One line to copy. Everything else happens by itself.
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.
The setup
You will not open a terminal, you will not type a command, and you do not need to know what a shell is. Ten minutes, most of it spent waiting.
This is not the course. It is Anthropic’s own free app, and it is the thing that does the setup for you. If you already have Claude on this computer, skip to step 2.
Open it, sign in, and click the tab marked Code. It needs a paid Claude plan, so sign in on the address you actually pay with — signing in on the wrong one of your email addresses is the single most common way to lose half an hour here. On Windows, if it refuses to install and mentions trusted apps, switch on Settings → System → For Developers → Developer Mode and open it again.
Go to the Code tab, paste this in, and press return. That is the installation. Nothing to download, nothing to unzip.
https://claude-code-filmmakers-studio.pages.dev/install.md
Then leave it alone. It installs anything this computer is missing, builds your studio, and then interviews you about your work. On a Mac, two moments need you and only two — a window asking to install Apple’s developer tools, and GitHub showing you an eight-character code. On Windows there is nothing to click at all.
Would rather have a file?
One file, either way. Unzip it, drag the file named 1 - START HERE into Claude, press return. It is the same studio and the same installer.
On Windows you can skip Claude entirely: open the folder and double-click Run me first (Windows).cmd. It is native Windows — no WSL, no Linux, nothing to switch on. The Windows page walks through every box Windows puts in the way, including the one that makes a finished install look like a failed one.
The long version: what it is allowed to touch — every permission it takes and every one it refuses, in plain English. Two minutes, and it is the only reading this setup asks of you.
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.
A box, a blinking cursor, and ordinary sentences. There is nothing to learn and no commands to memorise.
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.
You should be able to read anything you run, so the installer is published in full: setup-elite-studio.sh. It is a plain text file, commented in English, and you never have to open it.