How to Edit Video With Claude From Your Phone

Can you edit video with Claude from your phone?

Yes! But the easiest way to do it is to have your computer do the work and drive the edits from your phone. Claude can't edit videos on its own (here's why). It needs to build all these additional tools to manage your assets, make edits, and export, or you can use an AI integrated video editor like Daydream, which provides Claude with a full set of editing tools and a full video editing interface so you can see what's happening and give feedback.

Here's the timeline before and after one prompt from the phone: the bad takes are cut, and captions and a title card are added.

What you need

• A Mac or Windows computer that stays on, with Daydream open and a project loaded. If you haven't connected Claude to Daydream yet, it takes under 5 minutes.
• The Claude Desktop app or Claude Code.
• The Claude app on iOS or Android.
• A paid Claude plan: Pro, Max, Ultra, Team, or Enterprise. API keys don't work, and on Team and Enterprise an Owner needs to turn Remote Control on first.

How to set up Claude Code Remote Control for video editing

1. 01
   Open your project in Daydream.
2. 02
   Start a local session in the Code tab of the Claude Desktop app, then type /remote-control.
3. 03
   On your phone, open the Claude app, tap Code, and open the session. Online sessions show a computer icon with a green dot.
4. 04
   Test it by asking, "Can you see my Daydream project?"

Prefer the terminal? Run this in your project folder, then press the spacebar to show a QR code you can scan with your phone:

claude remote-control

Anthropic's Remote Control docs cover the other ways to start a session, including from VS Code.

Tip: to skip this step in the future, turn on Connect new sessions to Remote Control in the Desktop app's settings.

Keep your computer awake: set your computer so it doesn't fall asleep. If it does fall asleep, it will lose connection until it wakes up again. Keep it plugged in, then:

• On a MacBook: open System Settings > Battery > Options and turn on "Prevent automatic sleeping on power adapter when the display is off." Keep the lid open, since a MacBook sleeps when you close it unless it's connected to an external display.
• On any Mac, for one session: run "caffeinate -i" in Terminal. Your Mac stays awake until you press Control-C or close that Terminal window.
• On Windows: open Settings > System > Power & battery > Screen, sleep, & hibernate timeouts and set "When plugged in, put my device to sleep after" to Never. On a laptop, also open Control Panel > Power Options > Choose what closing the lid does and set "When I close the lid" to Do nothing while plugged in.

Sending footage from your phone to Claude

There are a few ways you can get your footage to Claude to edit.

• Already on your computer or a connected external drive: if it's already on your computer, Claude can easily use Daydream to manage importing those assets and put together a timeline. This is the most reliable route, and it's what we used in our test.
• Synced folder: if you have footage saved to iCloud, Google Drive, or Dropbox, and Claude has access to those places, it can manage getting that footage and putting together an edit.
• Attached in the chat: you can also just attach files directly. Claude receives it on your computer, imports it into Daydream, and begins editing. We've tested this with a video sent from a phone. There may be size limits here, so for long or high-resolution footage, use a synced folder instead.

Example edits to run from your phone

The first two are the prompts from our test. The title card is a graphic saved in Daydream, and saved graphics are included on paid plans.

• "Can you transcribe, remove my bad takes, add captions and my title card at the beginning that says [title]. Then send me a preview of a frame with the title."
• "Make it a little shorter, and change the color of the title card."
• "Remove the silences and filler words."
• "Put b-roll under this section."
• "Check my color grade using the scopes and fix if needed." More on color grading with AI.

Here's what it looks like on the phone. Claude reports each step as it works and sends preview frames into the chat. The same prompts work for TikToks and Reels.

How to review and export the edit

• Ask for preview frames. Your phone sees still images in the chat rather than the timeline, so ask for a frame wherever you want to check something, like "send me a preview of a frame with the title."
• Ask Claude to export. For a smaller file, ask for the web preset. The file saves to your computer, and you can ask Claude to send it back to your phone. You can also ask Claude to notify you when the export finishes.
• Watch the full edit before posting. A frame doesn't show pacing or audio. Because the chat is synced on your phone and on your computer, you can even review it when you get back to your computer before exporting.

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