chapters, one file each; studio.html draws with p5.js and p5.brush; render.mjs renders frames in headless Chrome and encodes with FFmpeg. All animation took about 45 minutes.
Reported cost:: About 10% of a Max 5x weekly allowance (as relayed by a forum post).
Source material:: Music: the song comes from a 2024 YouTube video and is not the creator's own (README: "as far as I could find"); copyright belongs to its original authors.
Links:: YouTube: youtu.be/8j-hR4fJywU. Code: github.com/JohnHeibel/PDoomVideo (no licence stated, link only). Starter template by the same author: github.com/JohnHeibel/ClaudeAnimationBase (MIT).
Clip:: About 156.6 s, 1920x1080, about 2.84M views.

video by @other__reality Source

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The same brief re-run with Midjourney and a moodboard

Summary

Re-ran @donaldjewkes' "Claude Pop" brief (see the card above) almost unchanged, giving Opus 5.5 access to Midjourney and a moodboard, and let it work for 12 hours.

Model:: Post: "Gave Opus 5.5 donald's prompt, Midjourney, and a moodboard 12 hours later, woke up to this".
Clip:: About 306 s, 1920x1080, about 19.75M views (the most viewed case here).
Pitfalls:: The same brief with different reference material produced a completely different film.

video by @anabology Source

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"Stroke of a Pen" Bitcoin music video storyboarded by an agent swarm

Summary

Told Opus 5.5 to read the creator's Bitcoin and monetary-history wikis and make a music video with code only; the song was generated separately. Two revision rounds followed: the first because the characters looked like crude stick figures, the second to add Matrix-style code elements.

Model:: Post: "I told Opus 5.5 to read my Bitcoin & monetary-history wikis & make a music video with code only".
Toolchain:: Song generated with ElevenLabs; a swarm of agents storyboarded and coded about 75 shots on the beat for a 3 min 23 s vertical video. In round one it rewrote the skeletal rig.
Clip:: About 202.7 s, 1080x1920, about 190K views.
Pitfalls:: Character animation is a weak spot of code animation and needs its own iteration on the rig.

video by @bradmillscan Source

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Mid-Autumn paper-collage short: p5.brush frames over generated backdrops

Prompt not published

No prompt published. The creator supplied the script and the music; Opus 5.5 drew the animation frame by frame in JavaScript with p5.js and p5.brush for a hand-drawn texture, Nano Banana Pro generated the background plates and paper textures, and Opus synthesised the sound effects with a Node.js program.

Model:: Post (Chinese): "a small animation made with Opus 5.5".
Clip:: About 40 s, 1920x1080.
Pitfalls:: Person on script and music, model on animation: a steady split of work.

video by @ring_hyacinth Source

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Suno-sung song with lyrics and MV by Opus 5.5 (Bilibili)

Prompt not published

No prompt published. Suno composed and sang the song; Opus 5.5 wrote the lyrics and made the music video.

Model:: Bilibili title: "Suno arrangement and vocals, Opus 5.5 lyrics, then the MV it made" (Chinese).
Clip:: 162 s, 1920x1080 (about 3K plays; thin evidence).

video by syline Source

How to write great Claude Opus 5.5 Video prompts

1Ask for the plan before the code. The strongest briefs in this library end the same way: show me the shot list, the beat grid or the list of states, then wait. Fixing a storyboard costs one message; fixing a rendered film costs a re-render and often a rewrite.
2Make every frame a function of time. Have it expose window.seek(t) and compute every style from t: no timers, no requestAnimationFrame loop, no CSS transitions, no unseeded randomness. Then a headless browser can render any frame on demand and FFmpeg can encode a steady 60fps. A live animation captured by screen recording drops frames whenever the machine is busy.
3Name the framework, or it will not use one. Left alone, Opus 5.5 writes one dependency-free HTML file from scratch even when Remotion or HyperFrames is installed. If you want a React timeline, Manim's equation animation or Blender's renderer, say so in the first line and install the matching skill.
4Ban the defaults by name. Anthropic's own prompting guide for Opus 5.5 notes that asking it to avoid a generic look only swaps one default style for another. The briefs that stand out list exactly what is banned (centered text on a gradient, everything fading in, particle bursts, neon glows, bouncy easing, lens flares) and pair that with one accent colour and one typeface.
5Render stills and make it critique them. It can read images but not video, so the review loop runs on frames: one still per beat, or twenty sampled frames, inspected before the full render. Several creators here ran that loop dozens of times or split it into reviewer and fixer agents, and credit it for the difference between a good clip and a forgettable one.
6Hand it the soundtrack, then let it do the maths. Give it a track whose licence covers your use and ask it to measure tempo and beats (numpy is enough), cut on downbeats, place each sound effect by its measured peak rather than where the file starts, and normalise loudness to -14 LUFS. With no track, it can synthesise music and effects in Web Audio or Python on the same timeline.
7Put a cost gate in front of every paid call. When it directs video or image models, make it list every generation with its estimated cost and wait for your OK, and show you stills before each expensive step. Without that line, an agent running for hours will happily spend whatever the keys allow.
8Match effort and time to the job. Creators report xhigh or max effort on the pieces that travelled and medium for small fixes; Anthropic suggests raising effort only where you measure a quality gain. Budget wall-clock time too: a five-minute history film here took 90 minutes to build and four hours to render, and one music video ran overnight.

Prompt formula

Director brief = the inputs it must ask you for + direction (one style, one accent colour, one typeface, an explicit banned list) + structure (every shot timed on a beat grid) + build contract (resolution, fps, seek(t), renderer, how to check frames) + known gotchas + a start line that asks for the plan before any code

Example: <inputs> Ask me for the app name, three screenshots and a 100 BPM track I hold a licence for. </inputs> <direction> 20 seconds, 1080x1920, one continuous take. Off-white background, one green accent, Inter. Banned: gradients, particle bursts, glows, bouncy easing. </direction> <structure> Eight bars: the name types on; a screenshot rises into a phone; a cursor taps through three screens on the beat; a delivery route draws itself; logo and the line "Fresh beans every Friday". </structure> <build> One HTML file, every style computed inside window.seek(t). Render with Playwright at 60fps, encode with FFmpeg, check one frame per bar first. </build> <start> Ask for the inputs, then show me the bar-by-bar plan before writing any code. </start>

Frequently asked questions

Can Claude Opus 5.5 generate a video by itself?

Not as pixels. Anthropic's documentation lists text and image input and text output for its current models and states that Claude cannot generate, produce or edit images. Every video on this page was either rendered from code Opus 5.5 wrote (HTML and Canvas, Remotion, HyperFrames, Manim, Three.js, Blender Python and so on) by a headless browser or renderer plus FFmpeg, or made by video models it directed through an API and then cut together. In a chat window with no shell you get the animation as an HTML page you can open and screen-record; producing an MP4 directly needs an agent environment that can run commands.

Can Opus 5.5 watch a video I give it?

No. It has no video input, and an animated GIF is read as its first frame only. The workaround every editing case here uses is to have it extract frames (and transcribe the audio) with FFmpeg and look at those stills. It reviews its own renders the same way.

Do the "one prompt" videos really come from one sentence?

Some do: the 15-second showreel prompt is a single sentence. Many of the widely shared cases ran on briefs of thousands of characters, with skills installed in advance, API keys for voice, music or video models, and runs of one to twelve hours, sometimes with dozens of review rounds. Costs on these cards are what each creator reported, from about $2 for a 26-second launch clip to around $400 of credits across 33 versions of a product trailer. Every card is marked as an original prompt, our summary of a method the creator described, or a case whose prompt was never published.

What do I need installed to reproduce these?

For an MP4: an agent that can run commands (Claude Code or a similar tool), Node.js, Playwright or another headless Chromium, and FFmpeg. The UI-motion templates also use Python with numpy to analyse the soundtrack; Manim cases need Manim and LaTeX; Blender cases need Blender; music-video and director cases usually need API keys for voice, music or video models.

Which approach should I start with?

For a product clip or a UI animation, start with the single-HTML route or a framework such as Remotion; both are on this page with full prompts. For a lesson, use Manim. For anything with real people, natural motion or physics, let Opus direct a video model and keep a cost gate in the brief. For footage you already shot, use the editing route and expect to make the pacing calls yourself.

How much does Opus 5.5 cost for this on apimodels.app?

$2.40 per 1M input tokens and $12 per 1M output tokens (Anthropic lists $4 / $20), billed per token with failed calls free, through /v1/messages or the OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions, so Claude Code and other Anthropic-compatible agents connect with a base URL and a key. Video work is output-heavy: one creator's Blender test wrote about 200K output tokens, roughly $2.40 of output at our rate. Our own single-HTML test through apimodels.app was one call of 31,786 output tokens, billed $0.368, for a 12-second 1280x720 promo. If Opus directs video models, those calls are billed separately per model; Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3, Kling V3 and Wan 3.0 run under the same key.

Can I reuse these prompts and videos?

The videos belong to their creators. Clips from X play straight from X's own servers, every card links to the original post, and we do not host or re-upload any of them. Prompts are quoted with credit and a link: several authors explicitly invited reuse, others simply published theirs, so check the post before using one commercially. Some cases use third-party music, pay homage to an existing film or show real people, and each of those cards names the source material. If you made one of these and want the card removed or the credit corrected, email us.

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"Claude Pop" music video: a dictated brief and a 12-hour autonomous run

Model:: Post: "I made this with one prompt using Opus 5.5. I spoke to my computer for 5mins, claude worked for 12 hours".
About the prompt:: Excerpt. The full brief is about 9,500 characters, in the post's replies; a full transcript is at claudevideo.org/videos/pixel-flower-illustrates-ai-time-horizon-progress-data. The "……" marks are cuts.
Toolchain:: Five minutes of dictation became the brief; Opus read a local reference library and skills; generated character sheets and scenes through an image API; used Seedance 2.5 for base footage with people and physics, split by lyric with lip-sync attempts; ElevenLabs for sound effects; then redrew the whole film in JavaScript over the footage ("shoot first, draw over"), watching it repeatedly and critiquing screenshots.
Reported cost:: A Max plan, a generation budget capped at about $2,000, and an ElevenLabs key; the brief told the agent to spend all available usage.
Clip:: About 141.5 s, 1920x1080, about 3.91M views.
Pitfalls:: "One prompt" here means a long brief plus a full environment. The brief has been copied widely; one analysis found 87% vocabulary overlap with another popular template.

by @donaldjewkes Source