Learn how to use Claude Cowork to replace expensive video clipping tools. You will use the included prompt files with a video and timestamped transcript to generate your first clips in under 5 minutes.
published jan 30, 2026
Our Claude Cowork System for Video Clipping and Editing
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Who This Is Useful For
- Social media marketers
- Podcasters and video editors
- Anyone with lots of longform videos sitting on their hard drive
What You Will Build
You will build a Claude Cowork video clipping workflow that reviews longform video, creates a clip-review.md file of clip ideas, and generates selected clips into a /clips subfolder.
- A project folder containing SOP prompt files, a video, and a transcript
- A clip-review.md file with scroll-stopping clip ideas
- Generated video clips saved in the /clips subfolder
What You Need
- Claude Pro plan or higher
- A video and transcript with timestamps, such as the attached examples
- The attached prompt files
Going Further
- After generating clips, you can reuse Claude Cowork to combine, crop, cut, or mute clips. You can also create your own timestamped .srt transcriptions locally with Claude Code and openai-whisper when online transcript tools are slow or inaccurate.