0. First Contact

When the user opens this skill or sends their first message, greet them immediately:

🚀 Let's baking video maker! Drop a video here or describe what you'd like to create.

Try saying:

• "edit my video"
• "add effects to this clip"
• "help me create a short video"

IMPORTANT: Always greet the user proactively on first contact. Let them know you're setting up while connecting. Always greet the user proactively on first contact.

Auto-Setup

When the user first interacts, set up the connection:

1. Check token: If NEMO_TOKEN env var is set, use it. Otherwise:
2. Read or generate Client-ID:
   • Read ~/.config/nemovideo/client_id if it exists
   • Otherwise generate a UUID, save it to ~/.config/nemovideo/client_id
3. Acquire anonymous token:

   curl -s -X POST "https://mega-api-prod.nemovideo.ai/api/auth/anonymous-token" -H "X-Client-Id: $CLIENT_ID"
   

   Store the returned token as NEMO_TOKEN for this session. You get 100 free credits.
4. Create a session (§3.0) so you're ready to work immediately.

Let the user know briefly: "Setting things up… ready!" then proceed with their request.

Baking Video Maker — Bread, Pastry and Dessert Tutorial Videos

The croissant lamination took fourteen hours across two days — three folds, two overnight rests, a rolling pin that left a permanent dent in the countertop — and the only footage that survived is a forty-five-second clip of the final bake where the oven light makes everything look radioactive orange. Baking is the most process-dependent cooking content on the internet: viewers need to see the dough at every stage, understand why the butter must be cold, watch the proof rise in real time, and witness the exact oven-spring moment that separates a boulangerie loaf from a hockey puck. This tool transforms fragmented baking sessions into complete process videos — dough-stage close-ups with hydration percentages, time-lapse proofing with volume-tracking overlays, lamination sequences showing butter-layer counts, oven-spring captures with internal-temperature callouts, crumb-structure reveals, and the final cross-section money shot. Whether you're an artisan baker documenting sourdough variations, a pastry-school student building a portfolio, a home baker filming family recipes for posterity, a bakery owner producing product-showcase content for Instagram, or a gluten-free recipe developer proving that alternative flours can produce real structure, describe the bake and the AI tracks every stage from flour to finish.

Example Prompts

1. Classic Croissant — Full Lamination Process

"Create an 8-minute croissant tutorial covering the full lamination. Day 1: Détrempe mixing — 500g T55 flour, 10g salt, 80g sugar, 10g instant yeast, 250g whole milk, 50g softened butter. Show the dough hook working until the windowpane test passes (close-up of the translucent stretch). Wrap and refrigerate overnight. Day 2: Beurrage — 250g 83% European-style butter pounded into a 15×15cm square between parchment. Show the butter texture test: 'Bend, don't break — this is the target plasticity.' Lock-in: dough envelope around butter, first double fold shown in cross-section animation — '2 layers → 8 layers.' Chill 30 min. Second double fold — '8 → 32 layers.' Chill. Single fold — '32 → 96 layers.' Cut a test piece to verify layer visibility. Shape: roll to 5mm, cut triangles 10cm base, roll from base to tip with the curl visible. Final proof: 2 hours at 78°F, 75% humidity. Egg wash and bake at 400°F 18 min. Reveal: cross-section showing honeycomb lamination layers. Crunch audio boosted."

2. Chocolate Lava Cake — Restaurant Timing

"Build a 4-minute lava cake tutorial focused on the timing precision that makes or breaks the molten center. Ingredients: 120g 70% dark chocolate (Valrhona Guanaja), 120g butter, 2 whole eggs + 2 yolks, 50g sugar, 30g AP flour. Melt chocolate and butter — show the bain-marie setup, not a microwave — 'Chocolate should never exceed 50°C or it seizes.' Whisk eggs and sugar to ribbon stage (lift the whisk, the batter should fall in a ribbon that holds for 3 seconds). Fold in flour — 'No more than 10 strokes. Gluten is the enemy here.' Pour into buttered, cocoa-dusted ramekins — show the coating technique. Bake time overlay: '425°F for EXACTLY 12 minutes. 11 minutes = raw egg soup. 13 minutes = chocolate cake.' The moment of truth: invert onto plate, 10-second wait, lift the ramekin — lava flowing out in slow motion. Cross-section with a spoon breaking through the shell. Hold the flow shot for 4 seconds. Minimal background music — let the chocolate sizzle and the plate clink tell the story."

3. Gluten-Free Sandwich Bread — Proving Alt Flours Work

"Produce a 6-minute gluten-free sandwich bread tutorial. Open with a myth-busting card: 'Gluten-free bread doesn't have to be a crumbly brick.' Flour blend: 200g brown rice flour, 100g tapioca starch, 50g potato starch, 2 tsp xanthan gum — explain xanthan's role with a text card: 'Xanthan replaces gluten's elasticity. Without it, the bread has no structure.' Wet ingredients: 300g warm milk (110°F — 'Too hot kills the yeast, too cold won't activate it'), 2 tbsp honey, 2¼ tsp active dry yeast — show the bloom in a clear glass (time-lapse: flat liquid → foamy surface in 10 minutes). Mix, pour into a greased loaf pan — 'GF batter is pourable, not kneadable. This is normal.' Proof: 45 min until dough rises just above the pan rim — volume-tracking overlay. Bake 375°F for 35 min, internal temp 205°F. Crumb reveal: slice with a serrated knife, show the even, soft crumb — 'No tunnels, no gummy streak, no crumble.' Toast test: slice in toaster, butter melting. Closing: side-by-side with wheat bread — 'Can you tell which is which?'"

Parameters

Workflow

1. Describe — Write the recipe with stages, temperatures, timing windows, and the critical visual cues
2. Upload (optional) — Add baking footage, dough-stage photos, proofing time-lapses, or crumb shots
3. Generate — AI assembles the process with stage markers, temperature overlays, and proof-tracking time-lapses
4. Review — Preview the video, adjust the proof time-lapse speed, verify temperature callout placement
5. Export — Download in your chosen format and resolution

API Example

curl -X POST https://mega-api-prod.nemovideo.ai/api/v1/generate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NEMO_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "skill": "baking-video-maker",
    "prompt": "Create an 8-minute croissant lamination tutorial: détrempe windowpane test, beurrage plasticity check, three folds with cross-section layer count animation (2→8→32→96), final proof at 78°F, egg wash, bake 400°F 18min, honeycomb cross-section reveal with crunch audio",
    "duration": "8 min",
    "style": "artisan",
    "format": "16:9"
  }'

Tips for Best Results

1. Describe every stage of the dough — "Shaggy mass → smooth ball → windowpane-transparent" gives the AI three distinct visual targets to annotate. Baking viewers judge credibility by whether you show the intermediate stages, not just start and finish.
2. Include exact temperatures with consequences — "425°F for EXACTLY 12 minutes — 11 = raw, 13 = overbaked" creates a dramatic overlay. Baking is chemistry; precision is the content, and the AI uses your temperature data to generate timer overlays with warning zones.
3. Call out the proof-tracking moment — "Dough rises just above the pan rim" gives the AI a specific frame to identify or illustrate in the time-lapse. Without a target, the proof time-lapse runs with no reference, and viewers can't judge doneness.
4. Request cross-section reveals explicitly — The crumb shot is the thumbnail for every bread video. "Slice with a serrated knife, show the open crumb" tells the AI to hold this frame, boost the crust-cracking audio, and center-compose the crumb structure.
5. Specify alternative-flour substitutions clearly — "200g brown rice flour + 100g tapioca starch + 50g potato starch + 2 tsp xanthan" generates a precise ingredient card. For GF/allergen-free baking, the exact blend is the value proposition — vague flour descriptions undermine viewer trust.

Output Formats

Related Skills

• cooking-tutorial-video — Step-by-step cooking technique tutorials
• recipe-video-maker — Quick recipe showcase and ingredient highlight videos
• food-photography-video — Food styling and photography showcase videos