Cut Video — guide skill for cuts & pacing

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Claude Code skill that tightens long recordings with forced-aligned cuts, keeping laughs and comedic pauses.

• Type: Guide · Cuts & pacing
• Slug: cut-video
• Status: live
• Publisher: Louise de Sadeleer (community)
• License: MIT
• Source: https://github.com/louisedesadeleer/cut-video
• Works in: Claude Code
• Requires: ffmpeg with libx264, openai-whisper, Montreal Forced Aligner
• Cost: Free/open source
• Adoption: 114 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-27)

What it does

Makes a 1080p proxy, transcribes with Whisper, force-aligns with Montreal Forced Aligner for 10 to 20 ms word boundaries, then plans tone-aware silence and filler cuts and shows you the plan. It re-checks every kept region, renders with ffmpeg trim+concat and re-transcribes the output to catch surviving stutters; an optional browser timeline lets you adjust cuts. Runs locally on Apple Silicon.

Use when

• tighten a long interview or podcast video
• remove ums without killing the comedy
• get frame-accurate silence cuts

Install

• Claude Code: git clone https://github.com/louisedesadeleer/cut-video.git ~/.claude/skills/cut-video

More cuts & pacing skills

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• AutoCut: Edit video in a text editor: Whisper transcribes, you delete lines in Markdown, AutoCut cuts the video.
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• PySceneDetect: Find cuts, fades and scene changes in a video, then split it or export scene lists for the edit.
• video-editing-skill (Bash + FFmpeg): Pure Bash skill for OpenClaw, Claude Code and Codex: trim, jump cut, captions, text overlay, speed.