Get the AI Video Pipeline Guide
How I turn one livestream into a week of shorts, automatically
A free 13-page guide to the local AI pipeline I built to cut, transcribe, and clip long-form video, so I stop spending Monday nights re-watching my own show looking for the good parts.
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Built and run on my own hardware, not a subscription tool that quietly changes its pricing. The same pipeline produces the shorts for a weekly local news and community show, every week. The stack is Python, FFmpeg, faster-whisper, and an LLM for clip discovery: nothing here needs a SaaS account.
What's inside
The guide walks through the actual pipeline, not the theory of it:
- Why I stopped using cloud clip tools and what broke first
- The exact transcription setup (faster-whisper, local GPU, no API costs per minute)
- How the LLM picks which 30 seconds of a 45-minute stream are worth clipping
- The auto-vertical-crop step that turns a horizontal stream into a Shorts-ready file
- Where this pipeline breaks (and what I still do by hand)
- The full folder structure and script order, so you can rebuild it yourself
Who this is for
- You livestream, podcast, or produce a local show and post highlights afterward
- You're tired of paying per-minute for auto-clip tools that don't understand your content
- You have a GPU sitting mostly idle and don't mind a terminal
Who this probably isn't for
- You want a no-install, click-a-button SaaS tool (there are good ones, this isn't that)
- You post once a month and the volume doesn't justify the setup time
About me
I'm Phil Taul. I do AI integration consulting and produce a weekly local media show. I built this pipeline because paying per-clip for a service didn't scale with a weekly show, and I wanted the whole thing to run on hardware I already own. I'm publishing the code as an open GitHub repo too. This guide is the part that explains why it's built the way it is.
Questions people ask
Do I need a powerful GPU? The guide includes the minimum spec that works, and what changes if you're running a smaller card.
Is this the same as the cloud clip tools? No. Those tools are faster to start with and cost per minute. This pipeline costs setup time up front and nothing per clip after that.
Is the code actually free? Yes. The GitHub repo is open, no signup required. The guide is the part I'm asking an email for, because it's the explanation and decision-making behind the code, not the code itself.