How I'm automating 95% of my video editing with Claude Code 📽

Video editing used to be the biggest bottleneck in my content workflow. Hours in DaVinci Resolve manually cutting silences, building animations, repeating the same process over and over.

I decided to fix that at the root using Claude Code, and here's exactly how I'm doing it with two tools I built.

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🔇 TOOL 1: Automatic silence removal

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The traditional process: import the video, listen through, manually mark every silence, cut. For a 10-minute video that alone can take 30-40 minutes.

What I built with Claude Code:

→ A pipeline that uses Whisper (OpenAI's transcription model) to detect with millisecond precision where silence occurs in the audio

→ FFmpeg processes the video and generates an EDL file (Edit Decision List)

→ That EDL imports directly into DaVinci Resolve (free version)

→ DaVinci applies all the cuts non-destructively

Result: what used to take 30-40 minutes now takes under 2 minutes of automated processing. I don't touch anything manually.

The key advantage of the EDL approach is that cuts are non-destructive — if I want to recover any footage, the original material is still intact in the timeline.

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🎬 TOOL 2: Animations with Remotion

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For intros, animated diagrams, lower thirds, and any graphic element in the video, I started using Remotion alongside Claude Code.

Remotion is basically React for video: you write components with animation logic and Remotion renders them frame by frame into an MP4.

The workflow with Claude Code is straightforward:

→ You describe in plain language the animation you need

→ Claude Code generates the components directly inside the project

→ You preview in the browser in real time

→ When it looks right, you render

Remotion also has Agent Skills — a set of specific instructions you install in the project so Claude Code better understands how to work with the tool and avoids common mistakes. This makes the output much more accurate from the first attempt.

For short animations (5-10 second intros, diagrams), rendering is fast locally. For longer pieces, Remotion Lambda runs on AWS at minimal cost.

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⚙️ WHY CLAUDE CODE AND NOT JUST CHATGPT OR SIMILAR

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The key difference is that Claude Code doesn't just generate code — it executes it, iterates on it, and works directly on your project files. You're not copy-pasting between windows. You give it access to your project and it builds, tests, and fixes in real time.

For this type of workflow where code interacts with local files (videos, EDLs, Remotion components), that completely changes the speed of development.

Here's an example of a backgroud workflow animation I created in less than 5 minutes

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