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ghost-editor
AI video editor for talking-head reels. Turns a raw phone recording of someone talking to camera (retakes, pauses, false starts) into a finished vertical 1080x1920 reel for Instagram, TikTok or Shorts: best take of each sentence, pause trimming, word-timed captions that never cover the face and stay inside the platform safe area, motion scenes on the spoken word, sound effects and music mixed against the voice, in seven styles (clean, editorial, meme, cinematic, launch, kinetic, pop). It can also reverse-engineer a reference edit the user likes and apply that style to their recording. Use when the user hands over a talking-head video and says "edit this", "make a reel", "make it look like this video", "add captions/motion graphics/sound effects", "pick the best takes", "remove the pauses", or asks for a re-cut. Not for landscape screen recordings.
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// README
ghost-editor
An AI video editor that lives inside your coding agent. Send it a raw video of yourself talking to camera. Get back a finished reel for Instagram, TikTok or YouTube Shorts.
Paid editor vs ghost-editor
Same raw recording. On the left, the edit I paid a human editor for. On the right, ghost-editor after seeing that edit once.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/312f6910-a8a0-4424-9dd4-612cd079a2e7
What it does for you
- Cuts the mess. Keeps your best take of each sentence and removes the pauses and false starts.
- Adds captions timed to every word, placed so they never cover your face or the app's buttons.
- Adds motion graphics: numbers, cards and animated text that pop up right as you say them.
- Adds sound effects and music, mixed so your voice always stays clear.
- Checks its own work before handing you the video.
Two ways to pick a look
1. Choose one of 7 styles
| style | feels like |
|---|---|
clean | bold captions, quick zooms, nothing distracting |
editorial | soft lowercase captions and full-screen stats, like a news explainer |
meme | emoji, reactions and punchy sounds |
cinematic | film look, black-and-white B-roll, elegant type |
launch | app windows and phone chats, made for product launches |
kinetic | big words flying across the screen, you in a small circle |
pop | giant words behind you, bright colour blocks |
2. Show it a reel you love. It studies how that video was edited (the cuts, captions, animations and sounds) and edits yours the same way. Like the result? Ask it to save the look as your own style.
Get started
You need Claude Code on a Mac (Linux should work too).
1. Install. Paste this into Claude Code:
Install the ghost-editor skill: clone https://github.com/kurbaitaev/ghost-editor into ~/.claude/skills/ghost-editor and follow its docs/INSTALL.md.
It installs everything it needs and tells you when it's ready (a few minutes).
2. Edit. Start a new Claude Code session and say something like:
Edit ~/Downloads/my-video.mov into a reel in the
popstyle.
Make my video look like this reel: ~/Downloads/reel-i-love.mp4
Same video, but
cinematic, and make it safe for TikTok.
Want the "show it a reel you love" option? That part uses Google's Gemini to watch the reference video. Get a free key at aistudio.google.com/apikey, and Claude Code will ask for it during setup. The 7 styles work without it.
Questions
Does it cost anything? ghost-editor is free and open source. Everything runs on your computer, except the optional Gemini step, which has a free tier that covers occasional use.
What videos work best? Vertical phone videos of one person talking to camera. It isn't made for screen recordings.
Which languages? Tested in English and Russian.
Can it make something new? Yes. Ask for a new style or a new kind of animation and it writes one. Three of the seven styles were made that way.
Other agents? It works with Codex and any agent that can run commands. See INSTALL.md.
Under the hood
Whisper for transcription, OpenCV for face tracking, HyperFrames for rendering, and royalty-free Mixkit sounds and music. Details: HOW-IT-WORKS.md.
Built by @kurbaitaev on X. MIT licence.
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