Earn more as an editor
The problem: Clients want more videos for the same budget, and repetitive work caps how many you can take on
These tools help you sell volume: personalized versions from one template, Shorts packages from a client's long videos, and ad variations made from code
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Real people doing this
“Claude scripts After Effects for you, and you stay the director”
Uses Dakkshin's After Effects MCP mostly through its runScriptFile tool, so Claude writes ExtendScript and After Effects runs it. They make medical device training videos in many parts and languages, so asks like a shorter ending or 5 language versions become a quick rebuild instead of an afternoon of keyframing
u/leadtimelabs, Reddit user · r/ClaudeAI, Aug 2026
“Text changes become one line of code, and exporting becomes a single command”
Delivered a 30 second ad for a real project without opening an editor, using Remotion with the official Agent Skills and Claude Code. Porting an earlier 35 second ad with 7 scenes took Claude Code under an hour
jeong, developer, Zenn · Zenn, Jul 2026
Their team designed one After Effects template and rendered 20,000 personalized donor thank you videos from a CSV file. This used the Plainly platform itself, not the MCP server, and the case study is written by Plainly
UNICEF Australia, Plainly customer · Plainly case study
Had Codex drive Jianying, the Chinese version of CapCut, through VectCutAPI to mass produce quote videos for Douyin. Once the first template worked, 7 more videos took 4 minutes, and each new one takes under 2 minutes. Anything off gets fixed by hand in the draft
@Sixtimenight, creator, in Chinese · jxxy.net, Aug 2026
Connected Claude to Premiere Pro so the AI cuts silences and flubs, adds synced captions and music, and a person does the final check. They delivered 4 short dramas to paying clients this way
Macky, runs a video company in Japan, in Japanese · note, Aug 2026
9 tools that help
VideoPlainly Videos MCP (official)
Solves Rendering lots of versions of your After Effects templates in the cloud without opening AE
VideoVectCutAPI (CapCut/Jianying API)
Solves Making lots of CapCut videos with subtitles, voiceover and effects without editing each one by hand
VideoRemotion Agent Skills (official)
Solves Making ads, explainers and data videos with code that Claude writes for you
n8n: Viral clips from YouTube with Gemini + FFmpeg
Solves Pulling the best moments out of a YouTube video and cutting them into clips automatically
Zvid n8n video workflows
Solves Rendering batches of personalized videos from a spreadsheet or store data
VideoBGRemover n8n templates (official)
Solves Removing video backgrounds and making simple composites and UGC style ads on autopilot
HyperFrames (HeyGen)
Solves Making motion graphics, captions and callouts with AI and rendering them to MP4
Demo clippodcli
Solves Turning a long podcast episode into vertical clips with face tracking and captions
After Effects MCP (Dakkshin)
Solves Building comps, text, shapes and keyframes in After Effects by asking instead of clicking
Ideas to try
These are our ideas, not reports from real users. Know one?
- Offer podcasters a monthly package of captioned Shorts cut from each episode
- Pitch personalized versions of one After Effects template, like a thank you video for every customer
- Sell ad variations in several sizes and languages from one master, priced per version
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