Hey ,
Happy monday and blessed all soul's day!
i know it's supposed to be a holiday, but if you've been with me for a while, you know I've scheduled this email. ^_^
If you edit video for a living, you've been doing quiet calculations lately. A new AI tool drops, tapos the demo looks impossible, and you work out in your head how many months you've got.
So here's mine, straight, kasi I'd rather you hear it from me than from somebody selling a course about it.
Last week I cut a 71-second film out of a studio's own footage. Kinetic text, motion graphics on every beat, sound design, music, finished and mixed.
I never opened a video editor. (This is old news, haha funny how fast it gets old. I've been editing this way since August before anyone sold a course and made it look like they invented it lol)
No Premiere. No CapCut. No DaVinci Resolve. No timeline at all.
Just Claude Code and VS Code — the same window a programmer stares at all day.
It took one day. Three sittings — early morning, afternoon, then again at night. Maybe seven and a half hours at the desk all in.
A year ago I would have blocked out a week and a half for that. Three weeks, if kasama procrastination.
And it wasn’t prompting. I wasn’t engineering anything. It was conversations. "That’s too slow." "Make the cards smaller." "Take the shine off." "How is that related to our story?" "Just because you can code it, doesn't mean it needs to be on the final video."