Claude Code Video Editing: 7 New Free Skills (October 2026)

Hi, this is Darius. At the start of October I put out my first list of video editing skills for Claude. Since September 25, seven more skill repos for video editing with Claude have gone up on GitHub, and the most popular one already has 4,320 stars.

This guide covers the newest skills for Claude Code video editing, in the same order as my video. Two work on footage you film yourself, and five make videos from code, so some of them act as a full Claude Code video editor while others do one job. For each one you’ll see what it does, an example, the catch, the license and how to install it.

How popular are the new Claude Code video editing skills?

Lemo Opuscar has the most stars by far, with 4,320. Motion Video Kit, Motionmaxxing, Animate, Motion B-roll and Mortiflix sit between about 650 and 1,150, and SeeCut has 355. All seven Claude Code video editing repos are less than a month old.

Step 1 · B-roll clips

1. Motion B-roll: motion graphics timed to your transcript

761 GitHub starsMIT (skill README)Free

A talking head with nothing else on screen gets boring fast, and making cutaways by hand takes hours.

Motion B-roll is one of six skills in Bart’s motion-graphics repo (Barty-Bart on GitHub). You hand Claude your video plus its transcript, and it designs animated clips that land on the words you say.

What it does

• Claude watches the footage first, then lays out a plan table with every clip and waits until you approve it.
• For each line it chooses between a full-frame cutaway, a transparent panel in the empty space beside you, or no clip at all, and gives its reason.
• Charts stay as empty outlines until you supply the real figures, because the skill won’t invent numbers.
• Clips render with motion blur at your frame rate, and a compare.html page plays your original next to the version with graphics.

npx skills add Barty-Bart/motion-graphics

For the earlier batch, my first list of Claude video editing skills covers captions, Manim and music videos.

Step 2 · Self-graded Shorts

2. SeeCut: an AI editor that reviews its own cut

355 GitHub starsPolyForm NoncommercialFree, noncommercial use

Most AI editors make one cut and hand it over, whether it works or not.

SeeCut, made by YeJe, turns a short vertical talking-head clip into an edited Short and then judges the result before you see it.

What it does

• It expects 20 to 30 seconds of half-body vertical footage, and a phone recording is fine.
• It plans the shots, grabs real screenshots of the things you mention as evidence, and renders the edit with HyperFrames.
• Gemini, running through Google’s Antigravity CLI, watches the rendered video itself, where other models usually see a handful of still frames.
• Each new version goes head to head with the previous one twice, with the order swapped, and only wins if it comes out ahead both times. The loop stops at three versions.

git clone https://github.com/YeJe-cpu/SeeCut.git
cp -r SeeCut/skill/seecut ~/.claude/skills/
zsh SeeCut/skill/seecut/scripts/preflight.sh

Step 3 · Animated explainers

3. Animate: explainer animations drawn entirely in code

864 GitHub starsMITFree

Hand-drawn explainer animation takes days of keyframing, even for a minute of video.

Animate by cth9191 draws short animated videos with code on a single canvas, frame by frame, then renders them to MP4.

What it does

• Seven styles come built in: cut paper, crosshatch ink, riso print, sketchbook, math, pixel and isometric.
• Give it your own reference images and it measures their colors, line weight and cutting rhythm to build a new look.
• You sign off three times before the expensive part starts: a story beat table, two to four style frames, and a storyboard.
• It can sync the picture to a voice-over, cut on the beats of your own music, and drop real product screenshots into the style.

npm i -g playwright && npx playwright install chromium
/plugin marketplace add cth9191/animate
/plugin install animate@animate

If you run a channel without showing your face, see my guide to faceless YouTube with Claude.

Step 4 · Pro motion timing

4. Motionmaxxing: motion timing measured from professional work

926 GitHub starsApache-2.0Free, ElevenLabs optional

A lot of AI promos are clean and still look cheap: a label in the corner, a headline held on the left, a card on a flat color, and a fade between every beat.

Motionmaxxing by Tejash Makwana makes launch films, promos and kinetic type, and its timing comes from measurements of professional motion design.

What it does

• Six AI analyst agents, checked by a human, decoded 53 pro motion moments frame by frame and found 4,288 distinct moves.
• From that data it uses a median move of 10 frames, has things slow down as they arrive from larger than life, and never grows anything from zero.
• Give it a website and it captures the brand, picks one idea, and shows you that idea and a storyboard before building.
• After rendering, scripts check the film. More than 3 flat frames in a row fails, an end hold over 1.4 seconds fails, and the corner-label pattern fails.

git clone https://github.com/Tejashmakwana/motionmaxxing ~/.claude/skills/motionmaxxing
bash ~/.claude/skills/motionmaxxing/install.sh

Step 5 · Client ads

5. Motion Video Kit: business ads checked by independent critics

1,153 GitHub starsMITFree

A paying client checks a video frame by frame and sends notes on anything that looks off.

Motion Video Kit by echris6 is a skill for launch-style commercials for real businesses. It packages lessons from 28 professional software launch films and three sample ads built through dozens of rounds of critique.

What it does

• Its Gauntlet loop keeps the builder and the judge apart. Fresh critic agents review the actual render, verify each item, and track fixes in a ledger.
• It has six motion rules, a catalog of 16 reusable motion mechanisms, and ready-made critic prompts.
• Scripts measure frozen time and loudness in the render.
• A business playbook covers verticals, price anchors and a pilot offer template for selling the work.

git clone https://github.com/echris6/motion-video-kit.git
cp -r motion-video-kit/business-motion-film ~/.claude/skills/

Step 6 · Approve each stage

6. Mortiflix: a motion design studio where you approve every stage

648 GitHub starsAGPL-3.0Free, uses your Claude plan

With one-prompt AI video, a bad result means starting from scratch.

Mortiflix by GT Kottman is a motion design studio that runs on your own computer, with Claude doing the work in the same stages a real studio uses.

What it does

• The stages are brief, script, style frames, animatic, build and final, and the session stops at each one until you approve it.
• You can pin a note to an exact spot on a frame or an exact moment in a video, and the next version has to answer every note and show what changed.
• The session ends at each gate, so nothing runs while you think it over, and a fresh session picks up from a journal when you reply.
• A free demo command walks through the whole process with placeholder work, no Claude needed.

/plugin marketplace add GTKottman/mortiflix-oss
/plugin install mortiflix@mortiflix
/mortiflix

Step 7 · Films in code

7. Lemo Opuscar: short films with no camera and no video model

4,320 GitHub starsMITFree, heavy on tokens

A short film normally needs a camera, a crew or a paid video model.

Lemo Opuscar from Lemomo makes short films with none of those. It has 51 film styles, and each one is a style prompt plus a demo film that Claude Opus 5.5 made entirely in code.

What it does

• Styles include watercolor, ukiyo-e, eighties anime and a 16-bit pixel RPG look, plus Evidence Films, a new set where every number on screen is measured or sourced.
• Every frame is drawn in code, the music comes from free sample libraries, and the narration is text to speech.
• The showcase, OPUSCAR 98, is a 6:31 film that walks through all 98 Best Picture winners, each redrawn in a style that fits it.
• You can turn any style into your own version, and library updates leave it alone.

claude plugin marketplace add lemomo-ai/lemo-opuscar
claude plugin install lemo-opuscar@lemolab

For thumbnails, titles and research, see my list of Claude Code skills for YouTubers.

How to install these skills

You don’t have to type the commands yourself to start with Claude Code video editing:

1. Open Claude Code in the desktop app, the terminal or your code editor.
2. Type Install this skill: and paste the GitHub link from this article.
3. Claude installs it. If the skill needs tools like ffmpeg or Node, ask Claude to set those up too. Then start a new chat so the skill loads.
4. Then describe the video you want, for example “make B-roll for my latest video”.

If you’d rather run the commands yourself, each section above has them.

Frequently asked questions