Dev builds own AI video editing pipeline, cuts cost to $2.36 per short
Spare-Scallion9578 · reddit · 2026-09-16
A marketing agency founder shares a fully working AI video editing pipeline: record on phone, drop into iCloud Drive, and an iMac handles editing, captions, visuals, thumbnails, and auto-scheduling across platforms — about 6-7 shorts a day plus one 17-minute long-form per week.
Key takeaways:
- Model stacking matters: one model (GPT Astra) directs visuals while another (Fable 5.1) executes scenes; Gemini Flash handled breaths and non-talking segments well.
- Frontier models on max effort are required — lower tiers failed across 200+ iterations.
- Long-form still needs manual revision sessions (5 rounds for a 16-minute video); shorts are far more reliable.
- Cost math: $600 in subscriptions for 255 minutes edited, roughly $2.36 per short.
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