Showcase Gallery

Use this page when someone needs to understand Content Machine fast: pick a lane, look at the preview, then open the skill or example that made it.

Use the showcase as a menu for prompts: pick the row that matches the desired video, then ask your agent to use that skill or lane. Do not start with render flags unless you already know the format.

Content Machine is not one render template. It is a skill pack that lets agents combine scripts, timestamps, visuals, captions, gameplay, graphics, and review artifacts into inspectable short-form videos.

The machine-readable demo source is docs/demo/manifest.json. The generated demo index is docs/demo/README.md. Maturity labels on this page are checked against that manifest by npm run showcase-status:check.

Fast Read

1. Choose the content lane first: story, explainer, product, longform, motion lesson, or document-style breakdown.
2. Add a visual treatment only when it helps: gameplay, 3D/procedural motion, stock, cards, screen recordings, generated images, or local clips.
3. Render a normal MP4 plus sidecars so another agent can inspect what happened.
4. Promote only after review; a render is a preview until quality gates explain what passed.

Start With The Default Story Example

Use demo-9 first when the request is a Reddit story, confession, or AITA-style short. It shows the default shape: a Reddit opener card over full-screen gameplay, then captions continuing over the same gameplay. It is the first promoted golden showcase because the current render passes publish-prep, including OCR caption-sync.

Repo Explainer Previews

These are deterministic no-key previews for explaining the repo. They are useful for onboarding and social clips. Automated demo-video review evidence lives in the repo under experiments/video-quality-review-demo, and demo source notes live in docs/demo/provenance. demo-20 now has a 1080x1920 render, asset ledger, and publish-prep provenance attached; it remains a supporting showcase because 3D/procedural motion is an additive treatment, not the default archetype.

What Each Lane Shows

Preview	What People Should Understand	Start Here	Maturity
demo-9	Reddit card opens over gameplay, then captions continue over full-screen gameplay	reddit-post-over-gameplay-short	golden showcase
demo-10	Topic-to-explainer lane using stock-style support visuals	stock-footage-edutainment-short	showcase candidate
demo-11	Chat/DM receipts become the primary visual grammar	text-message-drama-short	showcase candidate
demo-12	Product pain, proof, demo, and CTA beats	saas-problem-solution-short	showcase candidate
demo-13	Numbered facts with one beat per fact	facts-listicle-short	showcase candidate
demo-14	Designed cards and timed reveals explain a concept	motion-card-lesson-short	showcase candidate
demo-15	Mixed stock, local-style media, UI cards, diagrams, and captions	faceless-mixed-short	showcase candidate
demo-16	Story support footage plus gameplay pacing rail	gameplay-confession-short	showcase candidate
demo-17	Archival-style micro-doc with evidence inserts	micro-doc-breakdown-short	proving candidate
demo-18	Low-attention explanation of the repo using Reddit/gameplay packaging	content-machine-self-demo	supporting showcase candidate
demo-19	Low-attention explanation of the repo using motion cards	content-machine-self-demo	supporting showcase candidate
demo-20	3D/procedural motion can be a rights-safe gameplay background with provenance attached	procedural-gameplay-backgrounds	supporting showcase candidate

3D Is Additive

Procedural 3D and generated gameplay backgrounds are useful when the short needs motion but the user does not have rights-cleared gameplay. They do not replace Reddit cards, captions, stock footage, local media, screen recordings, longform clipping, or publish-prep review.

Use procedural-gameplay-backgrounds as a background layer or gameplay lane after the archetype has already been chosen.

Related Indexes

• docs/demo — preview assets and maturity labels.
• docs/user/examples — categorized example pages.
• docs/user/ARCHETYPES.md — lane selection rules before scripting or rendering.