Video Editing with Claude Code
Turn rough smartphone footage into polished, social-ready vertical videos entirely from your terminal. Learn how to direct Claude Code to remove dead air, punch in dynamic zooms, and generate styled captions using command-line media tools.
Like Duolingo, but for Video Editing with Claude Code. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 11 levels across 2 sections, about 22 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Assembling the Rough Cut and Polishing and Automating the Pipeline. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Video Editing with Claude Code
- Claude Code works locally inside your terminal rather than uploading video files to external editing servers
- Claude Code edits video by generating and executing command-line media tools like FFmpeg on your local files
- You control video editing operations through natural language prompts instead of clicking tools in a traditional graphical timeline
- Claude Code can run audio silence-detection commands against your video to automatically surface exact start and end timestamps for pauses
- Automated audio scanning eliminates the need to manually scrub through talking-head footage looking for silent gaps
- You can instruct Claude Code to target specific silence thresholds (like gaps longer than 0.5 seconds) to catch retakes and dead air
- Asking Claude Code for a dry-run list of cut timestamps lets you confirm good takes before committing computer power
- Reviewing detected timestamps prevents accidentally clipping off the first consonant of a word or keeping a false start
- Rendering video re-encodes frames and takes real time and CPU, so you only run the final trim command once the cut list is checked
- Splicing talking-head cuts carelessly can cause audio and video tracks to drift out of sync over time
- Claude Code can build FFmpeg filter scripts (complex filtergraphs) that lock audio and video streams together across each splice
- Keeping cuts synchronized preserves seamless lip sync and avoids audio pops between good takes
- A standard horizontal video must be cropped to a 9:16 aspect ratio to fill a phone screen
- Squishing or stretching horizontal frames distorts the speaker instead of properly reframing them
- A static center crop often clips speakers when they shift, so Claude needs to track face coordinates to center the crop box
- Dynamic punch-ins look polished when aligned with natural speech breaks like the end of a sentence
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Video Editing with Claude Code the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
How does Claude Code actually trim and cut your video files?
Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.
Where Video Editing with Claude Code takes you
- 1
Assembling the Rough Cut
- Trimming Dead Air and Flubs
- Reframing for Vertical and Dynamic Cuts
- 2
Polishing and Automating the Pipeline
- Adding Styled Auto-Captions
- Building a One-Command Video Pipeline
2 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Tomo is in ChatGPT
Tomo is also a ChatGPT plugin: the same playable courses, built and played inside your chat.
Add Tomo to ChatGPT- What to ask
- “Make me a Tomo course on black holes.” “Turn this chat into a Tomo course.”
- What you get
- Quick questions with instant feedback, hearts and stars, ready to play in about a minute.
- Where it goes
- No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.
You pick the voice
Video Editing with Claude Code is taught in the Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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