{"slug": "ask-hn-claude-code-in-video-editor", "title": "Ask HN: Claude Code in Video Editor", "summary": "A developer on Hacker News proposed integrating Claude Code into a video editor, asking what tasks users would delegate, with the developer suggesting subtitle addition, text effects, color grading, and silence removal. The project, Donkey, is 100% open source and hosted on GitHub.", "body_md": "let's say you had Claude Code in your video editor, what would you ask it to help you with on your project?\n\nI ask it to add subtitles, text effects, color grade my clips, cut out the silent parts.\n\n100% open source\n\nhttps://github.com/DonkeyCut/Donkey\n\nreply", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-claude-code-in-video-editor", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384106", "published_at": "2026-08-21 05:19:37+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-21 05:44:19.192790+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Claude Code", "Donkey", "GitHub", "Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-claude-code-in-video-editor", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-claude-code-in-video-editor.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-claude-code-in-video-editor.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-claude-code-in-video-editor.jsonld"}}