AI-assisted video editing workflows for cutting, structuring, and augmenting real footage. Covers the full pipeline from raw capture through FFmpeg, Remotion, ElevenLabs, fal.ai, and final polish in Descript or CapCut. Use when the user wants to edit video, cut footage, create vlogs, or build video content.
AI-assisted video editing workflows for cutting, structuring, and augmenting real footage. Covers the full pipeline from raw capture through FFmpeg, Remotion, ElevenLabs, fal.ai, and final polish in Descript or CapCut. Use when the user wants to edit video, cut footage, create vlogs, or build video content.
origin
ECC
cluster
social-media
version
1.0.0
Video Editing
AI-assisted editing for real footage. Not generation from prompts. Editing existing video fast.
When to Activate
User wants to edit, cut, or structure video footage
Turning long recordings into short-form content
Building vlogs, tutorials, or demo videos from raw capture
Adding overlays, subtitles, music, or voiceover to existing video
Reframing video for different platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram)
User says "edit video", "cut this footage", "make a vlog", or "video workflow"
Core Thesis
AI video editing is useful when you stop asking it to create the whole video and start using it to compress, structure, and augment real footage. The value is not generation. The value is compression.
The Pipeline
Screen Studio / raw footage
→ Claude / Codex
→ FFmpeg
→ Remotion
→ ElevenLabs / fal.ai
→ Descript or CapCut
Each layer has a specific job. Do not skip layers. Do not try to make one tool do everything.
Raw camera footage: vlog footage, interviews, event recordings
Desktop capture via VideoDB: session recording with real-time context (see videodb skill)
Output: raw files ready for organization.
Layer 2: Organization (Claude / Codex)
Use Claude Code or Codex to:
Transcribe and label: generate transcript, identify topics and themes
Plan structure: decide what stays, what gets cut, what order works
Identify dead sections: find pauses, tangents, repeated takes
Generate edit decision list: timestamps for cuts, segments to keep
Scaffold FFmpeg and Remotion code: generate the commands and compositions
Example prompt:
"Here's the transcript of a 4-hour recording. Identify the 8 strongest segments
for a 24-minute vlog. Give me FFmpeg cut commands for each segment."
This layer is about structure, not final creative taste.
Layer 3: Deterministic Cuts (FFmpeg)
FFmpeg handles the boring but critical work: splitting, trimming, concatenating, and preprocessing.
