Editing & clips: agent skills for AI video editing

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Cut and assemble footage: long videos to clips, silence cuts, transitions, b-roll and pacing. 49 skills for Claude Code, Codex and Grok, by type: workflows take a brief to a finished video, effects and styles change how it looks, prompts and guides teach the agent the craft, models run the generation.

How-to tutorials

• How to cut a podcast into short video clips with AI: Find the best moments in a long video, cut them, reframe to 9:16 and burn captions.
• How to turn photos into a slideshow video with AI: Your photos cut to music, with motion, transitions on the beat and titles.
• How to edit your own video footage with AI: Cut silences and flubs, reframe 16:9 to 9:16, add captions and b-roll to footage you shot.
• How to make AI b-roll for your video: Cutaway footage for every mention in a voiceover or interview: generated clips, collage or stock-style shots, cut in on time.
• How to change something inside a video with AI: Swap a product, restyle a scene, change lighting or the look of an existing clip while keeping the motion.

Skills (49)

Prompts (1)

• Video Shotcraft — Vincent Wei: 124 shot recipe cards and a tested Remotion template for cinematic product promos built from real UI screenshots.

Effects (1)

• Clipify — Louise de Sadeleer: Long videos into social clips: find funny lines or impact beats, cut, reframe to 9:16, burn word-by-word captions.

Guides (28)

• Short-form FFmpeg cookbook: copyable commands for Reels — varg: Footage into a 9:16 MP4 with FFmpeg: crop to vertical, burn captions, trim and join, music under the voice.
• Video Editing Best Practices — varg: Best practices for editing video with agents: which service for each edit, and the rules that keep cuts clean.
• Splice AI clips into a video with FFmpeg — varg, beta: Splice generated clips into an original video with ffmpeg without A/V drift: absolute trims, one audio track.
• Video editing skills for Claude Code and AI agents — varg: 206 named edits with recipes for FFmpeg, HyperFrames, Remotion and CapCut: cuts, transitions, titles, UI, numbers.
• Remotion Interactivity — Remotion: Structure Remotion markup so every element can be edited visually in Remotion Studio.
• Motion Design — LottieFiles: Animate with intent: timing, easing, choreography and Disney principles for UI and motion graphics.
• DaVinci Resolve MCP — Samuel Gursky: The most-starred Resolve MCP: drive timelines, media pool, color, Fusion and render from any MCP client.
• Unofficial DaVinci MCP — wassermanproductions: Resolve MCP with live Studio control plus FCPXML/LUT workflows for the free edition and beat-aware cuts.
• Adobe Premiere Pro MCP (premiere-mcp.com) — Het Patel: Premiere Pro MCP with a local CEP bridge, Claude Code and Codex plugins, and search-then-invoke tools.
• Premiere Pro MCP (premiere-pro-mcp.com) — leancoderkavy: Independent local-first Premiere Pro MCP over a CEP bridge for Claude, Codex and Cursor.
• ae-mcp (After Effects MCP) — JUNKDOGE-JOE: Adobe After Effects automation via MCP: 16 tools for editing comps, previews, recovery and reusable work.
• FCP MCP Server (FCPXML) — DareDev256: Read, edit and generate real Final Cut Pro timelines as FCPXML: cut detection, markers, roles, transcript edits.
• SpliceKit — Elliott Tate: Patched Final Cut Pro with a command palette and an MCP server of ~200 tools that talk to FCP's runtime.
• pyJianYingDraft — GuanYixuan: Python library that writes JianYing (CapCut China) drafts: tracks, clips, text, effects, transitions, export.
• pyCapCut — GuanYixuan: International CapCut version of pyJianYingDraft: generate CapCut drafts in Python for automated edits.
• JianYing MCP — hey-jian-wei: MCP server that creates JianYing drafts: tracks, clips, transitions, filters, masks, keyframes, audio fades.
• OpenTimelineIO — Academy Software Foundation: Academy Software Foundation's interchange format and API for editorial timelines (EDL, FCPXML, AAF adapters).
• Kinocut — Kyanite Labs: Guardrailed local video editing MCP (formerly mcp-video): ~200 FFmpeg tools, quality gates, Shorts repurposing.
• ffmpeg-mcp-lite — kevinwatt: Small FFmpeg MCP: convert, compress, trim, extract audio and add subtitles, installable with uvx.
• ffmpeg-mcp (video-creator) — video-creator: FFmpeg MCP for local video search, trimming, concatenation, overlays and playback through dialogue.
• Video Jungle MCP (video-editing-mcp) — Kirk Kaiser: MCP for Video Jungle: upload, analyze and search footage, then generate edits from the results.
• AI YouTube Shorts Generator — Anil-matcha: Open-source Opus Clip alternative: LLM finds highlights in long videos and renders 9:16 shorts with face crop.
• claude-shorts — AgriciDaniel: Claude Code skill that scores segments of a long video, snaps cuts to words and renders captioned 9:16 clips.
• SupoClip — FujiwaraChoki: Self-hostable OpusClip alternative: long video in, captioned vertical clips out, no watermark.
• ClipsAI — Clips AI: Python library that segments long transcripts into clips and resizes video to 9:16 around the speaker.
• OpenMontage Sound Design Rules — Calesthio: Mix targets an agent can check: dialogue −16 to −14 LUFS, music 18–20 dB under speech, whoosh timing, true-peak limits.
• OpenMontage Visual QA — Calesthio: Self-review after render: frames at each cut, codec and duration checks, captions over faces, broken transitions.
• OpenMontage B-roll Planning — Calesthio: Plans b-roll from a script: stock vs generated, search queries per beat, and how to judge a clip before using it.

Workflows (7)

• Previz to Seedance — varg, beta: Plan multi-shot AI video before paying: story, anchor sheets, a three.js grey-box previz, then a Seedance v2v pack.
• Turn a song into an AI music video — varg, beta: Direct an AI music video the way top X creators do: song map, beat-grid storyboard, stills first, Seedance, lip-sync.
• FLUX 3 Product Ads — Black Forest Labs: Build a finished product ad with FLUX 3: shot design, voiceover sync, deterministic assembly, QC gates.
• Chengfeng Videocut — chengfeng: Chinese talking-head editing: word-level transcript, five-pass flub sweep, human review in a Studio, subtitles, export.
• Claude Code Video Toolkit — Digital Samba: Open-source video workspace for Claude Code: script, voice, music, visuals and Remotion render on your own GPU account.
• Herk Edit Kit — Nate Herk: Nate Herk's kit to edit talking-head videos, reels and Shorts: silence and flub cuts, storytelling, motion graphics.
• OpenMontage — Calesthio: Open-source agentic video studio: 12 pipelines (8 edit your footage), 100+ tools, ~140 skills. Run your agent in it.

Models & tools (12)

• Runway Media — Runway: Generate and edit images, video, music, speech and sound effects from chat with Runway's MCP tools.
• Krea Generate — Krea: Pick the right Krea model and prompt for any image, video, edit or upscale before you generate.
• FFmpeg Skill — Shogo Kajiyama: Local video editor for agents: 42 FFmpeg tools with a machine-readable contract and an MCP server; no cloud, no keys.
• VectCut — sun-guannan, beta: Drives the VectCut editing API: talking-head cuts, remixes, e-commerce ads, subtitles, effects, cloud render
• Local Video Editor (MoviePy) — ncsimok, beta: Local MoviePy + ffmpeg toolbox: trim, merge, Chinese text and subtitles, background music, speed, vertical resize.
• Shotstack — Shotstack: Cloud video editing API with an official MCP server, CLI and Claude Code skill built around Edit JSON.
• Creatomate — Creatomate: Template-based video rendering API with an official remote MCP endpoint for Claude and other agents.
• JSON2Video — JSON2Video: Video editing API that renders JSON scenes; official CLI installs a local MCP server for Claude.
• OpusClip skills and API — OpusClip: Official OpusClip skill and MCP: clip long videos into shorts, copy a video's style, post to social.
• Descript (API and MCP) — Descript: Edit by transcript with Underlord from Claude: import, remove fillers, Studio Sound, publish, export transcripts.
• VideoDB skills — VideoDB: Server-side video for agents: ingest, search moments, cut, reframe, subtitle and stream via skills or MCP.
• Vizard.ai API skill — Vizard.ai: Official ClawHub skill for the Vizard.ai API: clip long videos, edit shorts with subtitles and B-roll, publish.