Vlog

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You get one polished vlog from a pile of clips: either calm (graded, gently sped up, long crossfades, music laid underneath) or fun (cut to the beat, speed ramps and slow-mo, whips, text pops, a route map, sound effects, and your talking-to-camera bits captioned over a ducked music bed). Both come with a cover.

Contact sheet of a fun travel vlog on a vertical canvas: a title pop, DAY stamps, location tags, a route map card, photo cards, a glitch frame and an end card

Pick a style

	Calm	Fun
Feel	Slow crossfades, long holds, ambience, music laid on after	Cut to the beat, speed ramps, whips, text pops, sound effects
Footage	Drone, nature, walks; long smooth takes	Trips with many places, people, food, action; 60/120 fps clips; photos
Sound	Silent or ambient master, music added on top	Music-led: bed, sound effects, and speech clips with the music ducked under them
Length	1 to 5 minutes, often horizontal 4K	20 to 90 seconds, vertical first, also YouTube
Say	“calm”, “cinematic”, “slow”, “healing”	“beat-cut”, “fast”, “fun travel reel”

Before you start

Your clips, any size, landscape or portrait, SDR or iPhone HDR, 24 to 120 fps. Photos work too, mostly in the fun style.
For fun: a music track with a clear beat that you have the rights to.
For calm: a vibe for the music in your own words. Reelfold can fetch a CC BY track and writes the credit line you paste into the post.
Places and days, if you want location tags, day stamps or a map.

If the video is mostly you talking, use Talking-head shorts instead. A few talking-to-camera clips in a vlog are fine.

In the Mac app

On Home, describe the vlog and add the clips. Say calm or fun and the platform.
The plan shows the style, the platform and the title.
Windows and pacing. Reelfold makes contact sheets of every clip (one tile every 4 seconds) so nothing is edited blind. The good windows, the order, the music, the title and the map go into one edit list. Ask the agent to draft it, then adjust.
The batch renders on your Mac. For the fun style it also writes a report: every cut with its beat check, transitions, overlays, the sound effects cue sheet and loudness.
Pick the cover.
Review and publish.

With the Claude Code skill

Hand Claude the footage folder and say calm or fun. The skill follows workflows/vlog: it probes every clip, reads the contact sheets, writes work/edit.json, and renders. For fun it does a dry run first so you can read the plan.

python3 $VSTUDIO/workflows/vlog/scripts/probe.py footage/* --init work/edit.json --style fun \
    --music music/track.mp3 --platform xiaohongshu:full
python3 $VSTUDIO/workflows/vlog/scripts/build_fun.py work/edit.json --dry-run

What each style does

Calm. HDR clips tone-mapped, a gentle grade, a speed per segment (scenery a little faster than subject shots), stabilise where it’s shaky, crossfades with no black first frame and a fade-out at the end. Music is looped to fit, faded and normalised; with ambient sound kept, the place’s sound sits under the music. The cover is a torn-paper scrapbook collage.

Fun. The music is analysed first and every cut lands on a whole beat. The edit opens on a hook of the best moments, then a title pop, then your shots in order, with a whip at each new place or day and a cut exactly on the music drop, then an accelerating finale and a slow outro. On top:

speed ramps, true slow-mo from 120 fps clips, freeze-frames into a photo card;
transitions: whip, zoom punch, flash, light leak, glitch (once), or a straight cut on the beat by default;
text: title pop, location tags, DAY stamps, date stamps, word pops, a route map card, an end card, all inside the platform’s safe area and never overlapping;
sound effects (synthesised, nothing to license): whooshes on whips, impacts on drops, a riser into the finale, shutters on photos;
speech clips: kept at 1×, cleaned of hesitations and long pauses, captioned, with the music ducked under them.

A version without music ships too, as a stem for re-scoring.

Options worth knowing

Option	Style	What it does
Platform	both	Sets canvas, fps, safe area, caption box and loudness. Default 小红书 9:16.
Grade, brightness	both	“Too dark” raises brightness, never adds a vignette.
Segment speed	calm	Per segment; persona defaults for subject and scenery shots.
Pace	fun	`fast` or `relaxed` (double length).
Music start, drops	fun	Where the music starts, and where the big cuts land.
Map, title, end card, word pops	fun	Turn each on or off.
Sound effects	fun	On by default; `sfx: false` turns them off.
Music level, duck amount	fun	Lower the bed, or duck it harder under speech.
Speech cleanup	both	Fun: gentle, automatic edits only by default. Calm: opt-in per segment.

Example prompts

“Cut these drone clips into a calm 3-minute 4K vlog with soft music and a cover.”
“Fun travel reel for Xiaohongshu from this Tokyo trip, cut to this track. Add a map of the cities and a DAY stamp for each day.”
“Slow-mo the jump at the beach and put a whip into the night market.”
“Too fast. Make it relaxed and turn the music down under my talking bits.”