Claude just unlocked images and videos, and I believe this is one of its most powerful integrations yet. It's already mastered text. It's already mastered code generation.
And now with the new Higgs Field integration,
it is mastered image and video generation. In today's video, I'm going to be showing you how to connect Higgs Field to Claude,
which is the tool making all of this possible.
I'm going to show you how to generate your first image, even your first video.
And then I'm going to walk you through a fully automated marketing setup using Claude Code and how you can actually use this integration and how I'm going to be using it every single day to save myself hours per week. Let's get into it. How do we connect Claude to Hicksfield? Well, the setup is super easy, and they have multiple ways of going about it. You can connect to the MCP in things like Claude Chat and Claude Cowork, very simple setup that I'm going to show you today, and also the CLI, which is much more powerful than MCP.
It does take a little bit more technical experience in order to set this up, but I mean, at the end of the day, they give you copy and paste commands that you can just plug into your terminal,
and everything is going to be super easy, especially with this video because I'm just going to walk you through, hold your hand through the entire setup. Now what is Higgs Field? Before we get into it, before we learn how to set it up, first, let's learn a little bit about what Higgs Field is. Higgs Field is a spot where you get every image model pretty much on the planet that's worthy of using. So you have top tier models like Nano Banana two, you have Seadream five point o, you have GPT Image two, you have the Higgs Field models themselves,
you have a Grok Imagine, Flux two.
Any image model you can really want or would actually want to use, they have in here. So I hover over video. You can also see they've got the best video models in here too. I mean, look at this. They've got Cdance two point o, Cling three point o, Sora two, Google VO 3.1,
Grok Imagine,
WAN or WAN 2.7.
And so they've got pretty much every video model you can think of, every image model. And the nice part is is I'm not somebody who likes having a bunch of different subscriptions. Right? But I am someone who likes versatility.
Because some of these image and video models, you don't just wanna use one. You wanna access what those models do best, and Higgs Field allows you to do that. So let's learn how to set that up right now. In order to get to this page to follow along, I left my link in the description. Higgs Field is a sponsor of today's video, but I'm telling you right now, I've been using them for four months already. They wanted to be a sponsor after I already signed up and got using it and loved it. So I wouldn't be recommending this if I didn't absolutely
believe in it and if I wasn't using it myself.
But you can use my link in the description in order to get to this page, and then we can follow along together. So first, we're going to learn how to set it up with the MCP.
And you can honestly just follow their instructions, and then you can just watch me and watch where to click on the screen in order to access everything. So first, we need to open up our Claude settings. So you can do this on Claude web or Claude desktop. I always prefer Claude desktop.
What I'm going to do is open up my sidebar, but you wanna find the customize tab. Once you select customize,
it's going to take you to a screen where you can access something called connectors. So in the upper left hand corner, hit the connectors button.
Now you can hit this plus button at the top of the connectors panel,
and then you can select add custom
connector. As you can see, I already have Higgs Field activated down here, so let me just disconnect that so I can show you how to set it up. And like I said, you just wanna hit add custom connector.
And here, you get this screen where you can give it a name, and you can give it a remote MCP server URL, which is the URL Higgs Field provides you with in order to access the latest and greatest models and all of the prompting techniques. So I'm just going to name this Higgs Field connection. You can name it whatever you'd like. I recommend naming it Higgs Field something, though, so you understand what it is. And then if you use the link in the description, you can get to this page where you can copy this URL right here, and you can actually see everything that Higgs Field has to offer. So I'm going to copy this add a custom connector URL right here, and then I'm going to paste it in. And then I'm going to select add.
And as you can see right now, it's in my not connected section because what we need to do is we need to actually sign in to our Higgs Field account. So I'm going to select connect, then and it's going to take me to a page where I can actually sign in to my Hicksfield. So if you don't have a Hicksfield account right now, this is what it's going to look like. You can just continue with Google, create an account with an email. I'm just going to select continue with Google and sign in to my account that I have a paying subscription on. Alright. So I've selected my account,
and now it says Higgs Field wants to access
higgsfield.ai.
This is just with the Claude integration. So right now, this box is connecting Claude to our Higgs Field account. I can select allow.
This makes it super easy just to get up and running with Claude.
So now when I go back to the desktop app, as you can see, we are connected right here. Now this part is very important because over here on the right, you can see all of the tool permissions that you give Claude access to use from Higgs Field. You can go through here and you can decide which tools Claude either gets some access to or no access to by using the approval selections over on the right hand side. So if you want Clawd to always be able to generate images, for instance, and you don't even want it to ask you if it's okay to generate an image, you can just select always allow. You can select needs approval.
If you didn't want it generating images, then you could select blocked, but I don't think any of us want that right now. Okay. And now that we are all connected, the first thing to do is just to generate your first image in Claude chat. So it's going to use Higgs field. It's going to make the prompt for you. It's going to select the best model for whatever image you want, and then it's going to generate that in the chat. And so whatever's on your mind in terms of a vision that you have, a visual idea that you have, a comic book idea you have, a character that you have in your mind,
a thumbnail that you want, anything at all, Just tell
to generate that image, and it can generate that out of thin air and turn your messy thoughts into structured image props that create beautiful visuals. I could just say,
hey there, Claude. I want an image of a hyper realistic
pirate sailing on the sea with an eye patch, and I want a bunch of treasure behind him. But I really want this image to look realistic. I don't want it to be
cartoon style at all. I just want this to look like an actual image of a pirate sailing a ship with treasure behind him and maybe some torn sails on his sailboat.
And I really want this pirate to look real with his eye patch and his hat and his costume or whatever he's wearing.
Okay. So I don't need to know how to type in an image prompt. I just tell Claude exactly the thing that's on my mind. Maybe I want an image of a hyper realistic pirate for whatever reason. I can send this off, and watch what it's going to do. It already knows that it has access to Higgs Field because we've connected it. And you can check to see if it's truly connected by hovering over your connectors
and ensuring that it's turned on.
But look at this, Claudia's working right away. It's loading the tools that it has access to, and then it's using that Higgs field connection in order to generate this image. And it's not going to use this prompt in the image model,
but what it's going to do is create its own prompt. And as you can see, it's generating the image for us in line, and this is very quick. It went very fast, and it generated this image of a realistic pirate. The thing I want you to understand is
it chose the model for us, the best model for the job, and then it also created the prompt for us. So it turned my messy idea into a structured image prompt. Hyper realistic, photorealistic,
cinematic photograph of a weathered, rugged pirate captain standing at the helm of an old wooden sailing ship out on the open sea. And then it gets into the description, which we could
mess with if we wanted to create a character. But let's look at this huge prompt that it created. It's even talking about like 85 millimeter lens,
shallow depth of field, cinematic color grading, not CGI. It looks like an actual photograph.
And so it's getting into all of these, uh, technical image prompting terms, and it does the same thing with video. Now let me try animating this image and creating our first video. You can create videos out of thin air just like we did with the image, or you can take an image and make a video out of the image. And so I'm going to select this animate button down here in the bottom left hand corner, and I wanna show how you can animate this. So these buttons auto fill a prompt for you. It says, animate this reference image into a short video.
And then instead of prompt, I'm going to say,
uh, prompt,
but fix
this
prompt for me Claude,
so
it
works out better. What I can do is kinda type in what I want.
I want there to be a bunch of waves crashing, and the ship rocking back and forth,
and the pirate trying to steer the wheel with one hand. And initially, I want him to kind of look serious,
like he is in the image right now, but then I want him to start laughing at all of the madness happening on the boat.
Okay?
So I can
send off something like that,
and Claude's going to help fix my prompt, and then animate this into a video. So now we are creating our first video with the Higgs field integration. And our second image looks like it's still generating.
Sometimes I've noticed it gets stuck in this generating loop with image number two, if it's trying to generate two images. I haven't really figured out why, but I'm just going to keep on prompting,
and I'm telling Claude to animate this reference image into a short video, and it auto linked that image. And so as you can see, I want you to notice what it just did here. And this is one of the benefits of using a tool like Claude
with Higgs Field, because it's selecting what is best for the job that you want to accomplish. It says, animating this pirate now using Sea Dance two point o, which I'm not in the image and video space much, so I don't really know what is the best video model. But Claude does because Higgs Field tells it what the best video model is for the job. So it says reference driven, best identity match. And so if I would have said something else, maybe it would have picked a different video model. But I said, I want this pirate in the video. This is going to be a fifteen second video, which is pretty insane.
And it even has audio too. So you can tell it like, hey, I want this video five seconds.
I want there to be no audio, but I'm really interested to see how this entire thing turns out. Okay. So Higgs Field just generated the video. That did take a while, but it is a fifteen second video with audio.
So this isn't seven twenty p, which is not the best quality. You could generate this in a higher quality, but it is good to test on the lower quality so it doesn't take up more of your credits to see if it's the actual style you want. And then you can generate another one in the high quality once you find that style. But remember, we're just testing things out. We're generating the image. We're creating a video from the image. So let's just see how it did.
Wow. Okay.
Honestly, that was that was hilarious the way the hat flew on his head, and there was even a sound effect with that. But this video is actually insane. Like, for one prompt, this is all AI. This is not real.
The music,
the laughing, all the sound effects, literally everything is with AI. This is just insane. Alright. So we've played around. We've generated our first image. We've created our first video, which I recommend you do once you get this connected. Just mess around for a little bit. Get acclimated to how Claude actually creates image prompts, how it selects models. Try different things and even tell it different things, like generate two variations, three variations,
uh, make this four k, maybe edit the image that you generated a little bit. It doesn't have to be so cut and dry, but just have some fun with it and generate images and videos, get a feel for it, generate logos, designs. It doesn't have to be, uh, crazy things like I was generating, but try generating a design with your word mark or your business name. Try to create
house architecture mock ups. Whatever's like an actual use case that you could think of for image and video,
try it out. But now I wanna show you how to set up an even more powerful version of Higgs Field through the CLI and how to connect it to Claude Code, and I'm going to be setting up a marketing automation
live that creates YouTube video thumbnails for me. The exact same thumbnail that you're seeing on this video or a variation of it is going to be one that I generate with Higgs Field. So I want to actually use what I'm preaching, and that's how I'm going to be using it. So if you clicked on this video, chances are maybe the thumbnail pulled you in, which was created with Higgs Field. How about we get into it? I'm going to show you the entire setup, the entire workflow of how I would use Higgs Field in a production
environment,
not just playing around with and Claude CoWork.
Alright. So let me just break down the project brief for this YouTube thumbnail automation. Now the current time spent per video for me is one hour per video. And if I wanna be uploading three videos per week, that's three hours per week of me physically creating
thumbnails. Now I could delegate this to somebody, but that would cost a lot of money compared to what Higgs Field and Claude cost me. So let's take a look at the current process of how are things currently getting done. Now this is going to be a knowledge transfer from me to you about how I think about
automating certain processes of my business. So my current process
is I film a video, which obviously is done by me. I discover which title I wanna use for that video, and once I discover the title, title and thumbnails go together. So I research similar video thumbnails
that people are using based on the video idea. So I'll literally go on YouTube and kind of see what other thumbnails people are having, so I can replicate success.
And then I have to open up Photoshop, which takes time.
I have to create the thumbnail by myself.
I have to compress the thumbnail size to make sure that it can do okay on YouTube and doesn't hit its upload limit. Then I've gotta download it to my desktop, and only then can I upload the thumbnail on YouTube? So there are multiple steps that go into me creating a thumbnail.
And the thing I want you to keep in mind is all of this requires me understanding how to use Photoshop in the first place, how to understand that there is a thumbnail compression size that needs to be met. I need to understand all of the domain expertise that's required for creating successful thumbnails that work, which took years of practice. Like, I'm not kidding. I'm 22 now, and I've been making thumbnails since I was 14. So it's taken me almost ten years to perfect it, and find a style that works for my channel. And so when you compare this to the Claude process of what we're going to be building together today, it's much, much simpler.
I go from having one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight steps, to having one, two, three steps.
And these steps aren't even the most time consuming ones. The ones that Claude can handle are. So now, all I wanna do at this step right here, in between my title discovery and the research,
is prompt Claude
exactly what my video title is and the idea of the thumbnail that I want. And so what Claude can do with my idea
is it can take my title along with the idea, and it can actually go search YouTube and go find the top videos for me. It can then download the thumbnail images of those videos,
perform a research analysis on it, and then with all of its research, with my idea injected,
my image assets that I have, my logo assets that I upload, what it can do is it can create the thumbnail for me on Higgs Field in the background. I don't even have to be there. Once I type in my title and an idea,
I can just go about my day and do whatever high leverage work I need to be doing. You can use my link in the description in order to get to this page, and it's going to help the channel a lot, so I would appreciate it if you did. Uh, and next, we need to go to instead of MCP, we need to click on CLI.
And what this is going to allow us to do is install
Higgs field through our terminal so we can use it with something like Claude Code, which is much more powerful than Claude Cowork. So what I'm going to do is step one, I'm going to install it. So I'm just going to hit this copy button, and then I'm going to go and open up a terminal. You can just paste in that command to your terminal,
and then you can hit enter. And then it's going to install the Higgs Field CLI right on your computer. Now NPM install might not work. You might need something else installed on your machine first in order to run these NPM commands.
But if you do, just copy and paste what you need into Claude, and Claude will help give you the commands you need in order to install everything,
uh, that's a prerequisite to being able to do Higgs Field CLI.
But this is only going to take a couple of seconds. As you can see, added one package in thirty six seconds.
And after it's added that package,
what we need to do is we need to go back and we need to copy the other command. And so we need to do the authentication.
So basically, when we copy this and we paste it into our terminal,
what that's going to do is
ask us to log in to our Higgs Field account. So if I send off Higgs Field auth login after we have it installed, it opens the browser for us.
And what we can do is hit connect, very similar to the MCP server,
and it says device authorized. You can close this tab. So when I go back to my terminal, you can see waiting for approval, successfully
authenticated.
Perfect.
Now what we can do is we can install the skills.
The skills are what makes Higgs Field super powerful. It's what gives Claude access to all of the internal knowledge created by the Higgs Field team in order to turn Claude into an actual professional Higgs Field user. And so I'm going to go back to this page, and I'm going to copy this terminal command right here, and this is going to plug skills into your agents. So ensure that you have ClaudeCode desktop installed,
which if you have the Claude desktop app, and you have ClaudeCode over here, then you are good to go. And this is super easy to use. You don't have to use ClaudeCode in your terminal. You don't have to be a developer. The word code is intimidating, but don't worry about it. Um, just make sure you have Claude desktop, and then you can go back to your terminal.
You can paste in that third command, the skills command on that page. And when you hit enter, it's going to open up this nice looking window where it says skills,
and you're going to be able to install all of these skills into your ClaudeCode agent. In my opinion, you wanna be selecting
all of these skills. So you can use your arrow keys on your keyboard,
and you can hit space bar in order to select a skill. So
hit space bar on that first skill, I'm gonna arrow down, hit space bar on the second, space bar on the third, and space bar on the fourth. And so we want all of these skills installed, I'm going to select enter, now that we have those. And here, I mean, if you have other agents, you can select them. Right? If you have it set up with Hermes agent, you can do that. If you have, uh, Open Claw, you can set it up there. I'm just going to want to select Clawed Code. And so I'm going to hit space bar on Clawed Code in order to select it, and then hit enter.
And now it's asking where do you want to install this? Do want to install it in your current folder that you're opened up in in your terminal, or globally? I want to install this in my home directory. So whatever project I'm in in Cloud Code or Cloud Cowork, it can just access this wherever, because I wanna be versatile. I wanna be able to do that. So going to select global,
and then hit enter.
And then I will just do the recommended installation method,
which is SIM link. So I will hit enter,
proceed with installation,
I will select yes.
Just like that, the installation's complete. It walks you through nice and easy. All you're doing is just basically confirming some things. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to make sure after I've been installed that I go over to Claude Code. And then I can create a new folder, and this is going to be the folder that Claude Code is working out of in writing thumbnails to or images or videos to. So it's important that you organize this correctly.
I'm going to create a new folder and call this
marketing
automation.
I'll hit create,
and then I'm going to select a new folder,
and then I'm going to call this assets.
When I'm creating these folders,
I'm trying to keep in mind what would I need in order to create successful thumbnails.
I would need an assets folder for things like images of me so it can use me as a reference image, and also logos that I wanna use for certain videos. So I can start developing this logo library,
this image library of myself. I just wanna give Claude access
to certain elements that it can use in order to create the best looking thumbnails possible. So I'm going to select in this assets folder, and right now I'm just like scaffolding my Claude code folder environment. Right? This isn't something that you have to do. Claude code can do this for you, but I just like doing it as good practice. So within my assets folder, I'm going to create another folder called
images of me, and then I'm going to go back, and then create another folder in assets called
logos,
And I will hit create.
And so now what I can do is I can work with Claude Code in my root marketing folder,
and then I can hit open. And as you can see, now we are working in this marketing automation folder. So I can say to Claude,
hey there, Claude. I've created this marketing automation folder because I want to use Higgs Field in order to create
YouTube video
thumbnails.
And the process I want this to go through is I want to be able to just come to this chat, this folder right here in Claude Code, and I wanna be able to tell you my video title. When I tell you my video title, I just want you to create the thumbnail by first researching other successful thumbnails using a couple of keywords in order to find the best performing videos,
and then I want you to use Higgs field in order to create those thumbnails
and put them as maybe four or five variations within this folder.
So first, want you to scaffold this folder however you want in order to work best.
And in order to research the videos, I'm going to be giving you a rapid API
YouTube endpoint that you can use in order to get videos,
and in order to, uh, use search queries on YouTube.
And so what I did right there was I basically just told Claude everything that I wanted it to do. And so
I told it the process that it's going to be going through, and then I told it another tool that I'm going to give it so it can actually use YouTube programmatically,
and it doesn't need to be online in order to run it. And so I'm just going to send this off,
and now I'm going to go fetch that RapidAPI
YouTube endpoint. So I'm on rapidapi.com,
and what I'm going to do is go to the API hub. I've already signed in, and they've got a ton of different APIs you can use here, like LinkedIn profile data, real time LinkedIn scraper,
uh, Twitter API. But they also have this YouTube API, which I've hearted because I use it all the time. So if I select this for exploration on YouTube, like just like typing in a general YouTube search query, they have that.
And all you need to do is give this code snippet to Claude.
You can copy that and give it to Claude,
and you can use your,
uh, Rapid API key here. Then we can give it another endpoint, which is get video details.
And what this endpoint does right here is it allows Claude to select a specific video
from the searched videos on this search endpoint,
and pull in and download the thumbnail of the top performing videos. So it's super easy to get set up. I'm just going to go give Claude all of these, uh, code snippets here. I'm just going to hit copy on the search code snippet. I'm going to go over to Claude,
and while I have some questions to answer, I'm going to type in searching videos,
endpoint,
enter down, paste it in, then I'm going to put
get video
thumbnails
endpoint,
and then I can go get that one from rapid API as well. I'm going to do get video details v two, then I'm going to copy this request.
Now in order to use something like this, you do have to be subscribed to it. I'm on the basic $0
a month plan, and it's been working out pretty nicely for me. But if I ever need to upgrade, I will. You get some decent usage actually on the basic plan, which is great. So now I'm going to paste that endpoint in there as well. You can just queue up this message and send it off, and now Claude can use this whenever it's ready.
Right now live, Claude is scaffolding this automation environment. As you can see, Claude is just going to work with creating its own little system here for marketing. It even created a Claude MD file,
which are instructions
for how it should perform
when it's within this folder.
For assets,
I can upload the images of me while we wait and the logos.
These are all the images I have of me. As you can see, if I go to the mind blown one, and then I go to edits,
I have this mind blown photo of me that it can use, maybe if something crazy happened in the AI world. Because remember, Claude is working out of this folder, so it can actually go in here and grab those images of me, upload them to Higgs Field as examples, and say, hey, want you to use this guy, this character
in this YouTube video thumbnail, and it can prompt it however it needs to. And so now for logos, I'm going to go upload some of those, maybe a Claude and a Higgs Field logo to start, Maybe even my AI foundations logo, I can drag that into the assets just in case I ever need to use that. And so now Claude is going to have access to its own logo, Higgs Field logo, and my company logo. And so now that I have Rapid API connected, allows me to search YouTube and get YouTube video thumbnails, now that I have images of me, now that I have the logos uploaded,
Higgs Field connected through the CLI,
Claude can use all of that stuff. So let me just test this out. I can say,
okay. I want my first thumbnail generated of me. And in this thumbnail, I want to be holding up the Claude logo and the Higgs Field logo,
and I want there to be big white text behind me that says, just unlocked, with a nice dark grid background.
And I want this to be pretty simple, because I'm making a video called
Claude
Just Unlocked Image and Video
Full Marketing Build, or Higgs Field Integration.
Um, I'm not really sure, but the idea of this video is I want this to be based around Claude and Higgs field, and I wanna be holding up the logos with one of those reference images of me. And so I just gave it that natural language prompt. And as you can see, it's already pulling in top Claude code tutorials,
which is great. And it's pulling in the thumbnails in under three seconds with that rapid API key, which is beautiful. You should probably type that in a little bit different rather than just pasting it in. It's probably not best practices. And if you wanna learn more about Claude code and all of this stuff, this automation,
we have a full course on it in our AI foundations community. I'll leave that in the pinned comment below or in the description. You can check out our community as well where we teach you how to automate your entire business using Claude Code. But let's send this off and see how it does. So as you can see, it's pulling in the images of me that I put in the folder, and it's, uh, showing me which one it's picking here,
and then it says which one is the clear winner. Both hands are already raised in perfect holding logo pose.
And then it says checking GPT image two schema for multi reference
support, and now it's starting to write prompts and generate that variation. So you can see the prompt in here. You can see the resolution's high quality. It's two k quality. You could even go four k if you wanted. And the aspect ratio, 16 to nine, is the exact aspect ratio needed
for a good thumbnail. And so it's trying to use GPT image two. It's selecting the model for us. It's creating the prompt for us. All I had to do was gather the assets together,
which Claude can even give you the assets,
but then it does everything for you. So technically, all I would need to do is type in a YouTube video title,
and it would create a thumbnail for me. Okay. And so variation
one just got created,
it says it's already a winner. Let's check it out. So if we click this link, this is a link that's actually on our desktop. If you're not familiar with Claude Code or Claude Cowork and the way these tools work, they work from your desktop. So they're actually downloading things and completing tasks, and then uploading them to your computer, your local machine. So now
I have a thumbnails folder that I can go to, and after I type in my title, that's it. That's all I need to do, and it will create those for me. So let me click on this and see how it did.
Okay. So this is thumbnail variation one. I mean, this looks identical to me. It kept exactly
what I look like, especially when my hair gets longer. It starts parting down the middle like that. Has the Higgs Field logo, the Claude logo, and it says just unlocked. I don't know if I'll use this one for the video,
but this actually looks sick, and this would have taken a long time to get me holding these logos in my hands.
This is not something that's like a beginner level thumbnail creation. So this was the Claude X Higgs Field integration. It's an insane integration. I was using Higgs Field before, but now I'm going to be using it even more considering upgrading my plan and developing my entire automated marketing
and graphic design agency.
So if you did enjoy this video, please drop a like and subscribe. I would highly appreciate it. If you wanna see more content like this in the future, let me know in the comments, and make sure you use my Higgs Field link, because that tells Higgs Field and myself
people like this style of video. And so I will replicate this style of video in the future. Alright. I'll see you in the next video.