IT Reelsmaker — Claude Code plugins for vertical video

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Give Claude Code a raw talking-head take and get back a finished 1080×1920 Reel, Short or TikTok. Pauses and retakes are cut by the audio, a virtual camera reframes the shot, subtitles are timed word by word, on-brand graphics are drawn in code, no text lands on a face, and the sound is mastered to −14 LUFS. The editing runs on your computer, and nothing is cut before you approve the plan.

Listed in Anthropic's official Claude plugin directory: 16,000+ installs and 5,000+ accounts active in the last 28 days (directory statistics, November 2026).

What you get

From one raw recording, for example a 1–2 minute phone take:

• the master video: 1080×1920, cut, reframed, with subtitles and your brand's graphics, loudness −14 LUFS with an acceptance check;
• the cover: picked from the video's frames, embedded in the master and saved next to it as a picture;
• subtitles as .srt, also translated into another language if you ask;
• a report in numbers: duration, silence left, loudness and peak, how many cuts and retakes were removed.

A podcast, webinar or interview of 10–90 minutes becomes a series of clips the same way: you approve a list of clip cards once, then each clip is finished like a single video. With no footage at all, the same designed scenes make a 15–25 s promo.

Quick start

claude plugin marketplace add https://github.com/itpartypattaya/reels-montage.git

claude plugin install it-reelsmaker@itparty

Then, in Claude Code, in your editing folder:

Edit a reel from IMG_4821.MOV for Acme: tight pacing, Marker style, subtitles on.

You need ffmpeg, Node.js 18+ and Python 3.9+. The plugin creates the Remotion project for you (python scripts/kit.py new reels) and asks for its settings on the first run. Full requirements and settings: plugin README.

How it works

1. Brand and style. A saved brand profile (colors, fonts, logos, tone) or a new one from a name and 1–3 colors.
2. Word-level transcript on your computer, then a search for retakes and slips.
3. Cut plan → your “yes”. What stays, what goes and why, with 2–3 ways to open and close the video.
4. Rough cut by the sound: edges found by a speech mask (within ±40 ms of a manual cut on a tested video), one speech level across all pieces, color balanced by measurement.
5. Visual plan → your “yes”. Designed scenes and B-roll from your own library, each placed on its spoken word.
6. Render in Remotion with a virtual camera, then a check that no text covers a face and a self-review of the render before you see it.
7. Mastering and the report.

The plugins

This repository is a Claude Code plugin marketplace, itparty, with two plugins:

claude plugin install it-reelsmaker-online@itparty

The directory build can lag behind this repository; the marketplace install above always gets the latest version. What changed in each version: CHANGELOG. What data leaves your computer: PRIVACY.

Upgrading from reels-montage

Before version 1.0 this repository was a single skill installed by cloning it into ~/.claude/skills/reels-montage. To upgrade:

1. Install the plugin as above.
2. Move your brand profiles from ~/.claude/skills/reels-montage/brands/<slug>/ to <your editing project>/brands/<slug>/. The skill offers to do this the first time it runs.
3. Delete the old clone.

License

MIT.

The plugins render with Remotion, which has its own license: free for individuals, non-profits and companies of up to 3 employees; a larger company (an agency, for example) needs a Remotion company license (license terms).