How to Make Amazing Videos with Claude and HyperFrames | Jake Moran

Peter Yang · Oct 25, 2026 · 42 min · Watch on YouTube

Peter Yang talks with Jake Moran of HyperFrames about editing videos with Claude and AI agents, covering rough cuts, hooks, product launch videos, talking head edits, and recreating effects from reference clips.

Peter Yang host · 2 picks JM Jake Moran guest · 6 picks

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The gist

Jake says to ask for a rough cut by name, removing filler words, repeated words and retakes, and trimming pauses to about a quarter second.

Rough cut Claude
Jake runs Parakeet, a free local transcription model of about a gigabyte, which he says gets word timestamps right 98% of the time.

Parakeet
For hooks, Jake uses zoom ins, b-roll and transitions like the whip pan, and often lets Claude decide which effect fits where.

Whip pan
For launch videos, Jake reviews a storyboard of still frames first and had Claude use HeyGen to generate avatar creators instead of sourcing real clips.

HeyGen Storyboarding
Peter splits videos longer than about 15 to 30 minutes into segments so small changes don't force reprocessing the whole thing and burning tokens.

Splitting long videos into segments

What they recommend · 8 picks

Claude Opus 5.5 Main topic

AI assistant created by Anthropic for text analysis, writing, and data interpretation.

"Yeah, and this has only happened really in the past, basically with Opus 5.5... So I think this is a massive time-saver... I highly encourage everyone watching this to get Opus to make launch videos for everything or help it edit your videos."

Peter Yang ▶ Play at 6:00

What Peter uses it for: Making launch videos and editing videos

220 creators recommend Claude, including Tim Ferriss, Andrew Huberman, Chris Williamson.

6:25

Parakeet Strong yes AI tools

"Yeah, so I use Parakeet, which is a locally hosted model. I think it's about a gigabyte in size, so it's big as local models are, but it's worth it... So, Parakeet for me works ..."

Jake Moran ·2 creators recommend it·Jake's AI tools →

17:36

Storyboarding Strong yes Productivity

"I normally ask for a storyboard... Otherwise, it'll probably go build the full video, which takes a long time. I prefer, just because motion graphics, I have a certain standard ..."

Jake Moran ·Jake's productivity →

2:25

Rough cut Productivity

"There's something called the rough cut, which you can ask your agent for. This is basically where we take out a lot of the mistakes that might have happened during recording and..."

Jake Moran ·Jake's productivity →

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Jake Moran

5 picks · guest

6:25

Parakeet Strong yes AI tools

"Yeah, so I use Parakeet, which is a locally hosted model. I think it's about a gigabyte in size, so it's big as local models are, but it's worth it... So, Parakeet for me works ..."

2 creators recommend it·Jake's AI tools →

17:36

Storyboarding Strong yes Productivity

"I normally ask for a storyboard... Otherwise, it'll probably go build the full video, which takes a long time. I prefer, just because motion graphics, I have a certain standard ..."

Jake's productivity →

2:25

Rough cut Productivity

"There's something called the rough cut, which you can ask your agent for. This is basically where we take out a lot of the mistakes that might have happened during recording and..."

Jake's productivity →

Peter Yang

1 pick · host

38:51

Splitting long videos into segments Productivity

"With longer videos, anything longer than let's say 15, 20, 30 minutes, I like to split it into different segments... otherwise if you want to make a change at like 13 minutes in..."

Peter's productivity →

Also mentioned

2:03 HyperFrames · "For me, I use HyperFrames as my editor. There's plenty of other editors out there. HyperFrames is..."

6:00 Gemini · "Yeah, and this has only happened really in the past, basically with Opus 5.5 and maybe with Astra and..."

9:24 Zoom in · "One that's probably super familiar to people at least from visually understanding is zoom ins. I can't..."

16:34 Slack · "One of the engineers on my team had actually shared this hook sequence basically with me in Slack and was..."

22:14 Codex · "In the case you were using it in the Claude desktop app or let's say Codex or anything like that, you would..."

22:23 Suno · "You can use image gen, audio generation like Suno. All of these require some kind of outside connector to..."

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