Claude Edits My Videos

Confession: I'd been avoiding video for months. Not because I had nothing to say, but because editing it was painful, and honestly I'm slow at it. Watch-paint-dry slow.

So this week I stopped doing the editing part. I got Claude Code to do it instead. I record myself rambling into the phone, Claude takes the recording, figures out the points I'm actually making, and turns them into little branded slides that show up right when I say the thing. Then it tucks me into the corner.

The video above is the output, and yes, I'm speaking English in it. I didn't open an editor once.

The interesting part: I designed and built the whole setup with Claude in plain Finnish, strong Oulu dialect. We shaped it together that way, including getting the slides to match my brand.

It all runs in Claude Code. The recording is me on my phone talking through the idea in English. Claude transcribes it, works out the actual points I'm making rather than just the words, and builds little branded slides that appear exactly when I say each thing. My talking head gets tucked into the corner.

The slides are HTML, and the video is rendered from that HTML as the source. So the brand, the fonts and the timing are all just code I can shape. Tuning the slides to match the Digital Rebel look was part of what I worked through with Claude, in Finnish, Oulu dialect.

The bit that made me laugh: I speak English like a Finn who learned it at rally races, so I can't actually talk that fast. Claude quietly speeds the whole thing up 1.1x, and suddenly I sound almost normal.

Honest status: so far I've only run it on short, horizontal videos, and it works really well. Next I want to test whether it holds up on something long, a 30-minute video, and build a separate template for vertical video too.

Getting here took some back and forth on the setup. After the first version I asked Claude to walk through the whole process and streamline it to be as smooth as possible, and we captured everything we learned as rules. So now nothing breaks the second time around.

The thing that kept me off video for months, the editing, is no longer my job. That alone got me posting.