How to Edit Instagram Videos With AI (Claude Code)
Shows AI creators and filmmakers how to combine Claude Code with local video assets and Premiere Pro to create automated, template-driven social media edits without AI video generation.
What this lesson covers
Rourke demonstrates how to use Claude Code alongside Adobe Premiere Pro to automate short-form social media video editing. He walks through setting up folder structures, generating editable Premiere timelines, rendering graphics via code, and refining edits using natural language prompts.
Key takeaways from the creator
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Claude Code operates locally on Mac or Windows, interacting directly with desktop files to manage editing assets.
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Structuring project folders into distinct subfolders for base footage, reference clips, sound effects, and brand kits gives Claude Code the necessary context for automated edits.
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Claude Code processes video by extracting image frames to identify subject placement and employing speech-to-text models like Whisper to transcribe audio.
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The tool automatically isolates successful takes from multi-take raw footage and strips out silent gaps by referencing generated transcript timecodes.
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Instead of generating AI video frames, Claude Code renders overlay graphics and captions programmatically before assembling them into a multi-track Premiere Pro timeline.
Workflow outlined in the video
- Set up a dedicated project folder containing subfolders for raw footage, style reference clips, sound effects, and brand assets (logo, fonts, palette).
- Install Claude Code on your computer and grant it file access to your video project directories.
- Record raw talking-head footage on an iPhone or camera, leaving all takes and mistakes in a single unedited file.
- Add short-form reference videos into the inspiration folder to guide Claude's structural analysis of captions, pacing, and graphics.
- Execute Claude Code to generate a transcript via Whisper, isolate the best takes, and construct an initial Premiere Pro timeline.
- Iterate on the result by providing corrective prompts to Claude Code or manually fine-tuning tracks inside Premiere Pro.
Before you use this workflow
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- 45% performance: 1.77× views vs 6 other channel videos observed at a similar age. View-evidence factor 98% (views / (views + 1,000))
- 25% freshness: 93/100 with a 14-day half-life
- 20% momentum: 28759 views/day vs 12191 channel baseline (6 comparable uploads), with the same view-evidence factor
- 10% engagement: 40/100; likes + 4× comments, smoothed with a 500-view neutral prior