Stardust the Super Wizard Recap
A finished comic recap — real panels, AI narration and gentle camera moves from panel to panel.
Recap Explainer
v1.0.3ExplainersTurn manga pages, comics or any PDF into a narrated video: panels are detected automatically, voiced with AI narration and animated with gentle camera moves — the YouTube recap format.
Made with this template
Finished projects that ship inside the template — open one in the app to see how it was built.
About Recap Explainer
The recap-channel format, built from the pages themselves. Drop in a chapter — a PDF, a folder of scans, comic pages, storyboard sheets — and the template cuts each page into its panels, gives every panel a scene with a gentle camera move, and lays narration underneath. What comes out is the video essay format that carries manga recaps, comic breakdowns and story explainers on YouTube.
One document rules the film — a single scene list at the project root, holding pages, panel rectangles, and the scene list with its narration, durations and camera moves. Your AI agent is the editor — you describe the recap, it cuts and writes the document, and the stage keeps up while you scrub.
What your AI agent can build here
The template seeds the scene-explainer skill, so an AI agent in a
project made from it already knows the format and its rules:
- Panel cutting — every page is cut into its panels at full quality, never upscaled or stretched.
- Right-to-left reading order — manga pages play in true reading order: bands top to bottom, panels right to left within a band. Getting this wrong tells the story backwards, so it's part of the skill's checklist.
- Ken Burns camera moves — a clamped push or drift over every panel, with the panel contain-fitted over a blurred, darkened copy of itself so vertical and wide panels both fill the frame the way recap channels do.
- Narration and timing — one paragraph per scene, rendered to TTS parts by the audio plugin, then every scene retimed to its actual voice duration and the clips placed on the timeline.
- Transitions and finish — cuts or crossfades per scene, then export at any preset in-app or headlessly.
How to work with it
- Use this template and give the project a name.
- Put your pages in the project — a PDF, or images in
assets/pages/. - Ask your agent for the recap: "cut chapter 1 into panels, right-to-left, and write a reflective narration about the ending".
- Scrub the stage while it works; fix any panel order or camera move by asking.
- Generate narration, let it sync the scene durations, then export.
The bundled samples are finished recaps built exactly this way — one from a public-domain golden-age comic, one from a real manga chapter with 18 pages and 23 narrated scenes. Open either as a project to see a finished scene list, voice manifest and timeline.