CapCut Draft Automation — effect skill for transitions

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Generate CapCut/JianYing drafts from code, with real CapCut transitions on each cut, then export in the app.

What it does

An editable CapCut project with Mix, Pull in, Glitch etc. already on the timeline.

When: Mass-producing variants that creators finish in CapCut; teams living in CapCut.

Watch out: Expecting headless export: these tools write drafts; rendering still happens in the CapCut app. Templates must have a plaintext draft_content.json (encrypted drafts are unsupported).

Timing: Default per transition (e.g. Mix 1.0 s, Pull in 0.47 s) unless set

Also called: pyCapCut, pyJianYingDraft, VectCut API, capcut-mate, JianYing draft, CapCut draft JSON

In CapCut

pyCapCut (English CapCut; preview 0.1.x API, pin 0.0.4 for the old one). The transition is added to the earlier segment:

import pycapcut as cc
from pycapcut import trange_seconds
draft = cc.DraftFolder(r'<CapCut Drafts folder>').create_draft('auto', 1080, 1920, allow_replace=True)
draft.add_track(cc.TrackType.video)
a = cc.VideoSegment('a.mp4', trange_seconds(0, duration=4))
b = cc.VideoSegment('b.mp4', trange_seconds(4, duration=4))
a.add_transition(cc.TransitionType.White_Flash, duration='0.4s')
draft.add_segment(a).add_segment(b)
draft.save()

pyJianYingDraft is the JianYing (Chinese) sibling with Chinese enum names (e.g. TransitionType.叠化 for Mix). VectCutAPI (HTTP/MCP) takes transition and transition_duration (seconds) on add_video, resolved against CapCut_Transition_type names such as Mix, Black_Fade, Pull_in, Glitch, Cube. capcut-mate's add_videos takes transition (JianYing display name, e.g. 叠化) and transition_duration in microseconds. Open the draft in CapCut desktop and export manually.

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Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/d06e0d5fd1d1/take-capcut-draft-automation.mp4 — Mix between two shots, with the timeline strip of the edit. Footage: Sprite Fright (2021), Blender Studio | studio.blender.org, CC BY 4.0; Cosmos Laundromat (2015), (CC) Blender Foundation | gooseberry.blender.org, CC BY 4.0. (credit: Rendered by varg · Sprite Fright (2021) + Cosmos Laundromat (2015))

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