Video Use: Drop Raw Clips in a Folder and Claude Edits the Finished Video
A free, open-source skill for Claude Code from the Browser Use team. Point Claude at a folder of raw takes, agree on a plan, and get final.mp4 back: fillers cut, colour graded, captions burned in, every cut checked
Editing talking-head videos is mostly cutting: the ums, the false starts, the dead air between takes. Video Use hands that job to Claude Code. You drop raw footage in a folder, ask for the edit in plain words, and it produces edit/final.mp4 next to your files.
What it does (from the README)
- Cuts out filler words (um, uh, false starts) and the dead space between takes.
- Colour grades every segment (warm cinematic, neutral punch, or any custom ffmpeg look).
- Adds a 30 ms audio fade at every cut, so you never hear a pop.
- Burns in subtitles in your style (two-word UPPERCASE chunks by default).
- Builds animation overlays (HyperFrames, Remotion, Manim or PIL), one sub-agent per animation, in parallel.
- Checks its own render at every cut before it shows you anything, and fixes and re-renders up to 3 times.
- Keeps session memory in project.md, so next week's session picks up where you left off.
Why the cuts land cleanly
Claude never watches the video. It reads a word-by-word transcript with timestamps (from ElevenLabs Scribe), plus an on-demand picture of the waveform and words for tricky spots. Every cut snaps to a word boundary, never inside a word.
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Get the full setup steps + the copy-paste setup prompt
The rest of this guide (3 more sections, 2 copy-paste prompts) opens right here. The setup prompt, one paste into Claude that sets it all up, comes by email only. Use your real address.
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