# 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/cut-a-podcast-into-short-video-clips.md): 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/turn-photos-into-a-slideshow-video.md): Your photos cut to music, with motion, transitions on the beat and titles.
- [How to edit your own video footage with AI](https://varg.ai/how-to/edit-your-own-video-footage.md): 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/make-ai-b-roll-for-your-video.md): 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/change-something-inside-a-video.md): 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/video-shotcraft.md) — Vincent Wei: 124 shot recipe cards and a tested Remotion template for cinematic product promos built from real UI screenshots.

### Effects (1)

- [Clipify](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/clipify.md) — 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/short-form-ffmpeg-cookbook.md) — 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-video-editing.md) — 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-ffmpeg-mixing.md) — 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-video-edit-library.md) — varg: 206 named edits with recipes for FFmpeg, HyperFrames, Remotion and CapCut: cuts, transitions, titles, UI, numbers.
- [Remotion Interactivity](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/remotion-interactivity.md) — Remotion: Structure Remotion markup so every element can be edited visually in Remotion Studio.
- [Motion Design](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/lottiefiles-motion-design.md) — LottieFiles: Animate with intent: timing, easing, choreography and Disney principles for UI and motion graphics.
- [DaVinci Resolve MCP](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/davinci-resolve-mcp.md) — Samuel Gursky: The most-starred Resolve MCP: drive timelines, media pool, color, Fusion and render from any MCP client.
- [Unofficial DaVinci MCP](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/unofficial-davinci-mcp.md) — 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)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/premiere-pro-mcp-hetpatel.md) — 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)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/premiere-pro-mcp-leancoder.md) — leancoderkavy: Independent local-first Premiere Pro MCP over a CEP bridge for Claude, Codex and Cursor.
- [ae-mcp (After Effects MCP)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/after-effects-mcp.md) — JUNKDOGE-JOE: Adobe After Effects automation via MCP: 16 tools for editing comps, previews, recovery and reusable work.
- [FCP MCP Server (FCPXML)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fcp-mcp-server.md) — DareDev256: Read, edit and generate real Final Cut Pro timelines as FCPXML: cut detection, markers, roles, transcript edits.
- [SpliceKit](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/splicekit.md) — Elliott Tate: Patched Final Cut Pro with a command palette and an MCP server of ~200 tools that talk to FCP's runtime.
- [pyJianYingDraft](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/pyjianyingdraft.md) — GuanYixuan: Python library that writes JianYing (CapCut China) drafts: tracks, clips, text, effects, transitions, export.
- [pyCapCut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/pycapcut.md) — GuanYixuan: International CapCut version of pyJianYingDraft: generate CapCut drafts in Python for automated edits.
- [JianYing MCP](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/jianying-mcp.md) — hey-jian-wei: MCP server that creates JianYing drafts: tracks, clips, transitions, filters, masks, keyframes, audio fades.
- [OpenTimelineIO](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/opentimelineio.md) — Academy Software Foundation: Academy Software Foundation's interchange format and API for editorial timelines (EDL, FCPXML, AAF adapters).
- [Kinocut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/kinocut.md) — Kyanite Labs: Guardrailed local video editing MCP (formerly mcp-video): ~200 FFmpeg tools, quality gates, Shorts repurposing.
- [ffmpeg-mcp-lite](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ffmpeg-mcp-lite.md) — kevinwatt: Small FFmpeg MCP: convert, compress, trim, extract audio and add subtitles, installable with uvx.
- [ffmpeg-mcp (video-creator)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ffmpeg-mcp-video-creator.md) — video-creator: FFmpeg MCP for local video search, trimming, concatenation, overlays and playback through dialogue.
- [Video Jungle MCP (video-editing-mcp)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/video-jungle-mcp.md) — Kirk Kaiser: MCP for Video Jungle: upload, analyze and search footage, then generate edits from the results.
- [AI YouTube Shorts Generator](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ai-youtube-shorts-generator.md) — Anil-matcha: Open-source Opus Clip alternative: LLM finds highlights in long videos and renders 9:16 shorts with face crop.
- [claude-shorts](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/claude-shorts.md) — AgriciDaniel: Claude Code skill that scores segments of a long video, snaps cuts to words and renders captioned 9:16 clips.
- [SupoClip](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/supoclip.md) — FujiwaraChoki: Self-hostable OpusClip alternative: long video in, captioned vertical clips out, no watermark.
- [ClipsAI](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/clipsai.md) — Clips AI: Python library that segments long transcripts into clips and resizes video to 9:16 around the speaker.
- [OpenMontage Sound Design Rules](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/openmontage-sound-design.md) — 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/openmontage-visual-qa.md) — Calesthio: Self-review after render: frames at each cut, codec and duration checks, captions over faces, broken transitions.
- [OpenMontage B-roll Planning](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/openmontage-broll-planning.md) — 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-previz.md) — 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-music-video.md) — 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/flux-3-product-ads.md) — Black Forest Labs: Build a finished product ad with FLUX 3: shot design, voiceover sync, deterministic assembly, QC gates.
- [Chengfeng Videocut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/chengfeng-videocut.md) — chengfeng: Chinese talking-head editing: word-level transcript, five-pass flub sweep, human review in a Studio, subtitles, export.
- [Claude Code Video Toolkit](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/claude-code-video-toolkit.md) — Digital Samba: Open-source video workspace for Claude Code: script, voice, music, visuals and Remotion render on your own GPU account.
- [Herk Edit Kit](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/herk-edit-kit.md) — Nate Herk: Nate Herk's kit to edit talking-head videos, reels and Shorts: silence and flub cuts, storytelling, motion graphics.
- [OpenMontage](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/openmontage.md) — 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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/runway-media.md) — Runway: Generate and edit images, video, music, speech and sound effects from chat with Runway's MCP tools.
- [Krea Generate](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/krea-generate.md) — Krea: Pick the right Krea model and prompt for any image, video, edit or upscale before you generate.
- [FFmpeg Skill](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ffmpeg-skill.md) — Shogo Kajiyama: Local video editor for agents: 42 FFmpeg tools with a machine-readable contract and an MCP server; no cloud, no keys.
- [VectCut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/vectcut.md) — sun-guannan, beta: Drives the VectCut editing API: talking-head cuts, remixes, e-commerce ads, subtitles, effects, cloud render
- [Local Video Editor (MoviePy)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/doorstep-video-editor.md) — ncsimok, beta: Local MoviePy + ffmpeg toolbox: trim, merge, Chinese text and subtitles, background music, speed, vertical resize.
- [Shotstack](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/shotstack.md) — Shotstack: Cloud video editing API with an official MCP server, CLI and Claude Code skill built around Edit JSON.
- [Creatomate](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/creatomate.md) — Creatomate: Template-based video rendering API with an official remote MCP endpoint for Claude and other agents.
- [JSON2Video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/json2video.md) — JSON2Video: Video editing API that renders JSON scenes; official CLI installs a local MCP server for Claude.
- [OpusClip skills and API](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/opusclip.md) — OpusClip: Official OpusClip skill and MCP: clip long videos into shorts, copy a video's style, post to social.
- [Descript (API and MCP)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/descript.md) — Descript: Edit by transcript with Underlord from Claude: import, remove fillers, Studio Sound, publish, export transcripts.
- [VideoDB skills](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/videodb-skills.md) — VideoDB: Server-side video for agents: ingest, search moments, cut, reframe, subtitle and stream via skills or MCP.
- [Vizard.ai API skill](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/vizard-api-skill.md) — Vizard.ai: Official ClawHub skill for the Vizard.ai API: clip long videos, edit shorts with subtitles and B-roll, publish.