Claude Edited My Entire CapCut Video (I Didn’t Touch the Timeline) — Transcript

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1. 0:00This entire CapCut video was edited by
2. 0:03Claude.
3. 0:04The voiceover synced to the images, the
4. 0:06music, the sound effects, the text,
5. 0:08>> [music]
6. 0:08>> and I didn't touch the timeline once.
7. 0:10What's cool is that this isn't just an
8. 0:12AI video that you can't change. It's
9. 0:14built in a real CapCut timeline, meaning
10. 0:17that we can make any tweak [music] we
11. 0:18want. I'll show you exactly how to
12. 0:20automate your CapCut editing step by
13. 0:22step. I've also made a free Claude skill
14. 0:25for you that you can find in the
15. 0:26description that will run this entire
16. 0:28process from the scripts to the
17. 0:31thumbnails of your video. So, here is
18. 0:33the finished CapCut timeline that Claude
19. 0:36edited entirely. Let me show you exactly
20. 0:38how I got here. What's great is that
21. 0:40this works on the free version of
22. 0:41Claude, so you don't need a
23. 0:42subscription. I do have a subscription,
24. 0:44so I'm going to use Opus 5.5, which I
25. 0:47absolutely love. But again, you can do
26. 0:49this on the free version. So, all we
27. 0:51need to do is open CapCut and create a
28. 0:53new project. [music]
29. 0:54I'm going to go ahead and drag my
30. 0:56voiceover into my media bin,
31. 0:58and then I've created 63 frames or
32. 1:01images that I want in my video. So, I'm
33. 1:03going to copy all of them and paste
34. 1:04[music] them into that media bin. You
35. 1:06can import whatever media you have. What
36. 1:08we also need to do is change our project
37. 1:10name to something that we can tell
38. 1:12Claude. So, I'm going to call it Emu War
39. 1:14II and go ahead and click enter.
40. 1:17Then what we can do is go ahead and
41. 1:18close this CapCut project.
42. 1:20Make sure that in your projects it's
43. 1:22saved as Emu War II, and then let's
44. 1:25close CapCut entirely. [music]
45. 1:26Then inside of a brand new chat window,
46. 1:28I'm going to add my prompt telling
47. 1:30Claude that I want you to edit my CapCut
48. 1:31project with that project name, Emu War
49. 1:34II. Sync the images to the voiceover,
50. 1:36also add sound effects, add music, and
51. 1:39relevant text, making sure it fits the
52. 1:41frame perfectly. These last two lines
53. 1:43are important, or you're actually going
54. 1:44to see CapCut doing the manual editing.
55. 1:46Do not use computer use or open CapCut.
56. 1:49Build the timeline by writing the
57. 1:50project files directly through file
58. 1:52access to my Mac. Now, I'm going to have
59. 1:54a full prompts list that you can copy
60. 1:56and paste into your Claude. There's a
61. 1:58link in the description for this. Two
62. 2:00things, you actually need CapCut
63. 2:01installed on your computer. You can't
64. 2:03have or be using CapCut web. [music] We
65. 2:05also need Claude installed on our
66. 2:07computer so that it can access the whole
67. 2:09timeline and the actual project file
68. 2:11that is stored on our computer from
69. 2:12CapCut. If you don't have either
70. 2:14installed [music] on your computer, this
71. 2:15process won't work. When you run this
72. 2:17process in a new chat, Claude is going
73. 2:19to ask for permission to access our
74. 2:21timeline. What we need to do is click
75. 2:22[music] allow once. Right here, Claude
76. 2:24is also asking for two folders on my
77. 2:26computer. I actually have a creatives
78. 2:29folder with music and sound effects
79. 2:30[music] that Claude wants to access, so
80. 2:31I've just given it permission to access
81. 2:33that creative folder, too. I'm going to
82. 2:35give Claude a couple of minutes to edit
83. 2:37this project, and I will pick back up
84. 2:38once it is done. We're going to go ahead
85. 2:40and reopen CapCut, and let's find that
86. 2:43project Emu War 2. And you can see that
87. 2:45this is the fully edited timeline. It's
88. 2:47got all the sound effects. If we click
89. 2:49on a clip, it's applied keyframes so
90. 2:51that we get zoom on our clips, and it's
91. 2:53added in text files. It's also found a
92. 2:56music file directly from our computer,
93. 2:58and if we click play,
94. 3:00>> Australia sent soldiers with machine
95. 3:02guns to fight an army of 20,000.
96. 3:05A month later, the soldiers went home.
97. 3:07The enemy? Emus. This is the Great Emu
98. 3:11War.
99. 3:11>> We haven't tweaked anything, but if we
100. 3:13wanted to tweak anything, maybe there
101. 3:15was a text file that was misplaced. Once
102. 3:17again, we have that full timeline
103. 3:19capability to go in and do some final
104. 3:21tweaks to customize this. So, you've
105. 3:23seen the capability that Claude has to
106. 3:24edit a project in CapCut. But how do we
107. 3:27set up this whole entire process for
108. 3:29automated videos to create videos like
109. 3:31the one you just saw? Well, the first
110. 3:33thing we need is our media generator.
111. 3:35So, we're going to be using Higgsfield.
112. 3:37The next thing is that we need Claude,
113. 3:38which is our engine, and the last thing
114. 3:40is we need our editing platform, which
115. 3:41is CapCut. I've showed you the first two
116. 3:43steps. Let me show you how to run this
117. 3:45entire process so that you can make a
118. 3:47video like this using Claude. We'll be
119. 3:49using Higgsfield to generate our voice
120. 3:51and images, and I'll show you exactly
121. 3:52how much the project cost at the end of
122. 3:55this video. What we're going to do is
123. 3:56start a new Claude chat and put in a
124. 3:58very basic prompt for a YouTube script.
125. 4:00Right here, I said, "Write me a 3-minute
126. 4:02script for YouTube. Topic, anything
127. 4:04interesting. I will later animate this
128. 4:05script into a stickman video." Now, you
129. 4:08don't necessarily have to create a
130. 4:09stickman video. You can create whatever
131. 4:11type of video or have whatever type of
132. 4:13subject you want in the video.
133. 4:15And I've just specified that we're going
134. 4:16for faceless YouTube automation. While
135. 4:18our script is being written, we want to
136. 4:19connect [music] Higgsfield directly
137. 4:21inside of Claude. This gives Claude the
138. 4:23capability to generate images on our
139. 4:25computer. If you don't have a Higgsfield
140. 4:27account, there is a link in the
141. 4:28description where you can sign up for
142. 4:29Higgsfield. Once you do have a
143. 4:31Higgsfield account, log in to
144. 4:32higsfield.ai and go to MCP.
145. 4:35Then we can copy this link right here.
146. 4:37Let's go ahead and copy that
147. 4:39and go back to Claude. In our sidebar,
148. 4:41we're going to go down to the bottom
149. 4:43left, click settings, go to connectors,
150. 4:46add add [music] custom connector. We can
151. 4:49change the name to Higgsfield, and in
152. 4:51the MCP server URL, let's go ahead and
153. 4:53paste that link that we copied. Click
154. 4:55continue. Under authentication, go ahead
155. 4:58and click sign in now. You can leave
156. 5:00this as normal and select [music] add.
157. 5:02Then once you see this, go ahead and
158. 5:03click connect. It's going to redirect
159. 5:05you to your browser where we can finish
160. 5:07connecting. We're going to give Claude
161. 5:09consent to access Higgsfield by clicking
162. 5:11allow. And once we see this final
163. 5:13prompt, we can go ahead and open Claude.
164. 5:15You'll see in the bottom right that we
165. 5:16have now connected Claude to Higgsfield.
166. 5:18Claude has generated our stickman
167. 5:20[music] script, which we are now going
168. 5:21to turn into a voiceover. In our prompt
169. 5:23bar, I'm going to write, "Generate the
170. 5:25voiceover for the script using
171. 5:26Higgsfield."
172. 5:28And we hit send. If this is the first
173. 5:29time that you're using Higgsfield and
174. 5:31Claude, Claude will give you the full
175. 5:33set of voiceovers that you can choose
176. 5:35from. Once you find one that you like,
177. 5:37just select [music] that and it'll
178. 5:38generate your voiceover using that
179. 5:40option. In a few minutes, Claude has
180. 5:42generated our voiceovers. We can go Go
181. 5:45and click one and preview. In 1932,
182. 5:47Australia sent soldiers with machine
183. 5:49guns to fight a war against Once you're
184. 5:51happy with your voice over, go ahead and
185. 5:52click download. The next thing that we
186. 5:54need to do is actually generate a
187. 5:55timestamp script according to this voice
188. 5:58over. So, I'm going to write another
189. 5:59prompt. Please timestamp exactly
190. 6:01according to the voice over so we can
191. 6:03generate visuals exactly according to
192. 6:05the timestamp. Once your timestamp
193. 6:07script is done, we're going to put it in
194. 6:08a new prompt. This is where we finally
195. 6:10get to generate those images. I'll put
196. 6:13generate all the images for our videos
197. 6:14using the timestamp so it can sync
198. 6:16perfectly, but first generate a
199. 6:17character reference sheet for approval.
200. 6:20Claude and Higgsfield generated two
201. 6:21character sheets for us. The first one
202. 6:23looking like that, and the second option
203. 6:26that we can choose from.
204. 6:27If we scroll down a bit, you can see
205. 6:29that sheet A is Claude's pick. So, I'm
206. 6:31going to say sheet A is approved.
207. 6:33Proceed to the other images. Once we
208. 6:35send this prompt, Claude and Higgsfield
209. 6:37are now going to generate all the final
210. 6:39images for our entire video. Once again,
211. 6:42this doesn't necessarily have to be
212. 6:43stickman. You can create whatever type
213. 6:45of character you want. And if you don't
214. 6:47want to use images, just ask Claude to
215. 6:49generate videos for your final edit.
216. 6:52Once our [music] images are done
217. 6:53generating inside of Claude, it'll give
218. 6:55you a zip file that you can download to
219. 6:57your computer. Claude has also generated
220. 6:59a preview for us. Australia sent We can
221. 7:02see the entire video, but again, this is
222. 7:04where CapCut steps up. We [music] don't
223. 7:06have any ability to customize this. So,
224. 7:08what we're going to do is go ahead and
225. 7:10open our CapCut. This is where it gets
226. 7:12crazy. We're going to make that new
227. 7:14project. We're going to go to our
228. 7:15downloads folder, import our voice over,
229. 7:18and import all the shots that it
230. 7:19created. Let's change the name of this
231. 7:21project, Emu War 3, and click enter. We
232. 7:24can go back to that homepage and make
233. 7:26sure that Emu War 3 is saved. That is it
234. 7:28for our involvement with CapCut, so go
235. 7:30ahead and close it. Inside of that same
236. 7:32Claude chat, I've said edit Emu War 3
237. 7:34perfectly syncing the visuals to the
238. 7:35voice over. Add subtle zooms in and out
239. 7:38using keyframes to each of the images.
240. 7:40Super subtle, it'll add a little bit of
241. 7:42motion. Add sound effects and relevant
242. 7:44music and add any text you deem fitting,
243. 7:46but make sure it fits in the frame. Do
244. 7:48not use computer use or open CapCut.
245. 7:50Build the timeline by writing project
246. 7:51files directly through the access to my
247. 7:53Mac. You can go ahead and click send.
248. 7:55Let's wait and we can go ahead and open
249. 7:57that [music] project once it's done. We
250. 7:58have the complete timeline if we wanted
251. 8:00to make any changes. Maybe a text file
252. 8:03wasn't sized correctly or we didn't like
253. 8:05the music. We can make any change. After
254. 8:08making those changes, close that CapCut
255. 8:10project and ask Claude to reassess that
256. 8:12exact project. It'll learn from all the
257. 8:14tweaks that you made so that your
258. 8:16[music] next project will be even better
259. 8:18than the one it edited. Once I was happy
260. 8:20with the edit, I will ask Claude for
261. 8:21three thumbnails based off the subject
262. 8:23matter of our video and it went ahead
263. 8:25[music] and made those thumbnails for us
264. 8:27that we can just use directly in the
265. 8:28YouTube upload. Now, I've created a
266. 8:30skill for you that will automate this
267. 8:32entire process. [music] All you need to
268. 8:33do is click approve on the script idea.
269. 8:36You can go ahead and download that skill
270. 8:38in the description. [music]
271. 8:39Once you have it, inside your Claude,
272. 8:41you just go to your profile at the
273. 8:42bottom left, select settings, go skills,
274. 8:45>> [music]
275. 8:46>> and then you can add that skill by
276. 8:48clicking upload skill. Once again,
277. 8:50that's going to enable your Claude by
278. 8:51itself to write the script, generate the
279. 8:54voiceover, do the timestamp script,
280. 8:56generate that character sheet, generate
281. 8:58all the images. It'll understand the
282. 9:00CapCut briefing on how you like to edit
283. 9:02your project. So, all you need to do is
284. 9:04import that footage into CapCut and
285. 9:06Claude will do the rest. So, how much
286. 9:08did this 3-minute video actually cost to
287. 9:10create? Well, we used 241 credits for
288. 9:13the 46 images, the three thumbnails, and
289. 9:16those two character reference sheets. On
290. 9:18Hixfeld for $39 a month, you get 1,000
291. 9:21credits, which works out to 3.9 cents
292. 9:24per credit. If we take 3.9 cents and
293. 9:26times it by the 241 credits, this
294. 9:28project cost around 9 and 1/2 dollars to
295. 9:30create. Now, this is more on the
296. 9:33expensive side of what I've run as I've
297. 9:34done this exercise [music] a couple of
298. 9:36times and that range generally goes from
299. 9:38about $5 to this case, which was the
300. 9:40highest, 9.5. So, you can expect the
301. 9:43range of the project to be around
302. 9:44[music] there if you're creating a
303. 9:463-minute video.
304. 9:47Obviously, the longer the video is, the
305. 9:49more expensive it's going to be as it
306. 9:50has to generate a lot more images. And
307. 9:53as you've seen, you can now create a
308. 9:54faceless YouTube channel with no editing
309. 9:56using Higgs Field, Claude, and CapCut.
310. 9:59I'll see you in the next video.