Editing video with an AI agent
Guides and explainers: how to get captions, remove pauses and cut a long recording into clips with Claude Code, and how the pieces fit together.
- September 17, 20265 min
How to remove pauses from a video automatically on a Mac
The pauses in a talking-head video are numbers in the transcript. Here is how an AI agent finds them, cuts them with a little air, and shows you the result before you watch it.
- September 16, 20265 min
Automatic captions for Reels on a Mac, in your own style
Captions from the transcript, cut into short bars by your rules, styled once, kept clear of the Reels UI, and burned in at export. What the agent does and what you still do by hand.
- September 16, 20265 min
How to turn one long video into short clips with an AI agent
A 20-minute recording becomes five captioned clips, each its own video, each exported, from one ask. How the agent finds the moments, why the recording is never copied, and what it costs.
- September 15, 20266 min
What an MCP video editor is, and how Claude Code edits video with one
BetterEdits is an MCP server. What that means for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, what the agent sends and gets back, and why every change is one undo step.
- September 14, 20266 min
BetterEdits vs CapCut vs Edits: which one for the short videos you make every week
Three editors for short video, compared. Where the phone editors win, where a Mac editor an agent can drive wins, and when to use Final Cut instead.
- September 14, 20265 min
Can Claude Code edit video? What an AI agent can and can't do with footage
An agent has no eyes and no ears. What BetterEdits gives it instead, which asks work well, and where you still have to look yourself.
For step-by-step instructions, see the tutorials.