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I Fired My VFX Editor & Built This Claude Skill Instead

A screen-recorded walkthrough of a Claude Code skill that transcribes a talking-head video, plans motion-graphic compositions sentence by sentence, and renders branded YouTube intros and chapter cards for under $10.

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Big Idea

The argument in one line.

A Claude Code skill can transcribe a talking-head video, plan sentence-by-sentence motion graphics, and render a branded YouTube intro for under ten dollars, replacing a hired VFX editor for that task.

Who This Is For

Read if. Skip if.

READ IF YOU ARE…
  • A solo YouTuber or small channel who can't afford a dedicated motion graphics editor but wants branded intros and chapter cards.
  • A creator already using (or willing to pay for) Claude Code who wants to automate one narrow production task instead of building a full custom pipeline.
  • Someone comfortable feeding a video file path into an AI coding tool and reviewing a generated plan before it renders.
SKIP IF…
  • You need full rough-cut editing, music, sound design, or a complete finished video — this skill only handles intro and chapter-card graphics.
  • You don't already have Claude Code access and aren't willing to pay usage costs — the video is explicit that running this isn't free.
  • Your channel doesn't shoot face-to-camera talking-head segments — the compositions are built around dialogue synced to a speaker.
TL;DR

The full version, fast.

The video demonstrates a Claude Code skill, built on Remotion, that automates YouTube intro and chapter-card motion graphics for talking-head videos. Feed it a rough-cut file path and it transcribes the dialogue, then maps each sentence to a composition idea — a 75/25 split, a 50/50 liquid-glass split, a full-screen counter, an animated subscribe pill — reads the video's own frames so graphics don't overlap the presenter, and renders a frame-rate-matched MP4 that drops straight onto the timeline. The creator still reviews and can redirect the plan before rendering, and each run reportedly costs well under $10 in Claude usage. The skill deliberately does not do rough cuts, music, sound design, or full-video edits — it pairs with a separate rough-cut skill and stays scoped to short branded graphics segments.

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Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:0001:38

01 · Cold open + channel intro

Opens with the claim that one Claude skill built every motion graphic in the video, then the creator introduces himself and the channel's AI-systems focus.

01:3802:59

02 · What the skill does

A five-item on-screen list walks through the skill's pipeline: transcribe dialogue, plan pacing and compositions, get creator approval, then render to brand or style — plus a note that it costs real Claude usage, not free.

02:5904:10

03 · What the skill doesn't do + handoff

The creator draws a hard boundary — no rough cuts, music, sound effects, or full videos — then hands a rough-cut file, produced by a separate 'Perfect Cuts' skill, into the motion-graphics skill.

04:1006:31

04 · Claude's plan, review, and first render

The skill returns a full composition plan mapped to timestamps and sentences; the creator reviews it against the source footage in Premiere, requests one revision, approves the rest, and kicks off the render — which fails twice from server overload before succeeding.

06:3107:58

05 · First render reveal

The rendered MP4 drops straight onto the Premiere timeline, frame-rate matched to the source, and the creator walks through all five composition styles it produced: 75/25 split, 50/50 liquid glass, CTA banner, full-screen counter, and animated subscribe pill.

07:5810:16

06 · Second use case: custom mid-video composition

Applying the same skill to a mid-video segment, the creator feeds it a pre-written bullet list plus instructions to reuse the liquid-glass styling, building two 50/50-split panels explaining what the skill does and doesn't do.

10:1611:36

07 · Frame-reading + second render

The skill reads the video's actual frames before rendering so graphics don't collide with the presenter's face or a screen-share moment, then renders a larger roughly 3,000-frame composition as a background task.

11:3614:09

08 · Reveal, reaction, and CTA

The creator drops the second render onto the timeline live on camera, reacts with genuine excitement to the result, then closes with a free advisory-call offer and a pitch to download the skill file from a free community.

Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

  • A single AI coding skill can transcribe a video, plan motion-graphic compositions sentence by sentence, and render branded intro graphics without a dedicated VFX editor.
  • Reading a video's own frames before rendering lets an AI skill avoid placing text or graphics on top of a presenter's face or screen-share.
  • Matching a rendered graphic's output to the original footage's exact frame rate prevents dropped or duplicated frames when it's placed on an existing timeline.
  • Branded YouTube intro graphics generated by this workflow reportedly cost well under $10 in AI credits per video.
  • Splitting production into narrow, single-purpose AI skills — one for rough cuts, one for motion graphics — produced more reliable results than asking one tool to do everything.
  • A creator can review an AI-generated composition plan mapped to exact timestamps and request specific revisions before committing to a multi-minute render.
  • Rendering roughly 3,000 frames of custom motion graphics took about ten minutes end-to-end in this workflow.
  • Style presets — a liquid-glass look, a synthwave look, an Anthropic-branded look — let a creator apply consistent branding across many compositions without manual design work per graphic.
  • The tool is explicitly not built for full video edits, music, or sound design — only short graphics segments like intros and chapter cards.
  • Heavy concurrent demand on an AI provider's servers can cause a render to silently fail, requiring multiple retry attempts before it succeeds.
Takeaway

A narrow AI skill can replace hired VFX work

AI PRODUCTION WORKFLOW

Splitting video production into narrow, single-purpose AI skills — one for rough cuts, one for motion graphics — produced more reliable results than asking one tool to do everything.

02What the skill does
  • The skill runs a five-step pipeline: transcribe the dialogue, plan pacing and per-sentence compositions, get your approval, apply your brand or a preset style, then export a matched MP4.
  • Every intro render, chapter cards included, reportedly cost well under $10 in Claude usage — it isn't free to run, just cheap relative to hiring an editor.
03What the skill doesn't do + handoff
  • The workflow chains two narrow, single-purpose AI skills — one that produces the rough cut, a separate one that adds motion graphics — rather than one skill trying to do both.
  • Choosing a video type upfront (intro vs. chapter card vs. fully custom) lets the same underlying templates and branding logic apply to different placements in a video.
04Claude's plan, review, and first render
  • Before rendering anything, the skill returns a full composition plan mapped to specific sentences and timestamps, so problems can be caught before committing render time.
  • A first render attempt failed multiple times due to the AI provider being overloaded and only succeeded on a third attempt — real production runs should budget for retries during high-demand periods.
05First render reveal
  • A rendered graphic automatically matches the source footage's frame rate, so it drops onto an existing timeline without dropped or duplicated frames.
  • A single first-pass render, with no manual touch-up, produced five distinct composition styles in one video: a 75/25 split, a 50/50 liquid-glass split, a CTA banner, a full-screen counter, and an animated subscribe pill.
06Second use case: custom mid-video composition
  • The same skill handles more than intros — feeding it a mid-video segment plus a short bullet list let it build a custom two-panel explainer composition.
  • Providing a pre-written bullet list, rather than relying on the raw transcript alone, gave the skill cleaner source material to organize into on-screen text.
07Frame-reading + second render
  • The skill reads actual video frames before rendering so graphics don't get placed on top of the presenter's face or a screen-share — a fix for a problem encountered early on.
  • A larger, more complex composition (roughly 3,000 frames) took proportionally longer to render than the shorter intro graphic, so render time scales with the amount of animated content requested.
Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

75/25 split
A composition template that fills 75% of the frame with animated text or graphics and leaves 25% for the presenter's video, used for statement-heavy beats.
50/50 liquid glass split
A composition template that divides the frame evenly between a translucent 'liquid glass' graphic panel and the presenter, used for two-part or definitional statements.
Rough cut
A first-pass edit that selects and orders usable footage from raw recordings before any titles, music, or motion graphics are added.
Remotion
A framework for building and rendering video graphics and animations using code, which underlies the custom motion-graphics templates in this workflow.
Frame-rate matching
Rendering an output video at the exact frame rate of the source footage so it drops onto an existing timeline without dropped or duplicated frames.
Perfect Cuts
A separate AI skill referenced in the video that automates rough-cut editing by chopping raw footage into a cleaned-up sequence before any graphics are added.
Perfect VFX
The AI coding skill demonstrated in the video; it transcribes a video, plans motion-graphic compositions per sentence, and renders them as an MP4 to overlay on the footage.
Resources

Things they pointed at.

00:06toolClaude Code
03:24toolPerfect Cuts
Quotables

Lines you could clip.

00:06
One Claude skill automated all of the motion graphics that you will see in this video.
cold-open hook stating the entire premise in one sentenceTikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
03:02
Every single intro that I've run so far with chapter cards has cost me well under $10.
concrete, surprising price point that undercuts the assumption AI video tools are expensiveIG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
06:20
We'll let Claude cook and see what he comes up with.
casual catchphrase that captures the hands-off render momentnewsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
12:08
Oh, it's butter.
genuine, unscripted reaction to the finished render — pure payoff energyTikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
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00:00One Claude skill automated all of the motion graphics that you will see in this video. The problem is that most YouTubers don't have the skills to make professional motion graphics on their own, or they don't have the money to hire a professional video editor to do it for them. In this video, I'm going to show you one Claude skill that can make all of your YouTube motion graphics completely for you.
00:22This skill will map out everything you say, determine the best types of compositions for each sentence, and then it will build your motion graphics based on your branding or the style of your choice. If you stick until the end of this video, I'll show you exactly where you can download this Claude skill completely for free.
00:39My name is Vic. Content is my business. I've gotten over 200,000,000 views across my network of channels and have made millions online as a creator.
00:47This channel is about creating AI systems for human content. So if you're a human and you make content, make sure you subscribe and turn on the notification bell because I'm giving away free skills and free workflows every single video. Before we go over exactly how to use this skill and what the outcomes will be, I first wanna cover what the skill does and what the skill does not do.
01:08Because my goal with this channel is to create skills that produce incredible results, and each skill focuses on a different component of the creation process. Rather than trying to jam every component and every process into one skill and have mediocre results. So this skill in particular, first off, works best with YouTube video intros and also can do chapter titles.
01:31So, like, full title card, full screen. It can also make YouTube outros as well. How it works is it transcribes dialogue from your video, and it is meant for more talking head videos like this.
01:43Then it determines the pacing. It determines different composition ideas, and it provides you with a game plan. You either give the green light or tell Claude what you wanna fix and what you wanna add.
01:52Then you give your design parameters, maybe your fonts, your colors, or you just pick one of the preset styles that I made. I have a liquid glass style.
02:02I have a synth wave style, and I also have, like, the standard Claude look, like the Anthropic branding. Claude will go ahead and cook, and at the end of all of it, it'll give you an m p four that you can pop right on your timeline to overlap the footage that you originally put together. Now this goes right into what this skill doesn't do.
02:18So this skill does not do your rough cuts. I actually have a completely different skill for that, which does rough cuts insanely well. That skill is called the perfect cut skill.
02:27You can get it in this video right here, and I'm using it in this video as well just in the next segment. This skill does not do music. It does not do sound effects.
02:36It is not meant for full videos. You don't just drop a full video. I mean, technically, it could, but it's gonna be really expensive, I think, in credits.
02:44Optimally, you use this for your YouTube intros and then chapter cards throughout the video just to add some spice. And I know I'm gonna get a lot of comments asking, so no. It's not free to run this.
02:55You do need to pay for Claude code, but you can definitely run this on Opus, and every single intro that I've run so far with chapter cards has cost me well under $10. So this is the actual intro that you just watched.
03:09I haven't done the VFX on it yet, and my perfect cut skill actually chopped this up for me. I just did a very quick run through and a little bit of a cleanup, nothing crazy. And I actually have that file right here.
03:19So I'm gonna right click it, and I'm going to copy as file path. You can also get the file path at the bottom of your screen. If you're on Mac, you just right click the file path that's at the bottom.
03:28I'm going to come back over to my friend Claude, and I'm going to start up the perfect VFX skill.
03:34So once I run the skill, the first thing it's gonna ask me is what type of video is this? It is a YouTube intro. That's what I'm gonna be doing, but you could do a chapter card or you could do completely custom because it is using Remotion.
03:47Now you could argue that you could just use Remotion on your own, but the styles and the branding logic and the different templates that I built out are only available in this skill, which you can still leverage under custom. But I'm gonna use YouTube intro. So I already have the file path copied.
04:01There it is right there, and I will just let it run. This will probably take a bit of time because it's gonna map the whole video out. Claude just gave us back our pass on the entire intro and its complete plan on what it wants to do.
04:14So it's actually outlining the line, the sentence that I said here and which time that happened. Since I still have Premiere open right here, I can go and reference that just to see if I wanna do what it's recommending. Right away, it's saying it's gonna do a 75 split statement, automated all of the motion graphics.
04:30A 75 split is just one of the templates I made where I take up 75% of the screen and the rest is the graphics. I'm curious to see how big this text is.
04:41I wanna make sure that it's big. Then saying YouTubers don't have the skills or the money, it wants to do a fifty fifty split. So I'll be 50%, and it's gonna do kind of like this liquid glass thing with text on it.
04:52It's gonna do another 75 split here, a CTA banner when I mentioned the Claude skill. Then when I say over 200,000,000 views, it's actually into a full screen statement with over 200,000,000 view counter counting up.
05:04And then when I tell everyone to subscribe, it's gonna actually say subscribe with the pill at the bottom and the notification bell clicking. Pretty clean. My only worry is that the 75 splits don't turn out that great, but I'm curious to see how it how it runs.
05:15So I'm just gonna transcribe to Claude what I think you should do. This looks really good. I'm really excited.
05:20My only worry is that the text on the 75 splits don't fill up enough space. I'm wondering if there's any graphical element that you can add to the 75 split with the text as well.
05:34Okay. So it says fair worry. I read the actual 75 split component to ground this and saying what I would actually do.
05:40Okay. Once I actually make an improvement on the skill itself, so you guys are getting a little upgrade. Let's run one and two for now.
05:49Alright. So now I've given it its final okay. I've approved everything else that it did.
05:54I just wanted clarity on how it was gonna handle this first one because it's the first shot of the video and it matters a lot. Worked with it a little bit, got some feedback. It already knows that I'm looking for the liquid glass style, and now it's running.
06:06This probably is going to take about ten minutes, I found, around that. This is when it's gonna do the actual rendering of the video. So we'll let Claude cook and see what he comes up with.
06:16A few moments later. Alright. Claude just gave us back after a while.
06:22I I'm having a lot of errors with Claude itself right now. Like, we're getting overloaded service. So Claude at Anthropic is, like, literally getting overloaded.
06:31So I think that it failed a couple times, but we were able to get this back after the third attempt running it through the Claude servers. I'm I guess the whole world is using Claude right now. Nothing we can do about it.
06:43So it did take a little longer than normal, but we got it back. So I have the file right here. I'm just gonna drop it right on my timeline.
06:50This is how we would install it into the video. One thing I made sure to do was to make it recognize the frame rate of the original source and actually match it by frames.
07:00So whatever you in and out, it'll recognize that source, and then it'll export the exact same way so nothing ever gets mismatched, and you're not, like, missing frames on the final output. So you've already seen the intro. I'm literally using the first one I rendered.
07:15So you can see this is the 75 split composition.
07:19That's a style that we created. Then all the transitions too are automatic. This is the fifty fifty split with the liquid glass background.
07:27This is also a 75 split. This is the CTA banner template. This is the full screen title card template, and then the subscribe with the notification bell clicking on the mouse there.
07:40And, like, this is first pass. I I didn't do this a second time. This is just what the skill produces with the style that I have mapped out.
07:48That style was the liquid glass style as I talked about before, but there are different styles that are baked into this skill already. So that is how you create intro graphics. Now let's think about the middle of the video, and you have some diagram or some text that you wanna visualize on screen.
08:05I already did that in this video. It's right after the intro. But it's funny how I, like, inception things when I make these videos because, like, it's edited now for you, but it it isn't right now for me.
08:16So this is actually right after the intro of this video when I'm explaining what the skill does and it doesn't do. As you can see, I've already chopped up the remainder of this video with perfect cuts. I gotta go through and clean it up, but I had cleaned up this area.
08:29It just took, like, two minutes. And I'm just gonna export this area where I explained what the skill does, what the skill doesn't do, and I'm gonna give it to my perfect VFX skill and just give it a little more direction on what my vision for this is.
08:44This would be kind of like that custom setting that I showed in the intro of this video. So here's Claude in the same conversation. I exported that segment already chopped up.
08:53Let's run perfect VFX one more time. We're going to run it more on a custom basis. Now this segment of the video is where I describe what the skill does and what the skill doesn't do.
09:05Now I do have a short list that I based this off of, which I think would help you kind of organize this a little better instead of just using the transcript to come up with it yourself. Obviously, tweak the text and make it a little more cohesive and use a transcript to find exactly where these go.
09:22But, basically, we're gonna do two longer compositions here. They both should be fifty fifty templates. That's like the glass with the text over top of it and the screen's cut in half.
09:32One should have the title, what the skill does, and the other one should have the title, what the skill doesn't do, and then each is just a bullet point that pops up as I explain it. Use the exact same liquid glass styling that we have on the other components of the of the video intro, or here are the lists that I have.
09:52I just wanna clean it up, make sure it's good. Okay. So I just edited that, and now I'm going to give this new composition.
09:58This will be the second more custom composition that we're going to create with the skill, and let's just let it cook. Hopefully, the usage that's happening on Anthropix back end doesn't affect us too much. Okay.
10:09So Claude just gave us back its plan for this composition in particular, and you can actually see here what Claude does. So one issue that I had when I was building it was some of the graphics didn't line up because it didn't know what was going on in the frame.
10:26So this skill actually reads the frames of the video to make sure that the graphics are not gonna, like, fall on my face. Or if we do a fifty fifty split, it's not gonna do it with, like, me while I'm sharing my screen like this. And still, it's giving me the entire game plan, and then it's asking me if we should run it.
10:43I said, yes. Run it. So the render's going right now.
10:47I think it's sending a sub agent here to run the render for us. 3,095 frames.
10:54I think that's a little longer than the other one. So we're just gonna let this run and drop it on the timeline, and I'm literally building this video as I make it. It's so weird because I'm actually filming this in, like, segments, and then I'm having to run the perfect cut skill mid filming, by the way, just so you know how efficient and how fast perfect cuts works.
11:13And then I am going back and then taking a segment and giving it to perfect VFX, and it's like insane efficiency. I'm just really excited to see how this video turns out, honestly. Okay.
11:24Claude has now given us our second render here. I'm just going to copy the file path and take a look, drop it right into Premiere, line it up with my in and out point here. I am nervous.
11:38I have not seen it yet. So so it's also exporting the audio. I'm just gonna strip it.
11:43Just unlink the audio and then remove it. And for this, I'm just gonna mute it so you don't hear it in the background. Okay.
11:48So here we go. Yes. Yes.
11:51Oh my gosh. So nice. Cool.
11:55Okay. Nice. Oh, dude.
11:59This is awesome. This is awesome. This is so sick.
12:02I I love it. Is there an oh my look at that. Look at that transition.
12:08Oh, it's butter. Gosh.
12:11Let's go. I love this. Super cool.
12:14Super cool. So, guys, if you want more of these skills, like I said, I'm making them all the time, and I'm giving away for free cause I'm not charging for this stuff. This is stuff that companies are literally charging people for, and you can build it yourself and Claude, or I can just build it for you based off of my expertise with video and production.
12:33I've been producing content for, like, twenty years. I literally started making videos and editing videos and using Photoshop and using Sony Vegas before high school, like, twenty years ago. So subscribe to this channel because I am relentlessly giving this stuff away.
12:47Also, my team just opened up our calendar because we decided to start looking at creators' businesses and their channels and just offering them some free advisory on how to implement AI into what they're doing to keep their content human and just make it way more efficient. We do have limited spots available, and I don't know how long we're actually gonna keep our calendars open for.
13:08So if you're interested, the link for that call is down in the description below. And if you want the skill file completely for free, just jump over to my free school community. It's called AI Systems for Human Content.
13:19The link will be in the description below, or you can just go to school.com/vic. In less than two months, we've already grown to 7,000 members, which is absolutely insane.
13:28You can jump over to the classroom section, go to AI automations right here, and find the video out of these videos here, like this video that you just watched, and then you will find the skill file right at the bottom where it says resources on that specific video. I also have a bunch of different skills here, all of them completely for free as I mentioned before.
13:47So if you want the skill, jump over to my free school. Link is in the description. Again, if you have not subscribed, make sure you subscribe to the channel.
13:53I hope you got some value today. I hope you can cook crazy videos with this skill. My name is Vic, and as always, stay human.
The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

The video opens with a bold claim: every motion graphic on screen was generated by a single Claude Code skill, not a hired editor. What follows is a screen-recorded walkthrough of that skill turning a talking-head rough cut into branded intro and chapter-card graphics for well under $10 a video.

Frameworks

Named ideas worth stealing.

01:38list

What The Skill Does

  1. Intros + chapter cards
  2. Transcribes dialogue with AI
  3. Plans pacing + compositions
  4. You give the green light
  5. Designs to brand or style

The five-step pipeline the skill runs through, from transcription to a rendered MP4 matched to the creator's brand.

Steal forany narrow AI-skill pitch that needs to set expectations before a demo
02:23list

What The Skill Doesn't Do

  1. Rough cuts (handled by a separate skill)
  2. Music
  3. Sound effects
  4. Full videos

Explicit scope boundaries set before the demo, positioning the tool as a narrow single-purpose skill rather than an all-in-one editor.

Steal forframing any single-purpose tool pitch by naming what it deliberately doesn't do
CTA Breakdown

How they asked for the click.

VERBAL ASK
12:45product
My team just opened up our calendar... if you want the skill file completely for free, just jump over to my free school community.

Stacks two asks back to back — a limited-availability free advisory call, then a free skill download gated behind joining a Skool community — both delivered in the sign-off segment right after the second render's emotional payoff lands.

FROM THE DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
OTHER LINKSAlso linked in the description.
Storyboard

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cold open hook
hookcold open hook00:00
what the skill does
valuewhat the skill does01:40
handoff from rough cut to Perfect VFX
valuehandoff from rough cut to Perfect VFX03:26
Claude's composition plan
valueClaude's composition plan05:13
rendered intro graphic revealed
valuerendered intro graphic revealed07:20
second render mid-process
valuesecond render mid-process08:48
skill reading video frames before second render
valueskill reading video frames before second render10:31
free Skool community CTA
ctafree Skool community CTA13:11
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