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AutoClip: Turn Raw Footage into Ready‑to‑Share Highlights Instantly

Name: AutoClip: Turn Raw Footage into Ready‑to‑Share Highlights Instantly
Author: zhouxiaoka

AutoClip lets founders generate concise video clips and highlights with AI, speeding up content creation for marketing or demos. Ideal for teams needing fast, automated video editing.

From the repo · “AutoClip : AI-powered video clipping and highlight generation · 一款智能高光提取与剪辑的二创工具”

9,624 stars+215★ this week1,723 forksPythonGuide quality 8/10 · reviewed Oct 6Updated 10/21/2026100% free · open source

What it does

AutoClip is an AI-powered tool that automatically generates clips and highlights from videos, saving time and effort in video editing and content creation.

When to use it

•When you need to automatically generate highlights from a long video footage
•When you want to create engaging social media clips from a larger video
•When you need to analyze and extract key moments from a video for content creation or research purposes

Ready-to-paste prompt

Run `python autoclip.py --video_path=/path/to/video.mp4 --clip_duration=10` to generate 10-second clips from a video

Heads up: Make sure you have the necessary GPU drivers and CUDA installed, as AutoClip relies on GPU acceleration for video processing

Saves to your device

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/autoclip && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/autoclip/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/autoclip/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How AutoClip: Turn Raw Footage into Ready‑to‑Share Highlights Instantly works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

AutoClip: Turn Raw Footage into Ready‑to‑Share Highlights Instantly is a very large Python project (~65k lines across 282 code files, plus 14 test files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit this month, MIT license, has a test suite.

Size

Very large codebase

~65k lines · 282 code files · days to read — use, don't read

Setup

Developer setup

A real software project. Use it via its install path; don't expect to read it all.

Runs on

Python · Node.js · Docker

Needs API keys (.env)

Python 67%TypeScript 27%Shell 3%CSS 2%Rust 1%

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it
2
CLAUDE.md
The instructions the AI actually follows
3
backend/cli.py
Where the program starts running
4
package.json
Dependencies and the commands it exposes
5
env.example
The API keys and settings you must provide

What's in each folder

prompt/Prompts, skills & agent definitions40 files

skills/Prompts, skills & agent definitions1 files

backend/Backend / API228 files

frontend/Frontend / UI107 files

docs/Documentation41 files

src-tauri/Folder67 files

scripts/Helper scripts7 files

.github/CI / automation (GitHub Actions)12 files

READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksDocker readyMIT licenseUpdated this month

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/autoclip && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/autoclip/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/autoclip/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

Quick Actions

Details

Creator

zhouxiaoka

Language

Python

Do this with a working workflow

Pages we wrote and tested that put a skill like this to work — importable n8n templates, outcome guides and Claude Desktop configs.

Outcome guide

Automated marketing performance reports

The workflow reads your performance metrics and writes the narrative for you — this week at a glance, what moved and why, what’s next — then sends it on schedule.