Big Idea

The argument in one line.

Once Claude can drive your editor through an MCP connection, video editing becomes a conversation: you teach it one good edit stage by stage, then save that edit as a skill it can repeat on any new footage.

Who This Is For

Read if. Skip if.

READ IF YOU ARE…

A creator who films short talking-head clips and spends hours on cuts, captions and motion graphics by hand.
Someone with a paid Claude or ChatGPT plan who has never opened the Code tab and wants a non-programmer path into it.
A DaVinci Resolve Studio user who wants to know what the built-in AI assistant connection can actually do on a real timeline.
A Premiere Pro editor curious whether an AI agent can drive Premiere through an MCP plugin.
Anyone who wants to package a repeatable editing style (tier list, explainer, captions-only) into a one-command workflow.

SKIP IF…

You only have the free DaVinci Resolve. The MCP connection shown requires the paid Studio version (about $236 one-time).
You want a deep look at how the MCP servers or Hyperframes work under the hood. The tutorial deliberately treats them as black boxes.
You edit long-form, multi-camera projects. Every demo here is a 15-second single-take vertical clip.

TL;DR

The full version, fast.

With the desktop app's Code side and an MCP bridge into your editor, Claude can cut, grade, caption and animate a video from plain-English prompts. Setup is a paid Claude or ChatGPT plan, a dedicated project folder, DaVinci Resolve Studio's File > Setup AI Assistants (or a Claude-installed Premiere plugin), and an installer prompt that adds Whisper, Hyperframes and Homebrew. The edit follows CCMS: cut mess-ups and dead air, apply a LUT, recreate captions from a reference clip and add motion graphics, then lay in sound effects. Expect to correct each stage once or twice. When the result is right, ask Claude to turn the whole process into a skill, test it, and future videos become a single drag-and-drop plus the words edit video.

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Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:00 – 00:53

01 · Intro: editing videos with AI

Claims the video was edited by AI, promises a no-experience walkthrough for both Claude and ChatGPT, and offers free practice footage.

00:53 – 01:54

02 · Skip the setup: pre-built editor

Pitch for a paid course that includes a drag-and-drop AI editor with style presets, as an alternative to building it yourself.

01:54 – 02:34

03 · What you need

A paid Claude or ChatGPT plan is required; the host prefers Claude and frames $17 a month as a full-time editor.

02:34 – 03:54

04 · Installing the Claude desktop app

Download and install the desktop app; the desktop version is needed because it can access files on your computer.

03:54 – 04:52

05 · Choosing editing software

DaVinci Resolve Studio is recommended for the cleanest Claude connection; Premiere Pro also works with extra steps.

04:52 – 06:06

06 · Chat vs Code

Explains the two sides of Claude and why video editing happens on the Code side; ChatGPT users switch to Codex.

06:06 – 07:55

07 · Creating the video editor folder

Creates a Video Editor folder inside a Claude Projects folder in the home directory and pins it to the Finder sidebar.

07:55 – 08:43

08 · Connecting Claude to DaVinci Resolve

File > Setup AI Assistants adds the DaVinci MCP server to Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Codex in one click.

08:43 – 10:43

09 · Connecting Claude to Premiere Pro

A prompt in the Video Editor folder has Claude install a Premiere connector panel; restart both apps and verify the connection.

10:43 – 12:56

10 · Installing Whisper, Hyperframes and Homebrew

An installer prompt sets up transcription and graphics tools; Homebrew needs a one-time password entry in Terminal.

12:56 – 13:11

11 · The CCMS method

Introduces the four-stage edit: Cut, Color, Motion, Sound.

13:11 – 15:15

12 · Step 1: Cut

One prompt removes mess-ups and dead space in a Resolve timeline; leftover gaps of four to six frames get trimmed by hand or by a rule.

15:15 – 16:48

13 · Fixing audio levels

A prompt normalizes voice levels for YouTube without clipping; Claude also notices the manual trims and asks whether to keep them.

16:48 – 18:09

14 · Swapping to a better take

Claude replaces the raspy first line with the second take, leaving a small throat-clear to trim by hand.

18:09 – 19:26

15 · Step 2: Color

Drops a Sony S-Log3 LUT into the chat; Claude applies it as a node on every clip, then attributes are pasted across the timeline.

19:26 – 22:35

16 · Step 3: Animated captions from a reference

A downloaded Instagram reel becomes the style reference; captions land as editable text blocks on video track three, then the blue words get split to track four.

22:35 – 24:15

17 · Adding motion graphics

A descriptive prompt adds timed icons, words and animations on a dark blue background that match the caption colors.

24:15 – 25:12

18 · Step 4: Sound effects

Dragging a folder of sound effects into the chat lets Claude place them on the timeline.

25:12 – 26:43

19 · Turning the edit into a skill

Asks Claude to package the whole process as a fully automatic skill and test-run it first, which surfaces and fixes errors.

26:43 – 28:01

20 · Editing a new video with one prompt

New chat, same folder, drop new footage, type edit video; Claude cuts, grades, captions, animates and adds sound in one pass.

28:01 – 29:49

21 · Tier list preset demo

The course's tier-list preset edits a Mexican chain ranking video while the host goes to Chipotle.

29:49 – 30:44

22 · Other styles and wrap-up

Shows explainer, yap and faceless editorial presets plus a browser progress view, then a final course pitch.

Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

A paid Claude plan at about $17 a month is enough to run a full AI editing workflow that drives DaVinci Resolve directly.
Video editing with Claude happens on the Code side of the desktop app, not the chat side, even if you never read a line of code.
DaVinci Resolve Studio ships a one-click MCP setup under File > Setup AI Assistants that registers itself with Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Codex.
The DaVinci MCP connection only works in the paid Studio version, which is a one-time purchase rather than a subscription.
Premiere Pro can be connected too, but Claude has to install a connector panel first and both apps need a restart.
Giving Claude its own project folder is what turns a chat into a persistent video editor, because that folder is where its tools and skills live.
Prompt the first cut with an explicit destination, such as in a DaVinci Resolve timeline, so Claude builds edits inside the editor instead of rendering a file.
AI cuts tend to leave four to six frames of dead air; a rule like only two frames before speech starts tightens them.
Claude noticed manual trims made after its own edit and asked whether to keep them, so hand fixes and AI fixes can coexist on one timeline.
A raw clip sitting around -20 dB is too quiet for social, and one prompt asking for YouTube-ready levels without clipping fixes it.
Asking for captions as text blocks on a video track rather than a caption track keeps every word individually editable afterwards.
A downloaded reference video is the fastest way to get Claude to match a caption or animation style you like.
Motion graphics are where AI editing saves the most time, since timed icons and words on screen are the slowest part to build by hand.
Testing a new skill on real footage before saving it surfaced a batch of errors Claude then fixed in its own code.
Separate skills per style (tier list, explainer, captions-only, faceless editorial) let one folder produce several distinct edit formats.

Takeaway

Teach one edit, then make it repeatable.

WHAT TO LEARN

An AI editor gets good the same way a human assistant does: you walk it through one edit stage by stage, correct it, and then save that process so it runs unattended.

03What you need

Budget for a paid Claude or ChatGPT plan and the desktop app; browser chat cannot reach the files and editor on your machine.

05Choosing editing software

Pick DaVinci Resolve Studio if you have no editor preference, since its AI assistant connection is one menu click instead of a plugin install.

06Chat vs Code

Work on the Code side of Claude or in Codex for ChatGPT; it is where the agent can run tools, and no coding knowledge is needed.

07Creating the video editor folder

Give the editor its own permanent folder outside the desktop, because that folder holds the tools and skills Claude builds up over time.

08Connecting Claude to DaVinci Resolve

In Resolve Studio, File > Setup AI Assistants registers the MCP server with Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Codex, then restart the assistants.

09Connecting Claude to Premiere Pro

For Premiere Pro, open a Code chat on the editor folder, ask Claude to connect over MCP, approve the panel install, restart both apps and verify.

10Installing Whisper, Hyperframes and Homebrew

Let a single installer prompt set up Whisper, Hyperframes and their dependencies, and follow its prompts when it pauses for something like Homebrew.
Ask Claude to confirm every tool installed and passed its checks before moving on to real footage.

12Step 1: Cut

State the destination in the first prompt, such as in a DaVinci Resolve timeline, so cuts appear as editable edits rather than a rendered file.
Expect four to six frames of leftover dead air and either trim by hand or add an explicit rule like two frames before speech.

13Fixing audio levels

Ask for clear, consistent voice levels loud enough for YouTube without clipping; raw clips near -20 dB are too quiet for phones.
Claude can detect manual trims made between prompts, so fixing small things yourself does not get overwritten.

14Swapping to a better take

Describe which take to use in plain language, like use the second take for the first line, and check the head for stray breaths.

15Step 2: Color

Drop the camera's LUT file into the chat and name the log profile so Claude applies the right correction to every clip.
Check the color page afterwards and use paste attributes with only Color selected to spread any adjustment across the timeline.

16Step 3: Animated captions from a reference

Give Claude a downloaded reference video to match a caption style instead of trying to describe fonts and animation in words.
Ask for captions as text blocks on a numbered video track so each word stays editable and can be split onto its own track later.

17Adding motion graphics

Describe motion graphics by purpose, colors and timing, for example icons and words that appear when something important is said.
Treat the first pass as a draft and fine-tune timing, pacing and animation choices by continuing the same chat.

18Step 4: Sound effects

Point Claude at a folder of sound effects rather than individual files so it can choose and place them across the edit.

19Turning the edit into a skill

Only package the edit as a skill once every stage looks right, and pick fully automatic if you want no check-ins.
Say yes to a test run before saving the skill; testing surfaces errors that Claude can fix while the context is fresh.

20Editing a new video with one prompt

Start a fresh chat in the same folder for each new video so the saved skill is available without the old conversation.

22Other styles and wrap-up

Build one skill per style, such as Instagram, YouTube, tier list or explainer, to switch formats with a single word.

Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

MCP (Model Context Protocol): A standard way for an AI assistant to connect to and control another app. Here it lets Claude open DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro and make edits on the timeline directly.
Claude Code: The coding side of the Claude desktop app. It can read and write files in a chosen folder and run tools on your computer, which is what makes hands-off editing possible.
Codex: OpenAI's coding agent inside the ChatGPT desktop app, the ChatGPT equivalent of Claude Code for this workflow.
DaVinci Resolve Studio: The paid version of Blackmagic's editing software. Only Studio supports the AI assistant connection used in this tutorial.
Whisper: An open-source speech-to-text model that transcribes the footage so the AI knows what is said and when, which drives cuts and captions.
Hyperframes: A tool installed alongside Whisper that renders animated graphics and captions for the edit.
Homebrew: A package manager for macOS that installs command-line tools. It needs a one-time password entry in Terminal before other tools can be installed.
S-Log3: A flat, low-contrast color profile on Sony cameras that preserves detail but looks washed out until a correction is applied.
LUT (Look-Up Table): A file that maps one set of colors to another. Applying the right LUT converts flat log footage into normal-looking color in one step.
Skill: A saved set of instructions and scripts Claude can rerun on demand. Here, the whole edit process becomes a skill triggered by saying edit video.

Resources

Things they pointed at.

02:40toolClaude desktop app ↗

03:50toolChatGPT desktop app (Codex)

04:10toolDaVinci Resolve Studio ↗

04:40toolAdobe Premiere Pro

11:00toolWhisper

11:00toolHyperframes

11:40toolHomebrew ↗

00:30linkPrompts + follow-along practice footage ↗

01:00productAI Creator Course + pre-built video editor ↗

Quotables

Lines you could clip.

00:04

“In fact, this entire video was edited by AI. I was golfing while Claude was working.”

proof-first claim with a visual joke built in→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote

02:11

“You can essentially get a full-time editor working for you for 17 bucks.”

one concrete number reframes the subscription cost→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote

17:23

“You're essentially teaching Claude how to edit a video from scratch.”

honest expectation-setter that stands alone→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote

29:34

“I can't believe it just edited that while I was literally getting Chipotle.”

payoff line for a before/after demo→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote

The Script

Word for word.

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You can now use ChatGBT and Claude to edit your videos. In fact, this entire video was edited by AI. I was golfing while Claude was working.

Thank you, Claude. And in this video, I'm gonna give you a complete step -by -step tutorial showing you exactly how to do it. And you don't need any editing experience to do this.

We're gonna start by walking through how to set everything up in both ChatGPT and Claude, so you can choose whichever one you prefer. Then I'll show you how to prompt the AI to edit your videos, make changes, and get the results you're looking for without having to do any manual editing. And because I believe the best way to learn is by actually - doing it.

I've also linked all of the footage that we're going to use in this tutorial down below for free. That means you don't have to film anything yourself. You can download that footage, follow along with me and start practicing AI video editing right now.

Now, before we jump into the tutorial, if you want to skip the whole building and installation process, you just want to use something that's built and ready to go. Maybe you have a video that you're looking to get out pretty soon. You can download our pre -built video editor inside of the AI creator course.

All you have to do is drag and drop your footage right here. Choose an editing style from the preset menu and then hit start editing. It's a one -click edit.

AI will do the whole thing for you. This editor works with both Claude and ChatGPT. It's also completely customizable, so you can change the way your captions look.

You could use a different editing style or create your own custom preset that matches your brand. You don't have to build anything from scratch. This was built by professional video editors.

There's over 26 ,000 lines of code that we've already built for you. So if you wanna skip the hassle of setting all of this stuff up and start editing like right now.

Click the link in the description below. You can get it inside of the AI Creator course. But if you want to do it manually, let's dive into that right now.

All right, for this to work, you will need a paid account to either Claude or ChatGPT. Personally, I like using Claude. It's really freaking smart and it's super easy to use.

So for the majority of this tutorial, you'll see me using Claude. But just know that everything that we're doing in this video can also be done using ChatGPT. So let's head over to Claude.

And if you haven't set an account up yet, you're gonna wanna do that right now. I do wanna stress that you do need a paid plan to do this, but I think it's like such a good use of money. You can essentially get a full -time editor working for you for 17 bucks.

If nothing else, try it for a month and then cancel. All right, so now that we have a paid account, the next thing we have to do is download the desktop application. I'll also add a document below this video with all the links, so it's super easy to find this stuff.

I'm using a Mac computer. So I'm going to click this button right here. I'm just going to save this to my downloads folder.

So I'm going to hit save. Now we can pull up our downloads. And if you're on a Mac, you'll see this clod .dmg.

If you're on a Windows, this process is very similar. All we're doing is just opening up clod. So we're going to double click the DMG and then we can click and drag clod into our applications.

Now we can open up clod and let's hit open. If you double click this icon right here, you might get this message. All it's saying is, would you like to move Claude in the applications folder?

So we're going to hit yes. All right, so it'll probably ask you to log into the Claude account that you just made. If you already have a Claude account and you already have the desktop application, this is where we're at right now.

If you're doing this with ChatGPT, it's the exact same thing. You just have to get a paid ChatGPT account and then you have to download the desktop version of ChatGPT. Quick little high -level summary on why we need the desktop version of ChatGPT or Claude.

And that's because with the desktop version, Claude and ChatGPT can act... access the files on our computer. All right, so we have Claude and ChatGPT installed.

The next thing that we need is our editing software. For this tutorial, I'll be using DaVinci Resolve. The reason is because the connection between Claude and DaVinci Resolve is really good.

You can do this with Premiere Pro and I'll show you how you can get Claude and Premiere Pro talking together. But the Claude to DaVinci Resolve connection is just so easy to do. If you're new to editing and it doesn't really matter what editing software you use I would definitely recommend checking out DaVinci Resolve.

Now I do have to say that this only works with the studio version of DaVinci Resolve. Currently on their website it looks like it's $236. I'm not sure if it's going to be that price forever but I actually think that's a really good deal for what you get with this software.

It's a one -time purchase, so there's no annual or monthly recurring subscription. I think it's a great use of money. But if you're like, heck no, I'm a Premiere Pro person, I'll show you how you can get the connection between Claude and Premiere Pro.

If you're brand new to Claude, I'll give you a super quick rundown on how this works. I found that when learning tutorials, it's so much easier to just kind of understand the interface. That way I can visualize how things connect together.

So there's really two sides of Claude. There's the chat side and there's the coding side. And the way that you access each of those sides is through these two toggles up here.

So as you can see here, this first one is the chat and co -work side. And the second toggle over here is the code side. For video editing, we want to use the code side.

And I know it sounds crazy and intimidating, but it's really not that bad. I actually find it a lot easier to use the code side than the chat. side.

If you're on ChatGPT, you'll also need to use the code side. To access the code side on ChatGPT, click the ChatGPT icon right here and then select codecs. As you can see, the Claude and the ChatGPT interface look very similar.

So if you're following along on ChatGPT, it should feel very similar to Claude. And seriously, you don't need to know any coding to do any of this stuff. Honestly, you probably know more coding than me.

All right, now that we have everything set up. We have a good understanding of how this looks.

Let's dive into building this. So the first thing that we have to do is create a folder on our computer. So I'm just going to go onto the desktop of my computer, right click, click new folder.

Then I'm going to call this video editor. Pretty original. All right let's hit enter.

Now believe it or not this is actually our video editor. What happens inside of this folder is the magic of the video editor. So we'll want to keep this in a pretty safe spot.

I'm going to open up a new tab and for this I'm going to keep it in my home section. So I'm going to go up here to go then go to home. And the reason I'm putting it here is because this is kind of like the attic of my computer.

I think about the desktop as the living room. Stuff is kind of coming in and out. It's getting moved around a bunch.

But in the attic, I'm very rarely going up there. So I know it's pretty safe there. So I'm just going to right click, select new folder.

And I'm going to rename this and call this Claude Projects. Now, anytime I'm building a cloud project, I can store it in here. So I'm going to double click and open up that folder.

Now I'm going to go to my desktop, take the video editor folder. and move that into cloud projects. Now we're nice and organized.

Now if you're on a Mac check this out this is pretty cool. If I'm going to be accessing the video editor folder a lot what I can do is dock it over here on my favorites bar. To do that all I have to do is open up the video editor folder.

Then I can click on the name here. That's going to show this folder icon over here. Now I can click and drag that over here.

So I can place it above desktop. I can move it below. So now if I ever need to go inside a video editor, I don't have to climb all the way up to the attic.

It's pretty much like taking an elevator straight there. Now that we have the foundation set up, let's go into DaVinci Resolve and get Claude and DaVinci Resolve talking together. So I'm gonna open up DaVinci Resolve.

So this is the project setup screen inside of DaVinci Resolve. You can honestly do this connection on any page. It doesn't really matter.

All you have to do is go up to file. up here and then go down to setup ai assistance click that and then boom there you go that's literally it if we take a look at this notification we can see that it says the davinci resolve mcp server has been added to these ai assistants please restart them for changes to take effect and as you can see we have clawed desktop right here and then clawed code if you're doing this with chat gbt you would see codex right here and now we can hit ok Now, if you're a Premiere Pro person and you want to get that bridge between Claude and Premiere Pro, this is how you do it.

First, go into Claude or ChatGPT. Make sure you're on the code section, then select new chat. Now we have to select the environment that we want all of this coding to take place.

Again, we're not writing any code, but we have to tell Claude where to store it, which is the video editor. So we're going to go to this computer and then we're going to select the video editor folder right here. So click.

this, go to open folder. And if you did that shortcut that I showed you, you'll be able to see it right here. Nice little shortcut.

Otherwise just locate that folder on your computer and then select open. Now we'll go to the chat down here and we'll paste in this prompt. What we're doing is asking Claude to connect to Adobe Premiere Pro using an MCP and then hit enter.

Now, Claude's going to do some work because it needs to install some code that's going to allow Claude to connect to Premiere Pro. All right, cool. So you might see a notification like this.

All you have to do is hit install. And now it'll say, do you want to install MCP for Adobe Premiere Pro? And we'll hit install.

Cool. Now we can hit close right up here. All right, cool.

So right here, it says the Premiere connector panel is installed and it says to approve the install, reset Claude and Premiere. and then check the connection. So we can just close down Claude real quick.

And now we can open Claude back up. And now all we have to do is just go to that chat that we were working in. And now we can click done and verify.

When doing this check, make sure you have Premiere Pro open. Cool, so as you can see here, it says Claude is now connected to Premiere Pro. We can also double check DaVinci Resolve by saying, please check the MCP connection between Claude and DaVinci Resolve.

Sweet, and there we go. Claude is now fully connected to DaVinci Resolve. Because we won't be using Premiere Pro, I'm just going to close that for right now.

All right, now we're going to be moving into what I call the installer. And the installer is just simply going to install a couple of really important applications onto our computer that's going to allow this stuff to work. Specifically, we're going to install Whisper and Hyperframes.

You don't really need to know what they do other than the fact that they're just really important for graphics and audio transcription in the editing process. These are just tools to help DaVinci Resolve edit better and make the animations look better. To activate the installer, all you have to do is copy and paste this prompt into Clod code.

I added this prompt to the document in the description below. So when you open up this document, all you have to do is copy this guy just like that, go over to Clod, and paste this guy right here, and then hit enter. And Claude's gonna work some magic and install all the things necessary to make this editing happening.

There might be a couple of things that you need to verify, but Claude will help walk you through those prompts. For example, right here, it says Homebrew isn't installed. So setup is paused before any installs.

Homebrew is probably gonna be the most complicated thing to set up. So we can go through that right now. So now we can just go down and just kind of read a little bit and see what it wants us to do.

So right here, it says run this terminal. So what we're going to do here is just click this button and to access the terminal, we're going to go over here. and click this little button right here.

Now it just needs our authentication to download Homebrew. So it's asking for our password. So I'm just going to type that in right here.

Boom. And then there we go. Now it just needs us to hit return enter over here.

So I'm going to hit enter. And now as you can see, it says downloading and installing Homebrew. Now it's doing a bunch of crazy stuff, but the main thing that we're looking for is installation successful.

So now we can go back over to the chat here. and it says have you installed homebrew yet we can select done continue now if i don't want to look at this crazy stuff over here i can just hit the x button and now we can let it go through the rest of this installation process all right cool so everything is checked off down here so now we can just ask claude if everything got installed all right did everything install correctly Yes, all six tools that you asked for installed and passed our checks.

All right, now that we got all of the boring stuff out of the way, let's move on to the fun stuff. This is going to be a four step process in DaVinci Resolve. I call it CCMS, cut, color, motion, and sound.

Let's get our footage into Claude and have it start with the cut. So I'm gonna pull up our practice footage right here. and then go to footage now if you're using the footage that i provided this is super raw it's literally me like messing up in there so this will be a really good test to get started on this cut down all you have to do is select the footage and then drag it into this chat box right here and all i'm going to say here is in a davinci resolve timeline cut out the mess ups and dead space between when i talk Only use the best take, which is probably the last one, but not always the case.

So this is important in a DaVinci Resolve timeline at the beginning, because what we want to do is have Claude pull up DaVinci Resolve and start building out this timeline. So now I can hit enter. All right, cool.

And just like that, as we can see here, Claude pulled up DaVinci Resolve and it just made cuts on our timeline. So let's play this back and see how it did. AI is progressing so fast.

Two years ago, if you told me a robot could edit a video like this, I would have told you you're crazy. But here we are. I have no idea what the next couple of years will bring, but I think it'll be pretty cool.

Absolutely insane. Now, if I go to some of these cuts and kind of zoom in a little bit, you can see that there's a little bit of dead space after when I say words. For example, one, two, three, four, five, six frames here.

One, two, three, and then almost about four frames until I start talking. So we can go back into Claude and set some rules. For example, there should only be two frames of dead air before the person starts talking.

That would tighten up some of these gaps. inside of DaVinci Resolve but honestly it's pretty easy to just come in here and trim these backwards just like that. So if you want to go through that extra step and kind of work with the cloth a little bit you totally can.

Real quick I'm just going to manually clean up some of these cuts.

Cool so I just finished trimming some of these cuts and now it's a little bit tighter. Now one thing you'll notice is that the audio is a little low. For example if we pull up our volume inspector over here and I play it's like Kind of around negative 20 almost.

It's a little bit too low. If we posted this on social media right now, people would need to like crank the volume on their phone. And I don't want to do this manually.

So what we can do is go back into Claude, adjust the balance and audio levels of all clips. Make sure the voice is clear, consistent, and loud enough for YouTube without any clipping or distorting. That'll bring the audio levels up without it being too loud.

And we can hit enter. All right, cool. So I just got a notification here.

God is literally so freaking smart. After I did those trim changes, it says one change I didn't make while checking the audio, I found every clip had been trimmed by a few frames. The timeline went from 15 .1 to 14 .1 seconds.

And then it's asking me, would you like to keep the tighter trims? And we want to say yes. All right, cool.

So let's jump back into DaVinci. And naturally it'll bring you to the export page because Claude really wants to like push these exports on you, but we're not ready for that yet. So we're going to go back to the edit page and now we can hit play and see the difference.

AI is progressing so fast. Two years ago, if you told me a robot could edit a video like this, I would have told you you're crazy, but here we are. I have no idea what the next couple of years will bring, but I think it'll be pretty cool.

Insane. Definitely a huge difference. I actually want to challenge Claude real quick.

In that test video, my voice was like really raspy on the first take, so I did it again. So I want to see if I can ask Claude to use the second take instead of the first take. So I'm just going to say, please switch the first line of the video to be the second take that I did instead of the first take.

I have no idea if this is going to work or not, but let's try it. All right, so Claude just finished up, so let's jump back in here and see how it did. AI is progressing so fast.

Two years ago, if you... Okay, not bad. It definitely recognized the second take, although it left in that weird, like, little voice clear at the beginning.

So I'm just going to click here and drag this over and start the video right here. AI is progressing so fast. Two years...

Solid. That is the thing about building these edits yourself. You're essentially teaching Claude how to edit a video from scratch.

So it will require going back and forth with Claude on these things like don't leave this in, always take out that, do this, do that. It can be a pretty time consuming process. And like I said earlier, if you want to bypass all of this stuff and use our plug and play system, you can get it through the AI creator course.

I'll link that in the description below. All right, so we have our cuts done. Let's move on to.

color. I'm going to say color correct my footage. It was shot in Sony S -Log3 so please apply the LUT to all clips on the timeline.

I added the LUT in the chat and if you're following along you can download this LUT as well with the practice footage. So inside of the practice footage go to LUT and then click and drag this into the chat. Now we can hit enter.

All right cool so this just finished let's jump into DaVinci Resolve and check it out. So this is great. This is awesome.

It applied the LUT to everything. And if I click on the clip here and go to the color page, so we can see it made a node with the color correction on it. That's pretty sick.

Now, if we want to make any adjustments, all we have to do is go to our color panel down here. That's pretty cool. Now I can go back to the timeline.

I can copy the attributes of this clip. I can quickly paste it onto everything here. The check marks tell me what is getting applied to that clip.

In this case, I only want the color correction. So I'm gonna remove all of the attributes besides color. I do want color, so I'm gonna keep that checked.

Now I can hit apply and there we go. Now we have a color correction across all of our clips. All right, so we're done with cut.

We're done with color. Now let's move on to motion. Motion, in my opinion, is really where this becomes mind blowing because Claude can create some pretty insane motion graphics.

So we're going to go back to Claude and with motion, I want to start off with cool animated captions. One of the best ways to get Claude to do what you want it to do is to give it a reference video. This will give it a lot of information for it to learn what you're looking for.

So I'm going to go to my Instagram page right here and. On this video there's some really cool animated captions going on. So I want to have Claude recreate this look.

So all I have to do is get the link to this video. Now I can go on to any Instagram video downloader. There's a bunch out there so I'm just gonna select this one, paste the link here, get hit with like a million pop -ups, and download.

And I'm just gonna save this to my desktop. Now I'm gonna open Claude back up. And I'm going to add my reference video into the chat right here.

Now I'm going to paste this prompt in here. Because it's a little bit longer, I'll leave it in the document with all the other prompts. Essentially what it's saying is to check out the reference video and recreate the captions as closely as possible.

One thing that I'm going to add underneath this is that I want the captions on a video track, not a caption track. This is just going to help out with customization down the road. Then I can say, place these captions on video track three.

Cool, let's hit enter. All right, so this just finished up. Let's go into DaVinci Resolve and check it out.

So as you can see here, it added the text blocks right up here, which is exactly what we wanted it to do. AI is progressing so fast. Two years ago, if you told me a robot could edit a video like this, I would have told you you're crazy.

But here we are. I have no idea what the next couple of years will bring, but I think it'll be pretty cool. That's insane.

So as you can see, it did the blue text and the regular captions. Now, the reason we wanted to do these as individual text blocks is because now we can adjust the timing or we can literally adjust what this says. For example, on this caption right here, notice how there's a period after fast.

If I wanted to remove that, all I would have to do is click on that text block. And if you click on the text box and you don't see anything over here, all you have to do is go down to this Click on that.

and now you can adjust the text right here. So I'm just going to click in here and delete that period. Now I'm going to go back to the timeline and as you can see it's deleted.

The thing is though even if you didn't know how to do that you could just describe all of that to Claude and it would do it for you. For example right here if I wanted the blue text separated from the white text I would just have to ask Claude to separate those into two different text layers. For example I could say please separate the blue text into a separate text layer from the white text put the blue on video track four let's see if it does it okay cool so this just finished up and let's check this out boom there we go let's go so as you can see up here video track four and video track three but i think it'll be pretty cool insane.

You can literally ask it to do whatever you want. That is crazy. All right moving on to the next step in motion which are motion graphics.

Now this is where you can really start saving a ton of time in your edit because these take a long time to do manually by hand. All right so I'm gonna say whenever I'm describing something important I want motion graphics to appear on screen to help visually explain what I'm talking about. This could be a logo, an icon, a word, or a simple animation that matches what I'm saying.

I'd like the background to be dark blue with motion graphics using the same white and blue colors as my captions. Make sure the graphics are timed with what I'm saying and have smooth animations as they appear and disappear. That is a bit of a long prompt, so I'll keep it in the documents below.

Feel free to customize it however you want. Also at the beginning of the prompt, I'm just gonna say, I would like to add motion graphics. And now let's hit enter.

All right, so this just finished up. And if you ever get this window over here, or if Claude pops anything up here, all you have to do is just close that by hitting the X. So now let's jump back over to DaVinci Resolve and check it out.

AI is progressing so fast. Two years ago, if you told me a robot could edit a video like this, I would have told you you're crazy. But here we are.

I have no idea what the next couple of years will bring. but I think it'll be pretty cool. That's insane.

So crazy. These animations would have taken so long to make. And of course, you can go back and forth with Claude here to fine tune all of the specifics.

For example, timing, pacing, certain animations that you like. It's really endless. All you have to do is just add it to this chat.

And now the last thing that we had to do is sound. Now, if you're following along with me, I actually added free sound effects that you can add to your video editor. All you got to do is paste this prompt in here.

Again, that's going to be in the document below. And then go to the practice footage folder, click on sound effects and drag that folder in here. Now this is going to add sound effects to our timeline from this sound effects folder.

And then we can hit enter. All right, sweet. So Claude just finished adding the sound effects.

Let's check it out. AI is progressing so fast. Two years ago, if you told me a robot could edit a video like this, I would have told you you're crazy, but Here we are.

I have no idea what the next couple of years will bring, but I think it'll be pretty cool. AI is... That's awesome.

And like everything with this process, Claude might not get it perfect on the first go around. So just work with it a little bit, be patient, and I'm sure you'll get it the way that you want. All right, so that does it for cuts, color, motion, and sound.

Now the real magic is when we go through, we refine each step and we get the video looking exactly the way we want. And then we have Claude turn this into a repeatable formula where we can have it making insane edits every single time. So for example, say this video is exactly the way that I want it.

Now I can go into the chat and say this video is great please turn it into a skill where I can say edit this video and it will go through the whole editing process start to finish. This is really powerful because now we can just add footage to the chat and it's going to go through this whole process and edit the video without us needing to help it along the way.

So let's turn this into a skill real quick. I'm going to hit enter It just stopped for a quick second to ask me whether or not I wanna do quick check -ins with it or it should be a fully automatic process.

And I wanna make this a fully automatic process. So I'm gonna click that and then hit next. And the second question that it's asking is in regards to handling the testing.

It's saying, would you like to do a test run on the footage before turning it into a skill or skip the testing? And I think this is great. Let's do a test.

So Claude just finished up and this is why I like to test stuff before I just push it live because it found a ton of errors and it's running a bunch of code in the background to help it run more efficiently. So if you can do tests, I definitely recommend doing tests.

Now that our skill is built to do this for a new video, all we would have to do is start a new chat. Make sure our video editor folder is selected here. And now all we have to do is drag and drop some new footage into our chat.

And now all I have to say is edit. video and it's going to run through that whole process that we just built. As you can see here it's going to analyze the footage, find the cut points, apply the LUT, add captions, build motion graphics, and play sound effects.

All right Claude just finished editing the video let's check it out. The world of editing is moving so fast if you want to stay up to date with all of the latest editing tips and tricks make sure to subscribe to our channel so you don't miss anything. pretty sick also gotta subscribe to the channel if you haven't already so now i could go back into claude and rename this to subscribe and if i wanted to make a new video i could go up to a new chat and then I could do that same process again and again.

Now, as you can see, this could get really powerful if we use these skills to develop different styles. For example, an Instagram style, a YouTube style, and we can build all of these different styles and then quickly use these skills to speed up our editing process. One of my favorite use cases of this is the tier list.

We actually built a custom tier list preset on our video editor app that you can download inside of the AI Creator course. I've been filming content for a while today and I'm starting to get a little hungry. For some reason, I'm like craving Mexican food.

So I'm gonna upload a video to our tier list preset and it's gonna edit it for me while I'm out getting some Mexican food. All I need to do is click and drag my video into this box right here, then select continue. It's gonna ask me what style I wanna make it in.

In this case, I'm gonna do tier list and then I'm gonna go to start editing and that's it. I'm gonna go get some food.

All right, so I just got back, ended up going with Chipotle. If we open up our studio right here, looks like everything is good to go. And now if we go into DaVinci Resolve, let's see how it looks.

Qdoba, gotta go with C tier. Solid, but not amazing. Moe's Southwest Grill.

Sneaky, honestly, B tier. I feel like they give you some good portion sizes. Del Taco, this is actually kind of a decent one.

Gotta go with C tier. Taco Bell, really depends on how hungry I am. I'm gonna go D tier.

Chipotle, gotta go A tier. That is so freaking good. I can't believe it just edited that while I was literally getting Chipotle.

The magic of this video is really all of the work that we put onto the backend to train it, how to edit a video like this. There's also other styles that you can choose from like explainer, kind of a nice little default short form content style here, a Yap style, which is just kind of like minimal cuts and captions. And then a Vox editorial faceless style video.

The other really cool thing about this system is that you can right click here and open it in a Chrome tab. So now if you have Google docs open, YouTube videos, other types. of tabs, you can see the progress of your video without going into Claude.

There's so much more that I can explain about this, like being able to build presets, just like the ones that you saw for the tier list video, the explainer video and other stuff. So like I said, if you want access to this, you can get it inside of the AI creator course. I'll add a link to that in the description below.

If you like this content, make sure to subscribe to our channel and I'll see you in the next one.

The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

The opening claim is that the video itself was edited by AI while its host was out golfing. The next thirty minutes show the setup that makes that possible: a folder, an MCP connection into DaVinci Resolve, and four rounds of prompting that a beginner can follow with the free practice footage linked below the video.

Frameworks

Named ideas worth stealing.

12:56acronym

CCMS: Cut, Color, Motion, Sound

Cut
Color
Motion
Sound

A four-stage order for prompting an AI edit: remove mistakes and dead air, apply color correction, add captions and motion graphics, then lay in sound effects. Refine each stage before moving on.

Steal forstructuring any multi-pass AI editing prompt sequence

25:12concept

Teach once, then save as a skill

Iterate on one video until every stage is right, then ask Claude to turn the full process into a skill, test it on real footage, and reuse it with a single prompt on new clips.

Steal forany repeatable creative workflow you run through Claude Code

CTA Breakdown

How they asked for the click.

VERBAL ASK

30:10product

“If you want access to this, you can get it inside of the AI creator course. I'll add a link to that in the description below.”

Pitched three times: up front as a skip-the-setup option, mid-tutorial when manual back-and-forth gets tedious, and after the tier-list demo shows the finished product.

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02:40toolClaude desktop app ↗

04:10toolDaVinci Resolve Studio ↗

11:40toolHomebrew ↗

00:30linkPrompts + follow-along practice footage ↗

01:00productAI Creator Course + pre-built video editor ↗

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PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.