{"type":"post","stable_id":"post:video-use-transcript-first-editing","slug":"video-use-transcript-first-editing","title":"video-use Treats The Transcript As The Agent's Primary Video Interface","description":"video-use compresses video into a word-timestamp transcript, requests visual composites only at decision points, emits an edit decision list, renders, and checks cut boundaries before review.","retrieval_nugget":"The agent does not ingest every frame. It reasons over a compact transcript with diarization and audio events, asks for timeline composites on demand, snaps cuts to word boundaries, renders through FFmpeg, and runs a bounded self-eval loop.","published_at":"2026-08-04","updated_at":"2026-08-06","record_date":"2026-08-04","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["video-editing","agent-skills","multimodal","edl","self-evaluation"],"entities":["video-use","FFmpeg","ElevenLabs Scribe"],"source_urls":["https://github.com/browser-use/video-use"],"source_format":"github","editorial_timing":{"lane":"regular_hourly","scheduled_at":"2026-08-08T14:00:00+03:00","real_news_delta":"owner-approved primary-source mechanism or merged analysis"},"visual_decision":{"status":"included","reason":"the central mechanism is a flow, loop, architecture, decision, or state transition that benefits from a diagram","reviewed_by":"codex"},"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","status":"published","visuals":[{"role":"hero","src":"/images/drip/video-use-transcript-first-editing/video-use-transcript-first-editing.webp","alt":"A whiteboard pipeline showing footage compressed into a transcript, on-demand visual checks, an edit decision list, rendering, and self-evaluation.","caption":"New Runtime synthesis from video-use — Edit videos with coding agents."}],"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/video-use-transcript-first-editing/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/video-use-transcript-first-editing.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/video-use-transcript-first-editing.json"}}