Frame Minion — AI video, where you make everything else

image · gallery

Frame Minion image tab: chat-style image generation with a result and its action menu — Use as start/end/reference frame, Send to project segment, Send to project style or character.

The image tab

The frame factory.

Chat-style, iterative image generation across OpenRouter's image models — Gemini, GPT Image, FLUX. Upload references, control aspect ratio, get multi-image responses.

One-click on every result: use as start / end / reference frame.
Send to a project segment, or to project style and character/location refs.
Reference-image upload, aspect-ratio control, multi-image responses.

Your image gallery becomes a frame factory feeding the video form.

video · one-shot

Frame Minion video tab: a single-shot form with prompt, model selector (Wan 2.7 I2V via fal.ai), start frame, end frame, driving audio, and duration/resolution pickers.

The video tab

One shot, deliberate.

Video is expensive per render, so there's no chat thread here — just a focused single-shot form. Prompt, model, reference image, start frame, end frame, audio.

Duration, resolution, and aspect-ratio pickers populate from the selected model's declared capabilities.
Drop in a start and end frame to pin the motion between two exact images.
Lip-sync mode drives the shot from a sliced audio window — handles included.

field guide · video prompt vernacular

Video Prompt Vernacular field guide: tabs for camera movement, shot size, angle, lens, lighting and in-shot effects, each term carded with a good / mixed / ignored badge, notes on what models actually honor, and copy-ready phrasing.

The field guide

Speak the models' language.

A built-in Video Prompt Vernacular — the film vocabulary video models actually honor, and the terms they quietly ignore. Stop guessing why a prompt didn't land.

Camera movement, shot size, angle, lens, lighting, in-shot effects, blocking and pacing.
Every term marked good, mixed or ignored — with notes on what to write instead.
Pick the phrasings you want and copy them straight into a prompt.

Account balances

OpenRouter

$9.64 / $50.00

Remaining

fal.ai

$4.90

Balance

↻ auto-refreshes after every generation

Provider balance strip

Always know your spend.

Live OpenRouter and fal.ai account balances sit in the sidebar and auto-refresh after every generation — so you're never surprised by a render bill. You pay the providers directly; the extension is free.

The centerpiece

The Music Video Orchestrator.

Give it a song and a concept. It does the rest of the pre-production — segmenting the track, storyboarding frames, generating a clip per segment, and rendering the final cut with ffmpeg.

22 segments + fade-out 2:57 track 16 transitions ffmpeg render

Plan from the song.

Set the look, then hand over the track. Add style references for mood, palette and lighting; add named characters and locations so your subjects stay consistent; upload your song. The planner reads the song's structure and lays out a shot per segment — start-frame prompt, end-frame prompt, camera/action prompt, and timing — ready to refine.

+ style refs+ characters & locations↑ upload song

plan · song sectionsclick to flip ↻

Plan view: the planner model and the read-only song-sections table mapping intro, verse, pre-chorus, chorus and outro to timecodes, mood, and lyric cues, above the generated segments.

project · style & character refsclick to flip ↻

Project setup: title and concept for 'Wrong Song', the uploaded audio track, and grids of style refs and named character/location references.

Storyboard — and direct every segment.

Generate start and end frames per segment, with continuity built in — each shot's end frame normally matches the next shot's start. Direct any segment: tweak the start/end frame prompts, or swap exactly which style and character/location references that segment uses. Promote a great frame into project-wide refs.

Need a specific frame? Generate start and end frames conversationally in the image sidebar and one-click send any result straight to a segment — or attach images you already have.

tweak promptsper-segment refsimage sidebar → segmentattach your own↳ matches next start

segments 01–02 · framesclick to flip ↻

Two consecutive segment cards, each with a start frame, end frame, video prompt and generated clip; an end frame is annotated 'normally matches segment 02 start' to show frame continuity.

references for segment 01click to flip ↻

References modal for a single segment: a list of style references and a list of named characters/locations, each individually toggled on or off for that segment, marked 'overridden'.

Generate a clip per segment — with effortless audio sync.

Per-segment video generation runs in parallel. For lip-sync, Frame Minion automatically slices the song to exactly that segment's window and hands the model just that slice — so the mouth matches the real lyrics at that moment. And a complete history of every frame and video generation persists — step back through takes and revert in a click.

Already have footage? Attach a pre-existing clip that matches the segment's duration — no AI generation needed.

0:40 – 0:48 (8.0s)parallel × 3attach existing clip · no AIper-slot history

segment 05 · clipclick to flip ↻

A segment card with start frame, end frame, camera/action video prompt and character tags on the left, and its finished 8-second clip with a ready badge on the right.

history & galleryclick to flip ↻

History and gallery modal: four stored versions of one segment's slot on the left with seeds, and the full project video gallery of 19 generated clips on the right.

A segment's video slot showing a 4/4 take selector and a 'History 4' button.

History · 4 takes

Soften the cuts.

Place one of 16 transition presets across six families — fades, dissolves, wipes, slides, geometric, and effects like flash, shake, impact-zoom and glitch — on any boundary. An overlap model that never changes your runtime. Optional seam smoothing blends hard cuts automatically.

slidecircle-openglitch+13 more

transition picker

Stay in sync — through every regen and retime.

Regenerate a clip, swap in a different take, or change a segment's duration, and every segment still respects its own stored timing. Frame Minion flags the exact moment a clip drifts out of sync with the track — so the cut never silently slips as you iterate.

⚠ video timing out of sync1:45 – 1:53 (8.0s)

out-of-sync warning

A segment card flagged 'Video timing out of sync' with its 1:45–1:53 (8.0s) timing badge highlighted in red.

Render — reassembled in order, in sync.

Preview or final-render the whole thing with ffmpeg. The per-segment clips concatenate back in order and the full song lays over the top, so the finished video stays locked to the track end to end — with seam smoothing optional on every boundary.

22 / 23 clips readyall seams▶ final

composition · render

Composition timeline: the song waveform over a row of 23 generated video clips with per-segment timecodes, seam-smoothing and render controls, and the assembled preview playing below.

Per-slot media history

Every frame and video slot keeps a version history. Step back and forth through takes, or browse the project gallery.

Prompt wizards

Regenerate a segment's video prompt from its frames + audio analysis; analyze a segment's audio for lyrics and mood.

Save / load projects

Projects persist to a workspace folder. Reopen and everything — frames, clips, history, transitions, timing — comes back.

orchestrators · on the roadmap

Orchestrators picker: Image, Video and Orchestrators tabs, the Music Video Orchestrator marked LIVE, and a roadmap of Narrator, Cutting Room, Vertical and Trailer orchestrators each labelled coming soon.

On the roadmap

The first of many orchestrators.

An orchestrator turns a single brief into a finished multi-shot cut. The Music Video Orchestrator is live today — and it's just the first. More are on the way for other kinds of video.

Narrator · script → VO + b-roll Cutting Room · cut & splice Vertical · 9:16 short-form Trailer · fast cuts, big text

↻ coming soon — same plan → generate → render flow

See it render

From a song to a finished cut.

Three music videos, planned, generated, and rendered start-to-finish inside VS Code. No timeline app, no render farm.

Featuring songs by Drew's Song from the album Drew's Song, available on Apple Music and Spotify.

Watch Full Video With Soundopens player

▶Wrong Songstreaming from Supabase

Wrong Song · 9:16 · ffmpeg render

Watch Full Video With Soundopens player

▶Different Pagesstreaming from Supabase

Different Pages · 22 segments

Watch Full Video With Soundopens player

▶God You Arestreaming from Supabase

God You Are · full track muxed

The details that add up

Small things, done right.

Built right

Not a flimsy wrapper. A real tool.

Your keys never leave your machine.

API keys live in VS Code's encrypted SecretStorage — not in settings, not on a server.

No backend, no middleman.

Calls go straight from your editor to OpenRouter and fal.ai. Your prompts and media are yours.

Clean architecture.

Layered, typed, tested — built to last. Forked from the pixel-minion framework.

Get started

A short setup, then you're rendering.

Install Frame Minion

Frame Minion is available now as a VS Code extension. Search Frame Minion in the free VS Code editor, or grab it from the web Marketplace.

Add your API keys

Open the Frame Minion view and paste your OpenRouter and fal.ai keys. Both live in encrypted SecretStorage.

Pick a model, write a prompt, generate

Generate a frame, push it to video, or hand a song to the Orchestrator.

Add to VS Code Mac & Windows Appsoon

Requires the free VS Code editor. Bring your own OpenRouter and fal.ai keys — fal.ai signs the short-lived storage URLs that deliver your frames and audio to the video models, so it's required.

Read first All guides

Providers & SetupOpenRouter, fal.ai & storage PrivacyA local tool, not a service Video Prompting Field GuideThe terms models honor — and ignore

frame-minion

# 1 — install the extension

launch VS Code and install the extension

# 2 — add your keys

✓ OpenRouter key stored in SecretStorage

✓ fal.ai key stored (required)

# 3 — generate

frame → video → orchestrate 🜂

# 4 — email Okey with any questions at:

support@frameminion.video

Make video where you make everything else.

A frame factory and a film studio, both inside your editor.

Generate frames.

Turn frames into video.

Orchestrate a whole video.

The frame factory.

One shot, deliberate.

Speak the models' language.

Always know your spend.

The Music Video Orchestrator.

Plan from the song.

Storyboard — and direct every segment.

Generate a clip per segment — with effortless audio sync.

Soften the cuts.

Stay in sync — through every regen and retime.

Render — reassembled in order, in sync.

Per-slot media history

Prompt wizards

Save / load projects

The first of many orchestrators.

From a song to a finished cut.

Small things, done right.

Not a flimsy wrapper. A real tool.

Your keys never leave your machine.

No backend, no middleman.

Clean architecture.

A short setup, then you're rendering.

Install Frame Minion

Add your API keys

Pick a model, write a prompt, generate

Good to know.

From prompt to music video, without leaving VS Code.