Opus Premiere Editing
Has Claude Code do the rough cut of a video inside the real Adobe Premiere Pro, through a skill and a Premiere bridge.
This is the setup I use to have Claude Code, running Opus 5.5, do the rough cut of my YouTube videos in the real Adobe Premiere Pro while I keep recording.
It has two parts: the editing skill my agent follows, and a bridge that lets the agent run scripts inside Premiere instead of clicking around with computer use. I wrote up how it went on the blog, in "AI Video Editing in Premiere Pro With Claude Opus 5.5."
What it does
- Organizes each take into its section's bin and keeps an untouched copy in a RAW sequence.
- Runs Premiere's transcript and Pauses pass, then a second Pause Cut from the audio waveform to catch the gaps Premiere leaves.
- Reads the full transcript and cuts false starts, restarts and repeated lines, keeping the last complete version.
- Follows spoken directions you give while recording, like "Chat, cut that".
- Assembles one REVIEW sequence per section. When asked, it also finishes: B-roll, punch-in jump cuts, quote cards, voice cleanup and export.
How it works
- A background Premiere extension watches a folder. The agent drops a request in, the extension runs it in Premiere, and the result comes back logged by request ID.
- One request runs at a time. A request that times out is marked uncertain and never silently retried.
- The agent clicks Premiere's Transcribe button and Pauses filter with computer use, since those have no scripting API.
- It checks its own work with exported stills before calling a section done.
What you need
- macOS and Adobe Premiere Pro
- Claude Code (the skill is written for Opus 5.5)
- Node, to run the bridge client and MCP server
- python3, to install the extension
- Adobe's CEP debug mode turned on, since the extension is unsigned
Install it
git clone https://github.com/per-simmons/opus-premiere-editing.git
cp -R opus-premiere-editing/skill ~/.claude/skills/premiere-editing
cd opus-premiere-editing/bridge && python3 install.py --install- Turn on CEP debug mode, for example defaults write com.adobe.CSXS.11 PlayerDebugMode 1 (also .12 on newer Premiere), then restart Premiere.
- Easiest path: hand the repo to your agent and ask it to set everything up on your machine.
The full instructions, and the skill itself, are on GitHub.
Try asking
- “Rough-cut this folder of takes in Premiere following the skill.”
- “Do the Pauses pass and the waveform Pause Cut on this section.”
- “Cut the bad takes from this section's transcript and assemble the REVIEW sequence.”
Good to know
- By default the extension accepts only two reviewed commands. Letting the agent run its own scripts is an opt-in that bypasses the built-in guards.
- Use it on a copy of your project first.
