Footage Sorter

Sort a folder of raw footage into Reels, Carousels/Posts, Stories and Tutorials with Claude. Then film the sorting screen for your own Reel.

Start

1. Unzip this folder somewhere that is not a cloud folder.
2. Open Claude Code in it.
3. Paste this:

Set up this Footage Sorter by following CLAUDE.md. Tell me before you install anything, then open the start page.

You need a Claude plan with Claude Code, and a Mac or Windows computer. Python and ffmpeg get installed if you do not have them.

On the page

• /start: your handle and picture, your folder, Try 200 files or Everything.
• /review: check the folders. Click a file to move it. "Score 50 random files" tells you how accurate Claude was on your own footage.
• /variants: all nine screens for filming.

On a screen

Key	What it does
Space	Files gather for 5 seconds, a 1 second pause, then they fly out
R	Back to the start, for the next take
O	Open the sorted folder
F11 (Windows), Ctrl+Cmd+F (Mac)	Fill the screen for filming

Pressing Space on a sort screen also creates the real folders.

What happens to your files

Nothing moves and nothing gets deleted. The sorted folder appears next to your folder, made of hard links. A hard link takes almost no space, but it is the same file: editing it changes the original too.

Claude sees small previews and the text of what you say. Whole videos stay on your computer, and Whisper reads speech locally.

Good to know

• Claude can be wrong about a file. Check before you trust a folder.
• The animation replays a finished result, so its length has nothing to do with how fast Claude worked.
• The decode, wall and teardown screens need clips with clear speech.

Made by @rtgrigorets. Your Yapping folder is full of clips waiting to be edited: the first one is free in AI Editing Studio.

MIT license, see LICENSE. Golos Text font: SIL Open Font License, see web/fonts.

Part of AI Editing Studio

Footage Sorter is a free tool by Artem Grigorets (@rtgrigorets) and ships together with Free Studio. AI Editing Studio is a Claude Code skill that turns raw talking-head clips into a finished Reel, with captions, motion graphics and sound, without editing software.

• Free Studio + Footage Sorter download: grigorets.com/sort
• How to edit Reels with Claude: grigorets.com/studio/guide
• AI Editing Studio: grigorets.com/studio

Claude is a trademark of Anthropic. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.