Assemble several raw clips — multiple takes, separate shots, or existing reels — into ONE finished, on-brand vertical Short (1080x1920), PLUS ready-to-post YouTube / Instagram / TikTok / X metadata. Use this whenever someone hands over a batch of clips and wants them stitched into a single short-form video: it selects and orders the best material, fits each clip to vertical, burns word-by-word captions, adds a title card, and normalizes audio. Works for ANY content — talking-head, screen recordings, b-roll, montage. Trigger on "make a short/reel from these clips", "combine/stitch these videos into one short", "cut a vertical video from my takes", "edit these into a Short/Reel/TikTok", or any folder of clips to post as a Short. Opinionated layer ON TOP OF `video-use` — use video-use for a freeform single-video edit; cede to `video-to-articles` for a written post/article and `linkedin-carousel` for a slide/PDF carousel.
Cut standalone vertical Shorts/Reels (1080x1920) out of ONE finished long-form talking-head + screen-share video (a "N tools" walkthrough, tutorial, review, demo), one Short per topic/tool, then write per-Short YouTube + Instagram metadata. Use this whenever the user hands over a finished long-form video and wants short-form clips from it, even if they don't say the word "shorts": "cut shorts/reels from this video", "trim the short-form videos out of my long-form", "make reels from my youtube video", "turn each tool in my video into its own clip", "clip this up for tiktok/reels". Uses ffmpeg + a transcription skill for word timings. Do NOT use for raw multi-take footage (use shorts-from-takes) or a single freeform edit; this is specifically finished-long-form -> many standalone verticals.
Convert a recorded video (talking-head, build-along, tutorial, demo, essay, vlog) into a ready-to-post article or post for X (Twitter), Medium, or LinkedIn: a copy-paste pack (markdown + paste-ready HTML twin) plus a fresh cover image, in the creator's own voice. Use whenever the user wants a video, its transcript, or its screenshots turned into an X, Medium, or LinkedIn article, blog, or post (e.g. "make an X article from this video", "write a medium post from my recording"), or wants an existing blog or post adapted for those platforms. Prefer this over generic writing when the source is a video or transcript and the destination is X, Medium, or LinkedIn. Do NOT use for: summarizing or taking notes on a video (this ships a publish-ready post), YouTube titles/descriptions/thumbnails, cutting shorts/reels, transcribing a video, scheduling/posting, or a swipeable LinkedIn carousel (separate skill).