published jan 30, 2026

Our Claude Cowork System for Video Clipping and Editing

beginner

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The Rundown

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.

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
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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.