Outlier Radar: deciding what to film
The research problem with short-form is that copying whatever has the most views mostly teaches you who already has an audience. Radar filters differently. It looks for videos that beat their own creator's rolling baseline by 5x or more, which isolates the thing that actually travelled: the mechanic, not the follower count behind it.
From each outlier it extracts the hook shape and the format, then rebuilds that structure around substance from your subject. The output is roughly ten ready-to-film scripts per lane, written to a self-contained dashboard that tracks what you filmed, what you posted and what it did.
The Yap Editor: finishing what you shot
Mode A handles talking-head footage. It transcribes first and edits from the transcript, so the cut follows the story rather than the waveform. Dead air and false starts come out, the result gets word-by-word burned captions in your brand fonts and colours, a burned text hook goes on the front, and the whole thing is normalised for feed loudness.
Mode B handles day-in-the-life montages, and it inverts the order. You shoot loose b-roll, the skill scripts the voiceover beat by beat, locks the picture to that script at attention-tuned clip lengths, and burns a record-to-picture guide so you can record the voiceover afterwards in sync.
Creator-agnostic by design
Neither skill has my niche baked into it. On first run each one interviews you about your subject, your fonts, your colours, your handle and your call to action, then saves a brand config it works from after that. The reason is selfish as much as generous: a tool that only works for one person never gets the bug reports that make it good.
What it needs
- Claude Code. Both parts are skills, so they run inside it.
- macOS with Homebrew for the video half. The research half is platform-agnostic.
- ffmpeg with libass, whisper.cpp and the caption fonts. The setup script installs all of it and a preflight check tells you what is missing before you waste a render.
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0. Use it, change it, build on it. Do not sell it.
Source, install routes and the full readme: github.com/alexdailycheckin/yapcut →