How an edit happens

You talk to Claude. Claude works inside the app. The app checks the work before you see it.

From a voice to a finished draft

  1. 1

    Claude listens first

    The voiceover is transcribed word by word, junk takes and long pauses are cut, and every word gets a timestamp — so each visual can land on the word it belongs to.

  2. 2

    It plans every beat

    The script is split into beats. Each beat gets a place, a character, a camera move and a reason to change the picture — written down before anything is built.

  3. 3

    It builds in the editor

    Claude calls the app's tools: backdrops, characters that talk from the words, real maps, numbers, captions, transitions and sound. Every change lands on the timeline you can see and undo.

  4. 4

    It checks its own work

    Pacing, layout and a full edit review run before you see anything. Dead air, overlapping text, off-frame charts and boring stretches are fixed, then checked again.

  5. 5

    You get a draft to review

    A draft video, a GIF of the hook and a contact sheet arrive in your chat. Ask for changes in plain words — or open the project and edit it by hand.

♪ turning-point-voice.mp3 7:02
pause 1.8s · removed
On0.2s290.4sNovember0.7s1941,1.2sFritz1.9sTodt2.2swalked2.6sinto2.9sthe3.0sWolf's3.2sLair3.6s
0:00
Forest HQ at nightbackdrop + title, slow push
0:06
Todt enters, worriedtoon walk-in, close-up
0:14
"The war is lost."quote card, hold 2s
0:21
Moscow, the front stallsreal map + arrows

26 beats planned for 7 minutes

  • backdrop_addforest-hq
  • toon_addarmaments-minister
  • camera_coverageevery 1.5s
  • map_addfront + arrows
  • captions_autostory-bubble
  • sfx_auto38 categories
Pacing92
a change every 2.1s
Layout100
no overlaps, in frame
Edit review96
1 note fixed

All gates passed — sending the draft

Here's the first draft of part 1. The hook lands on “the war is lost” at 0:14.

draft.mp4 · 7:02
hook.gif
contact-sheet.jpg
Make the map scene slower and add a heartbeat under the quote.

Every word is a cue

The voiceover is transcribed with a timestamp for each word. A character's mouth moves while the line is spoken, a label lands on the word that names it, a country turns grey on the sentence that says it fell.

Checked before you see it

Pacing
Flags any stretch longer than seven seconds where nothing new happens, and moments where too much arrives at once.
Layout
Checks text size, safe areas, contrast, overlaps and anything that covers a face.
Loudness
Masters the draft to streaming loudness and checks the peaks.
Licences
Lists every downloaded asset with its licence; nothing is downloaded without your yes.
The Auto Edit Flow editor with a finished edit on the timeline

Then it's your edit

A draft, a GIF of the opening and a contact sheet arrive in your chat. Open the project and everything is an ordinary clip — move it, trim it, or tell Claude what to change.

Give Claude your next voiceover.

Auto Edit Flow is coming soon for Macs with Apple Silicon. Connect Claude once; every edit after that starts with a sentence.