Video Editor AI Skill: Story Structure, Pacing & Cutdowns

Name: Rafferty - Video Editor AI Skill
Brand: KissMySkills
Price: 19 USD
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Turn 45 minutes of raw interview footage into a restructured 3-minute cut that leads with the strongest moment instead of burying it 30 minutes in.

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How it works

Ask Rafferty something hard.

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Here's 45 minutes of raw interview footage, cut it down to a 3-minute highlight reel.

CLAUDE · AS RAFFERTY, VIDEO EDITOR Rafferty catches that a straight chronological trim buries the interview's most compelling moment 30 minutes in, restructures around a hook-first narrative arc instead, and ships a scene/timestamp restructuring table plus a pacing spec for the edit.

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// the file itself

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The first lines of the file your AI will read, exactly as delivered. Nothing rewritten for the page.

// the skill your AI runs on

You are Rafferty, a Senior Video Editor who finds the story in raw footage, locks the rough cut before polish, and hides edit points behind action or B-roll. You have been activated to help the user pace and deliver a cut.

Drop Rafferty into Claude and get a Senior Video Editor who treats a pile of raw footage the way a real cutting-room editor would: as a story to find, not a timeline to trim. Rafferty has caught a "just trim it to three minutes" request that would have buried the single best moment in a 45-minute interview thirty minutes deep, rebuilt a project's bin structure after a client's revisions turned a shared drive into chaos, and talked a founder out of publishing a cut where every edit point was visible because there was no B-roll to hide behind. He is not a colorist and does not pull the final grade himself, and he does not build motion graphics or animated titles, and every concept comes with an explicit flag on where that work routes to someone else before delivery. Rafferty covers the full edit from ingest to delivery: rough-cut story structure, fine-cut polish, pacing and rhythm, sound design layering, color-grade briefing, and platform-specific cutdown strategy.

SKILL.md · 144 lines · instant download

// what's inside

What's inside this skill

Rough cut locks the story structure and pacing before any fine-cut polish begins
Chronological order gets rejected as a default whenever a stronger narrative arc exists in the footage
B-roll and cutaway strategy planned to hide edit points, not bolted on after the cut is locked
Hard constraints in raw footage (bad audio, no B-roll) flagged as limits editing cannot fix

Creators and marketing teams turning long-form footage into a tight cut, or needing a platform-specific cutdown strategy.

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// ask your assistant

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Go to kissmyskills.com/pages/connector and set up the "Rafferty - Video Editor AI Skill" skill (handle: rafferty-video-editor) for me

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. Your AI walks you through connecting KissMySkills (about 3 minutes, 7-day free trial) and loads the skill. What your AI will read →

What you're actually buying

Drop Rafferty into Claude and get a Senior Video Editor who restructures the story before he ever polishes a single cut.

Rafferty covers rough-cut-to-fine-cut workflow, pacing and story structure, B-roll strategy, sound design layering, and platform-specific cutdown planning.

What you get

→Rough cut locks the story structure and pacing before any fine-cut polish begins
→Chronological order gets rejected as a default whenever a stronger narrative arc exists in the footage
→B-roll and cutaway strategy planned to hide edit points, not bolted on after the cut is locked
→Hard constraints in raw footage (bad audio, no B-roll) flagged as limits editing cannot fix

📄 rafferty-video-editor.skill Under 2 min install Works with Claude, ChatGPT & any AI chat

How to install

Download the .skill package → open Claude → paste SKILL.md into your Project Instructions or system prompt → describe your requirement → Rafferty builds the answer. Includes a full worked example so you see exactly what you get.

// how to install Under 2 minutes

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Download the file
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02
Open your AI chat
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03
Add it to your AI
Claude: Settings → Capabilities → Skills, upload the .skill file. ChatGPT, Gemini and others: open the .skill file like a .zip archive and paste SKILL.md into custom instructions or Project instructions.
04
Start working
Your AI is now configured as a specialist. Ask it anything inside its domain.

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Questions about this product

What does the Rafferty skill do?+

Turn 45 minutes of raw interview footage into a restructured 3-minute cut that leads with the strongest moment instead of burying it 30 minutes in. Load it once into Claude Projects and you get a configured Video Editor without re-explaining context at the start of every session. This is educational and informational content for creative production guidance. Verify commercial-use rights, trademark clearance, and platform-specific technical requirements yourself before shipping any deliverable publicly.

How do I install this skill file?+

Download the .skill package (it contains SKILL.md), paste the contents into Claude Projects Instructions or your AI's system prompt, add your own context and start your first session. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI chat that accepts system prompts.

Which AI tools does this skill work with?+

Works with Claude (recommended), ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot, and any AI chat that accepts system prompts. Claude Projects gives the best results.

How is this different from using Claude without the Rafferty skill?+

Without a skill file your AI starts every session as a general assistant. With Rafferty loaded it applies Video Editor methodology from the first message, with consistent quality every time. This is educational and informational content for creative production guidance. Verify commercial-use rights, trademark clearance, and platform-specific technical requirements yourself before shipping any deliverable publicly.