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Run 1Chat beside the speaker“In talk.mp4, show a chat where someone asks "Do we still need the Monday call?" and the answer.”
Runs in
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • Gemini CLI
  • GitHub Copilot
  • OpenCode
Generates with
Your agent's model
Tested with
Claude Code 2.1.322Claude Sonnet 5.51 real run, 9 Nov
Needs
Node 22+Chromeffmpeg
Licence
Recaply licence

Chat Beside the Speaker

A chat builds message by message beside them, the replies typing themselves out.

$9.99once, yours to keep

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Adds a chat beside a person talking to camera that builds message by message, with replies typing themselves out: a question to an assistant, a support thread, a DM. Timed to the words they say, on their own footage, with their sound kept; 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5. Renders locally with Chrome and ffmpeg: no video model, no key and no cost. Use when someone shows a conversation (with an assistant, a customer, a friend) and wants it to build beside them.

By RecaplyUpdated 11 Nov

Install Chat Beside the Speaker

After the download, ask your agent to add it, or run the line yourself.

Read https://recaply.co/skills/chat-beside-overlay/install.md and follow it to install the chat-beside-overlay skill from chat-beside-overlay.zip.

Paste it into your agent. It reads our install steps, finds the ZIP you downloaded and adds the skill for you.

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Who Chat Beside the Speaker is for

What you get

  • Your video with the overlay timed to the words, sound kept
  • The speaker slides aside and a chat fills the other half: their message on the right, the reply typing out on the left
  • 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5

Good fit

  • When someone shows a conversation (with an assistant, a customer, a friend) and wants it to build beside them

Not for

  • Footage with nobody speaking
  • Cutting or re-editing the video itself

About this skill

You say

In talk.mp4, show a chat where someone asks "Do we still need the Monday call?" and the answer.

It said back

I rendered the video with the chat beside the speaker: talk-graphics.mp4, 1920x1080, 24.3 s. The sound is hers and unchanged. The check found no layout problems, and her face stays clear.

  • Question (right): "Do we still need the Monday call?" It appears at about 9.5 s, as she says "So we tried three things".
  • Answer (left): "Only a 15-minute call, when something is stuck." It types out as she says "only when something is stuck".
  • End: the chat stays up until she says "old Monday call".
  • Look: paper, with her moved to the right half.
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What it did in run 1

  1. chat-beside-overlay
  2. ls -a . .claude/skills/chat-beside-overlay
  3. S=.claude/skills/chat-beside-overlay/scripts; node $S/check.mjs; echo '{"video":"talk.mp4","transcript":"talk.json"}' > overlay.json; node $S/overlay.mjs overlay.json --words
  4. node .claude/skills/chat-beside-overlay/scripts/check.mjs; echo '{"video":"talk.mp4","transcript":"talk.json"}' > overlay.json; node .claude/skills/chat-beside-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --words
  5. cat > overlay.json <<'E' {"video":"talk.mp4","transcript":"talk.json","look":"paper","beats":[{"beat":"chat","cue":"So we tried three things","cues":["So we tried three things","only when something is stuck"],"messages":[{"from":"me","text":"Do we still need the Monday call?"},{"from":"Team","text":"Only a 15-minute call, when something is stuck."}],"until":"old Monday call"}]} E node .claude/skills/chat-beside-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --face >/dev/null; node .claude/skills/chat-beside-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --check
  6. ./face-check.png
  7. ./overlay.json
  8. node .claude/skills/chat-beside-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --face && node .claude/skills/chat-beside-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --check
  9. ./face-check.png
  10. ./overlay-check.png
  11. ./overlay.json
  12. node .claude/skills/chat-beside-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json --check && node .claude/skills/chat-beside-overlay/scripts/overlay.mjs overlay.json && ls -la *.mp4
  13. Done

9 Nov 2026 · Claude Code 2.1.322 with Claude Sonnet 5.5 · 1 min 37 s · $0.13 of API use

Questions

Is Chat Beside the Speaker free?

No. Chat Beside the Speaker costs $9.99 once and stays in your Recaply account, or it comes with the Recaply plan ($19.99 a month), which opens every premium skill and prompt.

Which agents can use Chat Beside the Speaker?

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode.

What do I get when I buy Chat Beside the Speaker?

A ZIP of the whole skill folder (105 KB): the SKILL.md your agent follows and its 12 other files, the references, templates and scripts it uses. You download it from this page whenever you need it, and install it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode. The Recaply plan opens it too, with every other premium skill and prompt.

How do I install Chat Beside the Speaker?

Buy it, then download the ZIP from this page. For Claude Code, unzip it into .claude/skills/ in your project. For Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI, unzip it and run npx skills add ./chat-beside-overlay with your agent's flag.

What do I get from Chat Beside the Speaker?

Your video with the overlay timed to the words, sound kept. The speaker slides aside and a chat fills the other half: their message on the right, the reply typing out on the left. 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5.

What does Chat Beside the Speaker need?

Node 22+, Chrome and ffmpeg, and no API key. Each use costs nothing beyond your agent.

How big is Chat Beside the Speaker?

13 files, about 79,949 tokens in all. The SKILL.md is about 2,287 tokens, and your agent reads it only when the job fits.

What does a run cost?

Our 1 runs took 1 min 37 s to 1 min 37 s and $0.13 to $0.13 of API use each, in Claude Code with claude-sonnet-5-5. On a Claude plan, a run counts toward your usage instead.

Do I have to name Chat Beside the Speaker to use it?

Type /chat-beside-overlay first to make sure it loads. Without it, Claude Code may judge a small job simple enough to do without the skill.