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AI still can't edit video

Line illustration: a film reel unspools into a straight edited strip while a small robotic hand reaches in from the side to attach a bar beneath it.

AI is still not good at editing content.

Watch what I mean below.

I edit the video myself first: cut the ums, cut the dead air, get the pacing right. Then I hand the clean cut to Claude. Claude adds the background pieces and the captions at the bottom, translated.

Step 1
I cut
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Step 2
Hand it to Claude
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Step 3
Claude dresses it
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Step 4
The edit was still mine

The loop — the AI dresses the cut

The taste of where to cut, the rhythm, the ums: that's still a human job. Everything downstream of the cut, AI is already faster than any editor I've hired.

Cut it yourself. Let AI dress it.

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