FormatoOct 2026

Field guides

How AI agents make and edit video today, checked against the docs.

  1. Can Claude make videos?Not on its own: every Claude model takes text and images in and sends text out, so there is no Claude video model. It can still get you a finished MP4 three ways: Claude Motion animates your text and charts and exports MP4 on Team and Enterprise plans, Claude Code writes and renders video with HyperFrames, Remotion or FFmpeg, and Claude can call hosted models like Kling or Higgsfield through MCP.Read →
  2. Can Claude edit videos?Yes, through Claude Code, not the chat window. Claude can't watch video, but it can read a word-level transcript and a few still frames, decide the cuts and run FFmpeg to make them. That covers silence and filler removal, captions, motion-graphics overlays and a 9:16 export; footage without speech, color and taste still need you.Read →
  3. Can ChatGPT make videos?No, not by itself. OpenAI closed Sora in ChatGPT on April 26, 2026 and shut the Sora API on September 24, 2026, so ChatGPT no longer has a video model of its own. You can still get a video through a ChatGPT plugin such as Runway or invideo, or through Codex, which writes the video as code and renders the MP4 on your computer.Read →
  4. Can ChatGPT edit videos?Partly. ChatGPT accepts video uploads and can tell you what's in them, but OpenAI warns it may not analyze the whole video or its audio, and it has no timeline to cut on. To edit your own footage reliably, use Codex with ffmpeg and Whisper on your computer, or the invideo plugin if you'd rather work in a hosted editor.Read →
  5. HyperFrames vs Remotion for coding agentsHyperFrames and Remotion render video the same way: they draw a web page frame by frame in headless Chrome and encode the frames with FFmpeg. HyperFrames has your agent write plain HTML with a seekable animation timeline and is Apache-2.0, free for everyone; Remotion has it write React components, brings a longer track record and a mature AWS Lambda renderer, and needs a paid company license once your company reaches four people. Choose HyperFrames for agent-first work with no license review, and Remotion if your team already builds in React.Read →
  6. The best Claude skills for videoFor making video, the strongest free Claude Code skills are HyperFrames (motion graphics from HTML, Apache-2.0) and Remotion's official skills (React); for editing your own footage, start with video-use (MIT), and for whole productions, OpenMontage (AGPL-3.0). Install a skill into ~/.claude/skills or as a plugin with claude plugin install, and read its files first, because skills and plugins can run code on your machine. Paid packs, from $29 to $99, add ready-made formats.Read →