SageCut cuts Remotion video QA cost from $127 to 16 cents
The author used Claude to build the SageCut skill, which hands frame-by-frame QA of Remotion videos to the multimodal model Sage and passes only bad frames to Opus 5.5 to fix, cutting cost to 1/10 and time to 1/4 with identical output.
Read this if you make videos with Claude. I built a skill that cut my QA cost on this video from $127 to 16 cents. It was made with Claude in Remotion. It's called SageCut. It swaps the LLM out of frame-by-frame QA and uses a multimodal decision model, Sage (@levantolabs), instead. I'm the only video guy at Levanto. I run 3 Claude plans and have been making Remotion videos since early this year, with BlenderMCP in the mix, so the output is pro-grade with very little babysitting. The problem: it burned through my Max plan, and a video could take 2 days. When I dug into the workflow, the reason was that Claude subagents were reviewing every single frame. That cost a ton and added 4+ hours per video. SageCut hands that step to Sage. Sage is great at spotting defective frames, and only those get passed to Opus 5.5 to fix. Across 6 A/B tests the output was exactly the same, at 1/10 the QA cost and 1/4 the QA time. On this video, Sage read all 3,153 frames for 16 cents. If you make Remotion videos, try it. The link to skill is below. How long does a Remotion video take you right now with Claude?