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Did AI Change Editing Forever? (GPT-6 Astra + DaVinci Resolve)

2026-10-02 · long tutorial / working session · Adil · recording, 11:36 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Post-production & finishing (also: Prompting & AI assistants) · mode: Tutorial · tags: fiction, prompts shared, one creator's experience

In this long tutorial Adil tests how much editing he can hand to GPT-6 Astra, connected to Higgsfield in ChatGPT and allowed to operate DaVinci Resolve, while timing his own hands-on work. Astra builds a commercial from a brief, then rebuilds a 20-minute YouTube tutorial from raw files, guided by references, a script and an editor skill. By his account it got about 80% right, with about 20 minutes of his time out of two hours, before cutting Shorts and a trailer for Oneiric.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Cold open from the "Editing Has Changed" commercial

00:00:27 — The test: a commercial, a YouTube rebuild, Shorts and a trailer, timing the hands-on work

  • ★★★ Adil tests how much editing he can hand to GPT-6 Astra, measuring how long each job takes and how much of his own time goes into prompts, reviews and final tweaks. — 00:00:48 · GPT-6 Astra

00:00:56 — Connecting Higgsfield to ChatGPT, computer use, the brief; Astra generates the assets and shots and opens Resolve

  • ★★★ Setup for editing with GPT-6 Astra: connect Higgsfield to ChatGPT (the description links the Higgsfield MCP install), then turn on computer use so Astra can open and operate DaVinci Resolve on the Mac. — 00:01:10 · Higgsfield AI, Higgsfield MCP, ChatGPT, GPT-6 Astra, DaVinci Resolve
  • ★★ Because GPT-6 Astra with computer use can make real changes in apps and make mistakes, Adil advises backing up projects, reviewing permissions and keeping sensitive apps closed before enabling it. — 00:01:27 · GPT-6 Astra
  • ★★ For the commercial, Adil gives GPT-6 Astra the script and describes the characters, dialogue, camera moves and sound cues in as much detail as he can. — 00:01:40 · GPT-6 Astra
  • ★★ GPT-6 Astra uses Higgsfield's built-in skills to turn the brief into generation prompts, makes the characters and locations first, then generates the video and opens DaVinci Resolve for the edit. — 00:01:54 · GPT-6 Astra, Higgsfield AI, DaVinci Resolve
  • ★ For the screen in the cafe scene, Adil supplied a screenshot of a DaVinci Resolve timeline; GPT-6 Astra wrote the prompt and Higgsfield generated the shots. — 00:02:10 · DaVinci Resolve, GPT-6 Astra

00:02:28 — Astra's first draft of the commercial

00:03:08 — A note to fix one shot, Astra's sound design, trimming the pacing by hand

  • ★★ When a shot in GPT-6 Astra's draft is wrong (the FBI agent on the wrong side of the desk), Adil sends Astra a note and it makes the change. — 00:03:08 · GPT-6 Astra
  • ★★ For sound, GPT-6 Astra pulls the dialogue, takes music from Adil's drive, layers sound effects from the team's library and puts everything on separate clean tracks. — 00:03:15 · GPT-6 Astra
  • ★★ Adil did the pacing himself: one pass in DaVinci Resolve trimming the micro pauses took GPT-6 Astra's cut of about 49 seconds down to 37 with the same shots. — 00:03:37 · GPT-6 Astra, DaVinci Resolve

00:04:04 — The final commercial

00:04:43 — Rebuilding a 20-minute YouTube tutorial from raw files, script, editor skill and references

  • ★★ The commercial took Adil about two hours in all, of which he spent 30 minutes actually working, generation and rendering included. — 00:04:43 · GPT-6 Astra
  • ★★ Adil gives GPT-6 Astra three days' worth of raw files of a 20-minute YouTube tutorial whose original edit took three days, with the script and a custom YouTube editor skill. — 00:04:50 · GPT-6 Astra, YouTube
  • ★★★ To make GPT-6 Astra's edit match your own style, feed it references: Adil gave past After Effects projects, fonts and audio packs; the script says what to explain, the editor skill how the team works. — 00:05:15 · GPT-6 Astra, After Effects
  • ★★ Adil puts the YouTube editor skill file and the team's sound library in the description for viewers to use. — 00:05:37 · YouTube
  • ★★ GPT-6 Astra's first pass of the YouTube rebuild was surprisingly accurate; for a few cuts that landed slightly offbeat, Adil sent it a list of precise timecodes to adjust. — 00:05:45 · GPT-6 Astra, YouTube

00:06:04 — Colour grading in Resolve, syncing screen recordings, motion graphics in After Effects

  • ★★ In colour grading GPT-6 Astra gives each adjustment its own node in DaVinci Resolve, saved with the project for later manual tweaks; Adil says it nailed contrast and skin tone and matched across angles. — 00:06:06 · GPT-6 Astra, Color grading, DaVinci Resolve
  • ★ Screen recordings needed for an edit can also be made by GPT-6 Astra: give it the project and ask it to record the demonstrations first. — 00:06:33 · GPT-6 Astra
  • ★★ For motion graphics GPT-6 Astra writes and runs a custom script inside After Effects, renders it, exports it with an alpha channel and places it over the footage in DaVinci Resolve, with no keyframes set by hand. — 00:07:00 · GPT-6 Astra, After Effects, motion graphics, DaVinci Resolve
  • ★★★ From loose files to a final cut and an editable DaVinci Resolve project, Adil says GPT-6 Astra got about 80% right; his hands-on time was about 20 minutes of about two hours in total. — 00:07:26 · GPT-6 Astra, DaVinci Resolve

00:07:57 — Turning the long video into Shorts

  • ★★ Adil says short clips are the best hook for reaching new people: one good clip can make them want to watch the full episode. — 00:08:00
  • ★★ Shorts from a long video can be scaled with GPT-6 Astra: ask for 10 or 20 clips at once, then review the whole batch. — 00:08:22 · GPT-6 Astra

00:08:45 — Cutting the Oneiric film into a 60-second trailer

  • ★★ Adil calls Oneiric the team's most viral film, with over 2 million views on YouTube. — 00:08:45 · YouTube
  • ★★ Adil gives GPT-6 Astra the full Oneiric film with a trailer brief: catch attention immediately, build tension and leave the viewer wanting to see what happens next. — 00:08:56 · GPT-6 Astra
  • ★★ On GPT-6 Astra's first trailer cut Adil sent three notes at once: fix the movement across the cuts, hold the shots longer and clean up an audio pop at a transition. — 00:09:20 · GPT-6 Astra
  • ★★ Adil says GPT-6 Astra also edited this video itself. — 00:10:22 · GPT-6 Astra

00:10:41 — This video was edited by Astra too; the input matters; skill and SFX library linked

  • ★★★ Adil says GPT-6 Astra can take all the repetitive editing tasks, leaving more time for bigger projects and one's own work. — 00:11:07 · GPT-6 Astra

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Central: DaVinci Resolve · GPT-6 Astra

Also: After Effects · Claude · motion graphics · Oneiric · YouTube

Only in the description or credits: ChatGPT · Color grading · Higgsfield MCP

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