Video Edit — скилл

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name: video-edit
description: "Turns raw 9:16 talking-head clips into a finished, premium Instagram reel end to end: picks the cleanest take of every line across your clips, cuts dead air, punches in from 4K, cuts you out of the background for words behind your head, applies one of three designed looks (bold kinetic words, cool girl, cool dude), builds animated UI inserts with parallel sub-agents, adds subtle sound design, and checks every cut frame by frame inside the Reels safe zone. Trigger with /video-edit or phrases like 'edit these clips', 'I dropped clips in my downloads', 'cut this into a reel', 'make this reel look fire'."
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# /video-edit

Raw clips in, finished reel out. The user never opens an editor: they review a phone copy and give notes; every
round is a ~2 minute re-render.

Read before building: `references/looks.md` (the three looks, exact values), `references/layout.md` (safe zone,
placement, behind-head formula), `references/gotchas.md` (every trap already hit once). Read
`references/overlays.md` when the script calls for an animated insert.

Works on macOS, Linux and Windows. setup.py detects the machine at the start of every run and every command below
comes from that record, so never guess paths or shells: see "This machine" right after Step 0.

## Step 0: First-time setup (runs once)

`SK` is this skill's folder (the one holding this SKILL.md), as a full path. Usually `~/.claude/skills/video-edit`;
on Windows that is `C:/Users/<name>/.claude/skills/video-edit`.

Look for `SK/config.json`.

**If it exists:** load it (name, instagram handle, default look, folders), run the setup script exactly as in
step 3 below (a few seconds: it only checks, and repairs the environment after an update), read "This machine",
and go to Step 1 once it prints READY.

**If it does not exist:**
1. Say: "Welcome to /video-edit! Let's get you set up. This takes about 2 minutes and only happens once."
2. Ask, in one message:
   - Your name (used on your Instagram profile insert)
   - Your Instagram handle (for your profile insert and to pull your reels for the orbit effect)
   - Default look: **bold** (kinetic words behind your head), **cool girl** (warm, yellow serif italic, your reels
     orbiting you) or **cool dude** (dark editorial, tracked caps + serif). Offer bold if they are unsure.
   - Where your raw clips usually land (default `~/Downloads`) and where projects should live (default `~/reel-edits`)
3. Run the setup script with whichever Python the machine has. Try these in order until one prints STATUS lines:
   `python3 "SK/scripts/setup.py"`, then `python "SK/scripts/setup.py"`, then `py -3 "SK/scripts/setup.py"`.
   (On Windows `python3` is often a Microsoft Store stub that prints "Python was not found": just try the next one.)
   None of them runs: Python is missing. Give the fix for their system and stop (Windows: