· Posted on X by Dan Greenheck @dangreenheck

He skipped Adobe and DaVinci, and Claude built his editing tool in 11 minutes

Dan Greenheck hates editing his course videos, with up to five or six retakes per clip. Automating it meant paying Adobe $23 a month or $300 for DaVinci Resolve Studio. Instead, Claude built him a tool in 11 minutes: it syncs screen and camera footage by timestamps and audio, overlays the camera, transcribes everything, flags pauses and ums, detects and drops unused retakes, and exports the edit back to Resolve for grading. It's not as full-featured as Premiere, he admits, but it does exactly what he needs. A retake detector: the zombie with a stopwatch.

Editing has always been my least favorite part about making courses. When I record, I make *a lot* of mistakes, sometimes doing up to 5-6 retakes.

I really wanted to automate the process for me, but I'd have to pay Adobe $23/mo or pay $300 for DaVinci Resolve Studio.

So I built my own tool!

In 11 minutes, Claude built me a tool that does the following:
- Pulls in the screen captures and camera footage
- Automatically builds timelines and syncs capture + camera by looking at timestamps and analyzing audio
- Overlays my camera footage on top of screen capture
- Performs a transcription of the audio and identifies pauses, noise, um's & ah's, etc.
- "Retake detector" that automatically identifies unused takes and throws them out
- Interactive transcript where I can follow along and make edits as I go
- Exports all the editing data so I can pull project into Resolve when done for final color grading, audio mastering and export

Is it as full-featured as Premiere or DaVinci?

No, but it does exactly what I need it to, exactly how I want.

Funny enough, it's actually a lot more robust than the text-based editing in Premiere which would often bug out on me. Makes you wonder... 🤔

— Dan Greenheck, read the original on X

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