Video Editing with Claude Opus 5.5

Claude Opus 5.5 edited an 8-minute video from a trip to NYC using minimal prompts. It autonomously managed file retrieval, created a narrative, and even generated original music.

added by @AlfredSimon

I think we already have AGI/SI and we just don't realise it. Claude Opus 5.5 made an 8 min video based on two simple prompts.

So last week I visited NYC for the first time in my life. I usually take a lot of videos, and when I get home from a trip like this I make an edit that I keep. Normally I spend a weekend cutting a video like this myself, because it's the thing I keep from a trip.

So I thought, why not ask Claude to try it?

Claude only had one thing: a skill I made which instructs Claude to use Remotion for video editing. I added the raw conversation so you can see how little input I had to give.

And the output is really awesome. I mean, it's not perfect, but holy shit, how good these models are.

Here is a short summary of what Claude did:

1. It found out only 3 of the 949 files were on my Mac and pulled the other 10 GB down from iCloud
2. It used the GPS in the photos to work out what we did each day
3. It made contact sheets of every shot, went through all of them and picked 180
4. It wrote a story: landing at JFK, the awards night, the ferry, the Nets, Empire State at sunset, flying home
5. It generated original music with ElevenLabs
6. It rendered it, checked it, and made a smaller copy for family that I never asked for

It even turned the music down at the part with the 9/11 Memorial footage, insane.

I added the video in the next post, so check it out. It's not perfect, but these models can do a lot more than we think. I think this is also almost AGI-like.

With such low input, he really figured out a lot on his own.

@bcherny you guys are insane.