Big Idea

The argument in one line.

Claude Code edits video well once it has a structured working folder, free cutting and transcription tools, and five trained capabilities captured as reusable editing packs.

Who This Is For

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READ IF YOU ARE…

A creator who posts regularly and loses hours or whole days each week to manual editing in CapCut, Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve.
Someone who already pays for a Claude plan and tried getting it to edit, but got chopped words and generic AI-looking captions.
A solo operator managing several brands who wants a repeatable editing system instead of hiring editors for each video.

SKIP IF…

You don't have a paid Claude plan; Claude Code requires the $20, $100 or $200 tier.
You want a click-by-click tutorial; the video deliberately compresses the system into a short overview.

TL;DR

The full version, fast.

Paying for Claude and still editing by hand wastes the tool. The creator, who says his AI editor has produced close to 400 pieces of content, builds one in three steps. First, a project folder (footage, references, sounds) opened in Claude Code. Second, tools: FFmpeg for cuts, Hyperframes for code-driven graphics, AssemblyAI for word-accurate transcripts, plus an editor like CapCut, Premiere or DaVinci. Third, five capabilities: ears (millisecond transcripts so words aren't clipped), eyes (frame-by-frame self-review scored out of 100), brain (written reasons behind your cuts), taste (your references and sound library), and memory (editing packs per video type). The aim is posting more, not tooling.

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Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:00 – 01:25

01 · The problem and the promise

Why most people get AI slop from Claude, and the three-step plan.

01:25 – 03:10

02 · The editor's room

A folder with footage, references and sounds opened in Claude Code.

03:10 – 05:30

03 · The tools

FFmpeg, Hyperframes, AssemblyAI and connecting your editing platform.

05:30 – 06:50

04 · Ears

Word-accurate transcripts so cuts never clip a word.

06:50 – 08:10

05 · Eyes

Frame-by-frame self-review using a score-out-of-100 loop.

08:10 – 10:00

06 · Brain

Writing down the reasoning behind each cut and caption.

10:00 – 11:00

07 · Taste

References, design system and sound library to avoid slop.

11:00 – 12:45

08 · Memory and editing packs

One reusable pack per video type.

12:45 – 14:45

09 · Where AI editing is going

Short-form mostly automated; long-form 10/80/10.

14:45 – 15:35

10 · Close and pitch for Nave

The real goal is posting more; Nave and Agentic Content Lab.

Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

Paying for Claude and still editing by hand is like owning a washing machine and washing clothes in the sink.
Time spent training an AI editor isn't wasted, because every iteration makes the system faster for all future videos.
Claude cuts off the ends of words when it only reads text; word-level millisecond timestamps plus waveform awareness fix it.
Tell Claude 'you got a 60 out of 100, get me to 100' with a reference attached, and it iterates toward your style in a few rounds.
Claude can only learn your editing judgment if you explain why each cut, caption and transition was made, not just what was done.
AI slop comes from missing taste: no references, no design system, no sound library, so the output looks like everyone else's.
An editing pack per video type turns three to five hours of grinding into one prompt anyone on the team can reuse.
Claude can pick which editing pack fits a given video on its own once the packs exist.
The creator expects short-form to become almost fully AI-edited soon, while long-form still needs about 10% creative direction up front and 10% review.
The goal of AI editing is not the best model or tool, it's posting more so the people who need you can find you.

Takeaway

Train the editor once, reuse it forever

WHAT TO LEARN

An AI editor is only as good as its workspace, tools and recorded judgment, and capturing them as reusable packs turns hours of editing into one prompt.

Give the AI one organized folder for footage, references and sounds so you never explain where things live.
Use a word-accurate transcription model and teach waveform-aware cuts, so edits never clip the end of a spoken word.
Make the AI review its own work frame by frame against your references, scoring itself out of 100 until it hits your bar.
Write down why you made each cut, caption and transition so the AI can imitate your choices instead of guessing.
Feed it your references, design system and sound library so output feels personal instead of generic AI slop.
Save the lessons as one editing pack per video type; the AI can then pick the right pack for each new video.

Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

Editing pack: A saved set of instructions, examples and reasoning for one kind of video (clips, vlogs, explainers) that Claude reuses and improves each time.
Hyperframes: A framework that turns code into captions, titles, motion graphics, components and 3D elements so Claude can design visuals, not just cut footage.
FFmpeg: A free command-line tool that cuts, joins and exports video, and runs underneath most editing apps.
AssemblyAI: A transcription model that returns every word and pause with millisecond timing, used so cuts land exactly at word boundaries.
AI slop: Generic, low-effort AI output such as odd captions, filler motion components and floating text that carries no personal style.

Resources

Things they pointed at.

03:10toolFFmpeg

03:20toolHyperframes

04:15toolAssemblyAI

04:30toolCapCut, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve

05:00productNave Editor ↗

14:48productAgentic Content Lab ↗

01:40linkFree AI guides ↗

Quotables

Lines you could clip.

00:00

“Paying for cloud and still editing your videos by hand is like buying a washing machine and still washing your clothes in the sink.”

instant visual metaphor, no setup→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote

11:40

“A whole day, two days, three days or three to five hours of you super grinding on your editing turns into one good prompt for everyone.”

clear time-to-leverage payoff→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote

13:50

“The goal here is how can we get AI to help us post more content so the actual people who need us can find us.”

states the purpose behind the tooling→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote

The Script

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Paying for cloud and still editing your videos by hand is like buying a washing machine and still washing your clothes in the sink. AI is pretty fucking capable of taking a full editing workflow now at this point. But most people struggle to get it to do that in a good way.

And look, I've been there. A year and a half ago, I started building my own AI editor. Before AI editing was even a thing, it was using an automation platform and it took more time for me to build the system than just spending time on editing the video.

It cut my words off. It looked a bit like slop, but you're probably experiencing this with Claude or ChatGPT. I've seen the whole progression from AI slop to now AI being actually pretty good at editing.

What I learned with getting AI to edit your videos is that the first time to train AI and optimize it, takes time and that's not wasted time because the same time you're putting into the development of the editing is an investment for future videos because with every iteration your system ai will get better and faster at doing the editing for you that's just how systems work and today at this time my ai editing team has edited close to 400 pieces of content that i've posted as you can see on screen my youtube blogs explainers educational videos shorts even also this video that you're watching right now.

So my goal in this video is not to give you a 20 or 40 minute tutorial, super unnecessary. I'll be shrinking everything that I learned about AI video editing in the next couple of minutes. What I'm going to be covering is how I will be building my own AI editor if I were you from scratch in the next three steps.

First, covering the room. where your editor works. Second, the tools, what gives it hints.

And third, five capabilities that will make it edit like you. Ears, eyes, a brain. taste and memory all right so let's go and now we're moving forward into creating the editor's room so this is going to be the room that claude is going to live it consists of a folder inside your own computer that is going to be structured in this way okay you're going to have your footage your references and your sound effects and music this folder this room is going to be open through cloud code.

The benefit of this is that your editor will have one place where it can work and you will never have to explain where things are. So anytime you're going to drop any recording, any footage, it will be able to save it and it's going to get ready to work. So for this, you need to install cloud desktop app.

You need to open cloud code instead of co -work or cloud. Cloud code is the most powerful thing that you can use right now. Now, cloud code requires a paid plan.

So you need to be on the 20, 100 or 200. depending on your use of how much sauce you want to get out of Cloud Code. You need to make sure you are connecting the folder, the room that we created for the editor and just talk with Cloud here like a regular human being.

This is going to be the space where you're going to work from. Now, Cloud at this point is kind of like useless for video editing. It actually needs a tool that is able to cut videos and export and also the ability to turn code because Cloud is really good at coding into edits, captions, motion graphics, components, transitions.

like also sound effects. And we also need your own editor. The benefit of this is that it doesn't tell you what to do like you're used to with ChatGPT or Cloud regular chat.

No, it does the work. It does the edit and it's going to place everything inside a timeline that you can touch and you can be neat peaky if you are like me a little bit. Now, the cool thing is that all these tools are close to being free.

You will not have to pay for any other editing subscription or any edits done for you from high. hiring someone else. Now, just to give you clarity, this is the editing cost for this video.

All right, so these are the actual tools that are going to get inside Claude. So we're going to be using FFmpeg as the free tool that is going to cut, join, and export your videos. Almost every editing app runs underneath it.

We're going to be using Hyperframes. This is the best editing framework out there that turns code into captions, titles, motion graphics, components, 3D designs, so Claude can actually design, not just cut. And then we have Assembly AI.

This is the best model that gives Claude the ability to absorb transcripts. Very important to have this model because it ranks at the best accurateness above its competition. And this matters a lot when it comes down into video cutting and video editing because we need to match every word to the millisecond.

And you need to connect your own editing platform. Either if you're using CapCut, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, get it connected with Cloud. Here's all the resources that you can go and access to.

Just copy one line, give it to your Cloud and Cloud will be able to connect to your editing platform. I prefer building my own editing platform. I'm using this free repo that is super fucking powerful.

You can say that is even better than the platforms that I just mentioned because you can customize your AI to be native to your own. editor. That's why I built Nave Editor.

As you can see here, this is a timeline that I can open. I am used to working with CapGood, so I made this experience to be CapGood also, but I was able to make this also native to Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve for other members who are used to those platforms. This is just sick.

Build your own. That is going to save you from paying your current subscriptions and the experience could be even better if you want to integrate AI into your editing workflow. And that's how I do most of my work now.

And it works fucking phenomenal. Okay, so we got the room. We got the right tools.

Now we need to set up properly the ears, the eyes, the brain, the taste, and the memory to Claude code so it can become an official AI editor part of your team. All right, so we're starting with the ears, okay? So usually the problem that I face here is that Claude just cuts off words you actually say inside the video, even when you ask it for smooth cuts.

Now for this. That's why I mentioned the importance of a good transcription model. That's why I'm picking this model here that gets the transcript with every word and pause to the millisecond.

So the benefit is that it knows what's fluff and what's your point. And also... where each word really ends so the result that you get is like beautiful natural cuts your whole video making sense no chopped words and nothing to fix for example when i was saying a sentence like i go to the beach i used to be getting the last word cut into just b so it cuts before beach is finished because it's only reading the text so no more cuts before the word is even finished if you do this properly you need to actually train claude to understand the waveform with the cut at the end of the word.

Now we're moving into the eyes. So here the problem usually is that it says it's done even when you still don't like his end result and you wouldn't post what he's giving you. And also taking the time to fix Claude's mistakes takes longer than touching it yourself.

So the capability that we're adding here is that Claude now will be able to look at your references here and its own edit frame by frame. So it's able to what's up before you actually do.

So your review gets shorter and shorter every single time and every round. The framework I use is this little loop that gets included into your AI editor. This is a loop that just tells Claude to review its work using the 100 % framework.

Usually when I just hate something that Claude is doing or it doesn't match with my creative vision and my design style, I just tell it, you got a 60 out of 100. Please get me to 100 % performance. Here's the reference.

Here's what I want. Be really fucking critical. Do your best work.

Ultra think. And by doing this, Claude is able to align perfectly the caption styles that I like for my videos, the motion graphic components, match my creative vision for everything that I tell it to do. It just takes a couple of iterations.

obviously. And also, I don't forget that with this same exact framework, the first blog that I edited with Claude, Claude was able to match my music and beats this way with the editing. All right, so we now continue into the brain, the development of the brain.

Usually, if you don't have a well -developed editor brain here at this tab, Claude is going to cut the part that makes your story make sense. It's not going to have sauce. It's not going to have depth.

Some people call it soul. And it also picks footage that has nothing to do with So the feature here is really just getting Claude to absorb your thinking.

Your thinking written down. I usually share my thinking through my speech to text. You can also write it down.

It's just easy for me to communicate. And it's just being clear why you wanted to make this cut. And it's just being clear on first.

trying to edit something yourself to bring the example. So it's kind of like a do it, share the example of what you cut, why the caption goes here and what they should feel. What's the emotion you want to create with this?

Where should you position the images, the videos, the transitions? This step is really important to be able to develop different formats for different types of videos with different styles. The benefit of doing this is that it's able to copy you and it's able to make the choices you would.

And this helps with you stop explaining every fucking cut or every fucking thing that you do. When it comes down into editing, Claude at this point will be able to understand you very well if you do this. And you just need to explain it like you would to an editor.

Like you need to be clear. You need to be natural. You need to be concise.

It requires some director skills. Obviously, it takes time. It takes repetition.

Talk and get the AI to do what you want. But if you're doing this, I recommend you using the best model in the game. Like Opus 5 .5 or Astra 6 with high or extra high.

But don't underestimate the lower models. their clutch also. By doing this, I'm able to create this AI editing packs with all the training on my last long -form videos and short -form videos that get edited, covering the reasons behind the thinking of every edit written down, now used on this video and other videos in my channel.

And let's move into taste. So if you have not developed your AI editor with taste yet, you will experience AI slap. you will experience some weird captions getting added into your video, regular, extremely satisfying components on the screen, and floating nonsense text over your video.

So to add a little bit of sauce on top of your editing, you need to bring your tone into the mix. your references, your design system, your unique library of sound effects and music. So the edit feels like you and not like everyone else who's not putting any effort when using AI to edit.

So the result is that nobody can tell it's AI anymore and you have no more slop. Yay! Now, you need to know that Claude can actually create the whole sound design with code for your video.

Yeah, that's fucking cool. But you need to also give references if you like. You can buy sound effects from these companies that you see on screen.

I'm not a sponsor at all. Now, the place that we created for Claude to work from is super important here because this is a place where we are storing and organizing all of our sauce, okay? And without this room and the right sauce, you will not enjoy entirely your AI edits.

By the way, everyone, there are some people that they don't fucking care about how their videos look. They just care about the message they're giving out. And I and I fuck with that.

I like that, too. Not everything needs to look super aesthetic. But yeah, let's move on.

So now we need to create the memory for this AI editor. And this is where I'm bringing up again the AI editing packs. You need to create AI editing packs for each.

kind of video you make that requires a different editing style for example i have clips i have blogs i have explainers educational videos also minimal videos that don't require much editing the benefit of creating ai editing packs is that you can explain it once and it gets better every single time in every iteration and someone else is also able to use that and reuse it for their own stuff so a whole day two days three days or three to five hours of you super grinding on your editing turns into one good prompt for everyone and including you.

Now, the cool thing about this is that AI can pick the strategy on what AI editing packs to use to edit the videos by itself. And that's how I'm able to make a shit ton of posts across multiple brands that I manage every single month with the help of AI. All right, so now big question.

Where do I think AI editing will be going in the next few years? Well, I feel like short form editing. I just fucking hate short form editing.

I'm just going to be honest. I'm just going to throw my footage in. 80 % of the initial work will be done by my AI and 20 % rest will be like me reviewing it, me just putting my sauce on top and doing my stuff.

But I think short -form editing, eventually, I think it could be handled entirely by AI in the next couple of months and years. There are some people that like short -form editing, very specially edited, high quality. AI will be able to do that too.

Yeah, I think so. On the side of the long... form videos, I feel like long form videos are special because for me, I think I need, I still need to give a bit more of my creative direction for my long form videos, 10 % at the beginning.

And then I let my AI to edit 80 % of it. And then 10 % rest of me checking and reviewing and just making sure the creative direction stays in line. Now, AI wouldn't be able to do 80 % if it wasn't because we have the AI editing packs.

So start building your own AI editing packs because there are super clutch for me. But the real goal here is not just AI editing and features and tools and this and that. No.

The goal here is how can we get AI to help us be more efficient by posting more content so the actual people who need us can find us. And that's exactly what I'm building towards. I really don't care about AI's love.

I really don't care about this new feature. I really don't care about the best model in the game for editing, the best platform. No, I care about just being sure that my AI content.

helps me to post more freaking content so I can get people like you that actually need help from me to help them. So that was it everyone. That was a year and a half of experience with AI editing into this 12 minute video.

So you don't need to wash your clothes in the sink anymore and you can give your AI the room, the tools and teach it to hear, see, think, taste and remember like you and edit like you. And if you're someone who got into this point of the video and still have no clue on how they can get their ai to do all this or all of the things that i cover sound very overwhelming and you're still mad because you're losing right now an hour three hours five hours eight hours even a day by you manually editing your videos.

And you clearly know that you will be posting more content every day if editing didn't eat your week. And I've been there. I've been there too.

That's one of the main reasons I built Knave. Knave is this agentic workspace that you can connect your own class subscription into it. And you can get your own AI content team set up for you.

Already trained with the same editing team that edited this whole entire video and has edited more than 400 pieces of content across my brand and other brands that I handle. So Nave, the AI content team, lives inside Agentic Content Lab with me and the community. So if you want to check more details, link below.

Thank you guys for watching and staying at this point of the video. You guys are the fucking goats. I will appreciate you commenting, liking this video, and just subscribing.

Why not? See you guys in the next one.

The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

Paying for Claude and still cutting video by hand is the washing machine you wash in the sink. Enrique Marq compresses a year and a half of building an AI editor into one 15-minute system.

Frameworks