You don't need to know how to edit. You need to know what you want.

Here is my goal and my material.
Audience: [who will watch].
After watching, they should believe: [one sentence].
Then they should: [one action].
It will be posted on: [platform]. Length: [about 60 seconds]. Shape: [16:9 / vertical].
My files are in originals/: screenshots, photos, logo, fonts and earlier work.
Before you plan anything, ask me the questions you need answered. Then list what each file proves, flag any claim that has no file behind it, and propose an outline of 6 to 10 sections. Do not write scenes or render anything yet.
Before you show me the outline, check your own work: confirm every claim in it has a file behind it, and mark any that does not.

I watched draft-v1. My notes:
1. [0:03 or section]: [what's wrong] → [what I want]
2. [0:08 or section]: [what's wrong] → [what I want]
Keep: [what already works].
Sound: [music or no music, and the feel], [voice too loud or too quiet anywhere].
Reference (optional): [video file or link]. Borrow its [pace / type / energy], not its content.
Fix only the [opening] for now. Export working/out/[opening]-v2.mp4 with one second of the neighbouring sections, and keep the previous version.
When I say a section is approved, record its file name in notes/accepted.md and write its rules in notes/style.md: at most three colours, one pair of fonts, one kind of background and one kind of music. Every later section follows that style, and approved sections are never touched again.
Before you show me, check your own work: confirm each note names a moment, what is wrong and what I want (ask me about any that does not), render stills at the key moments into one contact sheet, confirm no text is cut off or overlapping, check the voice loudness, and list each of my notes as done or not.

Carry the same [element] from [its place in scene A] to [its place in scene B]. It must be one object that moves and resizes continuously, never a crossfade between two copies. Match its crop, background and layer order when it lands. Show me the start, middle and landing frames and a playable preview.

Package the approved film into exports/: final.mp4, a cover image taken from the film, and post copy.
Check duration, resolution, sound and the final second. Save notes/recipe.md with what worked, the approved files and the prompts, so the next video can start from it. Do not publish anything.
Before you show me, check your own work: list the duration, resolution and sound you measured, confirm the first frame works as the cover, and check that the final second ends cleanly.

This video is approved. Turn how we made it into a reusable Skill, so the next video of this kind starts from it.
Read our whole history for this project: my notes, the versions I rejected and why, and the one I approved.
Write skills/[name for this kind of video]/SKILL.md with: when to use it; what goes in and what comes out; the steps in order; my rules, each one taken from a note I gave or a draft I rejected, with the reason; the files and settings to reuse (fonts, colours, music levels, the ending); and the checks to run before you show me a draft.
Keep it short and specific to my videos. Do not add rules I never gave. Show me the Skill before you save it.
Next time, start with: Use skills/[name]/SKILL.md to make this video from originals/.