# Editing & clips: agent skills for AI video editing

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Cut and assemble footage: long videos to clips, silence cuts, transitions, b-roll and pacing. 15 skills for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, by type: workflows take a brief to a finished video, effects and styles change how it looks, prompts and guides teach the agent the craft, models run the generation.

## Use cases

- [Photo slideshow to music](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/photo-slideshow.md): Your photos cut to music, with motion, transitions on the beat and titles.
- [Edit your own footage](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/edit-footage.md): Cut silences and flubs, reframe 16:9 to 9:16, add captions and b-roll to footage you shot.
- [B-roll for your video](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/b-roll.md): Cutaway footage for every mention in a voiceover or interview: generated clips, collage or stock-style shots, cut in on time.

## Skills (15)

### Prompts (1)

- [Video Shotcraft](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/video-shotcraft.md) — Vincent Wei: 124 shot recipe cards and a tested Remotion template for cinematic product promos built from real UI screenshots.

### Guides (3)

- [FFmpeg Mixing](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-ffmpeg-mixing.md) — varg, beta: Splice generated clips into an original video with ffmpeg without A/V drift: absolute trims, one audio track.
- [Remotion Interactivity](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/remotion-interactivity.md) — Remotion: Structure Remotion markup so every element can be edited visually in Remotion Studio.
- [Motion Design](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/lottiefiles-motion-design.md) — LottieFiles: Animate with intent: timing, easing, choreography and Disney principles for UI and motion graphics.

### Workflows (8)

- [Previz to Seedance](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-previz.md) — varg, beta: Plan multi-shot AI video before paying: story, anchor sheets, a three.js grey-box previz, then a Seedance v2v pack.
- [Music Video Director](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-music-video.md) — varg, beta: Direct an AI music video the way top X creators do: song map, beat-grid storyboard, stills first, Seedance, lip-sync.
- [FLUX 3 Product Ads](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/flux-3-product-ads.md) — Black Forest Labs: Build a finished product ad with FLUX 3: shot design, voiceover sync, deterministic assembly, QC gates.
- [Chengfeng Videocut](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/chengfeng-videocut.md) — chengfeng: Chinese talking-head editing: word-level transcript, five-pass flub sweep, human review in a Studio, subtitles, export.
- [Claude Code Video Toolkit](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/claude-code-video-toolkit.md) — Digital Samba: Open-source video workspace for Claude Code: script, voice, music, visuals and Remotion render on your own GPU account.
- [Herk Edit Kit](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/herk-edit-kit.md) — Nate Herk: Nate Herk's kit to edit talking-head videos, reels and Shorts: silence and flub cuts, storytelling, motion graphics.
- [Clipify](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/clipify.md) — Louise de Sadeleer: Long videos into social clips: find funny lines or impact beats, cut, reframe to 9:16, burn word-by-word captions.
- [OpenMontage](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/openmontage.md) — Calesthio: Open-source agentic video studio: 12 production pipelines, 100+ tools and 140 agent skills; run your agent inside it.

### Models & tools (3)

- [Runway Media](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/runway-media.md) — Runway: Generate and edit images, video, music, speech and sound effects from chat with Runway's MCP tools.
- [Krea Generate](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/krea-generate.md) — Krea: Pick the right Krea model and prompt for any image, video, edit or upscale before you generate.
- [FFmpeg Skill](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/ffmpeg-skill.md) — Shogo Kajiyama: Local video editor for agents: 42 FFmpeg tools with a machine-readable contract and an MCP server; no cloud, no keys.