Claude Video Editing Course: Raw Footage to Finished Video (Free Skill)

Take raw footage to a finished video with Claude, with no editing experience. You run all 8 steps yourself on a free practice clip, with a free starter skill. 🆓 Free starter skill, practice clip and every prompt: https://github.com/ctejada/claude-video-starter ⚠️ Use at your own risk. It runs commands on your computer, with no warranty. Back up your footage first. It's a starter, not my exact setup, so tune it to your own footage and voice. INSTALL ON A MAC (paste one line at a time in Terminal) curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash git clone https://github.com/ctejada/claude-video-starter ~/.claude/skills/video-edit bash ~/.claude/skills/video-edit/scripts/setup.sh cd ~/VideoProjects/practice && claude INSTALL ON WINDOWS (paste one line at a time in PowerShell, and open a new window after the first and third lines) winget install --id Git.Git -e --source winget --accept-source-agreements --accept-package-agreements; irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex git clone https://github.com/ctejada/claude-video-starter "$HOME\.claude\skills\video-edit" powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "$HOME\.claude\skills\video-edit\scripts\setup.ps1" cd "$HOME\VideoProjects\practice"; claude You need macOS 13 or later or Windows 10 or 11, and a Claude plan that includes Claude Code. CHAPTERS 0:00 By the end of this video 0:40 The whole workflow in one minute 1:34 Set it up (Mac or PC) 6:00 Step 1: Cut 9:31 Step 2: Your opening 10:21 Step 3: Your voice 12:30 Step 4: Your color 14:17 When it goes wrong 15:06 Step 5: Your captions 16:03 Step 6: Your animation 17:41 Step 7: Your music 18:52 Step 8: Check it and export 20:29 Make it yours NEW TO THE TERMINAL Read: Terminal guide for new users https://code.claude.com/docs/en/terminal-guide Watch: Absolute Beginner Guide to the Mac OS Terminal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKRYQsKR46I HOW CLAUDE CODE WORKS (AGENT LOOPS) Read: How Claude Code works https://code.claude.com/docs/en/how-claude-code-works Read: Building agents with the Claude Agent SDK https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-agents-with-the-claude-agent-sdk Watch: Building verification loops in Claude Code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZB0l-rhxE Watch: Agent Loops Clearly Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuzYhzB0vbI THE TOOLS Claude Code: Claude that runs things on your computer. Quickstart https://code.claude.com/docs/en/quickstart Skills: instructions Claude reads to do one job. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills CLAUDE.md: the notes file Claude reads in your project. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory FFmpeg: cuts and converts video. Free and open source. https://ffmpeg.org · Watch: FFmpeg in 100 Seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Mayv5JPz0 HyperFrames: turns a web page into a video. Free and open source, from HeyGen. https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes · Docs https://hyperframes.heygen.com · Watch: HyperFrames Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnvMg18GxcY Parakeet: speech to text on your computer. A free model from NVIDIA. https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 Homebrew (Mac): installs other tools. Free and open source. https://brew.sh Git and GitHub: copy code from the web. https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/start-your-journey/about-github-and-git · Watch: A brief introduction to Git https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jQ9hVA2qs YouTube Audio Library: free music for your videos. https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary GO DEEPER Color: Color Grading 101 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAh83khT1no Sound: The Loudness Secret to Mixing YouTube Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp-6F8SWFSY Captions: Add subtitles to your videos https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796 MUSIC Loading Screen by Dyalla, from the YouTube Audio Library ------- My Gear (These are Amazon affiliate links. Please use them to help support the channel!) Camera - https://amzn.to/3AQAKUx Zoom Lens - https://amzn.to/3BbNy94 Wide Angle Lens - https://amzn.to/3wVj6h8 GoPro - https://amzn.to/3KRPuH9 L Bracket - https://amzn.to/3RlbOeH Tripod - https://amzn.to/3wQxy9V Mini Tripod - https://amzn.to/3qcIRpr SD Cards - https://amzn.to/3TBf3jT Microphone - https://amzn.to/3RmQEwY Website - https://christiantejada.com Twitter - http://twitter.com/ctejada91 Personal Instagram - http://instagram.com/christiantejada Photography Instagram - http://instagram.com/dope.pixels Snapchat - ctejada