One Recording, a Week of Videos: How Claude Code Does It

I film one take, and a program I built with Claude Code turns it into the vertical and YouTube versions. Here's how it works, what it costs, and what to check on the music.

I film one take. Then a program I built with Claude Code does the editing, makes the vertical version for social, and makes the YouTube version. I put each episode on my site after that.

At my AI class, someone asked how I turn one recording into so many videos. My answer was short: "I use Claude Code for that."

The series I was describing is a rent control series. I went through one city every single day and filmed each one. I drop the file into Claude Code, and it gives me the vertical cut and the YouTube cut. Why so many? Because my users demand my presence, so I have to give them all the information.

## Why my own site

Social platforms change their rules all the time, so I keep a home base. Mine is hmrent.com. I was always taught to have a home for your content, and for me that home is my website. Each episode goes up there with a link to its YouTube video.

## The teleprompter

The same setup gave me a teleprompter. It sits in front of my laptop, and I read my scripts from it. "I didn't want to pay for it again, so I just had Claude Code make it." The teleprompter itself didn't add a cost. The plan does.

## What it costs

Claude Code is not free. It comes with a paid Claude plan. Anthropic's pricing page says Pro includes Claude Code, at $17 a month billed annually or $20 billed monthly. The Free plan doesn't include it. Max, Pro, Team and Enterprise users can run Claude Code in the Claude desktop app, and there's a terminal version too.

## The music

The music came from ElevenLabs. Its free plan includes monthly credits, and its pricing page lists a commercial license starting with the paid plans. If a video is for marketing, check which plan the audio came from before it goes out.

## Before you copy this

You don't need to be an engineer. You do need a paid plan, a place to publish, and a person who reviews the output before it goes live.

I covered this in my October 28 class at the South Bay Association of REALTORS. Every tool from that class, with free-plan notes checked October 21, 2026, is at [huntermason.com/ai20](https://huntermason.com/ai20). Claude Code isn't on that page yet, so use the pricing sources below.

Sources (checked October 28, 2026. These pages change, so check them before you rely on them.)

• Anthropic, Claude pricing: https://claude.com/pricing

• Anthropic, Claude Code: https://claude.com/product/claude-code

• ElevenLabs, Pricing: https://elevenlabs.io/pricing

• Class resource page: https://huntermason.com/ai20

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