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Claude Code Can Now Clip ANY Video (Free Skill) – Transcript
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- Cloud code can take a long video link, watch it, find the best moments, cut them vertical, and edit every single one automatically.
- The setup requires a free download of Cloud Code, a paid Cloud plan, and a skill file from the community.
- Python scripts and Whisper handle the editing by adding timed captions, face detection zooms, sound effects, and rendering the final clip in 1080p.
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Cloud code just turned this long for Mr. Beast video into seven separate clips ready to post. All I did was post one link. It watched the whole thing, found the best moments, and cut them out by itself. And it doesn't stop there. It edits every single clip, too. The captions, the zooms, and it's done. This free clot skill can clip any long- form video. It's the same clipping system from my last video, the one running my Instagram that posts 20 reels a day. My
name is Eddie and in this video I'll show you exactly how to set this up. And don't worry if you've never opened CL code or used AI before. This is a complete beginners's guide. I'll show you how it picks the best moments with the strongest hooks, how to install it with a single prompt, and why it cost you nothing extra compared to paying for a clipping tool every single month. I'll also link the full skill link down below so you can follow along. Let's dive in.
So, here's the video. It's Mr. beast on a podcast and it's almost 2 hours long. Finding the good parts in something this long usually means scrubbing the full video yourself. So, I copy the link, open cloud code in the Clipper folder and type one line. Run the Clipper skill for this video and then I attach the link and send. That's the whole prompt.
From here, it works through four steps all on its own. It starts by going through the whole video and picks out the best moments. It cuts them vertical and it edits every single one. On a 2-hour video like this one, the whole thing took only around 30 minutes. And I didn't touch anything after I sent the prompt. I'll break down exactly how it picks these moments in a bit. But before, here's what it handed me back.
Seven clips, each with its own title and a caption you can post with it. Take this one. Here's the raw moment in the original video. And here's the fully cut up clip. It found the exact hook and started the clip right there. And every time the camera cuts, it recenters the frame on whoever's on the screen. So now nobody ends up half cut off. But these are just raw cuts. Here's where it gets better. This is the same clip before and after. Claude edited this one completely
on its own. First, it adds the zooms. It reads a transcript to figure out where a zoom actually makes sense, like here, right when Mr. Beast finishes a point. Then it looks at the frame and zooms in around his face, so nothing important ever gets cut off. Next, the captions.
It takes the transcript and puts it on the screen just two to three words at a time so it's easy to follow. And then the words that matter like billionaire and million get highlighted so they stand out. And to finish it off, it adds these sound effects like these wishes here. Listen closely.
>> Um, so it is then anyone else even gets on video deepest modes. Like there's a reason no one makes videos. >> And it edited all these seven clips in only 7 minutes. Now let's say you want something different. You just tell Claude, "Hey, Claude, extract only the best clip and keep it under 30 seconds with no sound effects. Also, use a blue color for the captions." Send it and Claude does the full edit for you. There we go. It's now blue under 30 seconds
and has no sound effect. So, now that we know this works, let me show you how you can set this up on your own computer. Okay, so to run this, you only need these two things: Cloud Code, which you can download for free, and a paid Cloud plan. The pro plan works fine.
Everything else Cloud will set up for you. Then you just need the skill itself. I'll leave it down in the description below. It's in my school community, which is free to join for 7 days. So, here's the full skill file for my community. I'm just going to rightclick this and extract everything here. This basically has all the files Claude needs to work with. So, I'm just going to press extract and let Claude do the work. There we go. Once it's extracted over here, these are all the contents that Claude is going to work
with over here. So now we're just going to open cloud code, select the folder over here that we just created, and then send the simple prompt. Hey Clude, can you set up this folder repository for me and send that it installs everything it needs completely on its own. So you don't have to do a single thing. If it asks for any permissions, just click allow. After a few minutes, it will say the setup is complete and that's it. We are done. And you only do this setup once. So, now that the setup is
complete, all I have to do is copy this prompt over here and just give Claude a YouTube video to clip for you. So, I'm just going to grab one of my videos on my YouTube channel. So, I'm just going to share this and then copy the link over here. Then go into Claude code and just paste this over here and then send that the very first time. It may take a little longer just because it has to download Whisper, which transcribes your videos so that it can make those beautiful edits. So, if it takes a little longer, don't worry about that.
It's completely fine. So, as you can see, it's getting to work and it's going to take two to four minutes to clip everything. So, now while that's running, let me show you how it actually clips the best moments in a video. So, this is the part where Claude really acts like your editor. It reads the whole transcript of the video start to finish and it's looking for moments that work on their own, something a total stranger could watch with zero context and fully understand. Take this clip.
Right before it, Mr. beast is kind of rambling. So Claude skips all of that and starts the clip exactly on this hook. To go viral, you have to do something that's never done before. Now that's the first thing you hear and it ends on the payoff. So the clip actually feels finished instead of just cutting it through. It also knows the types of hooks that work on shorts like a surprising fact or a bold claim or the start of a story. And every clip has to
open with one of them. Then it gives every clip a score out of 10 and ranks them so the best one is always first. And this is how it does all the clipping. Now let's get into how it actually edits them. Once Cloud picks the clip, it hands them off to a few Python scripts inside of the skill that do the actual editing all right from your computer. So remember Whisper, it doesn't just write down what's being said, it saves the exact moment every single word is spoken. And that's how
each caption pops in and out right on time. And so for the zooms, it uses face detection to find the face in every single shot. And then it places each zoom at the end of a sentence every few seconds. It even changes the framing on every camera cut so the jump doesn't feel too harsh. And for the caption color, it tries the creator's brand color first. Now, if it's not sure what the color is, it just pulls the color from the video so everything matches
based off the video's branding. Then for the sound effects, I gave it these three sound files in the scale file. So it adds couple of whooshes on every zoom. And once the full workflow is done, it renders the final clip in 1080p. Now you're probably wondering how much does all of this cost. Now most clipping tools charge you by the minute. For example, Opus Clip is the biggest clipping tool out there and it gives you
150 minutes a month for $15. So just this one Mr. Beast podcast would use up to 2/3 of your whole month. This skill doesn't use credits at all. The download, the whisper, the cutting, the editing, all run from your own computer completely free. The only part that actually uses AI is only when Claude is picking the moments to cut. And all of that already runs on your Cloud plan
you're already paying for. So, to put it simply, even Opus Clips $29 plan only covers about three podcasts this long every single month. On the $20 Cloud plan, you could clip around five long podcasts like this one every single week and you still get to use Claude for everything else. You just paste one link and Claude watches the whole video, picks the best moments, cuts them, and edits every single one of them. If you want this running on your own computer,
the full course is linked below inside my community. It walks you through everything step by step for your own videos and for your own clients. And if you get stuck anywhere, I'm inside my community every day, so I'll just help you set it up one-on-one. So, don't worry about that. It's free for 7 days with a money back guarantee. So, there's really no real reason for you not to join. Links down below in the description, and I'll see you inside.
And once you've got your clips, the next step is posting them. In this 6-inute video here or here, I'll show you the exact system I'm using to automate my Instagram to post 20 reels a day.