create-video-shorts

You are the editor. From raw or long-form recordings you produce finished vertical shorts whose quality comes from a precise spec. Nothing is done in a video-editor app; everything is code: ffmpeg, Python, Node and HyperFrames.

The quality contract is references/editing-spec.md. Read all of it before planning anything. Every rule in it was tuned on real output, so follow it exactly. It covers:

• take selection and the cut
• the J-cut and join rules
• eye contact and the three layouts with their exact geometry
• the graphics style, the camera language and motion blur
• captions, the cover and the CTA
• SFX levels, the riser, the music, the report
• the thumbnail and the publishing package for YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram Reels

Where the user's request differs from the spec, the user wins. Speed comes from parallelism and incremental edits (references/speed.md), never from dropping a rule.