# Chengfeng Videocut — workflow skill for editing & clips

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Chinese talking-head editing: word-level transcript, five-pass flub sweep, human review in a Studio, subtitles, export.

- **Type:** [Workflow](https://varg.ai/how-to/workflows.md) · [Editing & clips](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/editing.md)
- **Slug:** `chengfeng-videocut`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** chengfeng (community)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source:** https://github.com/Agentchengfeng/chengfeng-videocut-skills
- **Works in:** Codex
- **Requires:** Codex CLI with plugin support, Node.js 18+ and Git, A cloud ASR for word-level transcription
- **Cost:** Free plugin; cloud transcription billed by your ASR provider
- **Adoption:** 2,802 installs, 3,135 GitHub stars (GitHub + skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

A Codex plugin for editing Chinese talking-head footage. The cut skill transcribes word by word with a cloud ASR, fixes misheard terms from a dictionary, runs five separate scans for flubs and repeats, and produces a deletion ledger that you approve in a local Studio before anything is cut; sibling skills add subtitles and HTML visual layers, and the export skill burns cuts, push-ins, subtitles and visuals into one MP4 in a single pass. Your corrections and dictionary fixes are kept for the next session. The plugin installer pins exact source commits, and the Studio runtime comes from a pinned release checked against SHA-256.

## Use when

- Cut flubs, repeats and dead air from a Chinese talking-head recording
- Add subtitles and visual layers, then export one MP4

## Not for

- Non-Chinese speech (dictionary and rules are Chinese-first)
- Local-only transcription (it requires a cloud ASR)

## Install

- Codex: `node bin/install.cjs install`

## Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/e62a09a47006/chengfeng-videocut.webp — Screenshot from the creator's X article on the Codex upgrade: the skill's storyboard review page, with a generated hand-drawn frame, the word-highlighted talking-head transcript and the colored segment timeline. Still image of the tool in use; no clean output clip from the creator was found. (credit: 成峰 Chengfeng (@agentchengfeng), https://x.com/agentchengfeng/status/2068932528317071404)

## How-to tutorials that use it

- [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.

## More editing & clips skills

- [Short-form FFmpeg cookbook: copyable commands for Reels](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/short-form-ffmpeg-cookbook.md): 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): Splice generated clips into an original video with ffmpeg without A/V drift: absolute trims, one audio track.
- [Claude Code Video Toolkit](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/claude-code-video-toolkit.md): 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's kit to edit talking-head videos, reels and Shorts: silence and flub cuts, storytelling, motion graphics.
- [Clipify](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/clipify.md): Long videos into social clips: find funny lines or impact beats, cut, reframe to 9:16, burn word-by-word captions.
- [VectCut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/vectcut.md): Drives the VectCut editing API: talking-head cuts, remixes, e-commerce ads, subtitles, effects, cloud render