Descriptions:
This hands-on build video from All About AI walks through the complete process of creating an AI-powered video editor using Claude Code, starting from an empty directory and finishing with a functional web application. The tech stack combines Next.js for the frontend, Google Gemini 2.0 Flash for AI-driven editing logic and function calling, FFmpeg for video processing, and OpenAI’s Whisper running locally for audio-to-text transcription.
The creator demonstrates a practical Claude Code workflow: seeding the project with Gemini API and function-calling documentation as markdown context files, switching to plan mode to structure the architecture before any code is written, then letting Claude Code execute autonomously. Within roughly six minutes, the tool produces a drag-and-drop timeline editor with cut, clip management, and delete functionality. A merge-clips bug surfaces mid-session and is resolved by feeding a screenshot directly back to Claude—illustrating the iterative, multimodal debugging loop that makes Claude Code effective for UI work.
Setup steps for FFmpeg (ffmpeg.org), Whisper (github.com/openai/whisper), and Gemini API keys are covered explicitly, making this a replicable starting point. Developers curious about combining Claude Code with Gemini’s function-calling API for media tooling will find this a concrete, end-to-end reference.
📺 Source: All About AI · Published January 17, 2026
🏷️ Format: Hands On Build
