A vlog fully edited by Claude Code in one ask

@levelsio@levelsio

My vlog today was fully edited by Claude Code with Opus 5.5!

I copied the video clips from my DJI to a folder, then opened Claude Code in it and asked it to edit it into a 10 minute vlog

I made a few adjustments but not a lot

It transcribed everything I said with mlx-whisper (Whisper large-v3-turbo running on my MacBook Pro's GPU through Apple's MLX)

It pulled video frames every few seconds into grid images (contact sheets), so Claude could see what's in each clip

It used SpeechBrain ECAPA (a voice-matching model) to figure out what was my voice from other people

It then made thumbnails with OpenCV with YuNet's face detector

The edit itself is a list of cuts in a JSON file: which clip, start time, end time, Claude then picked the pieces by reading the transcripts and looking at the frame grids by itself

I added on screen captions for X and on YouTube for the first minute with Pillow (Python's image library)

P.S. I didn't ask for any of this, and I didn't know any of this until @thesamparr just asked me how I edited it

All I asked for was "Claude can you edit these clips into a 10 minute vlog for X and YouTube"

I think if I didn't have AI to edit it, I wouldn't be vlogging because editing would be such a painful and slow process for me and hiring someone to do it would be even more hassle for me!