Edit Your Videos with ChatGPT — How to Use This Mini-Course

This is a plain-text mini-course (guide.md) — no installation, no account, no login. Open the file in any text editor, or convert it to PDF if you prefer reading it that way.

How it's structured

Eight short lessons, in the order you'd actually use them while making one video: script → hook → captions → shot list/motion → sound design → visual look/graphics → a full production brief → post-mortem. Each lesson ends with a ready-to-paste ChatGPT prompt, so you finish the lesson with something usable in your actual project, not just theory.

By Lesson 7 you're not just planning a script anymore - ChatGPT acts as your creative director for the zoom/pan motion, sound effects and music mood, color grade/filter look, and graphic overlays, then hands you one consolidated, beat-by-beat production brief. One important note: ChatGPT can't touch your video file or apply an effect for you - it plans every creative decision precisely enough that you just execute the brief in whatever editor you already use (CapCut, Premiere, InShot, Final Cut, etc.).

There's also a Lesson 0 — a one-time "style rules" message you paste into ChatGPT before the rest. It tells ChatGPT how to sound (like you, not like a generic AI), so every prompt after that gives you output you'd actually use instead of something you have to rewrite from scratch.

What you need

• Any ChatGPT account (free tier works for everything in this course).
• A rough idea, voice memo, or messy first-draft script for one video — the lessons work best against something real, not a blank page.

Where to go next

If you want the planning turned into repeatable Claude Skills instead of manual copy-paste (so the same steps run themselves inside Claude Code or a Custom GPT), pair this with the Reels Editing Workflow Skills Kit. This mini-course teaches the thinking; that kit automates it once you know what you're asking for.