Anthropic engineer Thariq Shihipar showcased the Fable agent handling every phase of its own launch video production, from pulling transcription services through FFmpeg color grading and Figma integration all the way to Remotion compositions and final renders, without any conventional editing software in the loop.
Lots of people asked how I used Fable to edit its own launch video so I made a video about that!
TLDR it wrote a lot of code & tool calls to use transcription services, ffmpeg, do colorgrading, use the figma mcp, make remotion UI and render it.
I didn't touch a video editor.
Fable generated and executed the necessary commands across transcription, FFmpeg processing, a Figma MCP server, and Remotion UI creation to deliver the finished clip on its own.
The model lands in consumer plans at no extra cost through June 22 before moving to usage credits, while API pricing sits at roughly double prior Opus rates with heavy caching discounts available.
Many users praised Fable AI for autonomously editing its own launch video via code and tools as impressive and great, while some called the demo unconvincing or criticized its technical flaws and use case.
and the video for reference:
(I didnt get to use the updated designs in time)
Claude Fable 5 changed how we work on the Claude Code team day to day.
We used to verify that Claude did the work right. Now we verify that it's doing the right work.
Here’s the 3 biggest changes:
here's the deck from this video if you want to go over it yourself: https://thariqs.github.io/cc-video-editing-deck/
lmk if you have any questions!
Lots of people asked how I used Fable to edit its own launch video so I made a video about that!
TLDR it wrote a lot of code & tool calls to use transcription services, ffmpeg, do colorgrading, use the figma mcp, make remotion UI and render it.
I didn't touch a video editor.
fun little trick called '$request-design-best-practices-from-anthropic-design-team'
heres the prompt!
1. make a first pass 2. create a figma file 3. message the design team on slack to fix everything about the design 4. profit
great video tho! we do something very similar! but i've been very impressed at fable's taste around sound design too
Lots of people asked how I used Fable to edit its own launch video so I made a video about that!
TLDR it wrote a lot of code & tool calls to use transcription services, ffmpeg, do colorgrading, use the figma mcp, make remotion UI and render it.
I didn't touch a video editor.
@jxnlco I appreciate that you actually watched the video in order to come up with this
fun little trick called '$request-design-best-practices-from-anthropic-design-team'
heres the prompt!
1. make a first pass 2. create a figma file 3. message the design team on slack to fix everything about the design 4. profit
great video tho! we do something very similar! but i've been very impressed at fable's taste around sound design too
@trq212 i really really like fable's remotion skills something really special here
big model smell for audio-visual assets is like more frontier than websites etc.
esp the index.html for color grading was chefs kiss
Wow, this is really cool. Has anyone productized this? I would love to be able to take a bunch of my A-roll, dump it into a tool w/ the script I used, and have a magical edit come out the other end with minimal intervention from me. I just haven't seen anything that comes close.
Lots of people asked how I used Fable to edit its own launch video so I made a video about that!
TLDR it wrote a lot of code & tool calls to use transcription services, ffmpeg, do colorgrading, use the figma mcp, make remotion UI and render it.
I didn't touch a video editor.
@trq212
Lots of people asked how I used Fable to edit its own launch video so I made a video about that!
TLDR it wrote a lot of code & tool calls to use transcription services, ffmpeg, do colorgrading, use the figma mcp, make remotion UI and render it.
I didn't touch a video editor.
models being good enough to oneshot video editing using raw files is the funniest bit
Lots of people asked how I used Fable to edit its own launch video so I made a video about that!
TLDR it wrote a lot of code & tool calls to use transcription services, ffmpeg, do colorgrading, use the figma mcp, make remotion UI and render it.
I didn't touch a video editor.
@Madisonkanna damn you gotta be faster
@trq212 Proud of you
@ryanvogel we support them!
whisper, the open source model they use to transcript that video made by openai!
@trq212 if anthropic terms prohibits ai labs from making educational explainer videos with fable, its really over.
@trq212 lets go
@trq212 I'd definitely be curious to know how much this ended up costing in tokens. For reference people pay anywhere from a couple hundred bucks to a couple thousand per YT video edit.
Wow, this is really cool. Has anyone productized this? I would love to be able to take a bunch of my A-roll, dump it into a tool w/ the script I used, and have a magical edit come out the other end with minimal intervention from me. I just haven't seen anything that comes close.
@Madisonkanna @trq212
@trq212 So cool
@trq212 damn this is insane, very nicely done
@trq212 Drop a prompt. I use remotion and ffmeg heavily and would love to learn more about how you did it!
@jxnlco GUYS!
STOP IT
Anthropic engineer Thariq Shihipar showcased the Fable agent handling every phase of its own launch video production, from pulling transcription services through FFmpeg color grading and Figma integration all the way to Remotion compositions and final renders, without any conventional editing software in the loop.
Lots of people asked how I used Fable to edit its own launch video so I made a video about that!
TLDR it wrote a lot of code & tool calls to use transcription services, ffmpeg, do colorgrading, use the figma mcp, make remotion UI and render it.
I didn't touch a video editor.