Clipify — workflow skill for Shorts & Reels
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Long videos into social clips: find funny lines or impact beats, cut, reframe to 9:16, burn word-by-word captions.
- Type: Workflow · Shorts & Reels
- Slug:
clipify - Status: live
- Publisher: Louise de Sadeleer (community)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/louisedesadeleer/clipify
- Works in: Claude Code
- Requires: ffmpeg with libx264, OpenAI Whisper (openai-whisper), Python 3 with NumPy
- Cost: Free — local
- Adoption: 176 installs, 611 GitHub stars (GitHub + skills.sh, 2026-10-26)
What it does
Finds compelling moments in a video, either funny dialogue (from a Whisper transcript) or repeated impact actions such as axe chops, hits, throws or drumbeats (from audio transient detection), checks that each candidate is in frame, and cuts them as standalone clips. It can reformat 16:9 to 9:16 with a pan between faces or a split screen, time-warp pans for tighter reveals, and burn opus-style word-by-word captions from a fresh transcript of each trimmed clip. Everything runs locally with ffmpeg, Whisper and Python.
Use when
- Make Shorts or Reels from a long video
- Cut an action montage on every hit or chop
- Reframe 16:9 footage to vertical with captions
Not for
- Generating new footage
- Multi-camera edits
Install
- Claude Code:
git clone https://github.com/louisedesadeleer/clipify.git ~/.claude/skills/clipify
Models it drives: whisper
Example output
https://skills.varg.ai/previews/clipify.mp4 — From the creator's demo post: a 9:16 clip that /clipify cut from her long video (funny moment, face-tracked reframe, burned word-by-word captions) plays beside her webcam. Cut 112-120 s of 148 s. (credit: Louise de Sadeleer (clipify), https://x.com/LouiseDSadeleer/status/2051652715617378655)
Used for
- Long video or podcast into shorts: Find the best moments in a long video, cut them, reframe to 9:16 and burn captions.
- Edit your own footage: Cut silences and flubs, reframe 16:9 to 9:16, add captions and b-roll to footage you shot.
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Run the generation on varg
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- Claude Code:
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