video-use Best Practices (Hebrew)
Trusted81/100Hebrew override layer on top of browser-use/video-use. Two paths: (1) captions-only.sh, one command that takes a long video, transcribes via Scribe, and burns Hebrew captions on the original. Costs $1-3 regardless of video length, the cheap path for non-technical users with a webinar or lecture. (2) The full video-use cut workflow for editing raw footage into curated teasers, ~$25-300 depending on length. Also covers SUB_FORCE_STYLE override (Helvetica has no Hebrew glyphs), python-bidi pre-shape recipe (libass+SRT BiDi is silently broken on macOS), Scribe garbage-character sanitization (Devanagari and other non-Hebrew chars Scribe mixes into Hebrew transcripts), Hebrew filler-word lexicon, explicit fontsdir= for reliable font discovery, and frame-sampling self-eval protocol. Use for any Hebrew video that needs captions or editing with video-use. Do NOT use for non-Hebrew video-use sessions, Hebrew podcast audio-only post-production (use hebrew-podcast-postproduction), or generic FFmpeg work without video-use.
Trust score 81/100 (Trusted) · 16+ installs · 4 GitHub contributors · MIT license
video-use ships with a strong English-first default: the bundled SUB_FORCE_STYLE uses Helvetica (no Hebrew glyphs, renders as boxes), 2-word UPPERCASE chunks (Hebrew has no uppercase), and ElevenLabs Scribe filler tagging is English-centric. This skill is the Hebrew-specific override layer on top of video-use 12 Hard Rules, none of the rules change, only the style values, font fallback chain, and filler list.
skills-ilnpx skills-il add skills-il/developer-tools@v1.2.10-video-use-best-practices --skill video-use-best-practices -a claude-codeWhen to Apply
- When editing a Hebrew talking-head video with video-use
- When captions render as boxes after video-use renders the final file
- When English filler removal worked but Hebrew fillers like אֶה and כאילו remain
- When editing a code-switched Hebrew/English tech tutorial with library names
- When producing a Hebrew Reels or TikTok marketing video with video-use
Try These Prompts
Edit the files in this folder into a 5-minute Hebrew launch video with burned-in Hebrew captions. Use video-use with sub-force-style-hebrew from references/.
My final video shows caption boxes. Run fc-list :lang=he, if missing install via scripts/install-hebrew-fonts.sh and re-render.
Read references/hebrew-filler-words.md and apply the list as a post-pass on my Scribe JSON. Add the timestamps to the cut-candidate set before building the EDL.
Split this video into 30-second clips in vertical 1080x1920 format using the vertical-social-he style from references/sub-force-style-hebrew.md.
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
Fix: resolved the BiDi recipe self-contradiction (python-bidi pre-shape is required on macOS), removed "אם" (the word "if", not a hesitation) from the auto-cut filler set, corrected the burn mechanism (ASS Style-line patch, not force_style), fixed the credit-based free-tier math (~30 min/month), and updated to Scribe v2 + the March 2026 price cut.
Jun 29, 2026
Docs: close 7 content gaps + fix doc/code contradiction. (1) captions-only-tuning.md added to Bundled Resources (was orphan). (2-4) Three new Troubleshooting entries: characters within words LTR not RTL (deliberate), no periods or question marks (default since 1.2.6), Scribe gap-recovery failure. (5) Fix major doc/code contradiction: Gotcha claiming "libass+SRT BiDi works correctly, do not pre-shape" was OPPOSITE of what the working script does. Rewrote as "double-reversal is DELIBERATE" with anti-regression guidance. (6) domain-checklist.md updated with 5 mitigated failure modes. (7) New references/quick-test.md: 10-second synthetic Hebrew clip recipe (say -v Carmit + ffmpeg) for ~$0.001 pipeline validation without burning real footage against free-tier quota.
May 16, 2026
Docs: close 6 gaps surfaced during real-use validation. (1) Fix wrong ElevenLabs free-tier number (10K characters/month, not 10 hours, ≈ ~1 long Hebrew video/month). (2) Document the v1.2.7 auto gap-recovery feature. (3) Document the default punctuation-stripping behavior + how to disable. (4) --yes flag. (5) <video>.he.srt side-export. (6) New references/captions-only-tuning.md covering thresholds and scribe_v1/v2 split.
May 16, 2026
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