Short Video Maker MCP Server

Content

Short Video Maker is an MCP and REST server for generating short-form videos from structured scene descriptions. Each scene provides narration text and video search terms; the server then uses Kokoro TTS, Whisper captions, Pexels background-video search, local music assets, FFmpeg, and Remotion to render a finished video.

Use it when Claude should help draft a reviewed scene plan, submit it to a local or hosted video-generation service, and poll for status. It is especially suited to agent workflows that already need a self-hosted alternative to API-only video generation, but it still needs careful review before publishing generated media.

Source Review

• https://github.com/gyoridavid/short-video-maker
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gyoridavid/short-video-maker/main/README.md
• https://registry.npmjs.org/short-video-maker
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gyoridavid/short-video-maker/main/LICENSE
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gyoridavid/short-video-maker/main/package.json
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gyoridavid/short-video-maker/main/src/server/routers/mcp.ts
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gyoridavid/short-video-maker/main/src/server/server.ts
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gyoridavid/short-video-maker/main/src/config.ts
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gyoridavid/short-video-maker/main/src/short-creator/ShortCreator.ts
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gyoridavid/short-video-maker/main/src/short-creator/libraries/Pexels.ts

These sources were reviewed on 2026-06-06. Prefer the live repository, README, npm metadata, license, package metadata, MCP router, server router, configuration, queue implementation, and Pexels integration for current behavior.

Features

• Run as a Node or Docker-hosted service with MCP SSE and REST endpoints.
• Expose create-short-video for queueing a video from scenes and render configuration.
• Expose get-video-status for checking whether a queued render is processing, ready, or failed.
• Build scenes from narration text plus Pexels search terms.
• Support portrait and landscape orientations.
• Choose caption placement, caption background color, voice, music mood, and music volume.
• Generate English narration with Kokoro TTS.
• Generate captions with Whisper.
• Fetch background videos from Pexels using a configured API key.
• Render with Remotion and FFmpeg.
• Serve a web UI and REST API alongside the MCP endpoint.

Installation

Docker is the upstream-recommended path for most users. Start one of the upstream images with PEXELS_API_KEY set and enough memory and disk for model downloads, temporary render assets, and final videos.

For npm-based usage, install or run the package after satisfying the platform requirements:

npx short-video-maker

Then connect an MCP client to the server's SSE endpoint:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "short-video-maker": {
      "url": "{short-video-maker-sse-url}"
    }
  }
}

The upstream README currently lists Linux and macOS as supported for npm usage and notes that Windows is not supported at the moment.

Use Cases

• Draft a short educational video from reviewed scene narration and search terms.
• Generate background-video-and-caption drafts for YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, or TikTok-style formats.
• Use Claude to turn a storyboard into the MCP create-short-video scene structure.
• Poll render status from an automation workflow before collecting output.
• Prototype faceless-video workflows without calling a hosted video-generation API for every step.
• Pair n8n, Claude, or another agent workflow with a self-hosted video-rendering service.

Safety and Privacy

Review the creative brief before approving a render. The tool can turn private drafts, campaign ideas, scripts, or customer content into generated media on disk. Generated voiceover, captions, background clips, music, and final videos may carry copyright, licensing, platform-policy, accessibility, misinformation, or brand-safety obligations.

Treat the server as a resource-heavy media pipeline. Rendering can consume significant CPU, memory, disk, browser-rendering capacity, and optional GPU resources. Keep PEXELS_API_KEY out of prompts and logs, watch data-directory retention, and review Pexels and publishing-platform terms before posting outputs externally.

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• Submitted by oktofeesh12026-06-06