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Guide: Edit TikToks and Reels with Claude Code (No Timeline, No Editing App)
Short-form video usually means hours in an editing app: trimming mistakes, timing captions, placing product shots, and exporting separate versions for every platform. For most operators, the editing is what slows the content down, not the filming.
Claude Code changes how this works. Instead of dragging clips along a timeline, you describe what you want in plain English. You show Claude a look you like, approve a quick plan, and Claude does the editing. You don’t write any code.
The one-time setup takes about 10 minutes. After your first video, the next one takes a single sentence, because the whole process gets saved as a reusable skill with your style choices and corrections built in.
This guide covers the full workflow, from setup to a saved, repeatable system.
The 5-Step Framework
Overview: Set Up → Give Footage and References → Approve the Plan → Render and Fix → Save as a Skill
What You’ll Need
Tools (Claude installs them for you)
Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
FFmpeg | Cuts, crops to vertical, mixes and exports video |
HyperFrames | Word-level transcription, captions, text, product cards and motion graphics |
yt-dlp | Downloads a reference video so Claude can study how it’s edited |
Access
A paid Claude plan (Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise). Video work uses more of your allowance than chat does.
The Claude desktop app on Mac or Windows. You’ll work in the Code tab, not Chat.
Assets
A raw video of you talking, filmed vertically on your phone in one continuous take. Mistakes are fine.
3 to 5 of your best-performing videos (downloaded from TikTok, Instagram or your ads account), if you have them.
Optional: a link to one video whose editing style you love, plus your logo and product photos.
Step 1: One-Time Setup
Open the Claude desktop app, click Code, and start a new session.
When asked where to work, create and select an empty folder, for example
Documents/TikTok-Videos. Claude can only work inside this folder.Paste the setup prompt below.
Setup Prompt
Set up this folder for editing short-form vertical videos.
1. Install FFmpeg, yt-dlp, and HyperFrames by HeyGen (install its
Claude Code skills with: npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes),
plus anything they need, such as Node.js.
2. Create three subfolders: raw (my footage), style (reference videos
and my best videos), exports (finished videos).
3. Create a rules file called video-rules.md for my editing rules.
Explain each step in one sentence before running it and ask before
anything that needs my password. Finish with a quick test and say "ready".If anything fails, paste the error and type “fix this.” You only need to do this once per computer.
Step 2: Provide Your Footage and Two Style References
Put your raw video in raw/ and your logo and product photos in the folder. Then give Claude two kinds of reference. Each one teaches something different:
Reference | What it teaches Claude | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
Look reference | Caption style, layout, graphics, transitions | One video whose editing you love |
Pacing reference | Hook timing, cut speed, when the product appears | 3 to 5 of your own top-performing videos |
You need both because a creator in another niche can have a great-looking video that’s paced for a completely different audience. Your own winners already show what keeps your buyers watching.
Reference Prompt
My raw video is raw/[file].
Look reference: [link]. Download it with yt-dlp and list its editing
techniques: captions, layout, graphics, transitions.
Pacing reference: the videos in style/. Measure how fast I get to the
hook, average time between cuts, and when the product first appears.
Apply the look of the first and the pacing of the second to my video.
Goal: a [15]-second [TikTok ad / Reel] for [product]. Don't render yet.Filming and Reference Tips
Leave empty space beside you when filming, such as a plain wall, so there’s room for product photos and text.
Say “cut that” out loud after a mistake. Claude removes it from the transcript.
Copy the editing, not the content. Use the look reference only to learn techniques. Don’t reuse its footage, music or script. If the download fails, screen-record a few seconds and put the file in
style/.No winning videos yet? Skip the pacing reference for your first few videos and add your best ones once you have them.
Step 3: Approve the Plan Before Anything Renders
Rendering is the slow, expensive part. So before anything renders, you review two quick previews: one for how the video looks and one for how it flows.
Plan Prompt
Show me the plan: a storyboard with stills of the key moments and
2 style options, plus a cut list as a simple table showing each cut's
start time, end time, the words spoken, and the shot (wide or close).Storyboard Checklist (the look)
Are the captions readable and on-brand?
Is the product photo or text placed beside you, never over your face or the product?
Pick one option or combine them: “Option B, with option A’s captions.”
Cut List Checklist (the pace)
Does the first row open with the hook, not “Hi guys”?
Does every cut end on a complete word?
Are the product name, main benefit and call to action all included?
Is there any claim, price or promise you wouldn’t want in an ad?
Make changes in plain English: “Start with the line about [benefit],” “Drop cut 4,” “Show the product photo when I say its name.” Editing the plan takes seconds. Re-rendering takes minutes.
Step 4: Render, Review, Refine
Render Prompt
Render it to exports/ as a 1080x1920 vertical video.Watch the whole video with the sound on, the way a viewer would. One or two rounds of notes is normal. Give your notes against the plan so Claude only changes what’s wrong:
“Cut 3 feels slow, start it half a second later.”
“Make the key words in the captions yellow.”
“The end card needs our logo.”
Pre-Posting Check
Before you post, confirm that:
Product and brand names are spelled correctly in the captions.
Nothing covers your face or the product.
Every claim and price matches what you approved.
Need more formats? Ask: “Using the same plan, export a 30s version and a 16:9 version for YouTube and Amazon.” Since the cuts are already decided, this is fast.
Step 5: Save Everything for Next Time
Once you’re happy with a video, save three things so you never start from scratch again:
Save | What it is | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
Skill | The whole process as a reusable command | One sentence runs Steps 2 to 4 next time |
Style menu | A visual page of every caption style, layout and graphic you’ve used, each with a name and preview | Pick a look by name |
Rules list | Every correction you’ve given, stored in | The same mistakes don’t come back |
Save Prompt
Turn what we just did into a reusable skill called "edit-my-video".
Create a visual style menu with today's look as the first entry, named
"[name]", with a preview image. Add every correction I gave you today
to video-rules.md as a short rule.From then on, a single sentence is enough:
Use edit-my-video on raw/[file]. Style: [name]. 15 seconds. Show me the plan first.For teams, this keeps videos consistent no matter who films them. Everyone uses the same skill, picks from the same style menu, and follows the same rules.
Bonus: Ecommerce Prompt Cheat Sheet
Product Ad from a Founder Talking-Head
Turn [file] into a 15s TikTok ad for [product]. Hook in the first second.
Show [product photo] when I say the product name. End card: "[CTA]".
Only use claims I actually say in the video. Show me the plan first.Test 3 Different Hooks
In [file] I recorded 3 different opening lines, then the main pitch once.
Make 3 versions, each with a different opening and the same pitch.
Name the files hook-1, hook-2, hook-3. Show me the plan first.For the full cheat sheet, including prompts for product demos, UGC clean-up, multi-format exports and turning your comments into video ideas, here’s the complete SOP. My gift to you :)
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