Director Deck

A text prompt into a cinematic deck

Amplifier Bundle

The Frame

Cinematic decks move people — but they cost a design team and a week.

Director Deck is an Amplifier bundle that turns a text prompt into a cinematic slide deck — GPT Image slides and Veo 3.1 video transitions — from kenotron-ms/amplifier-bundle-director-deck.

So what does “describe it and get it” actually produce?

The Proof

One text prompt becomes a 19-slide PowerPoint.

For a 10-content-slide deck, the output is 19 PPTX slides: 10 content slides interleaved with 9 full-bleed video transitions — each a blank slide with an MP4 embedded via add_movie().

The leverage is real. But could you get it by just automating everything?

19

PPTX slides produced

10

Content slides

9

Interstitial video slides

1

Text prompt in

The Trap

Fully-automated generative decks fire expensive calls on unreviewed choices.

Image and video generation are costly. Let them run on un-approved content and identity, and you burn budget producing off-brand, incoherent results — Veo will even hallucinate slide-like frames if you let it.

Director Deck's answer: keep a human at every creative checkpoint.

Costly generation GPT Image 2 renders and Veo 3.1 clips are the expensive steps in the run.

Unreviewed choices compound Content and identity errors upstream get baked into every rendered frame.

The design philosophy “Humans are involved at every aesthetic and content checkpoint, and expensive generation only happens after human approval.”

The Mechanism · Roles

Director Deck splits the job across five specialized agents.

Rather than one monolithic prompt, each stage is owned by a narrow expert agent — verified as exactly five agent files in the bundle.

Narrow roles need orchestration — and a way to control cost.

1

ghost-deck-writerContent and design identity from the prompt

2

slide-architectWireframes each slide layout

3

visual-directorGPT Image 2 renders

4

transition-directorVeo 3.1 image-to-video transitions

5

deck-stitcherFinal assembly

The Mechanism · Gates

A 1744-line recipe runs 4 stages behind 3 human approval gates.

The five agents are orchestrated by a single recipe of 1744 lines. Its four work stages are interleaved with three approval gates, so the expensive image and video generation only happens after a human signs off.

With judgment locked in, the pipeline can safely turn stills into motion.

1744

Lines in the main recipe

4

Work stages

3

Human approval gates

5

Specialized agents

The Turn

Veo 3.1 turns approved slides into 8-second cinematic transitions.

The transition-director calls veo-3.1-generate-preview in image-to-video mode — 8-second, 16:9 clips between approved GPT Image slides. To keep the illusion intact, slideware words are banned from every Veo prompt.

Discipline in, cinematic motion out — not slideware.

Banned from Veo prompts These words cause Veo to hallucinate slide-like content, breaking the cinematic illusion.

presentation slide deck infographic PowerPoint chart data visualization

The Payoff

Describe it, and get a deck that plays as one continuous film.

Text prompt → Content slides + Video transitions → 19-slide PowerPoint

The 10 content slides and 9 full-bleed Veo transitions interleave into a 19-slide file whose video slides auto-advance in Presenter mode — plus an interactive deck_live.html player.

Human judgment stayed in the loop the whole way. What's the reusable idea?

The Takeaway

Decompose an expensive craft into gated specialist agents.

Director Deck's pattern generalizes: break a costly creative craft into narrow expert agents behind human approval gates, and anyone who can describe intent can direct it.

The agents do the production. The human keeps the judgment.

Sources

Research Methodology

Feature status: Working bundle · v0.1.0

Data as of: July 21, 2026 — independently verified against a fresh clone (origin kenotron-ms/amplifier-bundle-director-deck, HEAD 2ac4645, in sync with origin/main) plus live gh repo view.

Repository: kenotron-ms/amplifier-bundle-director-deck (31 commits, sole author Ken Chau <kchau@outlook.com>).

Commands run:

gh repo view kenotron-ms/amplifier-bundle-director-deck --json name,description,createdAt,pushedAt,defaultBranchRef
ls agents/*.md | wc -l and grep -n ' name:' agents/*.md — 5 agents
grep -n 'approval:\|# Stage' recipes/director-deck.yaml — 4 stages, 3 gates
wc -l recipes/director-deck.yaml — 1744 lines / 85650 bytes
sed -n '1510,1520p' recipes/director-deck.yaml — veo-3.1-generate-preview, image_to_video, 8s, 16:9
grep -n '19\|interstitial\|add_movie' README.md — 10 content + 9 interstitial = 19
grep -n 'BANNED\|NEVER use the words' recipes/director-deck.yaml README.md — banned Veo words
git rev-list --count HEAD and git shortlog -sne HEAD — commits and contributors

Gaps: No example run artifacts are committed (ls runs/ shows only .gitkeep/.gitignore). The 9-interstitial / 19-slide figures are the documented 10-content-slide example. The “design team and a week” framing is narrative premise, not a repo-sourced metric.

Primary contributor: Ken Chau — 31 of 31 commits (100%).