Claude Shorts

claude-shorts


Interactive longform-to-shortform video creator powered by [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code). Extracts viral-ready vertical clips from long videos using Claude as the intelligent orchestrator with Remotion-rendered premium animated captions.

How It Works

Claude Code guides you through a 10-step interactive pipeline:

1. Preflight - Validates input video, checks disk space, detects GPU
2. Transcribe - GPU-accelerated transcription with word-level timestamps (faster-whisper)
3. Detect Content - Auto-classifies: talking-head, screen recording, or podcast
4. Analyze - Claude reads the full transcript and scores 8-12 candidate segments
5. Present - Shows candidates in a formatted table with scores, hooks, and rationale
6. Approve - You pick segments, adjust timecodes, choose caption style and platform
7. Snap Boundaries - Aligns cut points to word boundaries, sentence endings, and audio silences
8. Prepare - Extracts clips (FFmpeg stream copy) and computes reframe coordinates
9. Render - Remotion renders 1080x1920 vertical video with animated captions
10. Export - Platform-optimized encoding (YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels)

Demo

Demo video/GIF coming soon — showing the full pipeline from input to rendered short with Bold-style captions.

Features

• Claude-powered segment scoring - 5-dimension rubric (hook strength, coherence, emotion, value density, payoff) with weighted scoring. No heuristic keyword matching - Claude understands narrative arcs.
• 3 caption styles - Bold (ALL CAPS, yellow highlights), Bounce (bouncy spring, rotating colors), Clean (minimal fade-in)
• Cursor tracking - For screen recordings, detects mouse cursor via frame differencing and smoothly pans the crop to follow it
• Audio-aware boundary snapping - Never cuts mid-word or mid-sentence. Extends to natural sentence endings a