Claude Code + Final Cut Pro

Edit your footage with Claude. Finish it in Final Cut.

Hey, I'm TJ. I had 231 clips from Vietnam I was too intimidated to edit. These are the skill files I used to turn them into a film. They're free.

TJ and his motorbike driver in red helmets on the Ha Giang Loop, Vietnam

I'll email you when a skill changes, plus the Part 2 project files. The skills are free below either way.

231 → 8:02

Raw clips in, a finished film out. The same footage I couldn't face for nine months.

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Skill files, free. The actual ones I run, not a cleaned-up rewrite.

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Clips uploaded anywhere. Transcription and frame reading run on your Mac.

Watch it work

The tutorial walks through the whole setup. Part 2 is the real test: a full travel film from footage nobody had seen the end of.

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Edit Videos with Claude: Final Cut Pro TutorialThe setup, start to finish
Harsha with his arms up above the Nho Que canyon Coming soon
Editing a real travel film from 231 clipsPart 2 · subscribers get the project files

The skills

A skill is a prompt saved as a file. Claude Code loads it, and /edit appears. Paths and habits in them are mine; change them to yours.

Download all five (.zip) 35 KB · unzips to .claude/skills/
/edit

Point it at a folder of clips. It reads every one, asks what the video is, then works toward a cut with you.

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/finalcut

Hands the approved cut to Final Cut Pro as a real, editable timeline.

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/video-review

Checks its own render before you watch: clipped words, bad frames, music over voice. Comes with dialogue_audit.py.

Read itThe script
/thumbnail

Builds thumbnail options from real frames of your video.

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/distribute

Titles, descriptions and a posting checklist, from current research.

Read it

To install one by hand, save it as .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md in the folder you open Claude Code from, then restart Claude Code.

How it works

  1. Open Claude Code in Terminal and type /edit.
  2. Show it the folder your clips are in. A screenshot works.
  3. Tell it what the video is and how long. Then argue with it.
  4. Watch the first cut it renders. Give notes.
  5. Type /finalcut. You get a Final Cut Pro project you can finish.

It does the assembly. I do the craft.

Colour, music and the taste calls are still mine, and it makes mistakes you have to catch. It blamed the wind for audio we recorded indoors. The /video-review skill exists because of mistakes like that.

Motorbikes on a fog-covered mountain road in Ha Giang

Get the skills when they change.

Plus the Part 2 project files when it's out. One email when there's something real, never more.