Agent skill · creative production · affaan-m
video-editing
AI-assisted video editing workflows for cutting, structuring, and augmenting real footage. Covers the full pipeline from raw capture through FFmpeg, Remotion, ElevenLabs, fal.ai, and final polish in Descript or CapCut. Use when the user wants to edit video, cut footage, create vlogs, or build video content.
Why this skill is useful
Adds specific FFmpeg commands and Remotion code snippets for efficient video editing workflows that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires ffmpeg, remotion installed locally. About 5k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 238,342 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Video Editing AI-assisted editing for real footage. Not generation from prompts. Editing existing video fast. When to Activate User wants to edit, cut, or structure video footage Turning long recordings into short-form content Building vlogs, tutorials, or demo videos from raw capture Adding overlays, subtitles, music, or voiceover to existing video Reframing video for different platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram) User says "edit video", "cut this footage", "make a vlog", or "video workflow" Core Thesis AI video editing is useful when you stop asking it to create the whole video and start using it to compress, structure, and augment real footage. The value is not generation. The value is compression. The Pipeline Each layer has a specific job. Do not skip layers. Do not try to make one tool do everything. Layer 1: Capture (Screen Studio / Raw Footage) Collect the source material: Screen Studio: polished screen recordings for app demos, coding sessions, browser workflows Raw camera footage: vlog footage, interviews, event recordings Desktop capture via VideoDB: session recording with real-time context (see videodb skill) Output: raw files ready for organization. Layer 2: Organization (Claude / Codex) Use Claude Code or Codex to: Transcribe and label: generate transcript, identify topics and themes Plan structure: decide what stays, what gets cut, what order works Identify dead sections: find pauses, tangents, repeated takes Generate edit decision list: timestamps for cuts, segments to keep Scaffold FFmpeg and Remotion code: generate the commands and compositions This layer is about structure, not final creative taste. Layer 3: Deterministic Cuts (FFmpeg) FFmpeg handles the boring but critical work: splitting, trimming, concatenating, and preprocessing. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills affaan-m/video-editing--01ca6e