LINKS · FROM THE CAROUSEL

Turn Claude into a video editor

For anyone who films on a phone and wants Claude to do the cutting. You'll need Claude Code and about 10 minutes to install the first tool.

These are the 9 tools from the carousel, in the order I’d install them. Every one is free.

HyperFrames
To render video from HTML
Describe each scene like a web page and it turns the layout and animations into a finished video file.
Open on GitHub
Ghost Editor
To cut your talking-head takes
Hand it a messy phone recording and it keeps the best take of each line, trims the pauses, and adds captions.
Open on GitHub
FFmpeg Skill
To handle the boring edits
Trim, join, flip to vertical, fix the volume, and export for every platform, all from a chat with Claude.
Open on GitHub
Whisper
To get word-level transcripts
Turns speech into text with a timestamp on every word, which is what captions and jump cuts run on.
Open on GitHub
yt-dlp
To pull reference videos
Grabs any public video, its thumbnail, and its subtitles from YouTube, Instagram, and hundreds of other sites.
Open on GitHub
Claude Shorts
To clip the best moments
Scores a long recording, picks the strongest segments, crops them vertical, and burns in animated captions.
Open on GitHub
Remotion
To make videos in React
Each scene is built like a web app, so you control every frame and render the whole thing straight to MP4.
Open on GitHub
anime.js
To make text and shapes move
Animate titles, icons, logos, and charts with bounce, easing, and staggered timing, ready for any scene.
Open on GitHub
Awesome Claude Video Skills
To discover the rest
A curated, security-checked list of 180 AI video repos: editing, animation, motion graphics, generation.
Open on GitHub