chrislema

06 Add Captions — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Burn in bold all-caps captions with black background boxes using whisper transcription and ffmpeg.

How to install 06 Add Captions

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/chrislema-videoeditor-06-add-captions.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrislema/videoeditor/HEAD/.claude/commands/06-add-captions.md -o ~/.claude/commands/chrislema-videoeditor-06-add-captions.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What 06 Add Captions does

name: add-captions description: Burn in bold all-caps captions with black background boxes using whisper transcription and ffmpeg user_invocable: true metadata: tags: video, captions, subtitles, ffmpeg, whisper, typography

When to use

Use this skill when the user wants to add burned-in captions/subtitles to a video. Triggered by requests like "add captions," "burn in subtitles," "caption this video," or "add-captions."

How to use

Prerequisites

ffmpeg must be installed

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