Automated Video Editing with Claude Code: WeAreNoCode’s System, Summarized
Video editing is the bottleneck for almost every creator: hours of timeline work for each piece published. In this video, Christian Peverelli, from the WeAreNoCode channel, shows the system with which he has fully automated his editing using Claude Code: while he sleeps, his system makes the cuts, the sounds and the animations without him touching a timeline. He just records and gives feedback. This is a summary of how he set it up.
The problem: editing used to take hours (and a team)
Before, a video like his required a small team. In his current setup he keeps a single job: pressing the record button and giving feedback. Everything else is split across seven «roles», each with its own tool.
The workflow, step by step
- He records the raw footage. Face and screen at once with Tella, without worrying about mistakes or pauses.
- He hands it to Claude Code. He attaches the file and asks it to edit it using his «YouTube-Edit» skill, with extra instructions if he wants (a zoom here, a sound effect there).
- Claude Code coordinates the team. First, Parakeet (free, from NVIDIA) transcribes the audio with timestamps so Claude «hears» where it fails; with the transcript it decides the cuts and the good takes. Then: Hyperframes (free, from HeyGen) generates the animations in 4K; the browser (Chrome) finds real B-roll —captures of X, websites, articles— and layers it over the video; Tella, thanks to its MCP connector, lets Claude make cuts, zooms and layouts inside the software itself; Epidemic Sound adds music and effects to his taste; and FFmpeg (free) joins all the pieces, removes black screens and checks the audio sync before he sees anything.
- He receives the first cut and polishes it. In the video’s example, 2 minutes and 46 seconds of raw footage become 31 seconds. Then he gives notes with timestamps («add a suspense sound at second 22») and ends with the key phrase: «learn from what we have done and save it in the skill».
The key piece: the skill
The most important part of the system is not any tool, but the skill: a file of about 1,400 lines with his editing style —colors, fonts, animations, sounds— that Claude reads before each edit. He created it with the help of Claude Code itself and every correction he gives is saved in it: today it has 36 rules. Each note is given only once; next time, the system no longer makes that mistake. His skill can be downloaded for free in his Skool community, «We Are No Code».
The cost: about $27 per video
- Claude (Max plan, $200/month, which he uses for all his work): he measured the tokens consumed and his last video cost him about $24.
- Hyperframes and Parakeet: free.
- Tella (annual plan, $13/month): about $2 per video.
- Epidemic Sound (annual plan, $9.99/month): around $1 per video.
Total: about $27 per video, compared to the $250–1,000+ that a good human editor costs. But the biggest gain is not the money, but speed: now he plans, records, edits and publishes the same day; before it took between 3 and 7 days, with back-and-forth revisions.
4 ideas to take to your channel
- You are the director; AI is the editor. Reduce your work to recording well and giving feedback with timestamps.
- Document your style in a skill. Every correction you save is compound quality: you never repeat the same mistake twice.
- Start small. He trained the system with 30-second hooks before editing full videos: 10 days trying 8–10 sound effects until he found his own.
- Sound is half the video. Music and effects with clear rules (suspense hook, quiet lo-fi background) mark the difference between amateur and professional.
Summary based on the video «I Fully Automated My Video Editing Using Claude Code (Full Walkthrough)», from the WeAreNoCode channel on YouTube.