My AI video editor can't hear. So how was it supposed to pick music for my show? Talking heads can be a little boring. I knew the right music could add the emotional connection to what's happening in the story. But finding music, making it work, ducking it down every time someone speaks? Really, really complicated. It's why a lot of creators don't do it. So I asked Claude to go do the research. We ended up at PremiumBeat. Then I hit the problem. Claude can look at screenshots. It can't listen. So I got a creative idea. I had it pull up Gemini, which can hear, and ask Gemini to listen to its choices. They worked hand in glove and came back with a really nice set of sounds. Then I directed it. "I want music here. I want music there." Before I knew it, it came up with something absolutely crazy. My editor is getting exceptionally skilled. And it needs a name. What should I call my AI video editor? Drop your best name in the comments 👇 If I choose yours, I'll call you out in a future episode. Press Start: The Road to 3,000. #SocialMediaExaminer# #SMMW27# #AIinMarketing# #VideoEditing# #ContentCreation#

I didn't edit this video. Who did? Not me. I woke up at 4:30 and snuck into my office to try a little something. The day before, I'd figured out how to make these videos on my computer without Instagram Edits. I was using ChatGPT Codex. So I wondered: could I train Claude to do this for me, and could it actually do it better? To be honest, at the beginning it wasn't very good at all. Then it got really, really good. It was picking the clips. It was building the story arc. So I asked myself: what if it could do more? → Baked-in captions → Names that pop up when each person first appears → Section headers that tease what's coming, all automatic → The hook at the top of the video, completely decided by AI → A call to action at the end, plus thumbnail options with a suggested pick Here's the part that gets me. My wife and I had a wedding to get to, four hours in the car, leaving at 10. I knew I had just a little bit of time to make this progress. I am over the moon about this. While I'm trying to get 3,000 people to my conference, this is one more thing I've handed over. Would you let AI edit your videos? Tell me below, and start it with "I'd..." 👇 Press Start: The Road to 3,000. #SocialMediaExaminer# #SMMW27# #AIinMarketing# #VideoEditing# #ClaudeAI#

I'm using grokbot to help with video editing. It's a game changer. I upload the clips. It listens to them, sorts them, compares them to the script, let's me know of any irregularities, and then places them in the Camtasia timeline for me. And -- well -- shooting scenes in the Cybertruck is a breeze. The car drives while I record. Yikes, this crazy world is getting turned completely upside down.

I was the biggest skeptic of AI video editing. Until recently. So I asked one of the most talented creators I know (@cinkotweets) to break down exactly how AI can support the entire video process. The guy cooked. Here are the high-level notes: The tl;dr Right now AI mostly solves two genres. The video essay and the tutorial. Both have a straightforward outline, a script you stick to, and a one-shot record that AI can chop against. Other formats still lean heavily on craft. Easy Mode: research and ideas without losing your voice The gist: Use AI to find opportunities and pull source material from tools and team discourse. You still decide what is worth saying. Don't outsource final sign-off. Pro tips: - Marketplace is huge. Type YouTube and you will see VidIQ, TubeBuddy, and a pile of others. If your company shows a “request” button, go bug the admin. Do not wait on the queue. - Hook Ahrefs into Claude (and Notion) and ask something like: use the Ahrefs connector to find AI content opportunities this week, and tell me if videos already sit in the top five. - Tribal Knowledge is the other half. It is a skill that scrapes every connector he has (Slack, Notion, meetings) and surfaces real conversations around a topic so the idea comes from work talk. - Turn that into a personalized daily brief for the kind of content you make. Anthony built a content planning app with Codex. Every day it drops a brief, proposes video topics, and lets him queue the ones he likes. Notion is the shared backend so the org can see the same database without living in his app. Even on Opus, a daily brief runs about 8 cents. Hard Mode: script and first edit with AI assistants The gist: AI helps you outline and cut. You keep the words, the takes, and the judgment. Editing is not just the blade button. It is taste. If you are an editor, you have an advantage. If you have vision but not technical chops, you can still leverage these tools. Pro tips: - Create the outline as a human. Anthony still believes you should not let AI one-shot structure. His format is three columns: dialogue, visuals (what is on screen while you talk), and sound effects. - Then use the Scriptwriter skill. Point it at a topic (he demoed “what is an MCP”) and it interviews you through the whole creative process so you speak like yourself. Short-form or long. You can ramble, go out of order, contradict yourself. It sorts after. - Beat by beat it spits your words back as bullets. You react raw in the moment. Those reactions become the real script. It also prompts visuals and SFX while you talk (day-to-night, crickets, rooster) so creativity stays in the loop. Hooks are hard. You can ask it to interview you into a better hook without handing it the whole voice. *Film it yourself* - Split editing into phases. Baseline “radio cut” (dialogue paced). Then VFX / archival / B-roll. Then audio (dialogue mix, SFX, music). - Codex + Final Cut: pointed it at the footage and the script, asked for a baseline cut. First pass had half-second gaps of silence. One follow-up (“every clip is consistently half a second off”) and it produced a fluid cut with no awkward pauses, dropped straight into Final Cut. Cost: two prompts burned a big chunk of a 5-hour context window (100% down to 14%), but against weekly Codex usage (decks, research, more content) he still had about 53% left. - Codex in Final Cut won the radio cut. Descript was faster on the clock and worse on taste cleanup. God Mode: polish stack plus a measurement loop Definition: hand off the laborious extras (B-roll, motion, music, reporting). Keep the taste calls. Close the loop so you know if the work is working. Pro tips: - B-roll / archival / VFX: Anthony spun an “archival finder” agent. He gave it a vibe (internety, clicky, fun) and a reference (simple, warm, approachable using shows, TV, movies). It came back with taste. - It also downloaded clips, filed them, dropped them on the timeline, and added a paper texture background he had asked it to design. All via the Final Cut connector plus computer use. - Motion graphics: Remotion (free, open source) plus an agent. Dump everything in your head. Ask for a plan and structure first. He asked for an Apple liquid glass ultra-clean feel. Plan, approve, tweaks, then it popped into the Final Cut timeline in about 9 minutes 10 seconds. That used to be a brief to a VFX designer (timing, seconds, design, wait for turnaround). - Music and SFX: Epidemic Sound via MCP (Artlist and free-sound options exist too). Same pattern: send the URL if you need to install, give it a creator reference (he used Zoe), iterate because you are picky about music. It dropped tracks into the timeline and used Epidemic’s crop/trim so the music was cut for the edit. Mix sat under vocals instead of overpowering them. Not just music. Mouse-click SFX timed to B-roll. Full episode:

There's a lot of video editing work coming my way in the DMs that I can't take on so I'd like to find some trusted and talent editors to send work to reach out and show me your stuff and also prove that you're chill and cool

seedance 2.5 is INSANE at AI video editing i gave it this video + one prompt then it changed the person in the video and switched the dialogue to french in the same generation left: original video, right: edited video one prompt lol