Chengfeng Videocut — workflow skill for editing & clips
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Chinese talking-head editing: word-level transcript, five-pass flub sweep, human review in a Studio, subtitles, export.
- Type: Workflow · Editing & clips
- Slug:
chengfeng-videocut - Status: live
- Publisher: chengfeng (community)
- License: Apache-2.0
- Source: https://github.com/Agentchengfeng/chengfeng-videocut-skills
- Works in: Codex
- Requires: Codex CLI with plugin support, Node.js 18+ and Git, A cloud ASR for word-level transcription
- Cost: Free plugin; cloud transcription billed by your ASR provider
- Adoption: 2,802 installs, 3,135 GitHub stars (GitHub + skills.sh, 2026-10-26)
What it does
A Codex plugin for editing Chinese talking-head footage. The cut skill transcribes word by word with a cloud ASR, fixes misheard terms from a dictionary, runs five separate scans for flubs and repeats, and produces a deletion ledger that you approve in a local Studio before anything is cut; sibling skills add subtitles and HTML visual layers, and the export skill burns cuts, push-ins, subtitles and visuals into one MP4 in a single pass. Your corrections and dictionary fixes are kept for the next session. The plugin installer pins exact source commits, and the Studio runtime comes from a pinned release checked against SHA-256.
Use when
- Cut flubs, repeats and dead air from a Chinese talking-head recording
- Add subtitles and visual layers, then export one MP4
Not for
- Non-Chinese speech (dictionary and rules are Chinese-first)
- Local-only transcription (it requires a cloud ASR)
Install
- Codex:
node bin/install.cjs install
Example output
https://skills.varg.ai/previews/chengfeng-videocut.webp — Screenshot from the creator's X article on the Codex upgrade: the skill's storyboard review page, with a generated hand-drawn frame, the word-highlighted talking-head transcript and the colored segment timeline. Still image of the tool in use; no clean output clip from the creator was found. (credit: 成峰 Chengfeng (@agentchengfeng), https://x.com/agentchengfeng/status/2068932528317071404)
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