Video editing used to be the biggest bottleneck in content creation, swallowing hours of your life or thousands of dollars in freelancer fees. Not anymore—today we’re exploring how to turn Claude Code into a fully autonomous director that cuts, captions, and scores your long-form videos while you grab a coffee.

We’ll talk about:

• The AI Editing Brain: How to use Claude Code to orchestrate your entire workflow, moving from manual timeline dragging to prompt-based directing.
• The "Make It Cool" Trap: Why giving AI vague creative direction guarantees a garbage edit, and how to use screenshot referencing to enforce your exact brand kit.
• The Ultimate 5-Tool Stack: We break down the exact combination you need—Whisper for transcripts, ffmpeg for aggressive ...