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How to Edit Premium YouTube Videos Using Opus 5.5! (Full Breakdown) — Transcript

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  1. 0:00This 18-minute premium animated YouTube
  2. 0:02video was not edited by an editor. It
  3. 0:04was edited entirely by Claude. In total,
  4. 0:06it took 12 hours and 4.5 billion tokens.
  5. 0:10And because I can edit five to 10 of
  6. 0:11these on the $100 Claude plan, it means
  7. 0:13that it cost me anywhere between 10 to
  8. 0:15$20 for the full video. And in this
  9. 0:18video, I'm going to show you how you can
  10. 0:19create and edit premium animated YouTube
  11. 0:21videos just like this one. First, I'm
  12. 0:23going to show you how we trained Claude
  13. 0:25to become an amazing long-form editor
  14. 0:26because the training process was pretty
  15. 0:28complex. Then, I'm going to walk you
  16. 0:29through how we created this entire edit
  17. 0:31inside of Claude. The cutting, the
  18. 0:33planning, the design references, the
  19. 0:34animations, the sound design, and the
  20. 0:36export. And finally, at the end of the
  21. 0:38video, I'm going to show you exactly how
  22. 0:39long every phase took, how much it
  23. 0:41actually cost, and what this means for
  24. 0:43us as video editors. And don't worry, if
  25. 0:45you've never used AI to edit anything
  26. 0:46before, this video is going to be a
  27. 0:48complete beginner's guide covering
  28. 0:49everything from A to C. And if you want
  29. 0:51the Claude skill files that create Iman
  30. 0:52Gadzhi edits, Vox documentaries, and
  31. 0:54viral Instagram Reels, you can find them
  32. 0:56inside our AI editing fundamentals
  33. 0:58masterclass in Ultimate Editors. The
  34. 1:00link is down below. And without further
  35. 1:01ado, let's dive right in.
  36. 1:05Before we get into creating the premium
  37. 1:07YouTube video, we first need to
  38. 1:09understand how Claude can even edit
  39. 1:11videos. The easiest way to think of
  40. 1:12Claude is that it's really a very smart
  41. 1:14brain. It can absorb any information
  42. 1:16that we give it, learn it, and use that
  43. 1:18information to complete tasks. And
  44. 1:19that's exactly how you and I learned
  45. 1:21video editing. The only problem is a
  46. 1:23brain on its own can't do anything. It
  47. 1:25still needs limbs to actually do things.
  48. 1:27And these are called plugins like
  49. 1:28Remotion and Higgsfield. Remotion, for
  50. 1:30example, is a plugin that's incredibly
  51. 1:32good at building animations. The only
  52. 1:34problem is it doesn't know what to
  53. 1:35build. So, we connect Claude to Remotion
  54. 1:38so that Claude does the thinking, tells
  55. 1:40Remotion what to build, and Remotion
  56. 1:41builds it. And connecting them is as
  57. 1:43simple as going to the Remotion website,
  58. 1:45copying this link here, dropping it in
  59. 1:47Claude, and asking Claude to install
  60. 1:49Remotion for you. That's it. Now, in our
  61. 1:51last video, I gave Claude a PDF that
  62. 1:52broke down how we edit short-form
  63. 1:54videos, and And
  64. 1:55this, a viral short-form video. So, to
  65. 1:57create a premium YouTube video, we had
  66. 1:59to ask ourselves, [music]
  67. 2:00"How do we train Claude to edit
  68. 2:02long-form YouTube videos?" What I did is
  69. 2:04I went over to my YouTube channel and I
  70. 2:05picked out 10 videos that I thought
  71. 2:07really showed our brand well. These all
  72. 2:09had clean animations and looked exactly
  73. 2:11how our brand is supposed to look in
  74. 2:132026. I downloaded all 10 of them, went
  75. 2:15into Claude code, and set my model to
  76. 2:17Opus 5.5 on extra high. Click the add
  77. 2:20folder button and attached my references
  78. 2:22folder. And then, I gave Claude this
  79. 2:24prompt. I want you to do three things. I
  80. 2:26want you to study my editing style from
  81. 2:27these videos that I sent you. To do
  82. 2:29this, first transcribe all 10 videos,
  83. 2:31then cut out every single animation and
  84. 2:33break it down frame by frame, study when
  85. 2:35the animation happens and why those
  86. 2:37visuals were chosen based on what I'm
  87. 2:38saying, and most importantly, study the
  88. 2:40design, the scene composition, the
  89. 2:42colors, the fonts, the objects, and the
  90. 2:44[music] style, so that you can
  91. 2:45understand how our style comes together.
  92. 2:47And then, I clicked on enter and let it
  93. 2:49run. So, Claude went into the folder,
  94. 2:51grabbed each video, transcribed the
  95. 2:52audio, cut out every single animation
  96. 2:55and broke each animation down into the
  97. 2:57frames that make it up. Then, it studied
  98. 2:59the design of every single one of them
  99. 3:01and even how the animation was built.
  100. 3:03And it did this for all 10 of the
  101. 3:05videos. It extracted and studied a total
  102. 3:07of 458 animations. And after multiple
  103. 3:10hours, it organized everything into a
  104. 3:12folder called the long-form study.
  105. 3:14First, the data folder had the
  106. 3:15transcripts and what each animation was
  107. 3:17about based on what I'm saying. Then,
  108. 3:19the inspiration guide has every kind of
  109. 3:21animation that we make, A-roll, media
  110. 3:22frames, numbers, objects, [music] text,
  111. 3:25and UI. Inside these are hundreds of
  112. 3:27folders, and every folder has a clip of
  113. 3:29the animation, a reference sheet of the
  114. 3:31design, and a frame-by-frame breakdown
  115. 3:33of how it was built. And then, it turned
  116. 3:34all of this into the long-form style
  117. 3:36board, which is a complete webpage that
  118. 3:38references our style and every important
  119. 3:40animation frame by frame. So, it's safe
  120. 3:43to say that Claude now fully understands
  121. 3:44everything there was to my editing
  122. 3:46style. That's when I told it to turn all
  123. 3:48of this into a long-form editing skill
  124. 3:50that could recreate our style from
  125. 3:52scratch in Remotion. But, here's the
  126. 3:54truth. The whole process took a long
  127. 3:56time. It took Claude almost 6 hours of
  128. 3:59processing and almost 2 billion tokens
  129. 4:01to analyze my style. And these
  130. 4:03references were so heavy that if I just
  131. 4:04asked Claude to use them as a guide, it
  132. 4:06would take 4.5 million tokens just to
  133. 4:09read the references alone. That's a
  134. 4:11whole day of session limits before it
  135. 4:12even starts animating. So, we came up
  136. 4:14with a creative solution. Instead of
  137. 4:15loading all 458 references, Claude built
  138. 4:18this document. Every time I give it a
  139. 4:20plan, it picks out only the references
  140. 4:22each scene [music] needs. And it gives
  141. 4:23me a few options to choose from. So, now
  142. 4:25it only loads what it actually needs,
  143. 4:27which is less than 100,000 tokens. This
  144. 4:29is perfect. So, that now means that
  145. 4:30Claude is fully trained and ready to
  146. 4:32create a fully animated YouTube video.
  147. 4:34So, let's put it to the test. Now,
  148. 4:36before I go and create the premium
  149. 4:37YouTube video, I just want to let you
  150. 4:38guys know something. If you're watching
  151. 4:40this as a video editor, maybe you want
  152. 4:42to learn how to edit the viral videos in
  153. 4:432026. Maybe you're struggling to learn
  154. 4:45AI video editing, or maybe you want to
  155. 4:47make $2,000 per month as a video editor.
  156. 4:49Ultimate Editors 2.0 is the best place
  157. 4:52to learn video editing in 2026. And
  158. 4:54there's only 20 days before we
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  160. 4:57Inside Ultimate Editors 2.0, you get the
  161. 4:58Premiere Pro and After Effects
  162. 5:00Masterclass. You learn how to edit
  163. 5:01cinematic short films, minimal
  164. 5:03animations, SaaS motion design projects,
  165. 5:05and even viral talking head videos. You
  166. 5:06even get the $2,000 per month editor
  167. 5:09blueprint, where we show you how to
  168. 5:10build a high-quality personal brand. And
  169. 5:12you even get the AI editing fundamentals
  170. 5:14masterclass, where you learn Claude,
  171. 5:16Higgsfield, Remotion, and how to create
  172. 5:18three viral editing styles entirely with
  173. 5:20AI. Our students master the viral
  174. 5:22editing styles of 2026 in just a few
  175. 5:24months, and they even go on to make
  176. 5:25thousands and thousands of dollars as
  177. 5:27video editors. But, the truth is we're
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  179. 5:31days, and you'll never be able to access
  180. 5:33it ever again. Which is why we took the
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  184. 5:43November 15th. So, if you want to learn
  185. 5:46the viral editing styles of 2026, and
  186. 5:48you want to make $2,000 per month as a
  187. 5:50video editor, click the link down below
  188. 5:51and join Ultimate Editors 2.0. But, now
  189. 5:54that you know that, let's take that
  190. 5:55Claude skill that we just built and use
  191. 5:56it to create a premium YouTube video.
  192. 6:01What I've got in front of me here is the
  193. 6:02raw file, the full YouTube recording of
  194. 6:05me speaking to the camera. It's around
  195. 6:0630 minutes of front time, but it has a
  196. 6:08lot of silences and bad takes that need
  197. 6:10to be removed. And although this step is
  198. 6:12very boring, it's a crucial step for the
  199. 6:14edit to actually [music] turn out good.
  200. 6:16So, let's boot up Claude Code. I'm using
  201. 6:18Opus 5.5 on high. Click on add folder,
  202. 6:21attach the raw footage, and give Claude
  203. 6:22this prompt. This is the raw video I
  204. 6:24want you to cut. Create a word-by-word
  205. 6:26transcript of the entire recording,
  206. 6:28study the silences and the bad takes,
  207. 6:30and remove them. Keep the cuts tight
  208. 6:32with less than 20 milliseconds of
  209. 6:33padding, and use the script as a
  210. 6:35reference. Then, I upload the script as
  211. 6:37a reference and click continue. Now,
  212. 6:38what Claude is going to do is create a
  213. 6:40word-by-word transcript so it knows at
  214. 6:42every millisecond exactly what's
  215. 6:44happening, when I'm saying the words,
  216. 6:45when I'm breathing, and when I'm taking
  217. 6:47a pause. Then, it uses a built-in tool
  218. 6:49called FFmpeg to cut all of that out and
  219. 6:51hand me back the clean video. Now, I'll
  220. 6:53be honest with you. This works, but it's
  221. 6:56very slow. It can take Claude 1 and 1/2
  222. 6:58hours just to cut this video, and it
  223. 7:00costs a lot of tokens that could just be
  224. 7:01used for the animations. So, if you want
  225. 7:04it faster, I personally use a program
  226. 7:05called Glink. You upload the raw video,
  227. 7:07paste in your script, choose to cut the
  228. 7:09silences and the bad takes, and a few
  229. 7:11minutes later it gives you this, the
  230. 7:12transcript on the left and exactly what
  231. 7:14it cut out. I like it because I can go
  232. 7:16through the cuts myself and quality
  233. 7:17control them, which took me around 25
  234. 7:19minutes for this 13-minute raw
  235. 7:20recording. Glink does cost some money
  236. 7:22though, so if you want to stay inside of
  237. 7:24Claude, just go for it. Then, I click
  238. 7:26export as MP4, and the boring part is
  239. 7:28officially complete, so we can now begin
  240. 7:30creating the video. Now, once I've cut
  241. 7:31up my video, the next thing I want to do
  242. 7:33is fully plan out how I'm about to edit
  243. 7:35this video, because remember, I'm going
  244. 7:37to give this plan to Claude, it's going
  245. 7:38to suggest the designs, we quality
  246. 7:40control them, and then it goes and
  247. 7:42builds it. What I do here is first I
  248. 7:44boot up Figma. I paste my script on the
  249. 7:45right side, and then I go through the
  250. 7:47entire video and write out the
  251. 7:48animations I have in mind for every part
  252. 7:50of the script on the left side. To speed
  253. 7:52this up, I like to use dictation so that
  254. 7:54I just speak into the mic what I want in
  255. 7:56each segment. For example, for this
  256. 7:57section, I say, "Some people have been
  257. 7:59saying AI is going to replace video
  258. 8:00editors, and some people say it never
  259. 8:02will." So, I write a slow zoom in with
  260. 8:04on-screen text that highlights the words
  261. 8:06AI will replace video editors and some
  262. 8:08people say it won't. I went with the
  263. 8:10text animation because I want to
  264. 8:11emphasize the words that I'm saying. So,
  265. 8:12then take this section where I say, "For
  266. 8:14days one and two, you have to go on
  267. 8:16YouTube, search up cloud video editing
  268. 8:18tutorials." The animation I planned is a
  269. 8:20pop-up of the YouTube UI with an Apple
  270. 8:22cursor that types cloud YouTube
  271. 8:23tutorials. Click search, [music]
  272. 8:25and a bunch of tutorials pop up. I chose
  273. 8:27a full-screen UI animation to show the
  274. 8:28viewer what it's actually like to search
  275. 8:30for YouTube tutorials. Or take a look at
  276. 8:32this section where I say, "For
  277. 8:33short-form, hook the viewer in the intro
  278. 8:35and keep them watching throughout the
  279. 8:36body." Here, I ask for a full short-form
  280. 8:38script on the left side of the screen
  281. 8:39with a pointer that highlights the hook
  282. 8:41and writes hook the viewer. And another
  283. 8:42that highlights the body and writes keep
  284. 8:44the viewer watching. I chose a
  285. 8:45full-screen animation to visualize the
  286. 8:46concept so that it's easier for the
  287. 8:48viewer to understand. I did this for the
  288. 8:49full 18-minute video, and it took me
  289. 8:52around 1 and 1/2 to 2 hours. Now, was
  290. 8:55this step necessary? No, but I still
  291. 8:57wanted to go the extra mile to do the
  292. 8:58quality control just to make sure all
  293. 9:00the animations that AI creates are
  294. 9:02actually relevant to the video. Now,
  295. 9:03once the full plan was done, I exported
  296. 9:05as a PDF, brought it over to Claude, and
  297. 9:07gave it this prompt. This is the full
  298. 9:09plan for the edit. Go through and use
  299. 9:11the long-form style that we just built
  300. 9:12together to recommend design references
  301. 9:14for every single one of the scenes that
  302. 9:16I planned. I want to go through that
  303. 9:17document and select the best references
  304. 9:19to use for each of those scenes. This
  305. 9:21took around 40 minutes to process, and
  306. 9:22then it gave me this document. And I
  307. 9:24spent around 10 minutes going through
  308. 9:25it, and I ended up choosing the light
  309. 9:27white minimal style for the video cuz I
  310. 9:29thought that one fit best. This was a
  311. 9:31very easy step, and it allowed me to
  312. 9:33quality control every single scene
  313. 9:35before Claude builds anything. But now
  314. 9:37that the planning was complete, all of
  315. 9:38our manual work was pretty much done.
  316. 9:40Everything from here on out is
  317. 9:41completely automated by Claude. So, I
  318. 9:44went over to Claude and I prompted this.
  319. 9:46You now have the full plan for the edit
  320. 9:47and the document breaking down my
  321. 9:49editing style. Use both of them to
  322. 9:50create the full animations for the intro
  323. 9:52alone and send me the design sheet once
  324. 9:54they're ready so that I can confirm
  325. 9:56them. And then I click continue. Now,
  326. 9:57while Claude is building the intro, let
  327. 9:59me quickly break down what's going on.
  328. 10:00It's loading up Remotion, which we
  329. 10:02mentioned is the plugin that knows how
  330. 10:03to animate, and it's using our animation
  331. 10:05plan as a guide on what to create and
  332. 10:07the reference document as a guide on how
  333. 10:09it should look. It's going to create all
  334. 10:10six animations for the intro, take a
  335. 10:12screenshot of every design, compile them
  336. 10:14into a design sheet, and send it over to
  337. 10:15me. And the reason we do this is because
  338. 10:17the most expensive part of this whole
  339. 10:19process is the exporting at the end. So,
  340. 10:21before we export anything, we want to
  341. 10:22confirm that everything looks just as
  342. 10:24good as we want it to. And over the next
  343. 10:2660 minutes, Claude created the full
  344. 10:27animations from scratch and sent me
  345. 10:29this, the first design sheet. Now, when
  346. 10:31I saw it, there were a few tiny changes.
  347. 10:33So, I told it to change the fonts to the
  348. 10:35ones we actually use in the brand,
  349. 10:36created a display in Apple Garamond, and
  350. 10:38to make a few tweaks to the background
  351. 10:39and the designs. A few minutes later, I
  352. 10:41had the first render of the intro. I
  353. 10:42watched it through, changed a few camera
  354. 10:44movements, some zooms, and some of the
  355. 10:46pacing, and only 20 minutes later, it
  356. 10:48sent me the brand new render. In total,
  357. 10:50it took Claude around an hour and a half
  358. 10:52to completely animate the intro, and
  359. 10:54everything looked perfect. And the
  360. 10:56reason we're putting in so much effort
  361. 10:57into the revisions right now is so that
  362. 10:59Claude knows exactly what we want for
  363. 11:01the rest of the video. Now, I have to
  364. 11:02mention something here. When I first
  365. 11:04watched this intro, I was genuinely
  366. 11:06mind-blown by how good this technology
  367. 11:08is right now. To the point where I
  368. 11:10started sending this to a bunch of
  369. 11:11people, and everyone's reaction was
  370. 11:13speechless. And just a reminder, this
  371. 11:15isn't using Higgs field or any other
  372. 11:16plugin. This is just Claude and
  373. 11:18Remotion. The only cost here is the
  374. 11:20Claude subscription. But with this being
  375. 11:22said, after the intro was complete, it
  376. 11:23was time to move on to the body. Now,
  377. 11:25you're going to have to forgive me here
  378. 11:26because I did screen record the entire
  379. 11:28process for the body, but the screen
  380. 11:29recording ended up being corrupt, and
  381. 11:31it's an 8-GB file, and I haven't found a
  382. 11:33way to fix it yet. But, what I
  383. 11:34essentially did is I went over the cloud
  384. 11:36and said, "Okay, everything looks
  385. 11:38perfect. You did the intro amazing. Now,
  386. 11:40I want you to follow the rest of the
  387. 11:41plan. Animate the entire 18-minute video
  388. 11:44and send me a design sheet every single
  389. 11:45time you complete a section so I can
  390. 11:47confirm it before you export." And this
  391. 11:49was the biggest phase of all of them.
  392. 11:51Before it started, it realized it was
  393. 11:52going to need different assets for the
  394. 11:54body. So, it sent me an asset checklist.
  395. 11:56And the best part is I didn't even have
  396. 11:58to collect them. Most of the assets were
  397. 12:00from Ultimate Editor, so I just told it
  398. 12:01to open up Ultimate Editor in Chrome and
  399. 12:03grab them itself. And the rest were
  400. 12:04thumbnails from our YouTube videos. So,
  401. 12:06it used Chrome to download those as
  402. 12:08well. The only things I uploaded were a
  403. 12:10few specific edits that it asked for.
  404. 12:12Then, it realized that 18 minutes is way
  405. 12:13too many animations for one go. So, it
  406. 12:15sectioned the video into four phases and
  407. 12:17animated each one individually. It sent
  408. 12:19me the phase one design sheets, which
  409. 12:21looked good, and I gave it a few small
  410. 12:22revisions. Then, phase two, which looked
  411. 12:24even better. Phase three, which looked
  412. 12:26really good. And finally, phase four,
  413. 12:27which looked perfect. Now, throughout
  414. 12:29this process, I hit my session limit a
  415. 12:31few times just because of how demanding
  416. 12:33this skill is. But, what really matters
  417. 12:35is that it didn't cost anything extra.
  418. 12:37Every time the usage filled up, I just
  419. 12:39waited a few hours for it to reset, and
  420. 12:41Claude went straight back to work. Now,
  421. 12:42here's the best part. Throughout these 6
  422. 12:44hours, I was pretty much never on the
  423. 12:46PC. I came and I checked every 30
  424. 12:48minutes to see if there was a design
  425. 12:49sheet. I gave my thoughts on a few
  426. 12:51things, and I spent the rest of the day
  427. 12:52doing whatever I wanted to do while
  428. 12:54Claude was doing the editing. And after
  429. 12:566 hours, it completed all four phases
  430. 12:59and rendered the full video. And
  431. 13:00remember how I mentioned how demanding
  432. 13:02this skill is? Yeah, the animation alone
  433. 13:04used 2 billion tokens. But, now that we
  434. 13:07had the full video with all kinds of UI
  435. 13:09animations, text animations, object
  436. 13:11animations, camera zooms, and on-screen
  437. 13:13text, the edit looked perfect. Honestly,
  438. 13:15when I was watching this back, I was
  439. 13:17completely mind-blown. But, to be fair,
  440. 13:19I wasn't even ready for just how
  441. 13:21mind-blown I was about to be when it
  442. 13:22came to the sound design and music. Now
  443. 13:24that we have have full edit, it was
  444. 13:25finally time to ask Claude to add the
  445. 13:27sound design and the music. As with
  446. 13:29everything, we first needed to train
  447. 13:30Claude on how it should go about the
  448. 13:32sound design. So, I gave it this
  449. 13:33document, which is a complete in-depth
  450. 13:35training guide on how I sound design my
  451. 13:36videos, which I used in one of our
  452. 13:38previous videos. And then, I clicked on
  453. 13:40add folder and gave it access to my
  454. 13:42sound effects library. Wooshes,
  455. 13:43textures, risers, and hits that our
  456. 13:45editors use for our videos. So, the
  457. 13:47document told it how to use the sound
  458. 13:49effects, and the folder gave it the
  459. 13:50sound effects. [music]
  460. 13:51In about 5 minutes, it studied
  461. 13:53everything and began. And again, I only
  462. 13:55asked it to sound design the intro first
  463. 13:57so that I can give it revisions before
  464. 13:58it did the rest of the video. And over
  465. 14:00the next 22 minutes, it did a full audio
  466. 14:02audit of the video, which told Claude
  467. 14:04what animations existed where and which
  468. 14:06ones needed which sound effects. And
  469. 14:08then, it applied the sound design and
  470. 14:09sent me the intro. Now, there were
  471. 14:11definitely some changes to make. A lot
  472. 14:13of the wooshes were misaligned, so I
  473. 14:14told it to align the peak of the woosh
  474. 14:16to where the animation transitions into
  475. 14:17raw footage. For the calendar animation,
  476. 14:19I told it to use UI pops for every
  477. 14:20calendar and allowed UI pop for the main
  478. 14:22one. And I even told it to add a cash
  479. 14:24register sound effect at any time where
  480. 14:25we mention money, because that's a
  481. 14:27consistent theme in our videos. Only 13
  482. 14:29minutes later, it sent me back the full
  483. 14:31revised intro, and it sounded awesome.
  484. 14:33Then, Claude went through the entire
  485. 14:35edit, sound designed the whole thing,
  486. 14:36and added music that sounds exactly like
  487. 14:38our channel. And within 1 hour, the full
  488. 14:40video was sound designed [music] from
  489. 14:42the intro to the end of the video, which
  490. 14:43brings us to the end, where we pretty
  491. 14:45much handed Claude a raw video and the
  492. 14:47general direction of how it should be
  493. 14:49edited, and Claude cut it up, planned
  494. 14:51the designs, animated the entire video,
  495. 14:53and even sound designed it and added
  496. 14:55music just like our own video. And
  497. 14:57honestly, the fact that we gave Claude a
  498. 14:58raw video and got back a fully edited
  499. 15:00high-quality video with zero extra cost
  500. 15:03is just mind-blowing. But now, let's
  501. 15:05take a macro look at how long all of
  502. 15:07this actually took, and what this means
  503. 15:09for us as video editors.
  504. 15:13Phase one was training Claude,
  505. 15:15downloading the 10 videos, breaking them
  506. 15:16down frame by frame, and categorizing
  507. 15:18all 458 animations and compiling
  508. 15:21everything into a skill. That took
  509. 15:22around 6 hours, but again, you're not
  510. 15:24going to need to go through this. Phase
  511. 15:26two was cutting, taking the raw video
  512. 15:28and removing the silences and bad takes.
  513. 15:30[music] 1 and 1/2 hours in Claude or
  514. 15:32around 20 minutes in Glyde. Phase three
  515. 15:33was planning the full video. This was
  516. 15:35the only manual part of this whole
  517. 15:36process, looking at the script and
  518. 15:38planning every single scene that needs
  519. 15:39to be created, which took around 1 and
  520. 15:411/2 hours. Phase four was selecting the
  521. 15:43design references, which was almost
  522. 15:44entirely done by Claude. Took us around
  523. 15:4625 minutes. Phase five was animating the
  524. 15:49intro with all the revisions, 1 hour and
  525. 15:5130 minutes. And phase six was animating
  526. 15:53the rest of the video. All four phases,
  527. 15:55around 6 hours with Claude running on
  528. 15:57its own and us not doing anything. And
  529. 15:59phase seven was the sound [music] design
  530. 16:01and the music, the audio audit, the
  531. 16:03sound effects, and the music, around 1
  532. 16:05hour and 30 minutes. So, if we add it
  533. 16:07all up, the time it took to create this
  534. 16:09full video was approximately 12 hours.
  535. 16:12And there are three things to keep in
  536. 16:13mind here. One, this used no external
  537. 16:16plugins. The only cost was the Claude
  538. 16:17subscription. Two, this long-form skill
  539. 16:20isn't in ultimate editors yet because
  540. 16:21[music] it hasn't been made efficient
  541. 16:23yet. Once it is, it's going to cut this
  542. 16:25editing time down [music] by at least
  543. 16:27half and use less than 20% of the
  544. 16:29tokens, which means you'll be able to
  545. 16:30run it on the $20 per month Claude plan.
  546. 16:32And three, most importantly, out of
  547. 16:34those 12 hours, we only did around 1 and
  548. 16:371/2 hours of actual work to plan out the
  549. 16:39video. Now, if you compare this to a
  550. 16:41traditional video editor, I've worked
  551. 16:43with thousands of editors over the last
  552. 16:442 years. And to get this quality of
  553. 16:46animations through a full video, you
  554. 16:48typically need 7 days animating at least
  555. 16:516 to 8 hours every single day. And this
  556. 16:53comes from data, not assumptions, which
  557. 16:55means AI created this video in less than
  558. 16:5720% of the time a regular editor would
  559. 16:59take. And for the cost, a traditional
  560. 17:01video editor would charge anywhere
  561. 17:02between $400 and $750 for a fully
  562. 17:06animated premium video. Again, this
  563. 17:08comes from data, not from assumptions,
  564. 17:10whereas this only cost us the $100
  565. 17:12Claude plan, which means at five videos
  566. 17:14a month only, this video would cost $20
  567. 17:17to edit. Now, I understand this is very
  568. 17:19scary for us video editors because this
  569. 17:21whole time our job has been to take raw
  570. 17:22videos and turn them into pretty looking
  571. 17:24premium videos just like this one. But
  572. 17:26if you notice something throughout the
  573. 17:28entire video, Claude couldn't have
  574. 17:29created this without my input. I used my
  575. 17:328 years of editing experience to plan
  576. 17:34every scene, choose the best design, and
  577. 17:36give it the right revisions because I
  578. 17:38understood based on the script what the
  579. 17:40viewer needs to see in order to keep
  580. 17:41watching. So, the way that I see it is
  581. 17:43there are two separate skills in video
  582. 17:45editing. There's video engineering,
  583. 17:46which is understanding how good videos
  584. 17:48are edited and the content psychology
  585. 17:50behind them, and there's actual editing
  586. 17:52process, which is knowing the programs
  587. 17:54and how to use them. The second skill is
  588. 17:56definitely about to be replaced by AI,
  589. 17:58but the first one I don't think is going
  590. 18:00anywhere because content is a uniqueness
  591. 18:01driven market, and the only people who
  592. 18:03can create special videos are the ones
  593. 18:05who understand how viral videos are
  594. 18:06made. So, going into 2027, the next big
  595. 18:09wave is going to be the editors who
  596. 18:11don't just know how to animate pretty
  597. 18:12videos, but understand what videos
  598. 18:14should look like in order to actually
  599. 18:16perform. And that's exactly what
  600. 18:17Ultimate Editors 2.0 is here to do.
  601. 18:20Whether you're a professional video
  602. 18:21editor or a complete beginner, in the
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  604. 18:24teach you b-roll storytelling and
  605. 18:26content psychology. In the Minimal
  606. 18:28Animation Masterclass and the SaaS
  607. 18:29Motion Design Masterclass, we teach you
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  609. 18:33concepts. And in the Editing
  610. 18:35Fundamentals Masterclass, we teach you
  611. 18:36the design fundamentals you need to
  612. 18:38create amazing videos. All of these turn
  613. 18:40you into a video editor that understands
  614. 18:42how good videos are made so that you can
  615. 18:44build the skill that won't get you
  616. 18:46replaced in 2027. Then, if you've never
  617. 18:48touched a single AI program, the AI
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  620. 18:54step by step and how we use them to
  621. 18:56create the Vox style, the Iman Gadzhi
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  623. 19:00And to top it all off, we teach you how
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