AGENCY Meetup Publish

Publish AGENCY Community meetup recordings to YouTube with intro, thumbnail, description, and timecodes.

Prerequisites

• ~/ai_projects/youtube-uploader/ — YouTube upload scripts with OAuth credentials
• ~/ai_projects/my-video/out/agency-swarm-intro.mp4 — AGENCY intro animation (6s, 1920x1080)
• Zoom OAuth configured at ~/.zoom_credentials/
• ffmpeg and ffprobe installed
• Playwright or Chrome installed (for thumbnail rendering)

Pipeline Overview

1. Identify meeting → 2. Download from Zoom → 3. Add intro/outro
→ 4. Generate timecodes → 5. Write description → 6. Create thumbnail
→ 7. Upload to YouTube → 8. Set thumbnail → 9. Add to playlist

Step 1: Identify the Meeting

Ask the user for:

• Meeting name or Zoom ID — if unknown, list recent recordings:

  python3 ~/.claude/skills/zoom/scripts/zoom_meetings.py recordings --start YYYY-MM-DD
  

• Speaker name — for description and thumbnail
• Topic summary — or derive from transcript

Get recording details:

python3 ~/.claude/skills/zoom/scripts/zoom_meetings.py recording MEETING_ID

This returns MP4 download URL, duration, transcript URL, and other files.

Step 2: Download from Zoom

Download MP4 and VTT transcript in parallel:

# Video (run in background — large file)
curl -L -o ~/Brains/brain/YYYYMMDD-meeting-slug.mp4 "DOWNLOAD_URL"

# Transcript
curl -L -o ~/Brains/brain/YYYYMMDD-meeting-slug.vtt "TRANSCRIPT_URL"

Naming convention: YYYYMMDD-meeting-slug.mp4 where slug is a kebab-case topic summary.

Step 3: Add Intro (and Outro if Available)

The intro and meeting likely have different specs. Check both:

ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_streams INTRO.mp4
ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_streams MEETING.mp4

Key parameters to match: resolution, fps, audio sample rate, audio channels.

Re-encode intro to match meeting

ffmpeg -y -i ~/ai_projects/my-video/out/agency-swarm-intro.mp4 \
  -vf "scale=WIDTH:HEIGHT:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=WIDTH:HEIGHT:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2:black" \
  -r FPS -c:v libx264 -preset fast -crf 18 \
  -ar SAMPLE_RATE -ac CHANNELS -c:a aac \
  /tmp/intro-matched.mp4

Trim meeting start

Review the VTT to find where real content begins. Typically trim 1-3 seconds of silence:

ffmpeg -y -ss TRIM_SECONDS -i MEETING.mp4 \
  -c:v libx264 -preset fast -crf 18 \
  -ar SAMPLE_RATE -ac CHANNELS -c:a aac \
  -r FPS -vf "scale=WIDTH:HEIGHT" \
  /tmp/meeting-trimmed.mp4

This re-encode is necessary for concat compatibility. Run in background — it takes several minutes for long recordings.

Concatenate

echo "file '/tmp/intro-matched.mp4'" > /tmp/concat-list.txt
echo "file '/tmp/meeting-trimmed.mp4'" >> /tmp/concat-list.txt
# If outro exists:
# echo "file '/tmp/outro-matched.mp4'" >> /tmp/concat-list.txt

ffmpeg -y -f concat -safe 0 -i /tmp/concat-list.txt -c copy \
  ~/ai_projects/my-video/out/YYYYMMDD-meeting-slug-final.mp4

Step 4: Generate Timecodes from Transcript

Read the VTT transcript and identify up to 20 topic transitions. Look for:

• Speaker changes (especially when the main speaker starts)
• Topic shifts signaled by phrases like "давайте", "следующий", "перейдем к"
• Q&A segments
• Demo/screen-share moments
• Conclusion/wrap-up

Important: Timecodes must account for the intro offset. Add the intro duration (typically 6s) to all VTT timestamps.

Format: MM:SS Topic description or H:MM:SS for videos over 1 hour.

Step 5: Write Description

Follow the template from previous AGENCY Community uploads. See references/description-template.md for the full template.

Key sections:

1. Title line — AGENCY Community Meetup: [Topic]
2. Summary paragraph — 2-3 sentences about the speaker and topic
3. Bullet points — 5-7 key topics covered (use •)
4. Timecodes — prefixed with ⏱ Таймкоды:
5. Community line — AGENCY Community — сообщество практиков AI-автоматизации.
6. Links — prefixed with 🔗, using → arrows
7. Hashtags — topic-relevant, always include #AGENCY #Community

Save description to /tmp/youtube-description.txt.

Step 6: Create Thumbnail

Use the AGENCY thumbnail HTML template rendered to 1280x720 PNG.

Template approach

Write an HTML file at /tmp/thumbnail.html based on references/thumbnail-template.html. Customize:

• Title text — short, punchy (2-4 words max per line)
• Subtitle — in EB Garamond italic
• Speaker line — Speaker Name × AGENCY
• Speaker photo — if available, use with mix-blend-mode: hard-light

Render to PNG

Preferred: headless Chrome (no install needed):

"/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome" \
  --headless --screenshot=/tmp/thumbnail.png \
  --window-size=1280,720 --hide-scrollbars \
  "file:///tmp/thumbnail.html"

Fallback: Playwright:

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
with sync_playwright() as p:
    browser = p.chromium.launch()
    page = browser.new_page(viewport={'width': 1280, 'height': 720})
    page.goto('file:///tmp/thumbnail.html')
    page.wait_for_timeout(2000)
    page.screenshot(path='/tmp/thumbnail.png')
    browser.close()

Step 7: Upload to YouTube

cd ~/ai_projects/youtube-uploader && python3 youtube_upload.py \
  --video ~/ai_projects/my-video/out/FINAL.mp4 \
  --title "TITLE" \
  --description "$(cat /tmp/youtube-description.txt)" \
  --category education \
  --privacy public \
  --tags "TAG1,TAG2,..." \
  --yes

The upload script outputs the Video ID and Video URL on success. Capture these for the next steps.

Title guidelines: Keep under 100 chars. Format: Topic — Speaker Name. Include key terms for search.

Step 8: Set Thumbnail

cd ~/ai_projects/youtube-uploader && \
  python3 youtube_manage.py thumbnails set VIDEO_ID /tmp/thumbnail.png

Step 9: Add to Playlist

The AGENCY Community playlist ID is PLZNP0SKU2SqjHOy01UjDxhSRtcluvuw0m.

cd ~/ai_projects/youtube-uploader && \
  python3 youtube_manage.py playlists add-item PLZNP0SKU2SqjHOy01UjDxhSRtcluvuw0m VIDEO_ID

Parallelization Strategy

For speed, run these in parallel where possible:

Phase	Can parallelize with
Download MP4	Download VTT
Re-encode meeting (bg)	Read transcript, draft timecodes
Upload to YouTube (bg)	Generate thumbnail
Set thumbnail	Add to playlist

Output

Report to the user:

• Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
• Studio URL: https://studio.youtube.com/video/VIDEO_ID/edit
• Playlist: AGENCY Community

Existing Skills Used

This pipeline builds on:

• zoom — ~/.claude/skills/zoom/ for Zoom recording access
• video-youtube-upload — ~/.claude/skills/video-youtube-upload/ for upload reference
• youtube — ~/.claude/skills/youtube/ for post-upload management
• agency-socials — ~/.claude/skills/agency-socials/ for cover design system reference