Turn one long recording into a week of short clips
A 20-minute screen recording or podcast becomes five captioned clips, each its own video, each exported, from one ask.
This is the job that pays for the setup. You record once. Claude Code finds the moments, makes one video for each, captions them and exports them. You post one a day.
You need a workspace with Claude Code connected and one long recording in your library: a screen recording of a demo, a podcast, a lecture, a stream.
Let the analysis finish
Long files take longer to analyse. Video costs 3 credits a minute, so a 20-minute recording is 60 of the 450 credits Pro gives you each month. The analysis pill in the toolbar shows where the queue is. Or ask:
Is demo-take-3.mov analysed yet?
Claude Code checks and waits if it has to.
Ask for the moments
Say how many, how long, and what counts as a moment.
Cut this recording into five clips under 45 seconds, one for each feature I demo. Each clip should start at the sentence where I name the feature. Make each one its own 16:9 video, named after the feature.
Claude Code reads the transcript, finds the stretches, and makes five videos in the workspace. Each one uses the recording where it is on disk. The file is never copied five times. Each timeline is a single clip trimmed to its stretch, or a few clips if a pause needed cutting.
Open the workspace window and the five videos are there as cards.
Caption them all
Caption all five in the Bold Outline style at the bottom.
Claude Code opens each video in turn and fills its Subtitles track. Check them the same way:
Show me a contact sheet for each one.
Adjust one without touching the others
Each clip is its own video, so a change stays where you make it.
Open the Placeholders one. It should end after "and that is the whole trick", not before.
Export the set
Export all five at HD, 30 fps.
Five MP4s in your Movies folder, named after their videos. Claude Code lists the paths.
Variations that work
- Vertical for Reels: ask for 9:16 videos and Claude Code sets the canvas on each. A screen recording is letterboxed, so ask for a title in the space above it.
- A hook first: "Start each clip with the sentence where I say what the feature does, then jump to the demo."
- A series: "Put a text on each one, at the top, in the Strong favorite, with the feature's name for the first two seconds."
What Claude Code can't do here
It picks moments by what you said. It doesn't know which moment looks best or which one your audience will like. Read the five names it chose and swap one if you know better.
