I built a "Video Factory" that turns a single phone selfie video into a fully edited short-form video automatically.
I drop in raw A-roll. I get back a polished video ready for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts (see example below).
The editor is Claude, powered by a harness of custom skills I built on top of open source video editing skill packages (video-use & hyperframes).
Here's how it works:
→ I record a talking head on my phone and drop the raw file in
→ Claude edits it like a real video editor: cuts, animations, pacing, structure
→ It layers in B-roll from dozens of CoinLedger product clips
→ It generates new B-roll with image models when it needs something that doesn't exist
→ A research harness pulls in viral news angles to ride
→ Everything runs on a video-use skill plus the open-source HyperFrames skills
The result: one raw clip in, one high-quality short out. One-shotted. (See the before/after below.)
I spent hundreds of hours testing and building with the generation models i.e. Veo, Sora, and Kling.
Building robust editing agents like Video Factory turned out to be 10x more useful for the actual marketing work.
"Video Factory" is going to allow me to scale to hundreds of thousands of qualified impressions per month for my businesses and products.
No edit bay. No editor. No 12-hour timeline.
Just sit down, record a talking head, dump to Claude, get final output 15 mins later. Repeat.
I'll be doing a full breakdown of Video Factory and the skills powering it in a future tweet storm and YouTube video.