Magnum Opus — Video Editing Checklist

General-purpose process for turning a raw recording into fully produced shorts, longs, and a full-length cut.

Build 4 · 80 steps · 4 phases

The Process

  1. Ingest — take the raw video, understand it so completely you can recite it backwards
  2. Storyboard — given everything you ingested and every tool in the belt, plan what you are going to build
  3. Render & Audit — implement the storyboard, then audit and fix in a loop until clean
  4. Deliver — assemble the output package and email James
▶ 1 Ingest 20 steps
Source Acquisition
Transcription
AI Analysis
Clip Extraction
▶ 2 Storyboard 24 steps
Find the Segments
Find the Longs and Shorts
Creative Pass — What Tools Do We Pull?
Cleanup Plan
Blur Plan
▶ 3 Render & Audit 30 steps
Build Karaoke Data
Apply Cleanup
Apply Blur
Generate Compositions (Shorts)
Render Shorts
Build Longs (Horizontal)
Full-Length Cut
Audit
Fix & Re-render (loop until clean)
▶ 4 Deliver 6 steps
Assemble Output
Ship It

80 steps across 4 phases

Every checkbox is an action you take or a decision you make. Constraints on how to do each step live in CLAUDE.md and the scripts, not here.

MISSING / NOT YET BUILT = pipeline capability not yet implemented.

Restructured June 3, 2026. Prior versions: 220 steps / 16 phases → 125 steps / 4 phases → this 80-step version.