From raw take to Reel with Claude

Who it is for

Anyone who records themselves talking to camera and wants Claude Code to do the first edit: business owners, creators, coaches and editors.

What it does

• A transcript with retakes and filler words flagged, so Claude keeps your last good take of every line
• Pause trimming that only cuts real silence and double-checks the audio so short words stay
• Frame-exact cuts with 12 ms audio fades at every join
• 9:16 reframe and 1.0x / 1.35x zooms centred on your face
• Optional captions that never cover a face and an optional music bed
• Final audio at -14 LUFS, true peak at or under -1.5 dBTP, plus a flash-frame check

In the zip: SKILL.md, scripts, brand.json, fonts, face model, requirements.txt, LICENSE and third-party notices.

Install in Claude Code

1. Unzip viralframe-talking-head-editor.zip into ~/.claude/skills/ to use it in every project, or into .claude/skills/ inside one project.
2. Check that you have viralframe-talking-head-editor/SKILL.md inside that folder.
3. Restart Claude Code and ask in plain words. Claude can install the requirements for you.

Requirements

• ffmpeg
• Python 3.10+ and pip install -r requirements.txt (numpy, opencv-python)
• Speech-to-text: faster-whisper or whisperx
• Captions only: Node.js 22+ for npx hyperframes

Try asking

Edit ~/Desktop/raw_take.mp4 into a 9:16 Reel. Keep my last take of each line, cut the ums and long pauses, alternate 1.0 and 1.35 zooms on my face, add captions with "clients" in the accent color, and give me the final at -14 LUFS.

From our test

On our test with a 40 s raw clip: 63 of 63 words kept, 0 off-centre zooms, 0 flash frames, final at -14.0 LUFS.

The music bed and the faster-whisper and openai-whisper paths were not tested; only WhisperX was.

Licence

Code: MIT, Copyright (c) 2026 Viralframe (see LICENSE in the zip). Fonts, models and libraries from others keep their own licences: see THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md. Uses HyperFrames by HeyGen (Apache-2.0) as a dependency through npx; it is not included and it is not ours.