[wanderingstan]

For me, I recently wanted to assemble a “supercut” of my videos of attempts at learning to bunny-hop a bike. The tool was able to craft a python script that used ffmpeg to edit out the no-motion portions of the videos and stitch them together.

This would have taken ages to do by hand in iMovie, and probably just as long to look up the needed parameters in ffmpeg, but Claude code got it right in the first try, and worked with me to fine-tune the motion detection threshold.

[suddenlybananas]

I googled "edit out no motion in video ffmpeg" and found a snippet from StackOverflow which did this in about 10 seconds.

[roflyear]

yeah but that doesn't requiring paying Anthropic $100/m

[simonw]

Good luck getting that StackOverflow snippet to "work with me to fine-tune the motion detection threshold".

[suddenlybananas]

The answer described the relevant parameters for the threshold actually and gave a range of suggested parameters.