Firsttake
Use when planning, prepping, running, or debriefing a video shoot where the user is responsible for the recording — camera and audio settings, lighting placement, on-set checklists, footage QC, verified card offload and archiving, or a delivery spec for a post house. Also use for post-production on any footage, however it was shot — syncing angles that share no timecode, transcripts and speaker attribution, loudness and audio mastering, cutting, matching two cameras' colour or identifying a log format, and assembling an edit by script in DaVinci Resolve (recommended), Premiere Pro or CapCut (b
Install
npx skills add emersonsklar/firsttake --skill firsttakegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emersonsklar/firsttake.git /tmp/firsttake
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/firsttake/. ~/.claude/skills/firsttakePersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# FirstTake Help someone run a shoot they are personally responsible for, and make the result verifiable rather than hopeful. **This skill carries method and tools, not a gear list.** Every hardware number belongs to a specific body, card, mic or drive, and almost none of them survive a kit change. Your first job with a new user is to find out what they actually have and measure it — never to reuse a number from another kit. --- ## The one rule that makes this safe to reuse **Never state a hardware fact you have not measured, cited, or been told. Label which it is.** | Label | Means | |---|---| | `CONFIRMED` | Measured on this user's actual body/drive/mic, stated in that model's own documentation, or **reported by the operator from the object in their hands** | | `LIKELY` | Consistent across independent third-party sources, not yet measured here | | `UNVERIFIED` | Plausible, untested. May not be true. | A confident unmeasured number is worse than no number, because the whole point of this workflow is that the user trusts it on set and cannot re-derive it there. When you don't know, say "measure this, here is how" — see `references/method.md`. **"Fact" is wider than "number."** It covers **which ports exist, what came in the box, and what connects to what** — the facts easiest to state confidently from memory and get wrong. Two real errors on this material: asserting that a cinema camera's handle unit included a microphone holder (it does not), and calling a
Details
- Skill name
firsttake- Repository
- emersonsklar/firsttake
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Repo updated
- 30 October 2026
FAQ
What does the Firsttake skill do?
Use when planning, prepping, running, or debriefing a video shoot where the user is responsible for the recording — camera and audio settings, lighting placement, on-set checklists, footage QC, verified card offload and archiving, or a delivery spec for a post house. Also use for post-production on any footage, however it was shot — syncing angles that share no timecode, transcripts and speaker attribution, loudness and audio mastering, cutting, matching two cameras' colour or identifying a log format, and assembling an edit by script in DaVinci Resolve (recommended), Premiere Pro or CapCut (b
How do I install the Firsttake skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add emersonsklar/firsttake --skill firsttake. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Firsttake popular?
It lives in emersonsklar/firsttake, which has 5 GitHub stars and 1 forks.
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