How I Get Claude To Edit My Videos (No Code Needed)
A working short-form pipeline built inside a fresh $20 Claude account: vidIQ picks the angle, Claude writes the script, the creator records once, and two self-updating skills do the cut.
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Big Idea
The argument in one line.
AI editing gets good not from the first prompt but from a loop: two skills trained on your own best Shorts, corrected after every edit, and re-tuned monthly from what your audience actually watched.
Who This Is For
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
You post talking-head Shorts or Reels daily and editing is the step that keeps you from shipping more of them.
You already pay for Claude or ChatGPT and want to know if it can replace a short-form editor without learning Premiere or writing code.
You have a channel with at least a few dozen Shorts, so there is real performance data for the AI to study.
You want to see the actual permission, connector and settings walls a first-time setup hits, and how each one gets cleared.
SKIP IF…
You edit long-form, story-driven video where pacing and taste carry the piece; the presenter himself still edits those by hand.
You want a one-click tool. This takes iterations, a paid vidIQ connector, ElevenLabs, and around 36 minutes per revision pass in the demo.
TL;DR
The full version, fast.
AI can now edit talking-head short-form video well enough to ship, as long as you treat it as a system you train rather than a prompt you send. The workflow: a Claude project with editor instructions, connectors for vidIQ (performance data), HyperFrames (motion graphics) and ElevenLabs (music, SFX, transcripts), and two skills generated by having Claude study the channel's outlier Shorts. You hand it a URL, it scores the idea and writes a script; you record raw A-roll and drop it in; it cuts pauses and flubs, adds B-roll, captions and music, then renders. Every correction gets written back into the skill, and a monthly review of your newest outliers keeps tuning both skills.
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AI-edited Shorts at 1.8M, 1M and 174K views; daily posting on Instagram and YouTube Shorts; works on Claude Opus 5.5 or Codex.
02:29 – 04:11
02 · Research with vidIQ
A Genie 4 link plus local B-roll goes in; vidIQ finds the best-performing videos on the topic and feeds their transcripts into the script.
04:11 – 07:15
03 · Script to finished edit
Raw A-roll full of pauses and retakes goes in; 67 steps later out comes a cut with captions, mixed B-roll, ElevenLabs music and a HyperFrames insert.
07:15 – 09:21
04 · Fresh account, project instructions
A brand-new $20 Pro account so nothing is pre-trained; a 'Shortform Video Editor' project with editor instructions naming vidIQ, Blender, HyperFrames, FFmpeg and yt-dlp.
09:21 – 10:55
05 · Connecting vidIQ and HyperFrames
Adding the sponsor's vidIQ MCP and the HyperFrames connector from Customize.
10:55 – 17:38
06 · Building the two skills
One prompt asks Claude to study the channel's best Shorts and write a script skill and an editor skill; it returns the channel's formula and a list of what it still needs (folder, ElevenLabs, a test take).
17:38 – 21:02
07 · MotionBricks demo
Paste an NVIDIA MotionBricks URL; the script skill scores it 4/5, estimates 15-30K views, writes the script, titles and a B-roll shot list. Record, drop the file in, no prompt.
21:02 – 25:08
08 · Unblocking and the second pass
ElevenLabs refuses the transcription and NVIDIA's site is blocked; fixes in Settings > Capabilities. First cut lacks music and leaves a flub; feedback goes back in and gets saved to the skill.
25:08 – 26:30
09 · Blender for missing B-roll
Examples of Claude building 3D objects in Blender with HyperFrames text on top when real footage doesn't exist.
26:30 – 29:07
10 · The monthly feedback loop
Have vidIQ review the last 10 Shorts, including comments and retention curves, and turn the outliers into script and edit changes for the skills.
29:07 – 32:45
11 · Mixed feelings and sign-off
Long-form still gets a human edit; short-form editors face a squeeze; content flooding is coming; the real edge is finding cool things. Sponsor CTA and a Codex reminder.
Atomic Insights
Lines worth screenshotting.
The first AI edit will be wrong; the value is in telling it what to fix and then telling it to save that fix into the skill.
Tell an AI editor to cut on both the transcript and the waveform, or it will clip words mid-syllable when the transcript timing is off.
A Short almost a million views deep was edited entirely by AI, which means audiences are not penalizing the style.
Training skills on your own outlier videos beats generic prompting: the AI learned the channel's hook, caption color, split layout and a B-roll change every 1.8 to 3.6 seconds.
AI-written scripts work best as a talking-point checklist rather than something you read word for word.
FFmpeg can do the whole edit headless, so the AI never has to drive Premiere or DaVinci on your screen.
When there is no good B-roll for a concept, have the AI build it in Blender instead of searching for footage that does not exist.
A monthly 'review my last 10 Shorts for outliers and update the skills' prompt turns your channel analytics into a training loop.
Most first-run failures are permissions, not capability: blocked sites, network access for connectors, and a transcription service that rejected the file.
Give the skill a fallback for every external service, because one dead API (here, ElevenLabs transcription) stopped the whole edit.
As editing commoditizes, a short-form creator's edge moves to taste in what they find and share, not how well they cut.
The same workflow runs in Codex with the ChatGPT models; nothing about it is tied to one AI plan.
Takeaway
AI editing works when the skill keeps learning
WHAT TO LEARN
The first AI cut is a draft; what makes it ship-ready is feeding every correction back into a skill trained on your own best videos, then re-tuning it from fresh analytics each month.
01The proof
AI-edited Shorts reached 1.8 million views, so audiences are not punishing the style; the bottleneck is setup, not quality.
The same workflow runs on Claude or on Codex with ChatGPT models, so use whichever plan you already pay for.
02Research with vidIQ
Feed the AI the source URL plus any of your own footage, and let it mix the official clips with yours for B-roll.
Have it read the transcripts of the best-performing videos on the topic before it writes, so the script covers the points that already worked.
03Script to finished edit
Treat an AI script as a list of talking points; reading it verbatim is where the AI tone leaks into the video.
Raw takes with pauses and retakes are fine input; the editor skill finds and removes them on its own.
04Fresh account, project instructions
Start the project with written editor instructions that name every tool it may use, so it knows FFmpeg does the cut and yt-dlp fetches clips.
A fresh account proves the setup works without memory; your real account gets better because it accumulates skills.
05Connecting vidIQ and HyperFrames
A performance-data connector is the piece that lets the AI judge ideas and study what your audience rewards.
06Building the two skills
Ask Claude to study your outlier Shorts and write two skills, one for scripts and one for editing, instead of hand-writing a style guide.
Tell the editor skill to cut on transcript and waveform together so it never clips a word mid-syllable.
Switch the session to auto mode and always-allow so a long skill build doesn't stall waiting on you.
07MotionBricks demo
Once trained, a single pasted URL returns a score, a view estimate, a script, titles and a B-roll shot list.
Dropping in the recorded file with no prompt is enough once the editor skill knows the routine.
08Unblocking and the second pass
Most first-run failures are blocked sites or connector permissions; clear them in Settings under Capabilities and allowed websites.
Give every external service a fallback inside the skill, since one rejected transcription stopped the entire edit.
After each cut, list what's wrong (music, vocal EQ, gaps, missed flubs) and end with 'update the skill' so the fix sticks.
09Blender for missing B-roll
When no footage exists for an idea, have the AI model it in Blender and layer motion text on top.
10The monthly feedback loop
Monthly, have the AI review your last 10 Shorts, comments and retention curves, then rewrite both skills from what it finds.
11Mixed feelings and sign-off
Short-form editing is commoditizing; the lasting edge is finding interesting things to show people, not cutting faster.
Glossary
Terms worth knowing.
A-roll
The main footage of the person talking to camera. B-roll is the supporting footage cut over it to show what they are talking about.
Claude skill
A saved set of instructions, and sometimes scripts, that Claude loads automatically for a task. It can be edited over time so the next run behaves better than the last.
MCP connector
A plug-in that gives Claude live access to an outside service, such as vidIQ's YouTube data or ElevenLabs audio tools, from inside a chat.
HyperFrames
A tool Claude can call to generate simple motion graphics and text animations, roughly a lightweight After Effects driven by prompts.
Outlier video
A video that performed far above the channel's usual numbers. Studying outliers shows which topics, hooks and edits the audience actually rewards.
yt-dlp
A free command-line downloader for YouTube, Instagram and most video sites, used here so the AI can pull source clips for B-roll.
“AI is finally getting really good at something that I didn't think it would ever get that good at. AI can finally edit my videos for me.”
complete claim, no setup needed→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
12:25
“Use both the transcripts and the waveforms for editing. Sometimes it'll read the transcripts, think it needs to cut, but it'll accidentally cut you off mid-word.”
“It's not bad, but there's definitely some issues with it. So I'm just going to give it a bunch of feedback.”
honest about the first pass, sets up the iteration point→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
27:32
“You're almost creating this like reinforcement learning loop to make your videos better and better every single time.”
names the big idea in one line→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
30:52
“Short-form content isn't about trying to out-edit people. It's trying to be somebody that's constantly finding cool stuff and putting it in front of people.”
contrarian take from a 17-year editor→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
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so this is wild ai is finally getting really good at something that i didn't think it would ever get that good at at least not as quickly as it did ai can finally edit my videos for me i give it some a -roll of a talking head of me i give it the prompt go edit this for me and it comes back with a video that i'm pretty happy with.
Now, right now, I'm pretty much just using it to edit short form videos, but I've become absolutely obsessed with using AI to edit this style of video. If you check out my Instagram page, you'll notice I've been posting at least one new short a day, sometimes even two a day, seven days a week. And some of these videos have been doing quite well.
Like this one's almost hit a million views. This one was entirely edited with AI. Here's another one about Tesla's latest car that's done 137 ,000 views.
And if you Look at my YouTube Shorts page. Very, very similar story.
I'm posting all the same videos to Instagram and YouTube Shorts. This one down here has done 1 .8 million views. Here's another one that did 159 ,000.
Another one that did 174 ,000. Every video that you can see from about this one up, this Tesla one here, I used AI to edit these videos. So in this video, I wanna walk you through what AI is actually capable of when it comes to editing and then break down a step -by -step workflow that you can follow to set up your own editing process using AI.
This is Show Me Your Workflow, me edition.
So for my workflow, I've actually been using Claude with the Opus 5 .5 model, but this absolutely works using Codex and the ChatGPT models. Like Sol works great for this as well. So here's a quick breakdown of what the workflow I built does.
So for this example, I was making a video about Genie 4. I gave it a link to the Genie 4 blog post so it can grab the details from there. I also gave it a little extra context.
There's a lot of videos on that page. I also recorded my own B -roll of me testing it. I gave it.
a link to where it can find that on my computer and then i said let's use b -roll from both the original source and my b -roll so now it has access to look at this website where it can grab all the details it needs to know about genie for there's a bunch of videos on this web page that it can use for b -roll inside of the final video and i linked it to a video on my hard drive where it can show some of the b -roll that i generated when i had a chance to play around with this tool and then what it did was it fired up the vid iq mcp server.
I'm going to talk about them a little bit more during the setup process, but it looked on YouTube for other videos talking about Genie 4. It found Tim from Theoretically Media's video about Genie 4. It found a couple official videos about Genie 4, and it basically found, you know, the best performing videos that were out there on Genie 4 to help inform like what content should go into the...
video itself so once it did its analysis using vid iq you can see here that it actually did a text analysis so it looked at the best performing videos looked at the transcripts of those videos to find out what they were talking about and then use that to inform this little script portion it then writes me a script personally i don't totally love ai generated scripts i feel like you can still tell they're ai generated so i use the script as sort of like a guideline i almost never read it word for word but it did give me a script here and the nice thing about the script that it gave me is that it's going to inform me of all the talking points that I should try to inject in that video because it knows what did well from other people's videos.
It also gives me a score of how it thinks it'll perform. So it thinks this one's an eight out of 10. It gives it some notes here about the actual editing.
And again, all that I started with to get to this point was a link to DeepMind and then sharing a link to where some of my own existing B -roll was. If I was making a video about Genie 4, there's a ton of video already that Google's put out.
So I don't even need to make my own B roll, but because I did have early access, I opted to use some of it here. In most of my videos that I do, if I don't have access to the thing, I don't give it any extra B roll. I just give it a link to the resource where it can learn about it.
And then it goes and does more research using vidIQ here. So once it's got the script, then I'm ready to record my A roll. That's when I flip on my camera and just speak into the camera about the thing I'm talking about.
Again, I use this script as a rough guideline, never exactly word for word from the script. So here's what the raw video looks like when I gave it to Claude.
You'll notice there's still pauses. I make mistakes and repeat myself. Now, I don't really think this...
Now, I don't really think this looks like Rainbow Road from Mario Kart that much. As you can see, it needs edits. It's got long pauses.
It's got me repeating myself and making mistakes. But all I have to do is here's the A -roll I generated and a link to that video. And it knows what to do.
You can see it ran, you know, 67 steps here. If I open up all the steps it ran, it loaded my skill, the coolest thing, edit, set up the cut in A -roll, prepare B -roll clips and music bed, write a plan and render, QA and deliver. And you can see it went through all of these tasks down here.
It loaded up 11 labs. That's where it got the background music and any sound effects that might be in it. It set up and cut the A -roll.
Then it moved on to preparing B -roll clips in the music bed. And then it did the thing with 11 labs. Then it loaded Claude in Chrome, tried to run a computer command and failed, but then, you know, clearly figured out workarounds, pulled some of these images.
And what these images are, are actually screenshots from different videos that it was looking at for B -roll. So it knows exactly what to pull in for B -roll. This is actually from the B -roll.
I gave it here. You can see that it's got timestamps of every little scene inside of this B -roll, so it knows how to line it up. And you'll see these screenshots throughout.
It just keeps on double checking its work over and over again. Down here, we can see where it generated music for underneath the video.
Who are you? My name is Skrillex. That all used 11 labs.
And then it gave me a summary of what it built. And we have the final video down here. When I press play on the video, this is what the video looked like.
This is the coolest thing I saw today. I typed a giant gorilla enters the city. And then it just walked right into the street I was standing in.
This is Genie 4 from Google DeepMind. Now. If I scrub through it real quick, some things to notice.
These subtitles here, it added those. I didn't do anything to add those. It added all of the B -roll you see.
This is actually B -roll that I gave it. But then some of the B -roll, when I get a little bit further into it, like the B -roll of the giant tentacle monsters while these people are on the scooter, that was actually B -roll that came straight from the DeepMind website. The background music you heard was generated by Eleven Labs.
This video here of it typing in an environment and a character, it actually used Hyperframe. and generated that itself because I didn't have good B -roll of me typing that. And this video is really just scratching the surface.
I've improved the workflow even more since this one. You can actually have it go and generate 3D objects in Blender and pull those 3D objects in. You can have it generate charts and graphs as you're talking about things and add little animations over the B -roll.
We're gonna get into all of that, but this is just a quick teaser of what you can do with it. Okay, now to really properly show this off, I feel like I need to create a brand new clock. account.
If I was to go use my existing cloud account, it has all of my skills already in it. It's got all of my past memory, it's going to sort of jump right to being good. So for this tutorial, I'm gonna bite the bullet.
and purchase a second cloud account and walk you through how to do it on a from scratch cloud account. And I'm just going to use the monthly plan at $20 a month. I don't want to do yearly because after I do this demo, I'm going to cancel this version of cloud.
All right. And as you can see down here in the bottom, it's a pro account, but you can also see there is zero history. This is a brand new, fresh blank slate cloud account.
So step one, we're going to create a new project. We're going to call this project short form video editor. Now up here for the instructions, I'm going to go ahead and click add.
And this is just a sort of general overview of what this project is for. So I'll put something like, you are world -class short form video editor. You take the source material and turn it into a script that is likely to perform well.
You clean up A -roll video to cut out pauses and mistakes. You edit in B -roll from the source material and from what you find around the web to make the video highly visually appealing. I'm also going to tell it, you can use all the tools at your disposal, like vidIQ, Blender, Hyperframes, FFmpeg, YTDLP.
And as I go... through the video, I'll talk about all of these, but basically vidIQ is going to look through existing videos, either on your channel or other people's channels to find what has a high likelihood of going viral. And it's going to analyze that.
Blender will help you make sort of 3D objects and even some animations that can go into your video. Hyperframes does almost like After Effects style, real basic editing. FFmpeg is actually going to do the editing.
So you don't even need to use something like DaVinci Resolve or Adobe Premiere. We're doing this all headless. It's not actually going to go use another editor and take control of your computer.
It's just gonna do the editing behind the scenes. And then YTDLP is actually a script that allows it to download videos from the web. So when it's using that, it can actually download YouTube videos and Instagram videos and videos that it finds and use that for B -roll.
So I'm gonna go ahead and save the instructions here. And then over under customize on the left, we wanna make sure we install vidIQ. This is sort of like the secret sauce to everything I'm doing.
here. So I did a quick search and vidIQ is right here. So I'll go ahead and click on that and we'll connect this to Claude.
So we get this dialogue here. I'll click continue connecting. It's going to bring me over to vidIQ and I will go ahead and authorize my vidIQ account.
Now vidIQ has graciously sponsored this video, but I want to tell you, I've been using vidIQ for this process long before they actually agreed to sponsor this video. Like I've been using vidIQ in my video creation process. I told vidIQ, Hey, I'm going to make a video about how I edit my videos and how vidIQ is a big part of it.
And they said, hey, let us sponsor that video. So that's exactly how that came to be. So vidIQ is a big part of my workflow.
And you'll see why as I get deeper into this video. But also when I told them I'm making this video, they said, hey, let us set you up with a page where you can offer it for a buck for their first month. So if you head over to vidIQ .com slash Matt Wolf, you can actually use the vidIQ MCP, which you'll see throughout this video for just $1.
If you're watching. on TV or something, they also put this QR code that you can use. Thank you so much to vidIQ for sponsoring this video.
I think it's going to make a lot of sense as you watch the rest of this video as to why I like vidIQ so much. Now, while we're still in this customized tab over here, let's also add in hyperframes. This one's going to help with some of the animations in the videos.
So we'll go ahead and select this and we'll connect this one to Claude as well. It's going to send you over to your browser once again to confirm. And once you do, it will be connected.
All right, let's jump back in. to our short form video editor here. And there's a couple ways that we can get started.
If you already have an existing YouTube or Instagram account, you can have vidIQ go and look at that and analyze which videos performed well and have this tool make more videos like that. That's exactly what I did. If you don't have one, you can tell it some examples of YouTube channels that you really like and might wanna take some inspiration from.
Since I already have a YouTube channel. I can say use vidIQ to analyze my short form videos on my channel. And then I'll just put in parentheses at Mr.
E -Flows. Look at the best performing. shorts, and figure out what makes them perform well.
Look at both the script and the visuals, and then create a skill that will generate similar scripts that are likely to go viral, and another skill that can edit the videos to look like the existing videos. The editing skill can use FFmpeg to edit, as well as Paper Frames and Blender to add some additional visual appeal and polish.
Ideally, the end result is that I give you a URL to something interesting that I want to make a short about. Then you write a script that is likely to perform well. I then record my talking head A -roll of that script, feed it back.
to you and then you edit that video to look like my existing videos cut out the pauses cut out the mistakes add b -roll add animations add subtitles add background music and sound effects we can use 11 labs for background music and sound effects and one thing that i do like to do when telling it to edit is this when editing and doing initial cuts Use both the transcripts and the waveforms for editing.
And the reason I tell it that is sometimes it'll read the transcripts, think it needs to cut it off, but it'll accidentally cut you off like mid - So it needs to also look at the waveform to make sure that It's cutting after the sound ends and not when it just thinks the word is and I'm going to go ahead and submit this and it's going to start building those skills and it's going to work for a little while to actually create these skills.
But what we'll see it do first is it's going to load vidIQ here and do a bunch of analysis on my existing videos. To speed this up, I'm going to come down here to where it says manual and also set this on auto mode. So it just keeps on running and I'm going to click always allow.
So it just keeps on doing what it needs to do. And we could see down here, it's open. vidiq and it's looking at my videos right now you can see it found the outliers this one did 3 million views 1 .9 1 million so it's analyzing what made these videos work so well for me on my channel now as it does this process i will say this is going to be a very iterative process it's going to come back it's going to give us both skills the scripting skill and the video editing skill the scripting skill will probably be pretty dialed in from like the first go the editing skill will probably give it our It will probably mess it up.
It's probably gonna edit it in a way that we're not totally happy with but then we're gonna tell it what to fix and then once we tell it what to fix we will then tell it to then update the skill and we'll keep going back and forth until the edits get better and better and better. And eventually you get to the point where you just say, go edit this for me.
And it knows exactly what to do. Okay. So that worked for about 15 minutes and we can see that it looked at my top performing videos and it created two skills.
So the short script and the short editor, I'm going to go ahead and save both these skills here, and then we can review what it did. So it analyzed the shorts and drafted both skills. So we can see.
Here, what makes your shorts perform? This is what it figured out by looking at all the vidIQ data. So physical machines doing something surprising, things like flying cars, combat robots, body scanners.
The hook that seems to work is this is the coolest thing I saw today, which is the name of my series. So it knows that that's what I start every series with. Videos where people actually debate whether or not the thing they're seeing is real or AI.
I only post real stuff unless I say otherwise. So it's kind of funny, but if people have to wonder, that means I probably found a really cool. piece of tech it also looked at my pacing and the visual style 50 50 split with b -roll on top magenta captions b -roll changing every 1 .8 to 3 .6 seconds now it does still need a few things from me to get this whole workflow working it does tell me what i need from you connect a folder so i need to add a folder for it to use to put the video files in and things.
I need to add my API key for 11 labs. And then it wants me to do a test recording. We could see here some more analysis.
vidIQ's visual analysis described the Tesla and bodyguard footage as CGI, while the scripts present them as real demos. So again, videos where people go, I feel like that's AI, but it's actually real footage. seems to do pretty well.
So the first thing it wants me to do is connect a folder. So I'll click this little plus down here, click add folder. I create a folder called Claude editor.
So I'll go ahead and open that as our folder. And I'll just go ahead and send that. So it knows the folder we're working with.
I'm going to select, don't ask again for this folder on this device. We'll allow that. Now it wants me to allow network access for 11 labs.
So for that, I'm going to come to customize and then I'm just going to search for 11 labs. I'll select this and connect to Claude. It's going to give me a page that looks like this, asking me to connect in my browser.
I'll click authorize, but then it's going to ask me if I want to install this version or the full version. And I want to install the full version because that one's going to get me access to music and sound effects and things like that. We'll go ahead and click continue on this screen here.
And then it's going to have us sign into our 11 labs account. So I'll click add. We'll connect again and we'll go ahead and authorize everything.
And now we are connected. So we've got our folder added. We've got 11 labs connected.
And now it wants us to send a test record. Now it does say one raw a roll take with its scripts will show how well the cuts work on your real voice But I'm not gonna give it a script because I wanted to pull the script itself if it doesn't have one So I'll tell it when I give you a video use 11 labs to get the time stamped Script and it should update the skill to let it know to grab it from 11 labs So we can see it went ahead and updated the skill.
So I'll go ahead and click update update update I don't know why you have to click three times, but now skill is updated knowing that if i just give it a raw video with no transcript it's going to use 11 labs to grab that transcript i'm going to click back on our project here our main project folder and under context i'm going to go ahead and add the folder that we made earlier just so it always knows it can use that folder so this one i called clod editor i'm going to go ahead and open that and always allow so it knows it can always use that folder as well and now theoretically we're set up where I can give it a link to anything and it will go and create a script for me.
Then I can record the A -roll for that script, give it back the A -roll, and then it will edit the whole thing for us. Again, it probably won't be perfect the first time around. Well, nobody's perfect.
But it'll get. pretty dang close the first time, and then we just give it feedback. So let's find something real quick.
So I recently came across this Motion Bricks out of Nvidia, and I thought this one would be a cool one to make a short out of, because it's got a lot of really cool visuals that we can pull from. So it seems like it would really grab attention as a short. So theoretically, all I'm gonna need to do, copy this URL here, open up Claude, I'll go to our short form editor project here, but create a new window, and I'm just gonna paste this URL in here.
That's it. I'm gonna hit submit. We can see it's reading the pages.
It just loaded our skill, Mr. Eflow short script. So it's using that short script skill.
It's reading the archive .org page. And now it's loading up vidIQ again. It's reviewing videos that were similar on vidIQ.
It's scoring the animation's visual appeal. So it's actually looking through what's on the page to figure out what the most visually appealing aspects are to use as B -roll in the next phase. And here's what it came back with.
It scored it a four out of five. It's about 50 seconds. You can see it in a glance.
It passes that. someone not into AI would stop. So it doesn't think it's strong if you're not into AI, but good footage exists.
There's natural debate around it. Links to something people care about. Nvidia, video games, Unreal Engine, et cetera.
It gives me an estimated view range based on what it found on vidIQ and everything it has access to. So game and 3D world shorts on your channel land around 15 to 30 ,000 views. I'd expect this one to fall about that.
It's not a flying car, but it thinks it should do decent. And then it gave me this. Now it's not following my other script formula that starts with this is the coolest thing I saw today because the skill hasn't been taught yet to write the scripts in that format.
I'm not gonna do that for this one because this is a brand new script designer. My other skill that I've already built already write scripts exactly the way I like them. So what I would do now is I would read this script and if I like the way the script sounds, I would just say, cool.
I'll move on and record this script as a roll. If I think the script needs work, I'm going to give it some feedback. Quite honestly, I just read this script and it's pretty solid as is.
A lot of times you get some like AI -isms in it. Like it's not just this, it's that and things like that. But this one doesn't have any of that.
It doesn't read like a super AI script. So it did a good job of analyzing my previous scripts and making one that sounds fairly similar. It gave us some title suggestions.
Every move here is AI generated. AI is animating this game live. NVIDIA just replaced.
game animators and then it also made a shot list for b -roll so that when i move on to the next phase it knows what b -roll to grab and where to put it so my next step would be to go and record this as a roll me talking into a camera and then just feed it back so i'm gonna go ahead and do that real quick Okay, so I went away and recorded the A -roll of me basically reading this script here.
Almost word for word, but I ad -libbed a little bit. Here's what the raw footage looks like. Look at it walk, jog.
Look at it walk, jog, and then run.
Look at it walk, jog, and then break into a full run. So as you can see, pauses, mistakes, do -overs, it's all in there. And here's where the next step is really cool because all I have to do...
is take this video that i just recorded this video file drag and drop it in here i don't even need to give any other prompt i'm just going to submit that video just like that we can see it loaded our skill the mr eflo short editor it's transcribing our rough cut getting b -roll and visuals music render and review so it's going to do all of this for us now I just step away and wait.
Okay, so I actually ran into a little issue here and it stopped before it finished the edit because of a few blocks. So if you run into this, this is how you fix that. It says that 11 Labs is not accepting my video to transcribe and apparently the skill won't let something else transcribe it.
So we need to fix that. So I'm gonna go ahead and tell it if 11 Labs isn't working for transcription, we should use an alternate tool. Please update the skill.
It's also saying downloads from Nvidia's site are blocked on the computer. Now, the fact that it won't read Nvidia's website, that should be fixed by me going to settings, capabilities, and then selecting allow all sites. So now it should be able to read all sites that I tell it to.
So Nvidia site should work now. Okay, so it went ahead and updated the skill. So we'll go ahead and make sure those updates are added in so it doesn't stop if 11 Labs isn't working.
but it's telling me I need to use a new session in order to access the sites. So it's telling me what to prompt a new session with. Edit this into the motion.
bricks short then it already shows the url of where the script is so we'll go ahead and copy all of that we'll just start a new session and then i'll drag the video file into this new chat and hopefully all of our permissions are going to work now okay so it actually gave me one last little issue here it was saying these urls were blocked and i went i thought i unblocked all this stuff but i i haven't figured out now so if you go into your settings so you click on capabilities and then down here where it says create and edit files turn that on, turn on the thing that says use the internet while making files, make sure that is on.
And then under allowed websites, click on manage here. And this is where you plug in those URLs that it's saying are blocked. So if you see URLs are blocked, go to that screen I just showed you and unblock them.
So I did that and I literally prompted, is it working now? And then it went off and made my video. So I haven't watched this yet, but this is what it did on that.
first attempt every move this character is making is being generated by ai live this is motion bricks from nvidia look at it walk jog and then break into a full run it vaults over a bench sits down picks up a sword and there's no handmade animation stitching all that together So it's not bad, but there's definitely some issues with it.
It didn't do the background music. The audio sounded a little bit weird. Like there was some extra compression or something on my voice audio.
I noticed one of the mistakes that it didn't cut out and I'd like it to tighten up the gaps in my speaking even more. So I'm just going to give it a bunch of feedback. So I gave it the feedback.
Let's get the background music working. My vocal audio sounds weird with some weird EQ or compression. Let's tighten up the gaps with me speaking.
It also left in some mistakes where I misspoke. Fix that. I gave it additional instructions to be sure you use both transcripts and waveforms to ensure you don't cut me off mid -word.
And let's use hyperframes to add some animations. It didn't add any extra like animation stuff in there. And then I finally told it, make sure these changes are updated in the skill so they're applied to all future videos as well.
So let's have it do another pass with this feedback. Okay, so it's been about 36 minutes and we have a new revision. It's actually still working, but right now it's just updating the skill files so that it knows how to do this stuff in the future.
We can see it even created some Python scripts here so that it can better accomplish these goals in the future as well. It created a short. edit Python script and a GFX kit Python script.
Let's go ahead and take a look at this new version here. Every move this character is making is being generated by AI live. This is motion bricks from Nvidia.
Look at it walk, jog, and then break into a full run. It vaults over a bench, sits down, picks up a sword, and there's no handmade animation stitching all that together. Usually game animators need to build every single one of those transitions by hand.
So that was a much better version. The audio sounded better. We had some background music.
It added some more graphics and animations overlaid. And it, you know, tightened up the audio gaps and removed the mistakes that I heard the first time around. So that is really how you do the video editing.
You keep on going back and forth and back and forth. And we can see it updated our skill based on this new feedback. So I can go ahead and tell it to yes, go ahead and make sure that's in the skill from here on out.
But you can even take this further. You can add in Blender and have it add 3D objects. In fact, let me jump over to my other account and I'll share some additional tips in this video that I made for this high, no mess world model here.
If I preview this video here and fast forward a little bit, you can actually see an instance where it jumped into blender, created an animation of a GPU and then used hyperframes to add some extra text over it. So you can tell it to jump into blender and make 3d objects if you don't have the B roll. So if you're making a video that has a really cool concept, but there's not great B roll around the web for it, tell it to you.
use blender and generate graphics for you and animate them. And it will actually do that as part of the B roll. Here's something I recently came across from Monique Price, who I believe edits for network Chuck here, but she talks about how she gave Claude a sequence that she had in mind and it created this.
And when we watch this video, you can see it probably made that toilet in blender. And then the actual text and animations on top, it probably used something like hyperframes or even possibly did that in blender. So this shows you the type of quality of.
animations you can start to put into your videos here just by prompting Claude. Now, don't get me wrong, there will be a lot of back and forth and a lot of iteration to get it exactly where you want it, but it could do. probably most of what you can think of in the video.
Now, another thing I like to do is inside of my short form video creator project here is I'll tell it to review my last 10 YouTube shorts for outlier videos that performed well and give me a list of suggestions based on your findings for how I can improve my scripting and editing skills. Now, I won't even need to tell it what tools to use.
And by default, it's likely going to call upon that vidIQ MCP. We can see it already pulled in vidIQ here. I didn't even need to tell it to do that.
You just have the vidIQ MCP installed and it will review all of your short form videos. If I click this little arrow here, I can see this sort of step -by -step of what it's doing. So it used vidIQ to pull all the videos from my channel here.
It's looking at my channel analytics. It's pulling the transcripts from the videos that it pulled that it found to be. the best performers.
It's actually watching the short form. Again, I know I told you this was sponsored by vidIQ, but like. It really is one of the most powerful tools.
If you're using cloud for editing videos, it's also reading comments on the videos. So if people are giving feedback on your videos, it's going to pull that in as well. It can look at the retention curves on videos.
And the idea behind this exercise is that you're almost creating this like reinforcement learning loop to make your videos better and better every single time. So you run this process maybe once a month or so tell it to look at your last month's worth of videos, find the outliers that. well use that information to update your skills and then all of your future videos will then be a little bit better based on these findings and if you keep on doing this every month your videos are only going to get better and better the scripting is going to get better the editing is going to get better and the skills are going to keep on learning how to make themselves improve because you're doing this loop of improving the video process over and over and over again.
And we can see here's the feedback that it gave. It's looking at things like the opening frame, opens on a car in mid air, opens on a robot jumping onto a car, opens on a closeup of a guy's face. GD4 cuts to the prompt typing screen at two seconds.
It tells us where people are dropping off so we can improve certain areas. So here's the suggestions for scripting. Line two says what's physically happening on the screen in place.
words in the middle put something like here it is doing x put credentials and specs on title cards keep caveats to one clause or cut them editing suggestions down here the first frame should always be real footage of the thing like in action it also gives some suggestions for title names so as you can see we've got a lot of feedback here that i could feed back to my skill And now future videos are going to use this feedback and ideally get better and better results.
Now, my final thoughts on this whole process are I have very mixed feelings about this. I've been a video editor myself for 17 years now, both editing my own videos and also editing clients back in the day. But when it comes to editing this style of video, like talking head, informational, short form video, I feel like AI does a pretty good job at it now.
Now, when it comes to long form, I still like the idea. of having an editor and doing some of the edits myself and like really getting in there and fine tuning the way I like it the old fashioned way. But when it comes to this kind of short, I feel like it's pretty easy to just knock them out quickly, letting AI do a big chunk of the editing work for you.
And the reason I have mixed feelings about that is I do think, you know, short form editors are going to have a harder and harder time getting work. The ones that embrace this might be able to do like, you know, five times as much work, which is great for those. embrace it but there's also going to be a lot of editors that could be out of work but i think the bigger implication of this is that we're gonna see a lot a lot a lot of flooding of content it's gotten so easy and the barrier to entry to create especially short form content has gotten so low that like Anybody is going to be able to just crank out videos constantly.
And I don't really like that. But as I say that it almost kind of feels like gatekeeping a little bit because, you know, I've made a career out of content for the last 17 years. So I don't know.
Like, I just don't know how to feel about all of this. I spend a lot of my time these days finding cool information, reading articles, learning about cool tech, finding things to share. And I feel like that's where more and more of my value has come in, especially when it comes to this.
short form content isn't like trying to out edit people on the shorts it's trying to be somebody that's constantly finding cool stuff and putting it in front of people that they may have not otherwise seen but i wanted to put this all together put it out there i feel like if people take what i'm doing here and start using it and we see more and more of this type of video it's only going to cause me to sort of like up level what i do and find new ways to stand out because this kind of thing is becoming commoditized so might as well put what i know out about it show you how it's done.
I hate the fact that I'm kind of becoming part of the cause of the commoditization, but at the same time, it's going to happen regardless. So might as well share my knowledge. I want to thank vidIQ once again for sponsoring this video.
It kind of came very, very naturally for them to be a sponsor. I told them I was making this video and they said, hey, let us sponsor it. And I said, yeah, let's do that.
Because I was going to talk about vidIQ whether they sponsored it or not. But again, thank you so much to them for sponsoring it. Head over to vidIQ .com slash Matt Wolf to actually use vidIQ for just $1.
Or you can, again, scan the QR code that should be on the screen like right here, maybe. or I don't know, the editor should put it somewhere there or they'll put it somewhere else to like mess with me. I don't know what, there should be a QR code on the screen.
Thank you so much for hanging out and nerding out with me. This was probably a bit longer than I thought it would be, but I wanted to make kind of the exhaustive guide and also any of the little roadblocks that I ran into, I wanted to point them out. So if you run into them, hopefully you can get over them as well.
And also as a quick reminder, you can do this with OpenAI inside of Codex as well. And I have done it with that, but I've made a lot of videos about OpenAI lately. this one i wanted to jump in and play around with claude to get it to work but again you could use either one so whatever plan you already have you don't need to go get a different plan thank you for hanging out and nerding out uh i really really appreciate you and hopefully i'll see you in the next one
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The opening skips the setup and goes straight to proof: Shorts at 1.8 million and nearly a million views, every one edited by AI. Then the promise. A from-scratch Claude account, a $20 plan, and the exact workflow, including every wall the setup hits.
Frameworks
Named ideas worth stealing.
17:00model
The URL-to-Short loop
Paste a URL
Script skill scores the idea and writes script, titles, shot list
The whole production run reduced to one link in and one recording, with the human only judging the script and the cut.
Steal forany repeatable short-form series
08:30list
Project toolkit
vidIQ (what performs)
Blender (3D objects and animation)
HyperFrames (motion graphics)
FFmpeg (the actual cut, headless)
yt-dlp (download source clips)
ElevenLabs (music, SFX, transcripts)
Each tool covers one job a human editor would do, so the AI never has to drive a desktop editor.
Steal forscoping what an AI editor needs access to
14:15list
What makes the Shorts perform
Physical machines doing something surprising
Fixed series hook: 'This is the coolest thing I saw today'
'Is this real?' debate drives comments
50/50 split with B-roll on top
Magenta captions, 1-3 words
B-roll changes every 1.8 to 3.6 seconds
The formula Claude extracted from the channel's own outliers, which became the editor skill's style guide.
Steal forreverse-engineering your own channel's formula
26:30concept
Monthly outlier review
Once a month, have the AI pull your last batch of Shorts, find the outliers, read comments and retention, and rewrite the script and edit skills from what it learns.
Steal forany content system that should improve without you
CTA Breakdown
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
31:40product
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Nate Herk walks Matt Wolfe through three Claude Code builds he runs daily: an editor trained on his own best reels, a debate panel of simulated business icons, and an Instagram account that runs itself.
A 31-minute weekly roundup covering Claude Fable 5's censorship backlash, Apple's Siri reboot, Google's NotebookLM overhaul, and a rapid-fire batch of industry moves.
A tour of eleven under-the-radar releases, from directable text-to-speech and talking-photo video to world models, game-engine repaints, 3D reconstruction and a non-AI map generator.
A first-look review of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, run through published benchmarks, a set of repeatable creative tests, and a computer-use experiment where the model built and animated its own 3D game world.
A creator prompts OpenAI's Codex into building a free, self-hosted dashboard that replaces a stack of SaaS tools for news, mentions, newsletters, and audience tracking.
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