Read the structure, not just the surface
Segment the clip into hook, body beats, and call to action with second-level timings, and name the script pattern underneath it.
Viral short teardown and remake
The structure that made it work, carried onto your subject
Read a reference clip beat by beat, learn why it held attention, and rebuild that shape as a vertical video of your own.
Structural teardown, generated shot frames, selected narration voice, and either one vertical clip animated from your opening frame or segmented sources with a timecoded edit list
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View on GitHubWhat a structural teardown gives you
Know what actually carried it
Separate the structural move from the specific content and the presentation craft, so you carry over the part that transfers.
End with shootable material, not a report
Get a shot list with visuals and narration kept apart, generated beat frames delivered as stills, a narration track, and — depending on how the reference cuts — either one vertical clip animated from your opening frame, or segmented sources with captions and a timecoded edit list for your own cut.
Every time a reference is the starting point
Study a competitor's breakout post
Work out why a rival's short took off and build your own version on the same structure.
Turn a saved reference into a format
Convert a clip from your swipe file into a repeatable shape you can run on new subjects.
Rebuild a benchmark under your brand
Keep the pacing and beat order that proved itself, and replace every claim with your own.
Start from the clip
Bring the reference in whatever form you have
A link to the post on TikTok, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Instagram, YouTube, or X — or a video file, screenshots of the key moments, a pasted transcript, or your own description of what happens.
- A link to the reference post, or the video file
- Screenshots or a transcript
- What your version is about
Take it apart
Beats, pattern, attribution, and a six-dimension score
See the beat table with timings, the script pattern it follows, what carried the performance, and where it was weak.
- Beat table with timings
- Script pattern named
- Performance attribution
- Six-dimension score
Rebuild it as yours
Shot list, frames, narration, and either a finished clip or segmented sources
Carry the structure onto your subject, then produce the beat frames and the voice track — and, depending on how the reference cuts, either a vertical clip animated from your opening frame with the narration over it, or segment sources, captions, and a timecoded edit list for your own cut.
- Shot list with paired visual and spoken fields
- Generated beat frames, delivered as stills
- Narration in a voice you select
- One vertical clip animated from your opening frame — or, for a reference with more cuts than one take can hold, segment sources, captions, and a timecoded edit list
Questions
- What do I need to start?
- A reference short and a sentence about what your version is about. The reference can be a link to the post on TikTok, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Instagram, YouTube, or X, a video file, screenshots of the key moments, a transcript, or your own description of what happens beat by beat.
- What does the teardown actually tell me?
- A beat table with second-level timings, the script pattern the clip follows, a ranked read of what carried its performance, a score across hook strength, information density, pacing, subject presentation, emotional curve, and conversion pull, and the one weakness your remake can improve on.
- What do I get at the end?
- A shot list where the on-screen action and the spoken line are written as separate fields, generated frames for the beats you choose, and a narration track in a voice you select. For a short, low-cut reference that fits inside one model take, that becomes one 9:16 vertical clip animated from your opening frame with the narration running over it, and the other beat frames come back as stills for your own edit. For a reference with more cuts, or one that runs longer than a single take supports, you instead get segment sources for every beat, that same single narration track, captions, and a timecoded edit list to assemble in your own editor.
Related Skills
Stop saving references you never act on
Drop in the short that worked — a link, a file, screenshots, or a transcript — say what yours is about, and get the teardown, the shot list, the beat frames, and the narration — animated into one clip, or delivered as segmented sources with a timecoded edit list, depending on how the reference cuts.
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