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Short Video Maker MCP Server

MCP and REST server for creating short-form videos from scene text, Pexels search terms, text-to-speech, captions, background music, Whisper captions, FFmpeg, and Remotion rendering.

by David Gyori·added 2026-06-06·
Claude CodeClaude Desktop
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Open the source and read safety notes before installing.

Safety notes

  • Short Video Maker runs an HTTP server with MCP SSE routes and REST routes for creating and serving generated videos.
  • The create-short-video tool queues video rendering work that can consume CPU, memory, disk, browser rendering resources, and optional GPU resources.
  • Generated videos combine user-provided narration text, Pexels search terms, downloaded background clips, local music assets, TTS output, captions, and rendered media.
  • The server stores generated videos and temporary files under its configured data directory.
  • Validate scene text, search terms, claims, branding, and rights before publishing generated videos to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or other platforms.

Privacy notes

  • `PEXELS_API_KEY` is sent to the Pexels API when searching for background videos.
  • Scene text, search terms, generated narration, captions, video IDs, logs, output filenames, and render status can reveal campaign ideas, private scripts, brand plans, or client work.
  • Generated files remain on disk until removed according to the deployment's data-directory and retention practices.
  • Pexels requests, model downloads, Docker pulls, npm installs, and platform uploads may expose network metadata to third parties outside the MCP client.

Prerequisites

  • Node.js or Docker available on the machine that will run the video server.
  • Pexels API key configured through `PEXELS_API_KEY`.
  • Enough CPU, memory, and disk for Whisper, Kokoro, FFmpeg, Remotion, temporary files, and rendered videos.
  • MCP client that can connect to an SSE MCP endpoint.
  • Usage rights reviewed for prompts, narration text, generated captions, music, background clips, and final publishing destination.

Schema details

Install type
cli
Troubleshooting
No
Source repository stats
Scope
Source repo
Collection metadata
Estimated setup
25 minutes
Difficulty
advanced
Tool listing metadata
Disclosure
MIT-licensed open-source project. The upstream README promotes a related community and tutorial content; this entry focuses on the source-backed MCP and REST video-generation server.
Full copyable content
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "short-video-maker": {
      "url": "{short-video-maker-sse-url}"
    }
  }
}

About this resource

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

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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