Cinematic Ads Used to Cost a Production Day. Now They Cost a Prompt.
Cinematic ad video used to cost a production day. Now it costs a prompt. The catch is that one render at a time still loses to Meta's Andromeda system, which rewards variant variety the manual workflow can't produce. This guide installs the Higgsfield MCP for Claude Code and walks the four-variant prompt that produces a stage-mapped ad set ready to upload.
Marlon Brand
Founder, Undeniable · Last updated April 2026
The Pipeline
There's a manual version of this workflow. One reference video, one Higgsfield session, one cinematic render in fifteen to thirty minutes. Real output. Publishable. The kind of thing that would have cost a production day a year ago. The full walkthrough lives at /ai-motion-control if you haven't seen it.
The math breaks the moment one render isn't enough. Twenty variants, mapped to four awareness stages, Reels-ratio, brand-color-locked, on the Meta Ads Manager upload before your next campaign launch. Twenty fifteen-to-thirty-minute manual sessions adds five-to-ten hours. You can't outrun your own browser tab.
If you don't have Claude Code installed and you're shipping one or two videos a month, the manual tutorial at /ai-motion-control still wins... no install cost, no MCP overhead. This guide is for the operator who already runs Claude Code and wants the same Higgsfield render to come out of their stack instead of their browser. Same render. Different surface. Variant velocity is what changes.
Manual wins for the first cinematic. The pipeline wins the moment Andromeda asks for variety.
Andromeda is Meta's 2024-launched ad delivery system that personalizes creative selection per impression. It rewards advertisers who ship many variants because it has more material to test inside each placement. The five-stage framework lives at /meta-ads-creative-framework. If you haven't mapped your funnel to awareness stages yet, read that first. The prompt in Section 03 maps four variants to four of those stages.
Two Install Paths
Two install paths, one for each Claude surface. Pick the one that matches your stack. Both paths need a Higgsfield account first... the free tier carries enough credits for the first prompt. Sign up at higgsfield.ai.
Path A · Claude Desktop, Claude.ai web, or Cowork
Open the app or claude.ai and go to Settings → Connectors. Click Add custom connector. Name it Higgsfield and paste the URL https://mcp.higgsfield.ai/mcp. Click Add → Connect. Sign in with your Higgsfield account when the browser tab opens.
The same Settings UI covers all three surfaces. Cowork lives inside Claude Desktop, so installing the connector once makes it available wherever you switch modes.
Path B · Claude Code terminal
One command:
claude mcp add --transport http higgsfield https://mcp.higgsfield.ai/mcp
Restart your Claude Code session. Run /mcp to authenticate. Claude Code opens your browser for the Higgsfield sign-in. After you sign in, the browser redirects to a localhost callback and Claude Code captures the token.
If the browser redirect fails, copy the full URL from your browser's address bar and paste it into the URL prompt that appears in Claude Code. That's the standard fallback when an OAuth callback doesn't land cleanly.
Path B is the right choice if you already run other Claude Code workflows from the same machine. The connector becomes available to every project. If you want it per-project, append --scope project to the command.
The First Prompt
Stage two files in your project's public/ folder before running the prompt: a brand.json with your color values and usage conventions, and a transparent-PNG logo. The /video-with-claude-code guide details the brand.json shape if you don't already have one.
The prompt below maps four variants to Meta's awareness-stage framework... where each variant addresses a different point in the buyer journey, from feeling-the-pain through ready-to-buy. One prompt produces four variants.
Create four 8-second video ad variants for The Setup Bundle, the "01 installation" path at weareundeniable.com/apply. Use Nano Banana Pro for the hero frame of each variant. Use Kling for the video render at 1080x1920 vertical (Meta Reels and Stories spec). Eight seconds each. Render all four into the asset library and return the four asset URLs. Each variant maps to a Meta awareness stage. Use the stage as the creative direction, not the explicit caption. Variant 01 ... Problem Aware Visual: a laptop at midnight, dim room, half-installed software on screen, hands hovering. No face on camera. Caption text on a single beat: "You bought the tools. You're still the install manager." Mood: dim, blue, tired. Mint accent on the caption only. Variant 02 ... Solution Aware Visual: split screen. Left side, the same dim solo install scene. Right side, two operators at a clean desk, one screen, focused. Caption text on a single beat: "Solo install. Or installed with you." Mood: comparison clean. Violet accent on the right side, mint accent on the caption. Variant 03 ... Product Aware Visual: tight kinetic typography of the stack landing on a deployed laptop screen. CLAUDE.md, Vercel, Supabase, Obsidian, WisprFlow, 1Password ... names appearing one beat each. Caption on the close: "Your stack. Wired and live. Two to four sessions." Mood: confident, full color brand palette, mint and violet accents on different layer names. Variant 04 ... Most Aware Visual: a clean offer card on rich-black background. Eyebrow in monospace mint: "// 01 installation". Headline in white: "Install the stack. Run your business on AI." Three monospace lines below: "Two to four sessions", "$2,000", "weareundeniable.com/apply". End frame: violet-to-mint gradient button reading "Apply for the Setup Bundle". Mood: clean, confident, no motion graphics drift. Aesthetic across all four: Read public/brand.json for exact color values and usage conventions. Use public/logo-white.png in the bottom-right corner from second two through the end on every variant. Background is rich black (#0A0A0A). Body text color is #E5E5E5. Eyebrows in monospace mint (#00FFB2). Headlines in sans-serif large white with key words emphasized in violet (#7B61FF). The final CTA button on Variant 04 uses the violet-to-mint gradient from brand.json. Text-forward kinetic animation. No stock motion graphics, no decorative icons. No em dashes anywhere in rendered text. Use ellipsis (...) for pauses.
When you paste this into Claude Code with the Higgsfield connector authenticated, Claude reads public/brand.json and public/logo-white.png from your project directory, then makes four sequential calls to the Higgsfield MCP: one Nano Banana Pro hero frame per variant, one Kling eight-second render per variant. The renders write to Higgsfield's asset library. Claude Code reads the resulting URLs and returns them in the terminal.
Four MP4s land. Eight seconds each. 1080x1920 vertical. Brand colors locked, logo placed bottom-right from second two onward. Click any URL to view, right-click to download, drag the files into Meta Ads Manager. Or pipe them straight to Meta if you have the Meta Ads Agent installed; that handles upload, naming, targeting, and launch.
Variants 01 through 04 cover Problem-Aware through Most-Aware. The fifth Awareness Stage, Unaware, is missing on purpose. Eight seconds isn't long enough to land an Unaware-stage ad, which usually needs longer narrative scaffolding to bring a viewer who doesn't yet know they have a problem to noticing one. Unaware reads better as a longer-form video (fifteen to thirty seconds) or static creative where the eye lingers. Run a separate prompt for that variant when you're ready.
Credit cost
Around 32 to 40 credits per four-variant render bundle (one Nano Banana Pro hero plus one Kling eight-second render per variant). On Higgsfield's Pro plan ($29/mo at 600 credits), that's roughly 15 to 18 four-variant bundles per month. The free tier covers a single bundle, enough to run the prompt once and verify the workflow. Live credit costs at higgsfield.ai/pricing.
Now Think About What You Just Did
You just produced four ad variants... mapped to four awareness stages... without opening a browser tab.
Six months ago this wasn't a stack call. It was a session in someone else's app.
Six months from now every operator will run their creative pipeline this way.
Right now... almost nobody does.
The variant velocity is what changes. One prompt. Four variants. Andromeda gets the spread it rewards. You stop being the bottleneck.
We're building the next layer of this for people who want to stop running it manually.
Who This Is Not For
This pipeline isn't every ad workflow. Skip it if any of these describe you:
- —Not for one-off cinematics. If you're shipping one or two videos a month, the manual workflow at /ai-motion-control wins... no install cost, no MCP overhead.
- —Not for Unaware-stage ads. Eight seconds isn't long enough to bring a viewer who doesn't know they have a problem to noticing one. Run a longer-form video for that variant.
- —Not for live-action footage. Higgsfield renders Nano Banana Pro frames and Kling video. If you need real on-camera talent, this is the wrong pipeline.
- —Not for operators who haven't installed Claude Code. Start at /learn-claude-code first; come back when the terminal is wired.
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