原始内容
name: clipify description: Find the funniest moments in a video, cut them as standalone clips, optionally reformat 16:9 → 9:16 (face-pan or split-screen), and burn opus-style word-by-word captions. Use when the user mentions "clipify," "cut clips from this video," "make shorts from this," "find funny moments," "reframe to 9:16," "vertical clips," or pastes a video file path and wants social-ready cuts.
Clipify
Find the funniest moments in a video, cut them as standalone clips, optionally reformat 16:9 → 9:16 (face-pan or split-screen), and burn opus-style word-by-word captions.
Inputs
- A video file path (the user will provide it; otherwise ask)
- Optional: requested format (9:16, 16:9, 1:1) — if not given, ask after candidates are picked
- Optional: subtitle style preference — if not given, ask before captioning
Tooling (use only the fastest path)
- Whisper:
whisper --model tiny.en --word_timestamps True --output_format json(≈10× faster thansmall.en; quality fine for English). For non-English:--model base(drop--language). - ffmpeg: add
-hwaccel videotoolboxfor decode and-preset ultrafastfor renders. Use-c:v libx264 -crf 20for the final master. - Numpy for audio alignment (FFT cross-correlation). No scipy/cv2 needed.
- Scripts:
<skill-dir>/scripts/(where<skill-dir>is the directory containing this SKILL.md — typically~/.claude/skills/clipify/)analyze.py— speaker timeline from two ROI motion filesbuild_pan.py— ffmpeg crop x-expression with hard cutsbuild_ass.py— opus-style ASS captions from whisper JSONaudio_align.py— find offset of a sub-clip in a longer source
Working dir: /tmp/clipify/ (mkdir at start, leave artifacts for debugging).
Workflow
Step 1 — Find the funniest parts
mkdir -p /tmp/clipify
ffmpeg -y -hwaccel videotoolbox -i "$VIDEO" -vn -ac 1 -ar 16000 /tmp/clipify/audio.wav
whisper /tmp/clipify/audio.wav --model tiny.en --word_timestamps True --output_format json --output_dir /tmp/clipify --language en
Read the resulting JSON (or .txt) and pick 3–5 candidate clips. Funny signals to scan for:
- Punchlines and reactions: words like "what", "wait", "no way", laughter, "haha", swearing
- Reversal moments: setup question → unexpected answer
- Awkward pauses: Whisper segment with long gap, or filler ("uh", "um")
- Self-roast / quotable one-liners: short declarative sentences that stand alone
- Audio peaks: detect via
ffmpeg -af volumedetector look for rapid back-and-forth (alternating short Whisper segments)
For each candidate, propose: [start, end, why-it's-funny, suggested title]. Aim for 10–25s clips. Show the list and let the user confirm/pick.
Step 2 — Trim each chosen clip
ffmpeg -y -ss "$START" -t "$DURATION" -i "$VIDEO" -c copy /tmp/clipify/clip_$N.mp4
(Use -c copy for instant trim. Re-encode only if cuts must be frame-accurate.)
Step 3 — Decide the output format
Ask the user (skip if they already specified): "9:16 (TikTok / Reels), 16:9 (YouTube), or 1:1 (Insta feed)?"
Step 4 — If 16:9 → 9:16: pan-between-faces vs split-screen
Detect source aspect with ffprobe. If source is 16:9 and target is 9:16, ask:
"Two options: (a) hard-cut pan that follows whoever is speaking (single face on screen at a time), or (b) split-screen stack with both faces visible. Which do you want?"
Skip the question if there's only one face (single-talker clip). For single-talker, just center-crop.
Step 4a — Pan-between-faces (recommended for fast-cut talking-head dialogue)
Locate the two face ROIs. Sample one frame:
ffmpeg -ss <middle> -i <clip> -frames:v 1 /tmp/clipify/probe.jpg. Read it. Eyeball each face's mouth+chin area asx,y,w,hin the source's pixel space. (No cv2 needed — camera is static within a clip; one frame is enough.) Verify by drawing boxes:ffmpeg -i probe.jpg -vf "drawbox=x=$LX:y=$LY:w=$LW:h=$LH:color=cyan@0.9:t=4,drawbox=x=$RX:y=$RY:w=$RW:h=$RH:color=magenta@0.9:t=4" verify.jpgIterate at most twice. Boxes should cover mouth + chin and avoid hands/mics. Don't over-tune — frame differencing is forgiving.
Extract per-frame motion energy in each ROI:
ffmpeg -y -i clip.mp4 -filter_complex " [0:v]split=2[a][b]; [a]crop=$LW:$LH:$LX:$LY,format=gray,tblend=all_mode=difference,signalstats,metadata=mode=print:key=lavfi.signalstats.YAVG:file=/tmp/clipify/L.txt[la]; [b]crop=$RW:$RH:$RX:$RY,format=gray,tblend=all_mode=difference,signalstats,metadata=mode=print:key=lavfi.signalstats.YAVG:file=/tmp/clipify/R.txt[ra] " -map "[la]" -f null - -map "[ra]" -f null -Build speaker timeline (min dwell 1.0s — short interjections merge into the prior speaker):
python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/analyze.py /tmp/clipify/L.txt /tmp/clipify/R.txt 1.0 > /tmp/clipify/segments.jsonPick pan x-coordinates for a 9:16 vertical strip from the source. With source W=1920 and target W=1080, crop strip width = 608.
- LEFT_X =
face_left_center_x - 304(clamp ≥ 0) - RIGHT_X =
face_right_center_x - 304(clamp ≤ source_W - 608)
- LEFT_X =
Generate the hard-cut x expression and render:
EXPR=$(python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/build_pan.py /tmp/clipify/segments.json $LEFT_X $RIGHT_X) ffmpeg -y -hwaccel videotoolbox -i clip.mp4 -filter_complex \ "[0:v]crop=608:1080:x='$EXPR':y=0,scale=1080:1920:flags=lanczos[v]" \ -map "[v]" -map 0:a -c:v libx264 -preset fast -crf 20 -pix_fmt yuv420p \ -c:a aac -b:a 192k /tmp/clipify/clip_panned.mp4Source 1920×1080 assumed; for 4K source either downscale first or double all coordinates.
Step 4b — Split-screen (both faces always visible)
Two stacked tiles, 1080×960 each. The active speaker's tile is on top — overlay flips at speaker changes.
[0:v]split=2[a0][a1];
[a0]crop=Wcrop:Hcrop:LX_tile:LY_tile,scale=1080:960,split=2[lt0][lt1];
[a1]crop=Wcrop:Hcrop:RX_tile:RY_tile,scale=1080:960,split=2[rt0][rt1];
[lt0][rt0]vstack[layoutL];
[rt1][lt1]vstack[layoutR];
[layoutL][layoutR]overlay=0:0:enable='<RIGHT_SPEAKER_ENABLE>'[v]
Build <RIGHT_SPEAKER_ENABLE> from segments.json as between(t,a,b)+between(t,a,b)+... over the right-speaker segments. Tile crops should target ~720×640 around each face (1.125:1 to match 1080×960).
Step 5 — Add subtitles
Ask once (only if user hasn't already specified a style):
"Three subtitle styles: opus (big bold white, yellow active-word highlight), karaoke (4-word chunks, green highlight), minimal (clean Helvetica, no highlight). Or paste an example you like."
If they paste a reference image/example: match the font, size, weight, color, position, and animation as closely as possible — write a custom ASS by hand or extend build_ass.py.
Else use the preset:
# Re-run whisper on the trimmed clip for accurate timestamps relative to clip start
whisper /tmp/clipify/clip_panned.mp4 --model tiny.en --word_timestamps True --output_format json --output_dir /tmp/clipify --language en
python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/build_ass.py /tmp/clipify/clip_panned.json /tmp/clipify/captions.ass opus
Burn captions:
ffmpeg -y -i /tmp/clipify/clip_panned.mp4 -vf "subtitles=/tmp/clipify/captions.ass" \
-c:v libx264 -preset fast -crf 20 -c:a copy "$OUTPUT.mp4"
Step 6 — Deliver
- Save each output to
<source_dir>/clipify_out/(mkdir if missing) - Print one line per clip: name, duration, what was funny, output path
- Open the first output with
open <path>so the user can check it - Offer to iterate (different style, different ROI, swap to split-screen, retime captions)
Pitfalls (lessons from prior runs — don't repeat)
- Don't over-tune ROIs. Two iterations max. Motion-diff is forgiving — wider ROIs covering mouth+chin work fine even if not perfectly mouth-centered.
- Watch out for scene cuts inside a clip. Run
ffmpeg -filter:v "select='gt(scene,0.3)',showinfo" -f null -to count cuts. If a 16:9→9:16 clip has many cuts, the fixed face ROIs only work for the dominant scene; warn the user, and offer to either pick a single-take clip or accept off-center framing during cuts. - Source resolution matters. If source is 4K, either downscale to 1920×1080 first (faster, fine for 9:16 output) or multiply all ROI/pan coordinates by 2.
- Burned-in subtitles in source. Some "raw" clips still have subtitles. If so, find the no-subs master via audio cross-correlation (
audio_align.py) and trim from there. - Don't run whisper on the full feature-length source if a short clip suffices. Whisper the trimmed clip after Step 2; only whisper the full source in Step 1 if you need a transcript to find funny moments.
- State the plan in one line, then act. Don't narrate every iteration.