Cut Video with AI: Turn Long Videos into Clips, Reels and Shorts
Describe the moments you want in plain English and get short, shareable clips back.
It takes a long video and a plain-English description of what you want, then finds and cuts the matching moments into short clips ready for reels and shorts.
Any AI assistant that can read a SKILL.md file (Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex). No separate app, no subscription, and no API key required to start using the skill.
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Cut Video with AI is an AI clip generator you run inside your own AI assistant. Instead of scrubbing a timeline for hours, you point it at a long video (a YouTube link, a public URL, or a local file) and describe the moments you want in plain English: "the funniest parts," "everything about pricing," or "the strongest calls to action." The skill transcribes the audio, semantically searches for the moments that match your prompt, and gives you short clips ready to become reels and shorts. It is the fast way to turn long videos into short clips, repurpose podcasts and webinars, and feed a steady stream of social content without editing skills.
- Turn one long video into a batch of short clips in minutes instead of hours
- Find the best moments by meaning, not just keywords, using plain-English prompts
- Repurpose podcasts, interviews and webinars into reels and shorts for every platform
- Preview clips instantly with a shareable stream link before you download anything
- Get clean, downloadable clip files with consistent, organized file names
- Skip the editing timeline: no software to learn and no design or coding skills needed
- 1Drop the skill into your assistant
Add the SKILL.md file to Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex. It loads as a capability your assistant can run on demand, with nothing else to install.
- 2Give it a video and a prompt
Paste a YouTube link, a public URL, or point to a local file, then say in plain English what you want to pull out, for example 'the best moments about growth' or 'every quotable line.'
- 3It asks for anything it needs
Before running, it confirms the essentials: the video source, the language of the speech, and how many clips you want. It never runs silently and never guesses on the parts that matter.
- 4It transcribes and searches
The skill transcribes the spoken words, then semantically searches the transcript to locate the segments that best match your description, ranking the strongest moments first.
- 5You preview the clips
You get a preview link to watch the compiled highlights and a clear table of each moment with its start time, end time, duration, and a snippet of what is said.
- 6It cuts and delivers the files
When you approve, it exports each moment as its own clip file with tidy names, organized in one folder, ready to post as reels and shorts or to hand off for intros, captions, and overlays.
- Short vertical clips ready for reels, shorts, and TikTok
- A preview stream link of the compiled highlights
- A ranked list of moments with start time, end time, duration, and transcript snippet
- Downloadable clip files with clean, consistent names in one organized folder
- A metadata file describing the source video, your prompt, and every clip
Spoken-word clipping (default)
For videos with narration or dialogue such as podcasts, interviews, and webinars: the skill searches the transcript to find the exact moments that match your prompt.
Visual scene search
For videos with little or no speech, it can index the visual scenes instead, so you can pull moments by what is happening on screen rather than what is said.
SKILL.md · README.txt · LICENSE.txt — Single-seat commercial use. Do not resell or redistribute the file. Compatible with Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex.
What is the Cut Video with AI skill?
It is a SKILL.md file you add to your AI assistant that turns a long video into short clips. You describe the moments you want in plain English and it finds, ranks, and cuts them into reels and shorts.
Does it work with Claude, Cursor, and Codex?
Yes. It is compatible with Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. Any AI assistant that can read a SKILL.md file can run it.
Do I need to install anything or use an API key?
No separate app and no subscription are needed to start. You drop the SKILL.md into your assistant and run it. If a step needs something extra, the skill tells you before it runs so you stay in control.
What kinds of videos can it clip?
Long-form content works best: podcasts, interviews, webinars, YouTube videos, and recorded talks. You can point it at a YouTube link, a public URL, or a local file, and it handles videos with speech or, in visual mode, videos with little speech.
Can I choose which moments become clips?
Yes. You describe what you want, for example the funniest parts or every call to action, and the skill ranks the best matches. You preview them first and approve before any clips are exported.
Do I need editing or coding skills?
No. There is no timeline to learn and no code to write. You describe the clips you want in plain language and the skill does the transcription, searching, and cutting for you.
An AI skill is a small, reusable instruction file (a SKILL.md) that teaches an AI assistant to do one job well. Cut Video with AI is exactly that: a Claude skill / AI agent skill you drop into your own assistant and run on demand, with no app, no subscription and no lock-in. You own the file forever.
It runs in Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and any assistant that reads a SKILL.md or a system prompt. Because it is just text, it is fully portable, and if it needs something to run, cut video with ai asks you for it first instead of inventing.
Creators reach for it as a podcast clips AI and an AI podcast clip generator, to turn a podcast into Shorts and to pull podcast highlights automatically, finding the best podcast moments without scrubbing the whole episode.
- Download the file after checkout you get the SKILL.md plus a short README and your license.
- Add it to your AI drop SKILL.md into your skills folder (for example
.claude/skills/) or paste its contents as a custom instruction. - Run it ask your AI to use Cut Video with AI, give it what it asks for, and it does the work.
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Cut Video with AI
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