How I Make YouTube Videos With Claude Code (This One Was Built Live)

Ryan “RyMac” McKinney · USMC Veteran · 2026-11-07 · 7 minute read

I make YouTube videos with Claude Code out of 1 folder, in 9 stages. The video below was built on camera while I recorded. The line I run is The RyMac Production Line.

When I hit record, this video had a title and a plan. The script didn't exist yet.

By the end of the recording, Fred had written the script. Fred is my Claude. I'd recorded my voice off the slides. The opening had rendered in the cloud.

Then Fred rebuilt the sales page for the production line.

63 minutes, made on camera. The script, the slides, my voice, the cloud render and the sales page. The waits are sped up. The mistakes stay in.

Can Claude Code make a YouTube video?

Yes. Claude Code writes the script. Claude Code builds the slides. Claude Code writes the code for every motion on screen.

You may hear the next part called Remotion. Remotion is the tool that turns that code into a video file.

My videos render in Amazon's cloud. My laptop stays free during the render.

I read page 1 of Google before I wrote this. Every guide on page 1 stops at the edit. The video is the finish line.

My line keeps going. The same folder turns 1 video into a blog post, a squeeze page, a lead magnet & a sales page.

I wrote up the first version of this line back when the line had made 27 videos.

What did the line make in 79 days?

On August 19 at 8:58 in the morning, this line made its first sale. $25.

79 days later the receipts read like this.

$5,176.45 earned. That's my Stripe sales, my Skool payouts, my Skool balance and 1 affiliate payout.

65 videos. 127,161 views.

1,110 people on my email lists. 416 of them came from my YouTube links.

59 people bought the production line.

My Skool community brings in $1,734 every month.

I'm a sales closer & a jarhead. I can't write a line of code. Fred runs the line. I run Fred.

I wrote down how a non developer runs ICM if that's you too.

What are the 9 stages?

Every video walks the same 9 stages, in the same order. Skipping a stage is what used to cost me days.

Every stage runs on Claude Code skills that Fred fires in order.

1. Gameplan. The title, who the video is for and where the video ends. The title gets locked first.
2. Script. Fred writes the script as numbered slides in my voice. I edit the file and save.
3. Spec. Every picture and every motion, slide by slide.
4. Voice. I record off my own slides, 1 slide at a time.
5. Storyboard. The real recording gets mapped to the second. I answer the open calls before anything renders.
6. 90 seconds. A 90 second preview renders first. Nothing full length runs until I say the preview is good.
7. Render. The full video renders in the cloud.
8. Package. The title, the description, the chapters and the thumbnails for YouTube.
9. Blog. A post like this one, with the video in the post.

On this video I ran the stages out of order on purpose. The live part came first. The opening and the close got written around the live part.

The same folder also turns a YouTube video into a Skool classroom.

What does a cloud render of a Claude Code video cost?

The 68 second opening of this video rendered in 71 seconds. The opening cost about 3 cents.

The full 63 minute video cost $3.60. The full render took 3 tries.

The first try crashed. My 93 minute screen recording was too big to load in time.

The second try finished. Then the check caught my AWS account number on screen for 5 seconds.

The third try covered the number. That's the video you're watching.

Before a video ships, the recording gets read every 3 seconds for names, emails and keys. A client's name gets covered. So does a member's.

Amazon writes the transcript too. 93 minutes of my voice came back in 76 seconds.

Same as the second brain I built live, nothing here was rehearsed.

Why does a video need its own sales page?

Views don't pay you. A page does.

While the opening rendered, I had Fred rebuild my sales page. A new headline. New questions about traffic and sales. A block that says what happens the second somebody clicks the button.

Say you run a marketing agency. Every client wants video. Somebody edits the video. Then the video goes up with nothing behind the video.

The line builds the video and the page from the same folder. That's version 2 of my production line page.

Do I need to code to make videos with Claude Code?

No. I can't write a line of code.

Every stage is a folder and a text file. You can open each file and read the file. Fred does the work the file describes.

You may hear the folder method called Interpretable Context Methodology, ICM. ICM means 1 folder your AI reads before your AI does any work.

Here's the AI folder structure under all of the stages.

Questions about making YouTube videos with Claude Code

Can Claude Code make a YouTube video?

Yes. Claude Code writes the script, builds the slides and writes the code for the motion. A tool called Remotion turns that code into a video file. Mine renders in Amazon's cloud, so my laptop stays free.

What does a cloud render of a Claude Code video cost?

The 68 second opening of this video rendered in 71 seconds for about 3 cents. The full 63 minute video cost $3.60 across 3 tries.

Do I need to code to make videos with Claude Code?

No. I can't write a line of code. Every stage is a folder and a text file. Fred, my Claude, does the work the file describes.

What are the 9 stages of the production line?

Gameplan, script, spec, voice, storyboard, a 90 second preview, the render, the YouTube package and the blog post.

Turn your own video into 4 pages

The video shows my production line once. Your own AI can turn your video into the same 4 pages. The interview is free.

Every ICM Folder System I have built, the free ones and the ones people paid for, is on 1 page.

The folder method is Jake Van Clief's and David McDermott's Interpretable Context Methodology, ICM. Fred runs on Claude Code. The videos render with Remotion on AWS Lambda.