Let Claude edit your video — connecting Claude Desktop / Claude Code to VideoBuff

Edit yourself, or hand it to Claude

Once Claude is connected to VideoBuff, you can ask for edits in chat.

• Tedious work in one go — "tighten the silent gaps," "make every title the same size," "lay out the photos at 3 seconds each with crossfades"
• Polishing the look — "warmer colors for this scene," "bring the narration up so it's easy to hear"
• Making animations — GSAP titles and diagrams, three.js 3D logos. See the "Animations by Claude" guide

After each change Claude looks at the result itself, checking that text fits and colors land where intended. If something's off, just say "a bit brighter."

Manual editing works the whole time. Your mouse and keyboard keep working while Claude edits, and Undo reverses Claude's changes one step at a time. Claude can only operate VideoBuff while its tab is open.

Setup: Claude Desktop

1. Open the VideoBuff editor in Chrome, Edge or Firefox and click "Connect to Claude" at the top (Safari is not supported)
2. Follow the steps shown to download the extension (.mcpb file)
3. Double-click the downloaded file; Claude Desktop opens and asks whether to add the extension — add it
4. When the Claude dot in the editor turns green, you're connected. Start asking in Claude Desktop's chat

When a new version ships, a notice appears in the same place. Double-click the new .mcpb the same way and it replaces the old one.

Setup: Claude Code

A .mcpb file is a zip; unpack it and you'll find dist/index.js. Register that with Claude Code:

claude mcp add videobuff -- node /path/to/unpacked/dist/index.js

With the VideoBuff tab open, ask Claude Code something like "put every video in this folder on the timeline" and the edit runs from your terminal — handy when you want to combine it with file housekeeping or other commands.

Claude Desktop and Claude Code can both be connected and operate the same editor.

Example requests

Ask in everyday words, in English or Japanese.

Clearing the tedious work

• "Tighten all the silent gaps"
• "Lay out all the imported photos at 3 seconds each with 0.5-second crossfades"
• "Number every clip '#01', '#02'… in the bottom-left"
• "Delete clips shorter than 3 seconds and close the gaps"

Polishing the look and sound

• "Give just this scene a warm, sunset feel"
• "Match every clip's color to the first one"
• "Bring the music down a little so the narration is easy to hear"
• "Make the title bigger, but keep it inside the frame"

Making animations

• "A 5-second opening where the logo spins into view"
• "Show sales over time as an animated bar chart"

Tips

• One step at a time is more reliable than everything at once ("cut first," then "now the titles")
• "Make it look good" works, but adding the scene and your taste ("calm colors," "snappy pacing") gets closer to what you want
• If something's off, just say so — Undo reverses any change

You do the export: it needs a resolution and a save location, so Claude opens the export dialog and you press the final button. Importing works the same way — Claude opens the file picker (or tell Claude where the files are and it can import them by path).

Limits

• Claude can't watch the video play — it looks at still frames. Check smoothness and pacing yourself with a final playback
• Sound is judged by level, not by listening — Claude can tell where audio is silent or too loud, but not what's being said or how the music feels
• It doesn't know your taste unless you say — "make it cool" alone gets Claude's interpretation. Describing the feel or colors of a video you like gets closer
• Break up long sequences — asking stage by stage is steadier than cramming "cut → text → color → export" into one request
• Closing the tab stops it — Claude can only operate VideoBuff while its tab is open; it can't keep editing in the background
• Not in Safari — Safari blocks web pages from talking to the extension on your computer. Use Chrome, Edge or Firefox

What Claude gets to see

Your media files themselves never go to VideoBuff's servers, with or without Claude. All editing happens in your computer's browser.

What Claude reads to do its work, however, becomes part of your conversation with Claude and is handled under Claude's (Anthropic's) data policies: the clip list and durations, text content, color settings, audio levels, and the frames Claude looks at to check its work (small, downscaled stills). If there's footage you'd rather not show, edit that part by hand.

Separately, anonymous usage statistics may be sent for improvement (tool names, success or failure, rough duration, extension version, OS type, and an anonymous per-device ID). They never include file contents, project names or text content. You can turn them off at any time from Settings (the gear icon, top right of the editor). See the privacy policy for details.