claude-youtube-editor

Record the talking head. Claude Code does the rest.

An open-source pipeline that takes a raw recording all the way to a published YouTube video — the cut, the visuals, the voice, the sound effects, the thumbnail, and the upload. No video editor. No screen recording. Every screen moment you see is built as code (Remotion TSX) and composited over your cut.

📖 Read the full walkthrough: Edit a YouTube Video With Claude Code The beginner setup, step by step, on my site. Free to read, no login.

The six steps

#	Step	Skill	What happens
1	The cut	/clean-cut	AssemblyAI transcribes with tone + talking style, you author cuts.json from the transcript, out comes a clean master + word-level edited-transcript.json
2	The visuals	/make-tsx · /fake-screencast	Remotion shots built over the master, every reveal synced to the word times. Generated UI clones that simulate a screen recording — nothing captured
3	The voice	/clean-audio	diagnose the noise, isolate the voice, keep the levels
4	The sound	/suggest-sfx	function-first SFX landing on the exact word, from a library that grows with every video
5	The packaging	/packaging	one title × 3 thumbnail bets for YouTube's A/B test, rendered as real images
6	The upload	tools/yt_upload.py	checks itself for ghost speech + A/V drift, then uploads as a private draft

Plus /brand-setup — makes all of it look like your channel, not the one it came from. And /vidtsx-2d-generator — the low-level rules that keep a Remotion shot from crashing.

What you record vs what it builds

You record: yourself, talking. That's the whole shot list.

It builds: every full-screen statement, diagram, UI walkthrough, browser and terminal mockup, title card, and transition — as code, over your cut, synced to what you actually said.

Quickstart

Requirements: Claude Code · Python 3.10+ · Node 18+ · ffmpeg + ffprobe on PATH.

git clone https://github.com/hassancs91/claude-youtube-editor
cd claude-youtube-editor

python -m venv venv
venv/Scripts/python -m pip install -r requirements.txt   # Windows (./venv/bin/pip on macOS/Linux)

cd remotion && npm install && npm run gen && cd ..       # build the Remotion registry

cp .env.example .env                                     # add your keys

claude                                                   # open in Claude Code, then:

set up my brand · clean cut videos/video-1 · add TSX beats to video-1 · suggest sfx for video-1 · package this video

See it before you shoot anything

The repo ships 37 real shots from a published video — the worked example of the kit. They render standalone, no footage needed:

cd remotion && npm run studio

That's the fastest way to see what this produces, and reading a few is the fastest way to learn remotion/src/lib/ (the browser frame, the screencast engine, the VS Code shell, the motion kit).

Make it yours