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Our Claude Cowork System for Video Clipping and Editing

Learn how to use Claude Cowork to replace expensive video clipping tools.

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Introduction

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.

Step-by-step 5 steps

Instructions

  1. Step 1 of 5

    Create your project folder

    Create a folder for the clipping project and add the required files.

    • Our prompt files
    • The video file
    • The video transcript
  3. Step 2 of 5

    Open the folder in Claude Cowork

    Open the Claude app on your computer and select the Cowork tab.

    Click the folder icon and select the folder you created.

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  4. Step 3 of 5

    Generate clip ideas to review

    Ask Claude to read the main SOP, scaffold the directory, and find clip ideas.

    Prompt 
    Read the main SOP and scaffold our directory as described. Then find me 10 scroll-stopping clip ideas to review.

    Claude will create a clip-review.md file where you can review each clip idea.

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  5. Step 4 of 5

    Generate and edit selected clips

    Tell Claude which clips you want generated.

    Prompt 
    Generate clip 1, 4 and 6.

    The generated clips should appear in the /clips subfolder.

    Try follow-up commands to combine, crop, cut, or mute clips.

    Prompt 
    Combine clips 4 and 5.
    Prompt 
    Crop clip 1 into a vertical video.
    Prompt 
    Cut 00:08:00:15 from clip 3.
    Prompt 
    Mute clip 5.
  6. Step 5 of 5

    Optional: Create transcripts locally with Claude Code

    If generating transcripts with online tools is time-consuming or inaccurate, you can create transcriptions locally using Claude Code.

    • Install openai-whisper with pip install -U openai-whisper, or pip3 if you are on Mac.
    • Open Claude Code.
    Prompt 
    Use openai_whisper to transcribe this video into a .srt file with timestamps.

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Background and context

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.