# Editing & clips guides for AI video

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24 guides for editing & clips: cut and assemble footage: long videos to clips, silence cuts, transitions, b-roll and pacing.

## Guides (24)

- [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.
- [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.
- [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.

## More for editing & clips

### 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.

### Workflows (3)

- [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.

### Models & tools (9)

- [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.

## Other kinds of skills

- [Prompts](https://varg.ai/how-to/prompts.md): The words a video model obeys: camera angles, shot sizes, lighting, characters, hooks and prompt guides for Seedance, Kling, Veo, FLUX and Higgsfield. Your agent writes the prompt with them, or you paste them into the model.
- [Effects](https://varg.ai/how-to/effects.md): An effect you can see, added to your video: animated titles, captions, transitions, shader backgrounds, logo animations, device mockups and viral camera tricks. Hand your agent the footage or the brief and get the effect.
- [Styles](https://varg.ai/how-to/styles.md): The look of the whole video: art styles, film looks, color grades and LUTs, caption fonts and style references. Pick a style and every shot your agent makes follows it.
- [Workflows](https://varg.ai/how-to/workflows.md): A brief in, a finished video out: UGC ads, product videos, music videos, talking heads, explainers, Shorts and short dramas, step by step, with the models and the edit chosen for you.
- [Models & tools](https://varg.ai/how-to/models.md): Run one model or tool from your agent: Seedance, Veo, Kling, FLUX, GPT Image, Nano Banana, ElevenLabs and 1,200+ more, plus scrapers, trend search and video analysis.