Produce a polished local talking-head or narrated screen-recording rough cut without a cloud editor. Use when Codex must clean Chinese or mixed Chinese-English speech, correct product terminology before semantic editing, compress pauses without making speech breathless, preserve source resolution and frame rate, normalize dialogue loudness, generate final-audio subtitle artifacts, or benchmark local output against ChatCut/video-use/chengfeng/AI剪口播.
Resources
3Install
npx skillscat add pluviobyte/rnskill/ra-local-talking-head-cut Install via the SkillsCat registry.
本地口播精剪
Deliver a reproducible local workflow, not an editing product. Keep upstream
skills untouched and write every job under the source project's engineering
directory.
Required workflow
- Probe the source. Preserve width, height, and frame rate unless the user
explicitly requests a delivery conversion. - Transcribe with the installed
video-use/helpers/transcribe.pyusingvolc.seedasr.aucand word timestamps. Reuse its cached normalized JSON. - Run
scripts/prepare_transcript.pywithreferences/default-glossary.json. It must createreview.md,precut-review.srt,corrected-script.md,uncertain-terms.md, andsubtitle-approval.json. - Give the user the source video plus
precut-review.srtand the readable
review. Correct only well-supported terminology. Never guess an uncertain
model or product name. Stop here and wait for explicit user approval.
Do not build an EDL or render a cut while approval is pending. - Resolve uncertain terms by adding confirmed mappings to a job-local copy of
the glossary, then rerun preparation so both the script and pre-cut SRT are
regenerated together. Preparation always resets approval. After the user
confirms the regenerated SRT, setsubtitle-approval.jsontoapproved: true, record the confirmation time, and leaveunresolved_termsempty. Never keep approval across regeneration. - Write optional
decisions.jsonfor semantic deletions. Delete repeated
starts and failed takes before their later complete version; preserve unique
meaning. Use normalized word indexes only inside artifacts, never in the
user-facing report. - Run
scripts/build_edl.pywith the approval file. The script must refuse to
continue unless subtitles are approved and all uncertainty is resolved. Its
default pacing keeps pauses up to 550 ms,
compresses longer pauses to 380-450 ms, removes only unambiguous呃/额, and
pads source head/tail. Do not replace this with blanket deletion of every
pause above 200 ms. - Run
scripts/render_cut.pywithout transitions to create a hard-cut preview.
It preserves source dimensions/fps, applies 15 ms audio fades at every cut,
uses light dialogue cleanup, and performs two-pass loudness normalization to
-16 LUFS / -1.5 dBTP. Stronger denoise or gates are candidates, not defaults:
reject a candidate when the same ASR alignment test drops by more than 0.01
or falls below 0.90. - Run
scripts/analyze_visual_cuts.pyon the hard-cut preview. Inspect its
contact sheet and use only its recommended 80-120 ms transitions, capped at
three per video. Rerender with--transitionsonly when a valid semantic cut
also has a large visual discontinuity. Do not add blanket transitions. - Run
scripts/qc.pyagainst the chosen clean final MP4 and pass it the same
transition JSON when transitions were used. Require matching dimensions/fps,
valid audio/video, expected duration, and loudness within the gate. Inspect
both the general and transition contact sheets. - Run
scripts/generate_final_subtitles.pyagainst the exact final MP4 and
approvedcorrected-script.md. It delegates timing/alignment tora-audio-to-subtitlesand refuses delivery unlesscaption-qc.jsonis
PASS. ASR is the timing source; approved script text is the display source.
Never reuseprecut-review.srtafter timeline edits. - When the deliverable needs visible subtitles, run
skill-captionswith
the finalcaptions.jsonand PASScaption-qc.json. Useanchor-dark
unless the contract selects another style. Preview a representative frame,
burn the derivative, and requirecaption-render-qc.jsonto pass. Keep the
clean rough cut and portable SRT.
Commands
SKILL_DIR="<this skill directory>"
JOB="<engineering job directory>"
WORDS="$JOB/transcripts/<source-name>.json"
python3 "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/prepare_transcript.py" \
"$WORDS" --out-dir "$JOB/transcript-review" \
--glossary "$SKILL_DIR/references/default-glossary.json"
python3 "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/build_edl.py" \
<source.mp4> "$WORDS" --out "$JOB/edl.json" \
--approval "$JOB/transcript-review/subtitle-approval.json" \
--decisions "$JOB/decisions.json"
python3 "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/render_cut.py" \
"$JOB/edl.json" --out "$JOB/local-hard-cut-preview.mp4"
CODEX_PY="$HOME/.cache/codex-runtimes/codex-primary-runtime/dependencies/python/bin/python3"
"$CODEX_PY" "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/analyze_visual_cuts.py" \
"$JOB/local-hard-cut-preview.mp4" --edl "$JOB/edl.json" \
--out-dir "$JOB/visual-cut-qc"
python3 "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/render_cut.py" \
"$JOB/edl.json" --out "$JOB/local-benchmark.mp4" \
--transitions "$JOB/visual-cut-qc/visual-cut-qc.json"
python3 "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/qc.py" \
<source.mp4> "$JOB/local-benchmark.mp4" \
--edl "$JOB/edl.json" \
--transitions "$JOB/visual-cut-qc/visual-cut-qc.json" \
--out-dir "$JOB/qc"
python3 "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/generate_final_subtitles.py" \
"$JOB/local-benchmark.mp4" \
--script "$JOB/transcript-review/corrected-script.md" \
--approval "$JOB/transcript-review/subtitle-approval.json" \
--out-dir "$JOB/captions"
"$CODEX_PY" ".claude/skills/skill-captions/scripts/render_captions.py" \
"$JOB/local-benchmark.mp4" "$JOB/captions/captions.json" \
--qc "$JOB/captions/caption-qc.json" --style anchor-dark \
--out "$JOB/local-benchmark-captioned.mp4" \
--preview "$JOB/qc/caption-preview.png" --preview-at 15
Omit --decisions when no semantic repeats or failed takes exist.
Decision gates
- Prefer missed filler over lost meaning.
- Treat transcript correction and playback deletion as separate operations.
- Do not create an EDL while subtitle approval is false or unresolved terms
remain. - Treat
precut-review.srtas source-timeline review material only. - Do not burn captions while
caption-qc.jsonis absent or not PASS. - Do not accept audio cleanup whose same-input ASR coverage regresses by more
than one percentage point, even when it sounds superficially quieter. - Do not add transitions to every cut; a transition requires both a valid
semantic boundary and measured visual discontinuity. - Do not call a rough-cut subtitle timeline production-ready.
- Do not deliver when
cut-qc.jsonreportsfail. - Keep intermediates in
01-内容生产/视频工作台/制作中/<日期-主题>/; archive only the user-approved
final under视频工作台/已制作/月上旬或月下旬/日期-主题/.
Read references/artifact-contract.md when
integrating another renderer or modifying artifact schemas.