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Brooke Lacey automates short-form video production using local terminal scripts. The workflow treats video editing as a structured text problem solved with Claude Code in seconds.
Short-form video pacing requires precise jump cuts that challenge standard editing tools.
“The trick there is those jump cuts. They're very difficult…”
From Brooke Lacey Automates TikTok Jump Cuts With Claude Code
Short-form humor relies on editing cuts that hit the exact millisecond an acoustic tail ends.
“The sound ends before you think it does…”
From Brooke Lacey Automates TikTok Jump Cuts With Claude Code
Brooke Lacey replaces conventional video editors with a terminal script running Claude Code, FFmpeg, and Whisper. The pipeline processes raw video files locally on a Mac in roughly 15 seconds.
“The file's in the computer, it doesn't upload anywhere. The only thing that's happening is the instructions are being pulled and it's doing all of the things. It's just running the computer.”
Spoken commands trigger automatic editing actions during recording. Brooke Lacey prompts Claude to identify these verbal cues, discard bad takes, and select the delivery with the best cadence.
“It's listening and goes, 'Oh, I just heard you say cut that out.' And then it also was like, 'You repeated this a couple of times and I took the one that was the best cadence,'”
From Brooke Lacey Automates TikTok Jump Cuts With Claude Code
Debugging forces Claude to trace errors back to initial session instructions. Every diagnosed failure ends with a patch written to the main spine so the correction survives future runs.
“The way that I prompt when it screws up is like go back to the way that we started, understand those instructions, and then do it again…”
From Brooke Lacey on Claude Code: Debug the Spine, Not the Prompt
“Now, go back and tell the main operating system spine that you messed up so that it can make the change globally…”
From Brooke Lacey on Claude Code: Debug the Spine, Not the Prompt
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