Master the voice, place a licensed bed and SFX, and bounce with the four sound checks

Coming

Voice mastered first to -16 LUFS, beds baked a fixed LU under voice with constant-power crossfades, SFX per event type from a 21-event registry, a one-minute bounce with per-30-second tables and four gates, music out before the CTA.

Kit

video-offline-tools

You need

Account	Why	Free or paid	Plan
ffmpeg + ffprobe	Every cut, mux, loudness pass, proxy, contact sheet and platform encode. The delivery encoder uses h264_videotoolbox on Apple Silicon.	Free	Free (Homebrew build includes VideoToolbox).
Epidemic Sound	Licensed music beds and sound effects for every video; the b-roll skill searches and downloads through the API and MCP; each track ships with a LICENCE.md.	Paid	Personal (about 10 USD/mo) covers one creator's own channels; Commercial (about 20 USD/mo and up) is required when the video is for a client. Licenses are per account: a client must hold their own.
DaVinci Resolve Studio	The NLE for long-form and podcast cuts. Claude drives it through the Resolve scripting API and the davinci-resolve MCP: additive plates on V2+, offline titles, OGraf native titles, exports.	Paid	Studio (295 USD one-time) is required: the free version has no external scripting, no OGraf loader and no hardware encode options used here. Version 21.1 or newer.

What you bring

Your own Epidemic Sound login, and your licence records

The steps

Read the config, never a remembered number
Master the voice first
Build your music bank and bake the bed
Place SFX from the event registry, one sound per event
Bounce audio-only and read the table
A sound note never encodes video

Get the full playbook

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Part of: Install your video editing suite