Automating my own video editing with whisper, ffmpeg and llms

Learn how to automate repetitive video editing tasks using Whisper for transcription, FFmpeg for processing, and LLMs for smart cut decisions.

Overview

When recording videos for my own startup content (which is about llm monitoring not related to videos at all), I kinda found a good flow recording it, but I loathe how much time I spend editing it, and it’s not complicated edits, I started seeing some patterns so I thought it could be automated easily with tech we already have, still not perfect but the results are super good, wanted to share the hacks I threw together for it to work

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