Herk Edit Kit

Herk Edit Kit is a repository by Nate Herk (formerly the HyperFrames Student Kit) that lets Codex or Claude Code edit a user's own footage. It bundles 15 skills with helper scripts and references, covering transcription, silence cutting, mistake detection, reviewed cut rendering, transcript retiming, EDL review, beat-sync validation and preflight checks. A short-form skill plans hooks and payoffs and handles captions, moving B-roll and audio review for reels and YouTube Shorts.

The kit includes 406 draft motion-graphics cards in two styles, two scene templates (dark graph paper and a left glass popout), 12 teaching projects and a synthetic starter composition that needs no footage or API key. Per creator coverage, its editing patterns were derived from 27 of Nate Herk's top-performing human-edited reels, and cuts use ElevenLabs word timestamps and waveform checks.

It runs locally and requires Node.js 22 or newer, Git, FFmpeg with ffprobe, and Chrome or Chromium. Transcription uses ElevenLabs Scribe by default, with Whisper (OpenAI or local) as alternatives, and Kie.ai is used for optional generated assets; users bring their own API keys. The README describes it as an agent-guided workflow, so output should be reviewed before publishing. The license is not identified by GitHub (NOASSERTION).