Claude video editor

Use Claude to edit videos and add captions. Drop your footage in a folder, tell Claude what you want, get final.mp4 back. No timeline, no menus, no presets.

edit these into a 60-second promo with lower-third captions, no voiceover

What it can do

• Cut filler words (umm, uh), false starts, and dead space between takes
• Captions — burned-in subtitles or animated lower-thirds, in your style
• Color grade every segment (cinematic, neutral, or a custom look)
• Motion graphics — title cards, callouts, kinetic text, audio-reactive bits, scene transitions (HTML + GSAP, rendered with transparency)
• Speed ramps for slow stretches
• Transcribe any video to word-level text
• Turn a website into a video (capture a URL, animate it)
• Works for anything: talking heads, tutorials, montages, promos, shorts, travel, interviews

Claude never watches the video frame by frame. It reads it (transcript + on-demand timeline previews), so it cuts on word boundaries and stays cheap and fast. It proposes a cut, waits for your OK, renders, checks every cut for jumps and audio pops, then shows you the result.

Install

git clone https://github.com/assafkip/claude-video-editor && cd claude-video-editor
./install.sh

install.sh checks the prereqs (ffmpeg, Node 20+, headless Chrome, Python), sets up the engine, and asks once for an ElevenLabs key (used for transcription).

Then register it with Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add ./           # from the repo dir
/plugin install claude-video-editor

Use

cp -r templates/project ~/my-video && cd ~/my-video
# drop clips into sources/, open Claude Code, then:

edit these into a launch video

Outputs land in edit/. Your session is remembered in project.md so next time picks up where you left off.

What's inside

Three open-source layers, bundled to work together:

• video-use — the cutting engine (transcribe, cut, grade, subtitle, render)
• HyperFrames — the motion-graphics engine (HTML + GSAP overlays)
• hyperframes-student-kit — motion-design examples and craft

Each keeps its own license (see LICENSES/). This bundle is MIT.

Built by Assaf

The demo video on claudedaddy.io was made with this editor, by typing sentences.

The engine here is free and stays free. The Launch Video Kit ($49) adds the production system around it: three recipes (launch video from pure HTML, tutorial edit from a screen recording, website-to-promo), the worked templates behind the demo video, and a one-paste setup that installs everything for you.

More tools at claudedaddy.io.