Video Editing Suite — Development skill for Claude Code

video-editing-suite

Seven Claude Code / Claude Cowork skills that take a long recording and turn it into finished short-form video: transcribe it, find the moments worth cutting, cut them, reframe them, caption them, render them.

Why this is one repo and not seven

These skills reference each other in every direction. `short-form-clipping` hands to `caption-generator`, which hands to `video-render`, which `long-form-editing` also calls. Split them into separate repos and you get dangling references the moment somebody installs half the chain.

So: one repo, seven skills, install them together.

The chain

Skill	Does
transcribe-video	Audio to timed transcript. Applies your glossary so brand names come out right
short-form-cut-finder	Reads the transcript, finds the moments that stand alone as a short
short-form-clipping	Cuts them, reframes to vertical, tracks the subject
short-form-editing	Tightens the cut: dead air, filler, pacing
long-form-editing	The same discipline for the full-length edit
caption-generator	Burns punch-word or full-sentence captions, timed off the transcript
video-render	Final render and grade

Start anywhere. Transcribe first if you want the cut-finder to have something to read.

What you need installed

These skills shell out to real binaries. The setup wizard checks all of it and tells you exactly what is missing.

Tool	Needed by	Without it
ffmpeg + ffprobe	everything	Nothing works. Hard stop
whisper or whisper.cpp	transcription, caption timing	No transcript, so no cut-finding and no captions
node 18+	captions, render	Those two skills are unavailable, the rest still work
python3	clipping scripts	Ships with macOS
A Remotion project	captions, render	Same. Point the wizard at yours, or run without

The suite assumes you already have Remotion or an equivalent. It does not ship one.