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0:00In this video, I'm going to show you how
0:01you can use Claude to turn this raw
0:03boring clip into a premium viral edit
0:05just like this one. And yes, you don't
0:07need Hicksfield and you don't need any
0:09editing programs. You just need Claude.
0:11See, Claude just released Opus 5.5. It's
0:13faster, it's cheaper, and everyone is
0:15saying it's even better at design. So, I
0:17trained it on how I edit viral videos
0:19and it created all three of these viral
0:22edits. So, don't worry if you've never
0:24edited anything with AI before, by the
0:26end of this video you'll be able to do
0:27this all by yourself. First, I'll show
0:29you exactly how we trained to edit like
0:32this. Then, I'll walk you through every
0:33step of the edit, the cutting, the
0:35planning, the animations, and the sound
0:37design. And finally, we'll watch the
0:38final edit and I'll show you exactly how
0:40long it took and what it cost. By the
0:42way, if you're new to video editing and
0:43you want to learn AI video editing at a
0:45professional level and the viral editing
0:47styles of 2026, check out Ultimate
0:49Editors. The link is going to be down
0:50below. So, without further ado, let's
0:52grab the raw footage and dive right in.
0:55Now, before we let Claude touch our
0:56video, we first need to teach it what a
0:58good edit actually looks like. Because,
1:00here's the thing. If you've been getting
1:01bad results editing with AI, it's almost
1:03never the AI. It's just the training
1:05that you gave it. There are two kinds of
1:06training that you need to give Claude.
1:08The first kind is the visual training.
1:10The visual training is one big guide
1:12that tells Claude exactly how to edit
1:14your video and it has three parts: the
1:15captions, the animations, and the
1:17on-screen animations. In a minute, I'll
1:19tell you exactly where you can download
1:21this exact guide, but first, let me show
1:23you how to build one. Part one is the
1:25captions. First, I dropped a reference
1:26of the caption style that I liked so
1:28Claude [music] can see exactly what
1:30we're going for. Then, I listed out the
1:31fonts. One medium sans font for most of
1:33the words and one script font for the
1:35special words. And then, the colors.
1:37White for the normal words and one
1:39accent color for the words we want to
1:40pop. And then, where the text sits on
1:42the screen, the effects on it, and how
1:44it animates, which is a word-by-word
1:46pop-up fade in. And I added a bunch of
1:47examples of what the text should look
1:49like so that Claude isn't guessing.
1:51Then, I added a breakdown of how the
1:52hook should be edited. The speaker is
1:54always on the screen, the subtitles sit
1:55in the lower half, and the captions
1:57highlight the one word that makes you
1:58keep watching. So, now Claude knows
2:00exactly how to design and animate the
2:02text, [music] which brings us to part
2:03two, the animations. And this is the big
2:05one. I started with three examples of
2:07the kinds of animations that I wanted. A
2:09white one, one with casted shadows, and
2:11a yellow one. But then I split every
2:12animation into four types. Text-centric,
2:14where the text is the star of the scene,
2:15person-centric, built around a
2:17character, object-centric, built around
2:19an object, and graphic-centric, built
2:20around graphic like charts and UIs. And
2:22under each type I wrote a short
2:24description of what those scenes look
2:25like. But now it was time to teach
2:27Claude how to actually build them.
2:28First, the background. How to build it
2:30step by step. Then, what I call the
2:31three object rule. One, a main object in
2:33the center, two, supporting elements on
2:35the edges, and three, depth [music]
2:36elements around the outside. Then I gave
2:38it the design basics, a few color
2:40options, the fonts, and how the text,
2:42the objects, and the background should
2:43look. And finally, I added over 100
2:45inspiration pieces, UIs, graphs, and
2:48full scene designs for Claude to use as
2:50references. So, now Claude knows the
2:51types of animations, how to build them,
2:53and it has a whole board of inspiration
2:55to pull from. And finally, part three,
2:57the on-screen animations. This is the
2:58last one, I promise. [music] These are
3:00the small animations that pop up while
3:01I'm talking on the screen. I gave Claude
3:03a reference and explained the two rules.
3:05The background behind it darkens and
3:06blurs, and the animation sits in the
3:08lower half of the screen. Then I gave it
3:10some UI inspiration it could use to
3:11build them. And this whole entire guide
3:13is the full visual [music] training. If
3:15you want to train Claude on how to edit
3:16your videos, you should build visual
3:17training similar to this one. You don't
3:19have to get into the details that I went
3:21into, but the more specific you can get,
3:23the better your results will be. Now I
3:24promised I'd tell you where you can
3:25download Claude. This visual training
3:27for Claude. This exact training is
3:28inside my AI editing fundamentals
3:31masterclass in Ultimate Editors, which
3:32is just one of the many masterclasses
3:34that we offer. If you're new to video
3:36editing and you want to learn the
3:37editing programs, the viral editing
3:39styles of 2026, or how to edit viral
3:41videos with AI, click the link down
3:42below and join Ultimate Editors. But
3:44once you've built your guide, drop it
3:46into Claude and ask it to analyze it.
3:48The prompt that I used was long and
3:50complex. I'm going to leave it in the
3:51description if you guys want it. Then,
3:52and this is the important part, ask
3:54Claude to turn it into a skill. This
3:56will make it so that you don't have to
3:57train Claude every single time you want
3:59to edit. All right, Claude is now a
4:01trained editor. So, let's grab the raw
4:03footage and get straight into editing
4:04with it.
4:06First, open up Claude, set the model to
4:08Opus 5.5, and put it on high effort for
4:11the best results. Then, start by sending
4:13in this prompt. I have a short form
4:14video I want you to edit. Use the viral
4:16talking head editor skill we just
4:17trained you on to edit this video.
4:19First, here is the raw video. I want you
4:20to cut the video by creating a word
4:22level transcript and removing every
4:23silence and every bad take. Keep the
4:25padding around 20 milliseconds and hand
4:27me back the fully cut up video. So,
4:29we're basically asking Claude to use the
4:30skill that we just built, write a word
4:32by word transcript of the video, cut out
4:33every silence and bad take, and hand us
4:35a clean cut video. And then, don't
4:37forget to give Claude the actual raw
4:38footage. Click add folder down here,
4:40pick the folder with your raw video in
4:42it, and click on open. Then, click on
4:44continue and let Claude do the work.
4:45Now, here's what's happening in the
4:47background. First, Claude writes every
4:48word that you said exactly when you said
4:50it. Then, it cuts out every gap where
4:52nothing is being said. Then, it finds
4:53the sentences that you repeated and cuts
4:55out the bad takes. That's why an
4:57accurate transcript is so important.
4:58Now, I'll be honest, this part [music]
5:00is slow. It took me 24 minutes for just
5:02a 1-minute video. That's why I recommend
5:04doing the cutting either manually or
5:06using a faster third-party app like
5:08Glink. But, since I promised to make
5:09this entire video inside of Claude,
5:10we're going to stick to Claude for now.
5:12Now, after processing, this is the
5:13result that we get. 76 seconds of raw
5:15footage cut down to 50 seconds with
5:17every silence and every bad take cut.
5:19But, cutting is only step one. Now, we
5:21need to plan what the edit is actually
5:23going to look like.
5:25Here's a quick thing before we plan the
5:26animations, just so you're not surprised
5:28later. Claude does all the thinking and
5:29planning, but to actually build the
5:31animations, we use a program called
5:33Remotion. Think of it like this. Claude
5:34is the brain and Remotion is the hands.
5:36Now, Remotion is completely free to use,
5:38and to set it up, you just need to ask
5:40Claude to download and set up Remotion
5:42for you. That's it. And by the way,
5:43Claude can now create some animations on
5:45its own, too, but I haven't tested it
5:47enough yet to know if it's as good as
5:48Remotion, but let's get into the plan.
5:51Now, this is the most important step, so
5:53stay with me. Before Claude even
5:55finishes the cutting, I asked it to
5:56build me a simple planning page with two
5:59sections. A section where I can choose
6:00the main color, fonts, and font colors
6:02of the edit, and a section where I can
6:03see the script on the left side and an
6:05empty text box on the right side where I
6:07can write the full plan for my edit.
6:08Now, Claude uses the transcript to build
6:11you a page like this. At the top, I can
6:12pick the accent color, the two main
6:14fonts, and the font colors. Below that,
6:16every line of my script is on the left
6:18with an empty box on the right to type
6:20what I want. And for every line, I pick
6:21one of four scene types. Captions, which
6:23is just me talking with text on screen,
6:25captions with a UI, which is text plus a
6:27small animation in the lower half, half
6:29screen, the animation on the top half
6:31and me on the bottom half, and full
6:32screen, where the animation takes over
6:33the whole screen. But why are we doing
6:35it this way? Because I know what needs
6:37to pop up on the screen and when in the
6:39edit in order to keep the viewer
6:40watching. So, Claude will simply get
6:42better results by following my taste.
6:44So, here's how I planned it. First,
6:46there's the hook. These three mistakes
6:47make your edits look like an amateur. I
6:50chose normal captions, three mistakes in
6:52blue, and a UI with three numbered
6:53circles, one for each mistake. Then,
6:55there's the next line. Here's what you
6:57should do to take your animation from
6:58beginner to professional. We zoom in on
7:00my face, and the cursor drags a slider
7:02from beginner to professional. And this
7:04is where we get to chapter one. Number
7:05one, stop oversizing everything. The
7:07first circle fills in with the chapter
7:09title right under it. Then, we get to
7:11the explanation. The biggest thing that
7:12screams beginner editor is huge icons
7:15and huge shape layers. We have a
7:17full-screen animation. A low-quality
7:18edit pops up in the center, and the
7:20camera tracks the text writing in the
7:21top left, and then the bottom right.
7:23Then, we have this section. As a rule of
7:25thumb, the next time you're creating an
7:26animation, make every element 25%
7:29smaller, and just watch how much better
7:31it looks. A half-screen animation, a
7:33play icon starts way too big, then snaps
7:35to 25% smaller, which moves us into
7:37chapter two. Number two, stop overusing
7:39effects. This is where we're going to
7:40use the same chapter UI animation, but
7:42the number two fills in. After that,
7:44we've got this clip, less is more. The
7:46less you use an effect, the more special
7:48it is. This is where we're using a
7:50half-screen animation with a loading bar
7:52where only one segment lights up. Then,
7:54we have this clip, reserve your visual
7:56effects for elements that you really
7:58need to grab attention. That's where
7:59we're going to be using a full-screen
8:00animation with an eyeball that pops in
8:02and spins with editing timeline cards
8:04sliding in and around it. Which brings
8:05us into chapter number three. And number
8:07three, use more dull colors. We're
8:09bringing back the chapter UI animation
8:11again, where number three fills in.
8:13Then, we've got this clip after it,
8:14beginner editors always use harsh
8:16blacks, harsh whites, and bright reds.
8:18Here, we're going to be using a
8:19half-screen with three colored boxes
8:21that pop up, a pure black, a pure white,
8:23and a bright red. And after that, we've
8:25got this clip, luxurious brands always
8:27use dull colors, dull blues, and dull
8:29greens. Dull colors always look more
8:31high-end. Where we're going to be using
8:33a full-screen animation with luxury
8:34brand logos spinning in a circle, then
8:36they fade out as a new text writes out.
8:38And then finally, we've got the ending.
8:40So, now that you know that, change these
8:42three things about your edits and watch
8:44your animations go from beginner to
8:46professional. This is where we're going
8:47to be going back to captions with the
8:48chapter UI filling in one, two, and
8:50three to show that we covered
8:51everything. Now, there's a lot of
8:53content psychology that went into this
8:54plan. I was intentional with where I
8:56used my full-screen animations and my
8:58half and half animations. I was even
9:00intentional with the kinds of animations
9:02that were created. But this all in all
9:03took me about 15 minutes. Then, I just
9:06told Claude, here's the full plan. Now,
9:07use Remotion to build these animations.
9:11Now, Claude opens up Remotion and builds
9:13every single animation using our
9:15training and the plan that we just made.
9:16And here's a very important tip, you
9:18need to ask Claude to tell you if it
9:19needs any assets from you. For example,
9:21I had to give it a screenshot of a bad
9:23edit and a picture of an eyeball. So, I
9:24just dropped both into the chat. And
9:26sometimes, Claude even gets its own. For
9:28the luxury logo scene, it went into
9:29Chrome on its own and grabbed the logos
9:31all by itself. Now, this is the big
9:33part. It takes about 40 minutes. So,
9:36while Claude is working, let me tell
9:37[music] you about something. If you've
9:38been watching me create this edit and
9:40found yourself learning a thing or two,
9:42you're probably an editor that wants to
9:43edit viral videos in 2026 and start
9:46making money with it. The problem is,
9:47you're trying to learn it all on
9:49YouTube. There's thousands of videos,
9:51millions of questions, and way more
9:52confusion than answers. That's exactly
9:54why we built Ultimate Editors 2.0. It's
9:56the step-by-step program that teaches
9:58beginners to edit viral videos in 2026
10:00and make $2,000 a month as a video
10:02editor. Our students join as complete
10:04beginners and graduate as professionals
10:06making viral edits and even make
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10:10So, what's inside? First, there's the
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10:12Masterclass, where you learn the editing
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10:19fundamentals, the minimal animation
10:21style that's dominating right now, and
10:22the SaaS motion design style that
10:24clients are paying thousands for. And
10:25since you're watching Claude edit this
10:26video right now, our AI editing
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10:50and let's make you a viral editor making
10:52$2,000 per month in no time. Now, after
10:54about 40 minutes, you're going to get a
10:56message like this with the finished edit
10:58ready to watch. This is where you need
10:59to actually watch it, the animations,
11:02the text, and the timing. If there's
11:03anything that you don't like, need to
11:05tell Claude, "Change X, Y, and Z," and
11:07it's going to rebuild it. And now, by
11:08this point, our video is fully animated
11:10and it looks amazing, but there's just
11:12one problem. It doesn't sound like
11:13anything yet. And that's where the
11:15second kind of training comes in.
11:18The second kind of training is the sound
11:19design training, and it's what teaches
11:21Claude on how to create high-end sound
11:23design. To sound design a video, Claude
11:24needs two things: [music] a library of
11:25sound effects and a guide on how to use
11:27them. So, let's start with the library.
11:29Over the last 2 years, I've collected
11:30sound effects from all my favorite edits
11:32into this library, the ultimate sound
11:34effects pack. It's got whooshes for
11:35zooms and movements, clicks, UI and
11:38sci-fi sound effects for all kinds of
11:39animations, and risers and hits to build
11:41up and drop anticipation. And if you're
11:43building your own, here's the checklist
11:44that you need to follow. You're going to
11:45need five whooshes, long ones, short
11:47ones, and textured ones. You need two or
11:49three mechanical clicks, short,
11:50metallic, and retro. You need two or
11:52three sci-fi sound effects, impacts,
11:54clicks, and shots. You need two or three
11:55UI sound effects, a UI click, a UI
11:57success, and a UI fail. And you need two
11:59risers and two hits. A bass riser, a
12:01metallic riser, a bass hit, and a heavy
12:03hit. Now, that gives you a solid
12:04foundation, and you can always add more
12:06later. But for the best quality, I
12:07recommend getting them from paid sound
12:09effects sites. But as for the sound
12:11design guide, how do you actually teach
12:12an AI to sound design? I wrote a full
12:14document that breaks down everything I
12:15do to sound design a video from scratch
12:17based on this exact library. It starts
12:19by telling Claude who it is and what we
12:21want it to do. Then it explains how I
12:22[music] sound design, the philosophy,
12:23which is all about the motion, the three
12:25families of sound effects, how loud they
12:27should be, and where to place them. Then
12:28[music] it goes through the library in
12:30three different sections. Section one,
12:31the whooshes, when to use them, and
12:33which whoosh fits which movement.
12:34Section two, the textures, the clicks,
12:37pops, and UI sounds, and exactly when I
12:39use each one. And section three, the
12:40risers and hits, and when to use them to
12:42build up and drop anticipation, and how
12:44to place them. In order to train Claude,
12:45you just need to upload the guide and
12:47add your sound effects library in the
12:48same way that we added the raw video
12:49with the add folder feature. Now, Claude
12:51has the sound effects and the training
12:53on how to use them. And just like
12:54before, don't forget to ask Claude to
12:56turn it into a skill so that you don't
12:57have to train it every single time you
12:59want to create an edit. Now that Claude
13:00has been trained on sound design, let's
13:02go ahead and put it to the test.
13:05Now, we go back to Claude and type, "Use
13:06the sound design guide and my sound
13:08effects library to sound design the
13:09video you just edited." and click
13:11continue. This is where it gets really
13:12cool. Claude goes through the entire
13:13edit and writes down everything that
13:15happens on the screen and plans where
13:16every single sound effect goes. Whooshes
13:18for movements, clicks and pops for
13:20things appearing, and risers and hits to
13:21build and drop the anticipation. In
13:23total, it took about 25 minutes to place
13:25all the sound effects. Then I just
13:26dragged in a song, and I told Claude to
13:28add it at minus 20 decibels. And that
13:30was it. So, to give you a quick recap,
13:32we trained Claude on the visuals and the
13:33sound, it cut the raw video, we planned
13:35every single scene together, and Claude
13:37built the animations and sound designed
13:38the whole thing. So, is it actually
13:40good? Let's go ahead and take a look.
13:42These three mistakes make your edits
13:44look like an amateur. Here's what you
13:45should do to take your animation from
13:47beginner to professional. Number one,
13:49stop oversizing everything. The biggest
13:51thing that screams beginner editor is
13:53huge icons and huge shape layers. As a
13:55rule of thumb, the next time you're
13:57creating an animation, make every
13:58element 25% smaller, and just watch how
14:01much better it looks. Number two, stop
14:03overusing effects. Less is more. The
14:06less you use an effect, the more special
14:08it is. Preserve your visual effects for
14:10elements that you really need to grab
14:12attention. And number three, use more
14:14dull colors. Beginner editors always use
14:16harsh blacks, harsh whites, and bright
14:18reds. Luxurious brands always use dull
14:20colors, dull blues, and dull greens.
14:23Dull colors always look more high-end.
14:25So, now that you know that, change these
14:27three things about your edits, and watch
14:29your animations go from beginner to
14:31professional. So, now, for the big
14:32question, how long did this actually
14:34take, and what did it cost? This is my
14:36full-screen recording of the entire
14:38edit. At minute one, I asked Claude to
14:39cut the video, and at minute 25, the
14:41cuts were done. That's 24 minutes for a
14:431-minute video. In my opinion, that's
14:45way too slow. And that's why I would use
14:46Gling, or just cut it manually. From
14:48minute 25 to 40, we planned the edit,
14:50and it took 15 minutes, which is really
14:52solid. And this is where it gets crazy.
14:54At minute 40, Claude started animating,
14:56and by minute 80, it was completely
14:58done. 40 minutes for the captions, 12
15:00animations, full screens, half screens,
15:03UIs, and even zooms and camera movement.
15:05That's insane. At minute 85, I started
15:07the sound design, and by minute 110, it
15:10was completely done. 25 minutes, which
15:12is about how long a normal editor would
15:13take. So, in total, about 1 hour and 50
15:16minutes. But, out of those 110 minutes,
15:19I was only actually working for about 20
15:21minutes. I was just planning the edit
15:23and prompting. The other 90, Claude was
15:25doing all the work. But now, for the
15:27cost, we only used Claude. So, the only
15:29cost is your Claude plan, $20 a month
15:31for Pro or $100 for Max. And honestly,
15:34either one of them works. Pro just gives
15:36you less usage. This whole edit used
15:38less than 10% of my Max plan's weekly
15:40usage. So, you can make dozens of these
15:42every single month, which works out to
15:44somewhere between one and $5 per edit.
15:46So, what do I actually think? I've been
15:48editing for 8 years. And is this going
15:50to replace video editors or is it all
15:52just one big lie? The truth is, it's not
15:54replacing editors. Without the visual
15:56training, the sound design training, and
15:58me planning every single scene, we
16:00wouldn't have gotten anywhere close to
16:01this. So, don't worry. But for the
16:03editors that know how to use it, it's a
16:05massive tool. An edit like this that
16:07usually takes an editor around 6 hours,
16:09we were able to pull it off in like 2
16:11hours. And the best part is, I only
16:12worked around 20 minutes of it. And I
16:14can already kind of see where this is
16:16going. A client wants 30 videos a month
16:18in this style. But he only has $1,000 to
16:20spend. You could be the editor that
16:21takes that deal, runs the videos through
16:23Claude, and keeps around $900 of profit.
16:25Cuz ladies and gentlemen, here's what
16:27this whole video comes down to. AI is
16:28not going to replace video editors yet.
16:30Editors who understand content
16:31psychology, design, and how to direct
16:33the AI, they are the ones who replace
16:35the editors who don't understand how to
16:36use AI. If you want to be in that first
16:38group, our AI editing fundamentals
16:39course inside of Ultimate Editors breaks
16:41it all down from A to Z. And it even
16:43gives you the Ultimate Editor plugin so
16:45that you can create viral AI edits just
16:47like this one. The link to Ultimate
16:48Editors is going to be down below. And
16:49real quick, before I go, a huge shoutout
16:51to sims.mop for giving me the
16:53inspiration for this video. Go and show
16:55him some support on Instagram. And with
16:57all this being said, thank you guys so
16:58much for watching all the way to the end
16:59of the video. Let me know what you guys
17:00think of this AI edit. Is it really
17:02cool? And is it also really cheap
17:04compared to the other AI edits? We've
17:05got so many cool videos lined up for you
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