
AI video editing"I didn't touch a thing": a tutorial where Claude makes 117 cuts in CapCut, and commenters ask what it costs
A tutorial showing Claude editing an entire CapCut video passed 26,000 views. Video-editing YouTuber Matt Loui (245,000 subscribers) posted it Oct 23: Claude made 117 cuts on his talking head and added motion graphics, music, zooms and a color grade while he "didn't edit a single thing."
Per the description, he gives the Claude desktop app (Opus 5.5) access to a CapCut desktop project and edits it with one prompt. For motion graphics he connects the Higgsfield MCP and points Claude at a Pinterest reference; Claude wrote every graphic as code, so they cost $0 in credits. The first project took Claude about three hours, with about ten minutes of his own time, and he turns the process into a reusable Claude skill.
The top comment, with 12 likes, was about cost: "With a pro subscription, running on Opus with the highest effort exhausts the limit within like 10 prompts." Another called saving 20 to 30 hours of editing per video a game changer. The video carries a Higgsfield affiliate link.



