Video Rough Cut

Turn one unedited long video into a compact, watchable first cut — decisive, content-aware, and self-verified. Human (you, the model) makes the editorial decision of WHAT to keep; the bundled scripts do the mechanical precision (boundary alignment, dead-air reclaim, memory-safe render, self-check).

When to use

• A raw/unedited video (YouTube URL or local file) needs to become a tighter cut.
• The ask is "halve it", "cut the boring parts", "make a first/rough cut".
• NOT for: word-by-word filler micro-surgery, multi-cam B-roll assembly, color/audio polish — those are a later P1/P2 polish pass. This skill is P0: validate the diagnosis + produce a solid rough cut.

Dependencies

Activate any environment that has these (do NOT assume a specific conda env name):

• yt-dlp (download), ffmpeg/ffprobe (cut/render/probe) on PATH
• Python with faster-whisper (CPU works: device=cpu, compute_type=int8) Check first: yt-dlp --version, ffmpeg -version, python -c "import faster_whisper".