3 months of editing my travel videos with claude code. it hands me a final cut pro timeline, not a rendered video

AI-generated videos feel like spam but AI can totally help with the edits and process in a way that still feels human and natural.

I make travel videos. the editing backlog was the problem, not the shooting. so I built five slash commands in Claude

Code:

/edit looks at a folder of clips (whisper transcript + frames), proposes a cut, and then you go back and forth

/video-review checks every cut against word timestamps and the music level under the voice before I watch it, because it will absolutely cut a word in half otherwise

/finalcut writes an fcpxml. Final Cut opens it as a normal timeline, separate clips, music and voice on their own lanes. I finish it myself

/thumbnail and /distribute do the packaging

Made a dozen or so videos using this workflow and it works quite well

walkthrough with the terminal actually on screen, 10 min: https://youtu.be/_vliiVaPOsI

the skill files are free if you want to steal them: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/fcd7cb64-accb-4e5a-9f9d-67eebc64b41d

real question: has anyone found a cleaner way to work with Claude and Final Cut Pro