https://rustman.org/creative Music and video with an AI assistant: recipes, notes and releases. en https://rustman.org/creative/filmcraft-agent-built-editor https://rustman.org/creative/filmcraft-agent-built-editor Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT FilmCraft is an open-source video editor in pure Rust with its own decoders, built mostly by Claude agents in under a month. What is real, what is still alpha, and the parts worth taking into an AI-first editor. https://rustman.org/creative/creative-skills https://rustman.org/creative/creative-skills Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every skill behind my travel films and tracks in one list: transcription, editing, publishing, mixing and audio-to-MIDI, with where each one lives and how to install it. https://rustman.org/creative/creative-video-agent-cut https://rustman.org/creative/creative-video-agent-cut Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Behind the Studio guide: for a month of travel films I mostly ran the analysis core and ffmpeg from the terminal, with Claude writing the cut as a script and a skill file remembering every rule a bad cut taught. https://rustman.org/creative/creative-video-shipping https://rustman.org/creative/creative-video-shipping Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What I learned getting a month of travel films out from the Mac: HEVC halves the upload, 1440p buys a better YouTube transcode, face-following vertical crops keep 31 of 37 faces, the hook and the cover are picked by eye. https://rustman.org/creative/creative-video-sound https://rustman.org/creative/creative-video-sound Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT How the Chicago films got their own music written to the cut, why a hole in the score beats ducking, and how car radio got 10 Content ID claims and was stripped with Demucs without losing my voice. https://rustman.org/creative/creative-video-transcribe https://rustman.org/creative/creative-video-transcribe Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why every travel film started as a transcript: what I learned running Whisper over a month of clips in two languages, why the Mac's GPU path matters, and how word timings let an agent cut on words instead of seconds. https://rustman.org/creative/creative-kubyz-speaks https://rustman.org/creative/creative-kubyz-speaks Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sing into one input, play a jaw harp on the other, and the kubyz pronounces your vowels. A free plugin, one setting, a before/after you can hear. https://rustman.org/creative/creative-music-with-claude https://rustman.org/creative/creative-music-with-claude Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT How I make tracks by talking to Claude: it builds the REAPER session, plays my free plugins, writes the MIDI and mixes by measurement. Setup for musicians, no code. https://rustman.org/creative/creative-video-with-claude https://rustman.org/creative/creative-video-with-claude Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT How I cut nine days in Chicago into films by talking to Claude: the app analyses every clip and finds the beat, the assistant builds the cut, I keep the creative calls. Free desktop app, setup for non-programmers.