---
name: short-form-video-editing
description: "Turn supplied recordings into captioned social clips with verified timing and exports. Use when the user requests short-form video editing. Select relevant methods for the requested outcome; unrelated tasks do not require this skill."
metadata:
  version: "1.0.0"
---

# Short-Form Video Editing

Turn supplied recordings into captioned social clips with verified timing and exports.

## OLLIE Runtime integration

Use this capability under the active OLLIE Operator. Read live Workspace Context and tenant bindings for client facts and required inputs. This generic package contains no client configuration. Consume ask-ollie-authority-core for authority, outloop-access-fallback for access and recovery, email-lifecycle-core for communication, and the bootstrapper Runtime Contract for ownership, scheduling and completion. Preserve domain constraints; this Skill creates no competing execution path. Use one method, combine skills, or fill missing steps with authorized tools as the task requires.

External access uses the active Workspace’s approved Outloop capabilities. Never request, read, embed or expose credentials. A service named in a method is a possible dependency, not an access grant. Local file and application work uses the host’s authorized tools.

## Required inputs

- Original footage
- Transcript or transcription capability
- Target channel format
- Brand and language

## Methods

### Map the spoken story

Preserve the master and map spoken beats before trimming. Remove pauses and flubs without changing meaning or fabricating speech.

### Edit with source fidelity

Choose cuts and supporting visuals that serve the message. Use authoritative brand assets and show real product evidence when making product claims.

### Verify captions

For captions, verify timing, line breaks, spelling and safe areas. Read RTL text visually for direction and glyph order rather than trusting a text file.

### Inspect the export

Inspect the exported video at real size and sample start, middle and end for sync, audio clipping, frame boundaries and readability. Report the codec, dimensions and final duration.

## Completion

Verify findings against source evidence and read back the resulting artifact or authorized change. Report inputs used, methods selected, output location, assumptions and unresolved dependencies. Do not report a plan, queue entry, draft, test fixture or accepted request as a completed external action. Use the task’s requested format; if a tool is unavailable, finish independent work and identify the exact unfulfilled deliverable.

## Test before relying on it

Read [the synthetic evaluation cases](references/evaluation.md) for activation, output and isolation checks. These cases are test instructions, not evidence that a host or provider test has passed.