# pyJianYingDraft — guide skill for editing & clips

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Python library that writes JianYing (CapCut China) drafts: tracks, clips, text, effects, transitions, export.

- **Type:** [Guide](https://varg.ai/how-to/guides.md) · [Editing & clips](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/editing.md)
- **Slug:** `pyjianyingdraft`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** GuanYixuan (community)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source:** https://github.com/GuanYixuan/pyJianYingDraft
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
- **Cost:** Free/open source
- **Adoption:** 4,707 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-27)

## What it does

The most-used way to automate JianYing: a Python library that generates and edits draft projects with video, audio and text tracks, keyframes, filters, transitions and effects, and can drive export. Many agent skills and MCP servers for JianYing are built on it.

## Use when

- build an editable JianYing draft from a cut plan
- batch remix templates
- back an agent skill with real draft files

## Install

- Claude Code: `pip install pyJianYingDraft`

## 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.
- [Chengfeng Videocut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/chengfeng-videocut.md): 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): 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.