Edit video (the whole flow)
The creator drops footage in raw video/, opens their Resolve project and says "do it". You run the whole thing and stop only for:
- a frame-rate mismatch between footage and template timeline (ask; never choose for them),
- a failure that happened twice (report the script's exact error and what they must fix).
Prerequisite: video-editor-setup is done (folders, scripts, CLAUDE.md).
1. Check
Run your doctor script. No video named? Pick what's in raw video/ without a finished build report; if several, ask which.
2. Ingest
Probe, read picture profiles, transcribe (verbatim, word timestamps), detect silences, write a manifest. Report anything odd:
- picture profile guessed (no camera sidecar) → say so; never put a log LUT on non-log footage;
- voice on one channel only (wireless receiver in stereo mode) → make sure the voice plays on both sides;
- mixed frame rates; vertical clips (they will crop hard in a horizontal or 4:3 frame).
3. Cut
Follow rough-cut for what to keep (by word index) and vlog-pacing for how much air to leave. Clips with no speech are B-roll: follow broll. A subagent ("story editor") is a good fit: give it the video name and the skills; it writes the keep-list and the markers and runs the planner.
4. Build
Follow resolve-scripting. Order inside the build:
- footage into the footage bin;
- copy the template timeline into the timelines bin as " - Transcript cut" (v2, v3… never overwrite) and empty the copy (it keeps the track FX chain);
- set a custom frame if asked (e.g. 4:3 2880x2160, footage scaled to fill with crop);
- lay the cut on V1/A1, alternate jump-cut zoom, colour B-roll pieces green;
- grade (log footage only);
- markers for spoken notes (pink);
- audio treatment last: Normalize Audio Level on A1 (see
voice-and-audio).
5. Report and stop
Short: timeline name, raw → cut length, number of pieces, each retake removed (timestamp + a few words, translated if needed), each marker and what goes there, punch-ins, B-roll placed, anything guessed or unsure. Then stop. They watch it.
Follow-ups (they speak in plain words)
| They say | You do |
|---|---|
| "put back X", "cut 02:14 to 02:20" | edit the keep-list, re-plan, rebuild as v2 |
| "too choppy / pops" | loosen pauses (see vlog-pacing), give scenes room, rebuild |
| "add music" | music-and-sound |
| "captions" | captions |
| "graphics / overlays" | motion-overlays |
| "my voice sounds bad" | voice-and-audio |
| "export settings?" | youtube-export |
| "always …" | change the global default, and add a dated line to CLAUDE.md |
They will often fix things by hand in the timeline you built (trims, deleted clips). Always re-read the timeline from Resolve before the next step (B-roll positions, what they deleted) and never put back what they removed.
