Copy Any Editing Style with Claude

Steps

1. 1

   Pick your style

   Choose 3 to 5 videos you love and 1 “how to edit like X” YouTube tutorial. Copy the links.

2. 2

   Paste one prompt

   Copy the prompt below into Claude Code. Fill the 4 brackets with your links and your own video. It downloads everything for you.

   The promptCopyCopied

   You are a senior video editor with ffmpeg and yt-dlp.
   Make MY video look like the style of [CREATOR].
   MY VIDEO: [PATH TO YOUR VIDEO]
   STYLE VIDEOS: [3-5 LINKS]
   TUTORIAL: [1 "HOW TO EDIT LIKE X" LINK]
   Do all of this. Don't ask me questions.
   1. DOWNLOAD: every link, with yt-dlp, into ./study/. Tutorial: also its subtitles (--write-subs --write-auto-subs --convert-subs srt). A link fails? Tell me which one.
   2. STUDY THE VIDEOS: pull frames (2 per second + 1 at every cut), look at them, zoom in on text. Measure with numbers: caption font (closest free font), size, color, animation; color grade; cut length; zooms; transitions; music and sound effects.
   3. STUDY THE TUTORIAL: read the subtitles, grab the frames where settings show, list each technique + its exact values.
   4. EDIT MY VIDEO: cut the pauses and retakes (keep the last clean take). Then add the captions, zooms, transitions, sound and music you measured.
   5. RENDER: a vertical 1080x1920 MP4. Show me 3 frames and the file path.
   6. FIX: I will ask for changes in plain words. Make them, render again, repeat until I say it is done.
   No terminal? Give me the steps for my editor instead.

   Show full prompt

   Fill the 4 brackets. That is it.

3. 3

   Get your edit

   Claude edits your video in that style. Ask for changes in plain words until you love it.