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0:00Over the last 3 weeks, I've been
0:01building this short form editing skill,
0:03and I've used it to create the last 12
0:05premium reels that I posted on my
0:07Instagram. And one of them even hit
0:0990,000 views. Now, a lot of people have
0:11been wondering if these are edited using
0:12AI or an actual editor. So, today I'm
0:15finally showing you how I trained Claude
0:17to edit my short form videos for
0:19Instagram. First, I'm going to break
0:20down the five keys that make up my viral
0:22short form editing style so that you can
0:23understand it. Second, I'll walk you
0:25through the training process of how you
0:26can create a viral short form editor
0:28skill for any editing style, including
0:30mine. And finally, I'll take a raw short
0:32form video and edit it using this skill
0:34with you step by step. And by the end of
0:36the video, you'll know exactly how you
0:38can train Claude on any editing style
0:40that you want, and how to use it to edit
0:42viral short form videos like the ones
0:43you love. If you want access to this
0:45very skill, I just dropped the Joseph AI
0:47editing masterclass, where I'm sharing
0:49the skills that edit both my short form
0:51and long form content. [music] It's all
0:53in Ultimate Editors, and the link is
0:54down below. But without further ado,
0:55before we learn how we can create the
0:57skill that edits short form videos for
0:59us, first, let's understand the style
1:01that we're about to train it on. You
1:02see, I've been posting for quite some
1:03time, and a lot of my audience
1:05specifically loved the style of the
1:07videos that we were making. It felt
1:08clean, it was premium, and it was really
1:10simple. So, my goal with the skill that
1:11I was about to build was very simple. I
1:13wanted to train Claude on how it can
1:15create these exact videos. So, before we
1:17do that, let's first break down what my
1:19editing style is actually made of. The
1:21Joseph short form editing skill is made
1:23up of five keys. If you combine these
1:25five keys, you get premium stunning
1:26edits that look like this. The first key
1:28to the Joseph editing style is the
1:30captions. We start with our A-roll and
1:32break down the scene into thirds. Then,
1:34we add a darkness and blur to the lower
1:36third, and our caption sits in this box
1:38here. The caption is made up of two
1:39separate fonts. A simple sans font for
1:41the regular text, we're using Creator
1:43Display, and a special script font for
1:44the highlighted text, where we use Apple
1:46Garamond. When we place the text, we
1:48start by placing one or two script fonts
1:50for the special words, then we look for
1:51gaps around it where the rest can fit.
1:53And we fit the rest of the sentence in
1:55using the sans font. Finally, for the
1:56text animation, it's a simple pop-up
1:58blur fade-in, where the text pops up,
2:00fades in from low opacity, and even has
2:02a blur at the beginning as an extra
2:04touch. The first key is done. Now, on to
2:06the second key, the on-screen UI
2:08listicles. A lot of our videos are
2:09chapter-based, where we walk the viewer
2:11through chapter one, then two, then
2:13three. So, we use these UI listicles to
2:15show the viewer three chapters early in
2:16the video. For the design, it's a
2:18rhombus with a slight gradient and a
2:20stroke around the outside that's thin
2:22with a number that's in the middle. For
2:23the chapter animation, we simply
2:25introduce each one with a pop-up fade.
2:27Then, every time we mention the chapter
2:28throughout the video, we will reuse it
2:30with text next to it to name the
2:31chapter. Key three is our on-screen UI
2:33pops and number counters. There's many
2:35different kinds, and they all differ
2:37based on what is being said in the
2:38script. For example, when we talk about
2:40two elements or compare two things, we
2:42use a before and after layout like this.
2:44Object on the left, object on the right,
2:46linked with a clean simple arrow. When
2:47we mention a certain software or an
2:49event, we can use a UI pop-up animation
2:51like this with a blurred background, the
2:53logo of the software, and text
2:54representing the notification. If we
2:55ever mention timers or counters, we use
2:58a circular animation like this one. It
2:59has a gray stroke background and a
3:01colored foreground and number in the
3:02middle that represents the amount. And
3:04if we ever need to list out multiple
3:05things, we pop up a blurred square just
3:07like this one and list out each element
3:09in a sequence like this. Key four is how
3:11we create engaging hooks. We use a
3:13simple three-piece formula for our
3:14hooks, speaker, text, and visual. The
3:17first thing we do is ensure the speaker
3:18is visible by aligning our speaker's
3:20eyes to the upper thirds of the video,
3:21we can ensure that the viewer instantly
3:23sees the speaker and connects with them.
3:24Then, for the text, it all starts by
3:26looking at the script and asking
3:27ourselves, "What about this makes the
3:29viewer want to watch the video?" Once
3:30you've found it, then you want to
3:32emphasize it using text. Finally, for
3:34the visuals, we simply ask ourselves,
3:36"What can we show on the screen that
3:37would support the text in hooking the
3:39viewer?" This could be popping up the
3:40editing styles that we're talking about,
3:41or it could be showing a timer if the
3:43video is about how short we're going to
3:45be teaching the viewer a certain thing.
3:46Finally, key five is the full-screen
3:48animations. These are the bread and
3:50butter of the video. They take up half
3:52of the edit, but have the most impact.
3:54These fully depend on what the script is
3:55saying, but to keep it simple, sometimes
3:58we use listical animations to take our
3:59viewer from one point to another. These
4:01are composed of a timeline, UI chapter
4:03cards, and text and elements that slide
4:05by. Other times we use simple
4:06full-screen scenes where one element
4:08takes up the entire scene and showcases
4:09a screen recording or a sample of what
4:11we want to show. We even use full-screen
4:13text animations where the background and
4:14text contrast each other to help the
4:16viewer read through the point that we're
4:17delivering. And finally, we'll use
4:18out-of-screen zooms if we want to take
4:20the viewer out of the A-roll and
4:21introduce new elements like other edits
4:23and other showcases. Now, all five of
4:25these keys come together to form the
4:27editing style that you guys know and
4:29love on my Instagram. Now, here's the
4:30thing. You clicked on this video to
4:32learn how you can edit premium videos
4:33with AI. But what if I told you that
4:35I've built a full-skill pack that
4:36creates premium stunning videos like
4:38these called the Joseph AI short-form
4:40editing skill. And I've also created a
4:42skill pack that edits the very YouTube
4:44videos that you've been watching on this
4:46channel, and it's called the Joseph
4:48long-form editing skill. And I've even
4:50recorded step-by-step courses showing
4:51you how I train both of them and how I
4:53use both of these skills to edit my
4:55short-form and long-form YouTube videos.
4:57This is all inside the Joseph AI editing
4:59masterclass. And we just dropped this
5:01into Ultimate Editors 2.0. This is just
5:04one of the 12 masterclasses that you can
5:05get access to, including the five viral
5:08editing styles that you can learn to
5:09recreate, and an AI editing fundamentals
5:11course that teaches you the basics of AI
5:13video editing. The program is closing in
5:15about 10 more days on November 15th. So,
5:17if you want to create stunning edits
5:19like these using AI, click the link down
5:21below because we have a special discount
5:23before the program closes down forever.
5:25But now that you understand all five
5:26keys, it's time to understand how you
5:28can train Claude on this editing style.
5:30You might think that training Claude on
5:31the editing style this complex is very
5:34difficult. But the truth is, when
5:35training Claude on any editing style,
5:37you only need two simple things. The
5:38first thing is a big reference folder, a
5:41folder that contains all the videos that
5:42we want to replicate. How do I collect
5:44that? I head over to my personal brand
5:46and I watch through the edits and pick
5:47out the ones that I like the most. I
5:49ended up downloading 14 edits. Now, I
5:51place those in a reference folder, and
5:53this checks off the first part. Now, the
5:55second thing I will need is a full
5:56breakdown of the editing style. And this
5:58is the part that really makes a
5:59difference. Check it out. First, you
6:01start by loading up a program like
6:02Figma. Then we're going to split the
6:03screen into two, have Figma on the
6:05right, and we'll load up our reference
6:07videos and watch through them on the
6:08left. Now, what we need to do is simple.
6:10Anytime we see a good design scene, we
6:12snap a screenshot and place it on the
6:13board. We do this for text scenes,
6:15on-screen animations, full-screen
6:17animations, and everything that looks
6:18high quality until we have a big
6:20inspiration board of more than 120
6:23images. Now, this is very important
6:25because we just turned the videos that
6:26we want to create into images that we
6:28could see on the screen. Now, the next
6:30step is we need to break down the style.
6:31So, remember the five keys that we
6:33talked about? Well, now we're going to
6:34break down each one using the
6:36inspiration board that we just built.
6:37Start with key number one, collect all
6:39the inspiration that shows on-screen
6:40text design, and bundle them together
6:42here. Then, take one to the side and
6:43break down what it's made of, the fonts,
6:45the placement, and everything in
6:46between. Next, we're going to do this
6:48for every single key. I drag all my
6:49listicle inspiration over here, and I
6:51break them down like so. Then, I drag my
6:52on-screen animations here, and I break
6:54them down in a table of each design and
6:56every kind of animation. Then, I have a
6:57segment where it talks about key four,
6:59how we set up the hooks, character,
7:00text, and visuals. And finally, I take
7:02all the inspiration of the full-screen
7:04animations and bundle them over here,
7:05where I section them out into tables and
7:07break down their designs and animations.
7:09Now, if we zoom out, this Figma board
7:10has 120 images of what our style looks
7:13like and breaks down every element in it
7:15and how it is made from scratch. The
7:17designs, the animations, and even the
7:18references. So, now that we have both a
7:20reference folder and a full Figma board,
7:22how do we create a short-form editing
7:23style? This is where things get
7:25interesting. First, we're going to head
7:26into Claude and start by uploading the
7:2714 reference videos and the full Figma
7:29breakdown that we just created. Then,
7:30we're going to prompt it with this.
7:32First, you're going to break down the 14
7:33reference videos into a word-by-word
7:35transcript and a frame-by-frame
7:36breakdown. Then, you're going to study
7:37three main things, the design principles
7:39of every scene, the colors, layout,
7:41effects, and everything else, the
7:42animation logic, what does each [music]
7:44element have as an animation, a pop-up,
7:46fade-in, a blur reveal, and so on, and
7:48the placement of the animations and
7:49timing relative to the script of the
7:51video. Then, you're going to use the
7:52Figma breakdowns as a deep analysis of
7:54the design principles of this editing
7:56style. So, study it and analyze how the
7:58style's made. Learn everything there is
7:59to this editing style so that you can
8:01recreate it and turn it into a skill.
8:03Claude starts by taking all 14 videos
8:05and breaking them down into all the
8:07frames that make up the animations. And
8:09word-by-word transcripts of each video.
8:11Finally, it looks at the Figma file and
8:13studies everything from top to bottom.
8:14Every design, how it's made, and how
8:16it's animated, and formulates the rules
8:18for the video style. Then it combines
8:20all of that into the skill pack, the
8:22short-form editing skill. Now, inside
8:24the skill pack, first, there's a rule
8:25book. The rule book determines all the
8:27nitty-gritty details about the skill,
8:29like the font sizes, the spacing, the
8:30layout of the designs, the animation
8:32curves, and the speed of the movement.
8:33Then it creates what's called a
8:34lookbook, which is a book that contains
8:36what my editing style looks like, the
8:38shapes, the colors, gradients, icon
8:40styles, assets used, and everything in
8:41between. And finally, it creates a
8:43reference folder, where it saves every
8:45single animation from [music] the 14
8:46reference videos into these files. In
8:48each one is a screenshot of the design,
8:50a keyframe sheet of the animation, and a
8:52breakdown of how the animation works.
8:54And it does this for almost 200
8:56animations. This all comes together to
8:58form the short-form editing skill that's
8:59responsible [music] for creating these
9:01stunning viral short-form edits. And as
9:03I mentioned before, if you want to skip
9:05the training, I've uploaded the
9:06short-form skill that creates stunning
9:08short-form edits for my brand, and the
9:10long-form editing skill that has edited
9:11the long-form YouTube videos you're
9:12watching right now, all into the Joseph
9:15AI editing masterclass. I've even
9:16recorded step-by-step courses on how I
9:18trained both of them, so that you can
9:20use the same logic to train Cloud on any
9:22editing styles [music] that you like.
9:23And this is just one of the many courses
9:25that you get access to inside of
9:27Ultimate Editors 2.0, where you can
9:28literally learn how to edit stunning
9:30videos like these in 2026 and make money
9:33as a video [music] editor. The editors
9:34that join Ultimate Editors join as
9:36complete beginners. And over just a few
9:37months, they master viral video editing
9:40because of how easy the courses are.
9:41We've helped editors make $282,000
9:44in the last 9 months of Ultimate Editors
9:462.0. We were only able to do that
9:48because of our $2,000 per month editor
9:50blueprint, which teaches editors how to
9:51build a premium personal brand and land
9:53high-paying clients. This is all going
9:55to close down forever on November 15th,
9:57which is why the price for this program
9:59just went down from $1,200 per year to
10:02just $299
10:04for lifetime access. If you want to
10:06learn how to edit premium like these
10:08using AI and make $2,000 per month as a
10:11video editor. Click the link down below
10:12and join Ultimate Editors 2.0 before it
10:15closes down forever. But now that we've
10:16trained Claude on our editing style, it
10:18understands everything about our editing
10:20style and can recreate it from scratch.
10:22So, let's show you how we can use this
10:24skill to create the stunning edits you
10:25guys know and love. This is the raw
10:27video I'm going to be editing. I'll
10:28start by booting up Claude and going
10:30into Claude Code, setting the model to
10:32Opus 5.5 and the effort to extra. Then I
10:34start by asking Claude to load up my
10:36short-form editing skills so that I can
10:38edit a short-form video in my style. The
10:40first thing I want to do is turn my raw
10:41footage with silences and bad takes into
10:43a raw cut clip that's actually ready to
10:45be edited. To do this, I upload my raw
10:47video into Claude and prompt it asking
10:48to do a word-by-word level transcript of
10:50the video, finding all the silences and
10:52all the bad takes, and cutting them all
10:54out with tight cuts. Then I click on
10:56enter. Claude starts by taking the
10:57video, transcribing it word-by-word into
10:59a full transcript, then it analyzes the
11:01transcript and searches for any silences
11:03or any bad takes or anything that needs
11:04to be removed and takes them out and
11:06delivers the raw cut video back. Sweet.
11:08Now that we have a raw cut video, the
11:10next thing we want to do is plan out how
11:12the edit is going to go. We definitely
11:13don't want AI to plan out what it needs
11:15to show in the edit because if we do
11:16that, it's going to end up creating
11:18trashy AI edits that look very bad. The
11:20real secret to getting good results with
11:21AI editing is planning out the editing
11:23yourself and having AI do the work. So,
11:25I prompt Claude to use the transcript of
11:27the video to create a planning document
11:29for me to plan out what I want each
11:30scene to look like. On the right, it's
11:32going to have each script line and on
11:33the left, it's going to have an empty
11:35text box where I can plan out my edit.
11:37You can also ask it to do this. Based on
11:38the study that you did on my short-form
11:40content, recommend four potential
11:41designs for each scene that I could
11:42choose from. Since Claude studied my
11:44short-form videos, it knows what kind of
11:46animations I use. So, it can actually
11:47recommend good scenes based on what I'm
11:49saying. Now Claude will spend a few
11:50minutes building the document out and
11:52once it's done, it's going to send me
11:53this back. You can click on it and open
11:55it up. This full document allows you to
11:57see the scenes on the right and plan out
11:59your edit on the left. And this is the
12:00real trick. Now this is where I would
12:01spend around 15 minutes thinking from
12:03the viewer's perspective and planning
12:05out the edit accordingly. Let me show
12:06you how I did that for our video here.
12:08First, the hook. The video starts with
12:09me saying this as the hook. Getting
12:11hired as a video editor in 2026 comes
12:14down to three simple steps. The hook in
12:16this video is around making money as a
12:17video editor. So, I plan a stripe
12:19notification pop-up that shows an editor
12:22earning. Then, I plan a three-chapter
12:23listical animation popping up once I
12:25mention the three steps. Then, I keep
12:27thinking from the viewer's perspective.
12:29The next segment says this, "The problem
12:31is 90% of editors give up after the
12:33second step." Since it breaks the
12:34pattern a little, I chose to ask Claude
12:36to track me and keep the tip of my nose
12:38in the center of the screen, desaturate
12:40the screen and add a reverb. That's when
12:41we get started on the chapter by saying
12:43this, "Step one is become a viral
12:45editor." Here, I ask Claude to create
12:47the chapter one listical with text
12:49describing the chapter. Now, the first
12:50point I make is this, "Business owners
12:53don't want to hire average editors
12:54anymore. They want to hire the editor
12:56that knows how to turn the raw boring
12:58footage into the viral edits that
13:00actually perform." That's why it's more
13:01important than ever to master the viral
13:04editing styles of 2026. So, I start with
13:06an out-of-screen zoom out where we slide
13:08through low-quality edits to showcase
13:09them. Then, we're going to pan to a
13:10scene where the viewer can see raw
13:12videos as the camera keeps panning over
13:14to the final editing showcase. This
13:16delivers my point and helps the viewer
13:17understand exactly what I'm saying. Now,
13:19I just keep working through this
13:20document, selecting the designs, and
13:22filling the animations that I want,
13:23thinking from the viewer's perspective,
13:25until we end up with this, the full plan
13:27for the edit, exactly how I want it to
13:28turn out. Again, this step is so crucial
13:31because the objective isn't to let AI
13:32come up with the edit. It's to guide AI
13:34to build the edit that we have in our
13:36mind. And with all that done, now we
13:38just hand Claude the full plan and ask
13:40it to create the edit using the plan as
13:42a guide to what it needs to create, and
13:43use the skill as a guide on how it needs
13:45to look. And this is the real magic.
13:47Claude now looks at the plan and sees,
13:49"Okay, the user wants this here." Then,
13:51Claude looks at the skills and sees,
13:52"Okay, this is how the style shows this
13:54kind of animation." Then, he uses this
13:56logic to build these animations inside
13:58of Remotion for us. And it's going to do
14:00this for every single scene that we just
14:01planned out. It looks at the plan,
14:03concludes how it can build it with the
14:04skill, gathers the assets, and builds it
14:06out. And this is the step that takes the
14:08longest, but after around 40 minutes or
14:10so, it should have the full video built
14:12out for you you a look at it. And when
14:14the first draft is ready, don't get too
14:15excited. You're probably going to be
14:16mind-blown by how good it is, but you
14:18need to review it at least once or twice
14:20before it's actually good. I watched
14:22through the entire edit and noticed that
14:23it looked amazing, but there were a lot
14:25of things that could be changed to look
14:26better. So, I prompted Claude to speed
14:28up the slide down animation of Stripe,
14:30to increase the scale of the chapter
14:31three distichal, remove these animations
14:33in the tracking scene, show a viral edit
14:35in this scene, smoothen out this zoom
14:37out, and completely change this design
14:38to where the camera snaps to the
14:40personal brand on the left and then
14:41added on the right. Then, I told it to
14:43decrease the user icons in this scene,
14:44change the design of the graphs here to
14:46one with a blueprint grid in the
14:47background, and change this scene to a
14:49one-line text scene because it actually
14:51made a mistake when building it. Then, I
14:53clicked on enter. Now, this will be a
14:54much faster process since Claude already
14:56has the project file, it's going to take
14:58around 10 minutes, make all the changes
14:59that need to be made, and send you back
15:01the final edit. This should be much
15:03better. So, watch through it and confirm
15:05that it looks good. And then, tell
15:06Claude that he did a great job so that
15:08in the case that AI later does become
15:10conscious, he doesn't hunt you down and
15:11get revenge for abusing him. But, now
15:13that you have our final video ready, you
15:14can simply prompt Claude asking it to do
15:16the sound design and music for the edit.
15:18This is where Claude first creates a
15:20full Q sheet of your edit, which shows
15:21every animation, everything that happens
15:23on the screen, exactly when it happens,
15:25and which sound effect needs to be used
15:26accordingly. Then, it adds those sound
15:28effects in, double-checks the volume,
15:29and wraps things up with music. Once it
15:31sends you this, the master file, this
15:33means that the video is complete and
15:35ready to be watched. By this point,
15:36you'll have uploaded a fully raw video
15:38into Claude, it did the cuts, you
15:39planned the video, it animated it, sound
15:42designed it, added the music, and sent
15:43you the final edited version. me just
15:45around an hour and a half to do this
15:47edit with Claude. And if you guys want
15:48to see the final results, here you go.
15:50Getting hired as a video editor in 2026
15:52comes down to three simple steps. The
15:54problem is 90% of editors give up after
15:57the second step. Step one is become a
15:59viral editor. Business owners don't want
16:01to hire average editors anymore. They
16:03want to hire the editor that knows how
16:04to turn the raw boring footage into the
16:06viral edits that actually perform.
16:08That's why it's more important than ever
16:10to master the viral editing styles of
16:122026. Step number two is build your
16:14brand. Russell Brunson said you can't
16:16build something amazing and expect
16:18people to find it. You need to market
16:20your editing skills. To do this, you
16:22must build a social media page and post
16:24your best work to attract the highest
16:26quality clients. Finally, step number
16:27three is treat your clients like kings.
16:30The real money is in the clients that
16:31never want to leave. Over-deliver and
16:33finish before deadlines. And go above
16:35and beyond to make sure that your
16:36clients actually love you. And if you
16:38just do these three things, you'll never
16:40need to find clients ever again. Now,
16:41after seeing today's edit created by AI,
16:43you might be worried that video editing
16:45is dying or that AI video editing is
16:47about to take all the jobs. The truth
16:48is, today's edit wouldn't have looked
16:50this good if it wasn't for my 8 years of
16:52video editing experience. You still need
16:54to understand how a good video is made
16:56to guide AI on how to make good videos
16:58for you. So, as a video editor in 2027,
17:00there's two skills you need to know. You
17:01need to understand content psychology,
17:03which is knowing what needs to be where
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