Dev open-sources Claude Code skill that turns raw takes into finished vertical videos
ustype · reddit · 2026-09-07
A developer making short dev-tool videos open-sourced the Claude Code skill that replaced his two-hour editing sessions: drop raw takes in a folder, say "edit these", and get back a finished vertical video.
Key ideas:
- The ffmpeg pipeline was easy; taste wasn't. His first dozen versions were technically correct but obviously machine-made. Every rejection became a written rule — about 40 now, each documenting the failure it prevents
- Examples: captions must start 0.08s after the word or sync feels broken; a sound effect can play without clipping yet be inaudible if its peak falls outside the played window (4 files in his library failed this while passing every level check); never continuously scale screenshots — per-frame resampling looks like vibration
- Claude's unique contribution: it kept finding bugs in his rules, e.g. his audio gate had a floor but no ceiling and reported "all sounds audible" on a mix where effects were louder than his voice. It's now a fixed gate that fails builds
What it does: picks the best take and cuts on silence, captures real pages with a highlighter sweep on the named line, builds cards, aligns sounds to peaks, and outputs master, platform variants, thumbnail and post copy. Runs locally with Whisper, no API key, nothing uploaded. Repo: github.com/ranahaani/i-hate-editing
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