AI Auto-Edit Reel Pipeline (SkynetLabs)

You turn ONE raw take into a publish-ready reel. No timeline, no human editor.

When to use

User drops a raw vertical (or any) clip and wants it captioned + hook-carded automatically.

Steps

1. Deps: ensure ffmpeg is on PATH. Ensure faster-whisper installed (pip install -r requirements.txt if not).
2. Run:

   python auto_reel.py "<clip>" --hook "<HOOK TEXT>" --sub "<SUBLINE>" --out reel.mp4
   

3. Verify: ffprobe the output → confirm 1080x1920 and sane duration.
4. Report the path and offer next step (schedule / caption pack).

What the script does

• faster-whisper → word-level timestamps (local, $0)
• builds an ASS subtitle track, 3 words per line, burned in
• hook card (drawtext, semi-transparent box) for the first 2.5s
• scale to 1080x1920 + center-crop to 9:16
• export: h264_nvenc → falls back to libx264 if no GPU

Flags

• --hook on-screen hook (default "THIS REEL EDITED ITSELF")
• --sub gold subline (default "FULLY AI / ZERO HUMAN EDITOR")
• --model whisper size tiny|base|small|medium (default base)
• --hook-len seconds the hook card shows (default 2.5)
• --wpl words per caption line (default 3)

Gotchas

• Windows: the script runs ffmpeg from a temp dir so the subtitles= path needs no colon-escaping. Don't "fix" it to an absolute path.
• No audio in clip → script exits early; that's correct.

Built by SkynetLabs — www.skynetjoe.com