Big Idea

The argument in one line.

Claude Code can handle the full edit from raw footage to captions, B-roll and motion graphics, but only after you teach it your taste through feedback and save the result as a reusable skill.

Who This Is For

Read if. Skip if.

READ IF YOU ARE…

A solo creator or coach who records talking-head reels and YouTube videos and loses hours in a timeline cutting silences, mistakes and captions.
A business owner who can't afford an editor and wants a repeatable way to turn raw clips into posts without learning editing software.
A video editor who wants to take on more clients by letting Claude Code handle the tedious passes while keeping the creative decisions.

SKIP IF…

You want a one-prompt, no-setup solution. The speaker is clear the first style takes about 15 rounds of back and forth.
You have a low-storage or older laptop. The workflow fills disk space and is heavy on the computer.

TL;DR

The full version, fast.

Ajene Pinnock edits her reels and YouTube videos by handing raw footage to Claude Code. The stack is the Claude desktop app in code mode, an ElevenLabs speech-to-text key for accurate transcripts, FFmpeg and Node, and HyperFrames for web-based motion graphics. She briefs Claude like an editor, gives one piece of feedback at a time over about 15 versions, then asks it to package the finished style as a named skill. Skills for business reels, personal reels, coaching clips and split-screen YouTube now run on batches, with a preview-and-timestamped-notes gate before the final render.

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Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:00 – 05:53

01 · Before and after examples

Raw-versus-edited reels, B-roll use, color conversion, split screen, and a YouTube clip, with the 15-version caveat.

05:53 – 08:00

02 · The four-step plan and setup

Install the Claude desktop app, switch to code mode, pick a plan, and organize footage folders.

08:00 – 12:24

03 · Essential tools

ElevenLabs for transcripts, FFmpeg and Node, HyperFrames, the watch skill, and optional Premiere Pro and motion tools.

12:24 – 16:39

04 · Prompting your way to a perfect cut

How to brief Claude like an editor and iterate on cuts, B-roll alignment, zooms, captions and text size.

16:39 – 21:32

05 · Creating repeatable editing skills

Package the winning style as a skill, build a library of skills, and add a preview review gate.

21:32 – 27:34

06 · Real-world results and limits

More finished examples, what still needs you, templates, and the argument that editors using AI beat owners using AI.

Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

A four-minute raw clip full of mistakes, pauses and throat clearing became a 1:32 finished reel from one recording and one pass through Claude.
The transcript is the foundation of the edit. When Claude used a built-in Whisper, cuts left a second of dead air; switching to ElevenLabs fixed the tight cuts and the throat clearing.
ElevenLabs speech-to-text costs about 22 cents per hour of audio, so a six-minute clip costs a couple of cents.
Limit your ElevenLabs API key to speech-to-text only, and never paste the key into Claude. Let it tell you where to put it in the terminal.
Treat Claude like a junior editor you are training. Feedback like 'slow zoom out at 6%' or 'reduce text by 20%' works because you talk to it in editor language.
Fifteen versions of one reel were each one small prompt. The back and forth is the cost of encoding your taste, and it only has to happen once per style.
Once you like a version, tell Claude to package everything into a named skill with scripts, fonts, colors, logo, style notes and a finished example to copy.
After the style was saved, she ran a batch of 14 videos and needed only one round of revisions, dictated with a voice tool and pasted in as a single prompt.
Make Claude render low-resolution previews first and review them with timestamped notes. It saves credits and removes ambiguity about what to change.
Claude can analyze and categorize your own B-roll and music folders, so it picks clips and songs by mood instead of using generic stock.
Take style from several creators you admire, not one, or you just look like a copy of them. Feed references to Claude with a watch skill plus your spoken notes.
Small caption rules that cost editors hours, like never ending a caption on a single-letter word, are one sentence of instruction to Claude.
Taste is still the bottleneck. Claude can't guess what you like, and you still have to watch every draft for things it missed.
Editors who use AI will out-edit business owners who use AI, because they notice the details the owner doesn't have the eye for.

Takeaway

Teach the edit once, then reuse it

WHAT TO LEARN

Claude edits well when you give it accurate transcripts, brief it like an editor, and save each approved style as a skill you can run on batches.

Before and after examples show a four-minute raw clip with errors and pauses cut to a 1:32 reel, so the proof comes from real footage rather than a demo.
Accurate transcription is the base of every cut. A weak transcript leaves dead air and cut-off words, so a dedicated speech-to-text service matters more than the editing prompts.
Install only what Claude tells you to, keep API keys out of the chat, and restrict the key's permissions to the single job it needs.
Brief Claude in editor language with exact numbers, such as zoom percentages and text size changes, and give one correction at a time.
Blend elements from several creators you admire into your own style instead of copying one, and show Claude references with a watch skill plus your spoken reaction.
When a version is right, ask Claude to package it as a named skill with scripts, fonts, colors and a finished example so the next batch needs far less direction.
Add a preview-first review gate with timestamped notes. It saves credits and removes the ambiguity from feedback.
Claude still needs your taste, your eyes on every draft, and a capable computer with plenty of storage.

Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

Claude Code: The coding mode of the Claude desktop app, where Claude can run commands, install tools and read and write files on your computer.
Skill: A saved folder of instructions, scripts and style notes that Claude reads each time you hand it a new task, so the same workflow repeats without re-explaining it.
HyperFrames: A free tool that turns web pages into video, used here to build motion graphics and captions. It also offers a browser window for small visual adjustments.
Remotion: A code-based video framework that Claude can use to render motion graphics. The speaker started here before moving to HyperFrames.
ElevenLabs speech-to-text: A transcription service called through an API key that returns accurate word-level transcripts, which the cut and caption timing depend on.
S-Log3: A flat, uncolored camera recording profile used by Sony cameras. It needs color conversion, for example back to Rec. 709, before it looks normal.
Review gate: A step added to every skill that forces Claude to render a quick preview and wait for timestamped notes before producing the final file.

Resources

Things they pointed at.

06:40toolClaude desktop app (code mode)

08:40toolElevenLabs speech-to-text

09:00toolFFmpeg

10:40toolHyperFrames

11:40toolRemotion

09:50toolWhisper Flow

10:20toolMalloy

26:50productAjene's 15+ Claude editing skills ↗

Quotables

Lines you could clip.

00:00

“There is no bottleneck in content anymore. Claude can now edit your videos.”

bold claim that works as a cold open→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote

14:40

“I see it like training a junior editor to be an editor that edits in your vision just the way you want it.”

clear mental model in one sentence→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote

26:00

“An editor using AI versus a business owner using AI: who's going to create the better video? The editor, because they've got the eye.”

answers the 'will AI replace editors' fear→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote

The Script

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There is no bottleneck in content anymore. Claude can now edit your videos and this is probably the most exciting thing that I've discovered in the last 10 years, guys. I've been on Claude.

consistently for the last five seven days in a row just drilling it pause with a bunch of prompts and i really wanted to make this video so i'm going to be taking you through how i edit my videos with cloud code every tool that i've used every step the prompts i'm going to show you some of the prompts to exactly what i typed and exactly how it took it from raw video to a completely edited video and obviously what would this be without some examples i don't want to waste your time so as you can see this raw clip is four minutes it turned it into a real yes i recorded my reel horizontally because i tested out reading from a teleprompter so i don't know if i'm going to continue with that but it's interesting because this file is four minutes let's play it i don't even start straight away don't change anything i'm even prompting it while i'm recording components but you only need to use one and this comes after your hook and most people are taught to skip straight to the value but it's the pre -frame that really makes the information valuable

As you can see there's mistakes, there's pauses, literally everything's left in there. Four minutes and it took it to this. Here's how to make your video so sticky people forget that they were scrolling.

This is called the Velcro method. It has four components, but you only need to use one. This comes after your hook, but most people are taught to skip straight to the value.

However, it's the pre -frame that makes the information more valuable. The first component is why you. Before anyone listens, they need to know why you're worth listening.

There's sound effects, there's music, there's motion graphics, there's literally zooms, like subtle zooms, obviously I've prompted it. I literally said to myself, now that this is a skill, Like in a human, it will take them maybe an hour, two hours, potentially three, depending on your level.

And the motion graphics, it's taxing on like an editor's computer. I've got more examples as well. So we got this one over here.

I even messed up straight away. If you're focused and looking for a red car, you will eventually see a red car. If you're not focused and not looking for one, a red car will drive right.

As you can see. I mess up loads, but I just record it in one take and then I just give it to Claude. Number four, hit the gym.

Yes, it's for your butt. Let me start from the beginning. I recently turned 26.

Here are five things I wish I knew sooner. Number one, you'll only see what you're looking for. If you're focused and looking for a red car, you will eventually see a red car.

If you're not focused on a red car and you're not looking for one, a red car will drive right past you without you even knowing. It's using my own B -roll. It's analyzed my B -roll, categorized it, and knows exactly when to use it.

And fun fact, a lot of the horizontal B -roll, like, you know, I've logged an S -log, three. And I told it, I've logged in S -Log3. They're uncolored graded.

They're not color graded. Can you just flip it back to Rec. 709 and potentially add some contrast and increase shadows?

Because I really like that kind of style. You could literally give it a lot and be like, tell it to apply this lot. Like it is insane.

There's music. It's even categorized my music choices. So if I'm telling a story or something's more emotional, it knows what batch of songs to choose from.

And if I don't like it, I can just prompt it. It's like telling a video editor, don't do this, do this. But Claude literally does it straight away.

love editors by the way like i think editors can use this to speed up their workflow take on more clients increase how like great their videos are but an editor has to eat the editor has to sleep you could give it a batch of videos before you go to bed as long as you've got the skill prompted exactly how you want it you will wake up and your videos are edited it's insane i even tested it with a youtube video so this is only the first three minutes of the video but pay attention to the audio levels pay attention to how i mess up everything If you are a business owner and you're on YouTube to grow your business, this is the video you need to watch.

There are five rules. I messed up. I wasn't sure about the video.

Now look at the edited bit. if you are a business owner and you're on youtube to grow your business this is the video you need to watch there are five new rules for youtube especially if you are a business owner these work now and they will definitely be working in 2027 and if you are to implement this as fast as possible you will see your youtube channel grow but also your business now chances are you're probably of course this is the split so i was recording from my ipad and i've recorded my camera and essentially i said to claude when i'm looking at the camera make me full screen when i'm looking at the ipad and i'm illustrating drawing or reading off of it make me split screen with the ipad and that's exactly what it did and it's funny because i thought to myself i would have to watch the whole video and look when i'm looking at the screen and then switch it back that's what edits would have to do it's time consuming it's tedious it's boring so you can literally eliminate those parts you know what i'm trying to say anyway

I think that's all the examples, but as you can see, the raw footage from a short form clip was four minutes and 44 seconds. The finished version was one minute and 32 seconds. There was around 15 versions before I signed off on this style, but I am very nitpicky.

You could look at my stuff and be like, yeah, it looks like AI. But the previous versions, they looked even worse. But now that I've saved it as the skill, I literally gave it a batch of 14 videos.

And it did those. All I had to do was go through it one more time to give it a prompt on things that I did like, didn't like or things that I'd noticed. And I'm very like nitpicky.

Just one prompt. I used Whisperflow on my phone, went through like all the videos at once, copied and pasted everything that Whisperflow said, like written down. I pasted it into Claude and that was my revisions and everything was done from there.

What we're going to do, we're going to go from step zero all the way to. step four so one two three four the setup the tools that you need the process and how you can make it repeatable for yourselves part one this is the setup first you need to install claude onto your desktop install the desktop app you can just go to claude .com download or you can just google claude desktop app download and basically download it once you download it you're going to be prompted to sign in it'll take you back to the browser etc you are going to have to pay for claude either the pro plan or the max plan the pro plan is like 20 the max plan is like starting at 90 or 100 and then you can get like an extra max which is like 20 extra usage for $200.

I'm currently on the $100 plan. My client's trying this at the moment and she's on the $20 plan and she got a very good version and she was like, oh, I've only used like 3 % of her session limit and like her weekly usage basically wasn't moved. So we are going to be using the app.

And essentially, once you're on the app, you want to switch from chat to code. And right here, you can see chat versus code. Chat is basically.

call work and chat you can ask it questions it can talk but if you want to do the editing you're going to have to be on code it's the same app i've got a mac i would recommend macs every single time of the week but if you've got windows that's perfectly fine you can do it my client's using it on her windows computer make sure that you have disk space which is why i say to people if you're buying a mac because you can't just upgrade your storage on a mac right make sure you at least get a terabyte.

I've got 512. I'm running out. I'm thinking shit.

I'm struggling. And you can move like the files to an external hard drive, but like the code natively is probably going to work faster if it's on the internal hard drive. You want your raw footage in a folder.

You want your B -roll in a folder. You could also do this for your clients. Get your clients to upload their B -roll, messy, whatever.

You can get Claude to rename it, tag it, analyze it, et cetera. You're going to need the node .js. I'm not a coder.

I don't even know what this shit means. You're going to need the node .js. And the FFMPEG, basically, Claude basically will install this.

It will tell you what prompt to run inside of your terminal. You run it, it will install by itself. As I said, you will need a paid ClaudePan.

You will also need an 11Labs API key. 11Labs is super cheap. This is, for me, the base of the video.

Because if the transcript is really messed up or not accurate, the edit is going to be messed up. The cuts are going to be slow or weak or you're going to cut off words, etc. And it's only 22 cents per hour of audio.

And if I've just done, let's say six minutes for simplicity sake, it would be like two cents. Hopefully my maths is right because I'm not even checking that. And then optional, if you've got a music folder, you can link it to Claude.

Sound effects folder, link it to Claude. B -roll folder, link it to Claude. So the tools that you are going to need, Claude Code, 11 Labs, F -M -P -E -G, Hyperframes, the watch skill.

This is important because you can have a baseline of whatever, give Claude the video. with the watch skill you can tell it to watch this video and analyze it and what i've found best is if you tell it to watch the video and analyze it but also use whisper flow to speak so it's faster and better than typing and it's super accurate whisper flow use whisper flow to speak into your mic or whatever and explain what you see from the video what you like from the video and then you can go from there and then you can basically tell claw to merge what you say and what it's analyzing and then create you a example you can ask for a placeholder etc and it will create it for you now optional you can have malloy it's a motion graphic ai generator tool that's like it's a software that's on the web.

I used it before discovering Claude can actually create motion graphics. Malloy's super sick. It's got a bunch of templates on there, but it is paid.

I thought if I connect that to Claude, the motion graphics will be even better, but it just didn't turn out that way. I've also got it connected to Premiere Pro. So some videos I actually want more control.

So what I'll tell Claude to do is like create everything and then basically put it on a timeline. Again, I don't have a lot of RAM. I've only got 18 gigabytes.

I'm definitely going to need to upgrade computer if I'm going to keep doing this on a bit. bigger scale so 11labs will hit everything you just want to create an account create an api key in your settings limit the key to just speech to text only nothing else if you make this mistake i think sometimes it ends up charging you more than what it is like 22 cents per hour and then once you're done tell claude that you've got the 11labs api key and you want to install it it will tell you where to put it Do not give your API key to Claude.

It will tell you where to put it inside your terminal. Just follow the instructions. And if you really get stuck, tell Claude to open the terminal for you, like literally everything.

Then you've got Hyperframes. Hyperframes will turn the web pages into a video. It's free.

This is free. You basically just go on Google, type in Hyperframes GitHub skill or whatever and install it. You can press like right here, the code.

You can press that and there should be a link that you can copy. You can paste that into Claude code and just tell it to install. And then it will basically install HyperFrames.

And there's also a connector which you can install HyperFrames with. So you can just, you know, natively connect it. Then we have the installs.

So essentially what you want to do is basically just copy and paste all of this into your terminal. Cloud will tell you what's missing anyway, right? So one is going to be for Mac.

If you're on Windows, it's going to tell you something else, but you're going to want to install this. You're also going to want to install this. You're also going to want to have your 11 Labs API key, but also connect Claude to 11 Labs via the MCP.

Then you want to basically add your API key. So Claude knows to use 11 Labs MCP, but then you go straight to the speech, the text. Now, I used to use Remotion.

Remotion is where I started. It does create good motion graphics. It's decent, but I feel like Hyperframes was better.

Plus, Hyperframes can also give you a window, like a Google Chrome window, which is like a visual editor. So you can make tiny adjustments and changes and send it straight back to Claude. And what I've seen recently, apparently you can open the edits inside of VEED.

That's something that I haven't tried. I've worked with VEED a few times and VEED are flipping amazing. So if this is possible, it's really sick because VEED's timeline is like...

For me, I'm used to it, but it's really good. So it didn't just work from a single prompt. I don't want you guys to be fucking gaslighted and lied.

So first I started with Remotion. I went into then Premiere Pro. Then I started getting it to like do its first cut.

And then I did split screen edits. Then I introduced Hyperframes and I realized the motion graphics got better. And then everything just started flowing.

So here's the process. You hand over the raw file. It will transcribe the video for you.

It will create the tight cut. It will create the captions times to the word. So like everything is accurate in the fonts that you choose.

It will add the graphics or the animations or the beer or whatever that you choose. It will add quiet sound effects. And if it's too much, just tell it it's too much.

Literally just prompt it. Literally give it feedback and it will build on it. So it will learn for the next time.

I see it like training a junior editor to be an editor. that edits in your vision just the way you want it literally without it taking months then you can preview it and then soon you'll have the final version so just start with the cut if i was you i would basically use a prompt like this transcribe the video with 11 labs to take the silences remove all the mistakes and make this video 9x16 if you're recording horizontal 16x9 you're gonna have to tell it to make the video 9x16 if you want to make it a real now then just brief it like an editor so i want you to edit the video in this style use b -roll overlay from this folder etc etc super simple and then you can show it what you like and ask it to implement styles from other people.

So styles that I liked was from Callaway and Milan, and I basically took elements from them. and put it into mine and that's essentially what you would do when you're trying to come up with the style anyway you look at a few people that you like not just one person because then you just look like you copy them you look at a few people that you like and take elements from each one and then merge them together and then that's how you get your style and then obviously if you just got something that you envision and that you want to see then you can do that as well so after i watched the reference reel the parts i like about this are this is something that i said like When there's text behind my head, for example, I liked it.

And you can see one of the videos. I don't know if I played it for long enough. There was text behind my head or like the graphics were behind my head.

When you use real profiles and real social proof. So before, instead of using like Instagram looking reels that were going around me, it was using like just something whack. And I was just like, use actual real.

like real life images and stuff and proof and etc especially when i'm mentioning my clients and it's got the access to the folder i said one word at a time with emphasize certain words you could tell it you want three five words with like per caption and then it would use three five words per caption you can tell it you want it two lines etc you can tell it you don't want no punctuation you can tell it that you know the last word of a caption should never be i or a single letter because to me that just looks fucking weird that's some that's some tedious stuff that i would have to do in editing software and now Claude can do it and then on the cut I would say stuff like okay this draft is good the only thing is the cuts need to be tight there seems to be a second or two of space and this I remember this there seems to be a second or two of empty space at the end of my sentence so it wasn't cutting things properly if I remember correctly this was because the 11 labs wasn't connected it was using like a in -house native transcription tool I think it's called whisper it was okay but it just didn't

do it the way I wanted to plus I would clear my throat throughout like my recordings if there's a cut or I mess up I will clear my throat and then go again and it would keep that in 11 labs when I used 11 labs it didn't keep that in and then for the b -roll I said this is almost perfect the only thing is when there's a cut on the video the b -roll needs to align with the cut or else it just looks weird so what it would do it would put the b -roll show my face and then Like for half a second, it will show my face and then it will cut because there's a mistake.

And then I'm like, why would you not just extend the B -roll to align with the cut so it doesn't show the cut so frequently? So just little prompting like that. That's why I went back and forth so many times.

Then I told it when it's full screen of me at a slow zoom out at 6%. This is me talking like an editor, by the way, like 6%, 10%. Sometimes I even said.

Increase the text by 20%, reduce text by 20%, 30%, etc. Use real Google Doc looking interfaces when mentioning documents. That's something that I prompted it with and it does that now.

You could say use Google Calendar looking interfaces when mentioning the time, dates, etc. So you can do that. So it was literally 15 versions, but it was one prompt at a time.

I could have just done one big prompt, you know. So the last step is making it repeatable. When you love the version that you are seeing, make sure that you tell it to save it.

So I've got one for my business reels and I've got one for my personal reels. I said, okay, package everything we've done here. I really liked the Hyperframes video.

It did very well because I was testing is Hyperframes better or Remotion better? And I realized Hyperframes is way better, my opinion. I said, package everything we did with hyperframes, the branding, the style, the workflow into a skill and call it Ajane's business short form reels so that we can just repeat this.

And I basically did the same thing for personal reels. And you can tell I don't type like this. I was using Whisperflow because it's a lot faster.

Yo, you've cracked the code. These soundtracks, keep them as the favorite ones to keep going back to. Make this whole thing a whole different skill.

I want it to be Ajne's personal short form video skill. And I would do this for like the YouTube editor. I would do this for the carousel editor.

Like you can do this again and again. So it's a repeatable thing. So I've got this.

This is basically what the skill folder looks like. You've got the skill. In plain English, you've got the scripts to transcribe, cut, captions, render, build the animations, font, colors, logo, then the styles written down and then a finished reel to copy.

So Claude wrote it from the conversation where we got the style right. Claude reads it every time I hand over a new clip and I keep improving it. So I can hand it another batch of content, use the skill, and it would literally do everything for me.

Render some previews once it's done. And I've got it to render previews instead of rendering the full version. So I would tell it to render it in like 720p or something, a lower quality version so it's faster, less taxing.

And then I would go through and say, I like this, don't like this, don't like this, don't like this. But if you've got the skill, typically you probably will like most of it. So you can then be like, go and render the full version, put it in this folder, in this place.

then upload it to Google Drive with this folder, et cetera. Like this is the workflow that I'm working with right now. It's insane.

And it's never been a better time to like, if you wanna do the one person business model where you're a solo creator, you're good at what you do, et cetera. Or if you just wanna upskill your editors, genuinely, if you have editors, you don't have time to fucking edit your shit because you're a business owner, you have editors, they need to be using AI because they will be faster.

Your content will be pumped out faster. You'll probably be more organized too. You probably could pump out more content.

Your videos will look better. There's just so much. An editor needs to be using this.

So if you can't afford an editor, you need to be using this because a lot of the time people say the bottleneck is the editing. I'm busy. I don't have time for it.

I can't afford an editor. Claude can be your editor. Granted, it's going to take a while to set up.

So I've got a skill per video. So these are my skills right now. I've got business short form reels.

I've got personal short form. I've got coaching call clips. So I will clip up my coaching calls with this skill.

I literally drag my coaching call from OBS, drag it here, use the skill. I've got educational YouTube editor. This is because it's just talking head, but I didn't want to call it talking head.

And then I've got split screen document plus animations. So this is basically, a youtube style but it's split screen with me me on the right side document on the left and when i'm full screen there's animations you've got the explainer real panel you've got fitted stacked captions so the caption style that everyone loves which takes editors ages because you have to move one word here one word there make that one bigger make sure it all fits and watch it back very tedious ai can do that too i've got a youtube clips editor i've got a review gate so everything is basically done Preview first and then render.

Here's what I want you to wire into every skill. This is what I made it do. Before you actually render the full video with the final file, show me the preview so I can analyze it and give it my feedback in timestamps.

So it's literally created me a preview app that's on my desktop. It will open in the browser or it would open next to cloud code and I will be able to basically. add a note and it would timestamp it and then i can copy all of my notes after reviewing the video and paste it into cloud code this just means you're super accurate and there's nothing that can really be misled so just render the preview first instead of rendering the final file so that can give feedback before you render the final version this will also save me credits this will save you credits too so this is what my preview screen looks like or my review screen looks like it literally looks like an editor there's a timeline here will show me the different graphics this is not hyperframes version the only thing i can't do with this version is extend or shorten clips manually but this is the whole timeline i can scrub across the timeline faster with this section here i can press play the spacebar presses play two you can go back five seconds go forward five seconds and if you've got multiple videos to preview you can select them or chain like alternate between them here your notes will go here it will show you the amount of edits the transcript it's literally amazing and there's even shortcuts press enter leave a note at the exact second or you can just leave a note so here are some edited reels from claude and

I made Claude make a video about me editing with Claude. So let's watch that one first. This is my yapping video before Claude touched it.

And this is my yapping video afterwards. Claude has gotten better at editing videos, but it's not as simple as typing edit this video. There are a few things that you need in place to make the edit as smooth as possible.

Number one is hyperframes. i didn't get this hyperframes by the way it got it for itself i prefer hyperframes at the moment but remotion is also good number two is a b -roll skill claude will analyze the folder it used my b -roll for the b -roll skill then showed my b -roll folder and you can see in the b -roll folder this is not color graded like the dgi stuff i said if it's labeled dgi and it's not color graded color graded if it's um sony and it's not color graded color graded i'll shoot an s -log like bro the folder that you give it so it can use that b -roll inside of the videos that you're giving it this is color graded you could literally see that it's not color graded and then it uses it and it's created guys it is insane it is crazy but this is basically claw talking about it there's also another video here for my business channel this is going on my personal as you can see it labels it These are the only five video openers that you need to know if you actually want to grow on YouTube before the year ends.

Viewers decide whether to stay or leave in under three seconds. So if you're still doing the, hey guys, welcome back to my channel, you've probably already lost a viewer. Here's what you need to be doing instead.

Number one of five is the statement opener. This could be an everyday statement like, this is my morning routine that I do every single day. It could be a statement of facts or a statement of stats.

For example, 98 % of health coaches quit within their first year. Or it could be a statement of a... the amount of editing time it would take someone to do stuff like that here's how to make your video so sticky people forget that they were scrolling this is called the velcro method it has four components but you only need to use one insane guys it's literally crazy and here's an example from long form so here's a coaching call clip so this is my coaching call record on obs drag it into claude use the skill don't over complicate anything like even your edits i think millie said wait there's no captions on this video and sasha goes oh yeah i don't add captions to my videos i said you what like this whole time there's no captions she was like i just don't know how to do it all she did was add a text hook and i thought she put the text hook and it came off screen after three five seconds no the text hook was on screen for the whole video and she's been doing that and it's literally been working for her it's literally been working sometimes guys it's it's insane

and here's a video from my youtube stuff obviously this is the split screen but here's the animations that it adds in it also made it full screen for me like all the counters everything the zoom ins literally everything if you have something worthy to say now there is no excuse for you not to be using this stuff so there is a few things that you need to know before you can actually run off and into the sunset with it there's a few things where it still needs you so your taste if you have taste you're probably not going to create something that's good i've seen people create stuff way better than mine and i'm like i guess you just have better taste than me like it just makes sense so it can't guess what you like the first style takes a lot of back and forth two is your eyes you still need to watch the draft just in case it misses things and then you can go from there but that's just like any editor anyway the only thing is this will be faster and three it needs your computer it fills a lot of this space i will say this you can also tell it to figure out what things can stay on your internal drive and what things can move over to your external drive

Tell it don't delete anything. Don't move anything yet. Just let you know.

And then it will basically analyze everything on your desk. So your first prompt should probably look something like this. Transcribe the video of 11 labs.

Remove all the silences. Make it as sharp as possible without cutting off any words. Remove all the mistakes, repeated words.

Make this video 9 by 16 and then let me see. And then you just build. Just keep building.

Or you can skip the hard part. You can build literally all of it yourself. Or you can start with my templates.

I'm going to make my templates available for you guys, which you can download with. link in the description it took me literally over a whole week countless hours i don't know how i don't need glasses i've been staring at a screen for countless hours and you can have them today by the time you're watching this video there's at minimum eight but there's going to be a link that will show you exactly what's on there by the time that you're watching this there should be some more and it's just going to help you instead of starting on a blank canvas you're going to start with something and of design this so it's easily molded into your brand.

So it should interview you on your brand colors, your fonts, your logos. So you get something closer to how you want it instead of how it looks for me. Right.

So that's it. You record, Claude can edit your content. Get the skills packets in the description, send it your first clip.

And guys, let me know what you think in the comments below, because this is genuinely an insane time to be alive. An insane time. Do you think, oh, it's not ethical, like we need editors?

I think editors are still going to be here, me personally. I just think we're going to increase our workflow. Plus, a lot of like business owners probably don't have the taste for editing.

They don't have the eye for it and they don't have the time for it. They're still going to need someone else to do it. AI can't replace someone that knows how to do the job better than someone else.

For example, you've got an editor using AI versus a business owner using AI to edit videos. Who's going to create the better video? It's the editor using AI to create videos because they've got the eye.

They've got things that they notice. It's just going to be hella smooth. Whereas a business owner will probably just settle for less.

They don't know, get frustrated, hang up, use too many credits, literally everything. Anyway, that's my opinion. Let me know what you think in the comments and appreciate you guys for watching the video.

The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

The pitch is blunt: the editing bottleneck is gone. She backs it with a four-minute raw clip full of mistakes that comes out as a tight 1:32 reel, then spends the rest of the video showing exactly which tools, prompts and habits got her there.

Frameworks