Tella — I Use Claude to Edit Videos: Here’s My Exact Process

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In 6 months, only insane people will edit videos manually. Here’s exactly how to use Claude to add cuts, image overlays, transitions, memes etc. to your videos.

Difficulty level: 2/5

Chapters

00:00 Introduction 01:36 Rough Cuts 04:31 Image Overlays 08:28 Sound Effects 10:04 Using Memes 11:54 Transitions and Zooms 14:33 Short Form Content 16:12 Screen Recording Workflow 20:23 Generating Thumbnails 21:00 Conclusion

Relevant links

‘Cut Video’ skill (fast, harsh cut) → github.com/louisedesadeleer/cut-video ‘Clipify’ skill (long to short vids) → github.com/louisedesadeleer/clipify ‘Assets Slackbot’ skill → github.com/louisedesadeleer/slack-assets-bot Remotion → www.remotion.dev/ Tella MCP → www.tella.com/docs/mcp-server Record your screen with Tella → tella.com

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Key Insights

Some people are predicting that the future of video editing is going to be agentic. What that means is that we, people, won’t be editing our video, but AI tools like Claude will do everything from cutting out silences to adding transitions to adding cool zooms, b-roll, etc. The thing is, that future is already here. Just last week, I went viral on Twitter by sharing a clipping tool that turns long-form content into short-form content. I made that in an hour using Claude. My video on Remotion, where you can use Claude to generate motion graphics and you no longer need motion graphic skills to add to your videos, is now at 20,000 views. And some of my favorite creators like Renee are already editing their YouTube videos using Claude. Renee is actually the one who put me on to using Claude for video editing. I’ve since personalized my workflow a little bit, but credit’s due where it’s due. In this video, I’m sharing my end-to-end workflow using Claude to edit my videos. I’ll go over how it does things like cutting silences, ums, and ahs. It’ll find places to [music] add b-roll, as well as generate said b-roll either using tools like Seadance or, in our case, Remotion. [music] We’re going to create motion graphics. I’ll show you how you can easily add photos, sounds, etc. without going into your editor and actually finding the spots to add them. And I’ll hint at how you can turn longer-form content into social short-form content. You’ll also learn how, in this age of agentic editing, you can avoid all of your videos looking the same as other people’s videos by making sure that you use sounds that only you know or memes that are really niche or or really specific references. Let’s get into the workflow. Okay, step one of my video editing process is making a rough cut, a big cut, to remove any silences, repetitions, mistakes, filler words, etc. I created a skill for this that you can give to Claude or Codex, whatever you’re using. It removes all silences, etc. and makes a cut while preserving laughter for comedic effect. So, I’m going to show you how to use this [music] skill in Claude. We’re just going to open Claude, and then we’re going to go cut video. So, just to install this, if you haven’t done so already, just grab the the link to the skill and give it to Claude and say install this skill, and then you’re going to probably have to restart your terminal. So, here we have cut video. And then, what we need is obviously a source file or raw recording. This is a recording with my dad. It’s 7 and 1/2 minutes long. And as you can see, it hasn’t been cut at all. So, I’m going to give it that, and then we’re going to wait for the output. [music] If you don’t like this aggressive cut, I tend to cut all of the silences out and leave very little space just because I want my videos to be engaging to watch, then you can just prompt it and do this differently to match your editing style. Or, what I did to create this skill is actually gave it a reference video of mine initially, so it knows how I manually edit my videos. So, that might be an idea for you to customize it to your editing [music] style. Just so you know, it’s going on in the background. It’s easier to edit. And then, it uses tools like Whisper to analyze the transcript, as well as FFmpeg to look at the frames in the video, >> [music] >> and then it’s going to decide what to cut out. Just as a time estimate, there’s lucky days and unlucky days with Claude, but it takes a few minutes to make these cuts, especially if you’re asking for a lot of cuts. So, this is a 7-minute video, and it is already running for 3 minutes. But again, this means you won’t have to manually touch a video editor ever again, which I think it’s great. Especially if you build agents around this, you can just give your raw cuts and give it instructions on how to cut this, and it’ll do it in the background while you do other work. All right, it has outputted a video, and it reduced it by a minut

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