Clean up or mix a video's audio track — normalize loudness, reduce background noise/hiss, or add background music (optionally ducked under speech). Use whenever the user wants to fix quiet/loud/inconsistent audio, remove hiss/hum, or lay music under a…
Make an edit feel flowing, natural and snappy rather than merely accurate — split edits (J/L cuts), where to place a cut relative to speech and motion, how long to hold a shot, collapsing dead air, and cutting on the beat. Use whenever an edit is technically…
Turn raw footage into a finished edit in a specific genre/format — montage, documentary, tutorial, news, workshop, vlog, trailer, explainer. Use whenever the user wants the video "edited into a X", asks "what style should this be / what would make a good X",…
Build a multi-clip edit as an auditable JSON "edit decision list" (EDL) — a list of clips with source/in/out and a written rationale per pick — that one command renders to a finished video. Use whenever you're stitching several cuts/takes/segments into one…
Remove filler words and disfluencies (um, uh, like, you know, basically) from a talking-head video so it sounds like they were never said. Use whenever the user wants to clean up speech, cut filler/hesitations, tighten a voiceover, or remove "um"s and "uh"s.…
Join two clips with a visible transition effect (wipe, slide, dissolve, pixelize, circle open/close, fade-to-black, etc.) using ffmpeg xfade. Use whenever the user wants a transition between shots/scenes, a scene change with an effect, or anything beyond a…
Add subtitles/captions to a video — burn them into the picture, or export an .srt/.vtt file (for YouTube etc.). Use whenever the user wants captions, subtitles, on-screen text of what's being said, an SRT/VTT file, or accessibility text. Covers…
Color-grade a video — apply a cinematic look / LUT, or generate and compare candidate looks for the user to pick. Use whenever footage looks flat/muted/cold and needs grading, you want a named reusable look (warm, teal-orange, punchy, neutral), or you have a…