ButterCut
An open-source Ruby toolkit that lets Claude Code orchestrate a full video edit: transcription, rough cut, motion graphics, and captions.
Development / Video Editingdevelopmentvideo-editing
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name: buttercut description: Use when An open-source Ruby toolkit that lets Claude Code orchestrate a full video edit: transcription, rough cut, motion graphics, and captions.
ButterCut
ButterCut handles video metadata extraction and Final Cut Pro XML generation, combined with Claude Code skills (transcribe-audio, analyze-video, roughcut, take-selector) plus a built-in creative-director persona to autonomously edit raw footage into a finished video. Open source. dontsleeponai.com
What you get
- An open-source, Claude Code-orchestrated video editing pipeline.
Customize your output
- Swap in different creative personas or editing rules.
Example output
A full talking-head video autonomously cut, captioned and scored by Claude Code.
Best for
Content creators who want Claude Code to run their video edits end to end.
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name: buttercut
description: Use when An open-source Ruby toolkit that lets Claude Code orchestrate a full video edit: transcription, rough cut, motion graphics, and captions.
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# ButterCut
ButterCut handles video metadata extraction and Final Cut Pro XML generation, combined with Claude Code skills (transcribe-audio, analyze-video, roughcut, take-selector) plus a built-in creative-director persona to autonomously edit raw footage into a finished video. Open source. dontsleeponai.com
## What you get
- An open-source, Claude Code-orchestrated video editing pipeline.
## Customize your output
- Swap in different creative personas or editing rules.
## Example output
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