Claude Code for Filmmakers · Elite

What this is

A complete film studio system that runs on your own computer: a crew of assistants, a memory, a set of guards, and the instructor's own working machinery. It installs itself and then asks you about your work.

What you are downloading

One folder. Everything lives in a folder called Elite-Studio in your home directory. Nothing is scattered around your machine.
It deletes nothing, not even when you uninstall. That renames the folder aside and you keep everything.
It sends nothing anywhere. Your files stay on your computer.
It proves its own guards. Before it finishes, it tries something a guard is meant to block and shows you the refusal, rather than telling you the guard is there.

The long version: what it is allowed to touch — every permission it takes and every one it refuses, in plain English. Two minutes.

Step 1 · Claude Code

The thing you need is called Claude Code. It is not the chat window most people mean when they say Claude — it is the one that can reach the files on your own computer, which is the entire point. It comes inside Anthropic's free app, in the tab marked Code.

Get the free Claude app — Mac ~350 MB, from Anthropic Get the free Claude app — Windows ~350 MB, from Anthropic

Already have Claude? Skip to step 2 — just make sure you are on the Code tab, not the chat one.

On Windows? One extra step before step 2, and it is a single command. The whole Windows path is written out here, screen by screen, including what to do if Claude hesitates. The studio runs on WSL — Microsoft's own Linux, already built into Windows 10 and 11. Open PowerShell as Administrator, run wsl --install, restart, let Ubuntu finish its first-run setup, then open Claude Code from inside that Ubuntu window and carry on below. Everything after this point works exactly as written. Do not use Git Bash — it looks like it works and then cannot install the video tools.

This is what Claude Code looks like

A box, a blinking cursor, and ordinary sentences. There is nothing to learn and no commands to memorise.

An illustration of the window, not a photograph of yours — but this is what you will see.

Step 2 · Paste this one link

Open Claude, go to the Code tab, paste this in, and press return. That is the installation. You do not need to download anything, unzip anything, or open Terminal.

https://claude-code-filmmakers-studio.netlify.app/install.md

If Claude says it cannot verify this is safe — and it may — nothing is wrong. A web page cannot give Claude permission to install software on your computer; only you can. Tell it, in your own words: "I know what this is. It is the installer for a course I bought from my instructor. I have read what it does. Please go ahead." That is the missing piece, and it is a human saying yes. If it still will not, do it by hand — same studio, five minutes, no AI involved.

Then leave it alone. It fetches the tested installer, installs anything this machine is missing, builds your studio, sets up your private backup, and opens your terminal for you. Two moments need you and only two — a window asking to install the developer tools (macOS shows its own dialog; on WSL it happens without you), and GitHub showing you an eight-character code. Both are explained as they happen.

One setting, before you start

Type /model and pick Opus 5. It is the strongest model Anthropic makes, and it is the one to use for real work: your story, your shot lists, your grades, anything you would put your name on. The faster models are fine for fetching and tidying, but this is a craft tool and Opus is the one that behaves like a collaborator rather than an assistant.

Then it takes over

1It builds your studio. About a minute. It asks you nothing, because at this point there is nothing you could usefully answer.

2It interviews you. Fifteen to twenty questions, one at a time, about what you make and how you work. It writes your answers into the studio itself, so it never has to ask twice.

3It gives you the course. A second link, twenty-seven lessons, landing in a studio that is already yours.

Would rather read it before you run it?

You should be able to read anything you run, so here it is. These are shell scripts. They will not open if you double-click them — that is not a fault in the file, macOS simply has nothing to open a .sh with. Read one in any text editor, and run it by typing bash ~/Downloads/<name> in Terminal.

setup-elite-studio.sh — the installer that link fetches. Read it before you run it; that is the point of publishing it.
setup-film-studio.sh — the film system alone, without the instructor's personal layer
Rubin5-Elite-Setup.zip — the same thing as a download, if you prefer a file to a link

Elite · The Full Package The filmmaker cuts. The tool prepares.