I got about 30% through making something very similar then moved on to another project. This is very nicely done.
It is worth noting that I did a lot of research in this space when I was working on my own video editor and there are a lot of these now (I have about 30 in a spreadsheet). Ever since there was a ffmpeg WASM port many people have made these web based editors. It is so cool we live in a time where that kind of powerful technology is freely usable by others to build these tools.
My angle was to add gen ai video as a first class feature. That might be something you want to investigate now that video gen apis are becoming more common.
leptons · 9h ago
>That might be something you want to investigate now that video gen apis are becoming more common.
No, it doesn't need that. It just needs to be a good web-based video editor.
aio2 · 8h ago
Wrong, depending on his priorities.
If he just wants a good website to do the job, sure, genai is uselesse
But if he wants to market it, in this day and age, it's practically a need.
leptons · 6h ago
>But if he wants to market it, in this day and age, it's practically a need.
No, it isn't. AI content creation is a fundamentally different thing that a video editor. Maybe you can't tell the difference, but I can. AI isn't going to edit the video how I want, it isn't going to create the video I want from a prompt when I've already got the video clips I want to edit. I don't need to edit clips of people with 7 fingers, I need to edit my family vacation video, or whatever it is I need a video editor for. There's nothing about AI that would improve this as a video editor, at all.
If I could import this project into my existing React-based web app, I will use it to edit clips of content for my specific application, and for that it is useful. AI would just bloat it and be annoying where it isn't needed.
fragmede · 2h ago
> want, it isn't going to create the video I want from a prompt when I've already got the video clips I want to edit.
You act as if there aren't a bunch of non-AI video editing apps that try to do exactly that, nevermind AI apps that try and do that.
> I don't need to edit clips of people with 7 fingers
There's more to AI than image generation (and 7 fingers
isn't the same problem it was 6 months ago). Specifically, picking out the important part of the clip, adding appropriate captions and music from the AI processing the video.
> I need to edit my family vacation video
Yes. What do you think an AI enhanced video editor would do? Be Photoshop? Editing the family video from hours down to a digestible video for sharing is a time intensive process, and while I'm sure you enjoy it, not everyone does. A "Make vacation video" button for those people for whom that's a chore and not fun, and don't remotely care to be semi-professional video editors is the target market for a program with a feature to find decent photos and snippets of video from a giant pile of stuff, and arrange them into something cromulent.
As far as state of the art for generated content, a cousin of mine used AI to take a still image of the extended family at dinner with their hands under the table, and turn it into a convincing video where everyone raises their hands and waves (with the correct number of fingers, in case that needed to be stated.)
Anyway, to answer your question, the react library backing this for building your own to drop in is called Remotion. If you'd rather a different video editor, https://omniclip.app/ was mentioned as being an open source no-upload video editor.
xnx · 12h ago
https://omniclip.app/ is another online video editor option that runs entirely in the browser (i.e. no video sent to an unknown server). Also open source.
I get a message from pikimov.com about Firefox not supported.
mohyware · 10h ago
Wow this is really great! I can't believe this is a one person project
I can definitely get inspiration from it.
mohyware · 12h ago
looks cool
jony1266 · 12h ago
looks cool, love how there's no sign in required.
some feedback so far:
- allow me to drag + drop video clips to add them to the media section
- allow me to trim the beginning of a clip - right now i can only trim the end of a video clip
- allow me to drag the playhead (right now i can only click to move the playhead somewhere)
- make most of the text on the page be select-none - there were many times when i tried to drag something and it selected a bunch of text on the page
jacktheturtle · 11h ago
no sign in IS SO NICE
purplecats · 11h ago
limited time offer (almost certainly only until they get some users) but for the purposes of demonstration in HN i love it
mohyware · 12h ago
Glad you liked it!
I’ll add these to the to-do list
shkm · 1h ago
Love this, curious to see where it'll go. Would be amazing if we could move text around with the mouse.
jasonthorsness · 11h ago
This is remarkably good for a month-old project. I wish all apps could remain this snappy!
I don't like the auto-scrolling of the timeline when the red bar reaches the halfway point it's too jumpy.
Consider hosting some sample clips for people to play with.
mohyware · 10h ago
Thanks!
u can disable it with the Track Marker button or the (T) shortcut.
I'll also consider this.
90s_dev · 8h ago
Wow. I didn't know we could make video editors online now. Amazing job. I tried to do this so many times over the past 10 years, and it's a lot harder than it looks. But the "power" apps in this area are disproportionately too hard to use, and capcut and tiktok are easier but have their own major problems. Looking forward to using this! Also to reading the source!
mohyware · 12m ago
Thank u sm! really appreciate it man.
mncharity · 7h ago
Perhaps add a screenshot to the landing page? The current "Ok, what does it look like?" path seems discouragingly long (landing page, Get Started, Add Project, name project, click on project).
mohyware · 16m ago
oh good point! i can include a screenshot or a gif on the landing page to show it off
this is the initial. u can extend it by resizing the right side, but I will change this in the next update
indigodaddy · 8h ago
Haven't even looked at this, but does this or similar webapps (saw some others posted in comments) make it easy to redact passwords or any other sensitive information in videos? I've explored some desktop tools (very cursorily tbf), and it always seems dreadfully complicated so I've never really even attempted beyond a half-assed effort. I really think there should be some tool that makes this point and click so that even a lazy half-asser can do it easily.
fragmede · 2h ago
What sort of videos? For Twitch streaming, the way to do is not have passwords on screen by having OBS only show a portion of the screen, with an extra terminal/whatever outside of the shared section (find a more in depth guide for details on how this works in detail/practice)
Redacting an area of the screen is easy with a bit of practice, even though the location of the password on screen may move, you just have to trace a path for the black box to move along. However, thattakes a bit of time unlike a hypothetical hide password with AI button.
asadm · 9h ago
It would be good to add a default project to just test it out without uploading our own content.
mohyware · 27m ago
good idea I will add it to my to-dos.
dylanjha · 6h ago
Ever consider shipping this as an SDK that other apps can embed? This is something I’ve heard many people ask for.
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aaurelions · 9h ago
Rendering...
Aborted()
The progress bar is experimental in FFmpeg WASM, so it might appear slow or unresponsive even though the actual processing is not.
mohyware · 31m ago
What file types were used?
higgins · 11h ago
incredible. the get started "+" icon and the github icon vectors were AI generated?
mohyware · 10h ago
Nah, I just found it on some random Tailwind components site.
uploaded a clip, pressed play on the timeline, but the preview wouldnt play
mohyware · 34m ago
What is the clip type?
SkilTrick · 9h ago
Nice Project !
popalchemist · 9h ago
Is it usable as a react or vue component?
mohyware · 33m ago
react
steren · 9h ago
Curious: why not set up a custom domain?
edoceo · 9h ago
Don't domain cost money? Then you have to keep it around for years.
andsoitis · 9h ago
Like $10 - $20 per annum.
mvdtnz · 8h ago
So, money.
eth0up · 10h ago
I could have used this several weeks ago when all attempts to edit video (OpenShot & everything else I had installed) in Void Linux were temporarily thwarted until I realized an update had introduced incompatibilities with the GPU OpenGL/mesa driver slopstack.
I was able to wrest back some of my software by starting with
LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
This forces CPU rendering through bypassing the intel GPU shitstack.
Or that's at least what I think happened. Took a loooong time to figure out.
Edit: I should include that part of the issue might be hamfisted aspects of the updates that penalize variable frame rates, which phone cameras use, and also comprises 100% of my videos. Still not sure though.
SkilTrick · 9h ago
Nice project !
mohyware · 36m ago
Thanks!
HenryBemis · 11h ago
I couldn't find your Privacy policy. What do you do with the videos uploaded? How do you store them, process them, 3rd parties? How do you monetize this? How is your approach/compliance to GDPR?
mohyware · 11h ago
No files are uploaded everything is stored locally in the browser using IndexedDB and processed with FFmpeg (WebAssembly port) in the browser.
jacktheturtle · 11h ago
FFmpeg continues to run the world lol
dylan604 · 9h ago
there is nothing more useful
feznyng · 10h ago
Assuming this is hosted on Vercel (which the URL indicates) and everything's done/stored locally (as stated) I don't think there's passive cost associated with providing this service (besides dev time).
mohyware · 10h ago
Yep you are right. The only reason was time since I don't have much experience with deployments.
It is worth noting that I did a lot of research in this space when I was working on my own video editor and there are a lot of these now (I have about 30 in a spreadsheet). Ever since there was a ffmpeg WASM port many people have made these web based editors. It is so cool we live in a time where that kind of powerful technology is freely usable by others to build these tools.
My angle was to add gen ai video as a first class feature. That might be something you want to investigate now that video gen apis are becoming more common.
No, it doesn't need that. It just needs to be a good web-based video editor.
If he just wants a good website to do the job, sure, genai is uselesse
But if he wants to market it, in this day and age, it's practically a need.
No, it isn't. AI content creation is a fundamentally different thing that a video editor. Maybe you can't tell the difference, but I can. AI isn't going to edit the video how I want, it isn't going to create the video I want from a prompt when I've already got the video clips I want to edit. I don't need to edit clips of people with 7 fingers, I need to edit my family vacation video, or whatever it is I need a video editor for. There's nothing about AI that would improve this as a video editor, at all.
If I could import this project into my existing React-based web app, I will use it to edit clips of content for my specific application, and for that it is useful. AI would just bloat it and be annoying where it isn't needed.
You act as if there aren't a bunch of non-AI video editing apps that try to do exactly that, nevermind AI apps that try and do that.
> I don't need to edit clips of people with 7 fingers
There's more to AI than image generation (and 7 fingers isn't the same problem it was 6 months ago). Specifically, picking out the important part of the clip, adding appropriate captions and music from the AI processing the video.
> I need to edit my family vacation video
Yes. What do you think an AI enhanced video editor would do? Be Photoshop? Editing the family video from hours down to a digestible video for sharing is a time intensive process, and while I'm sure you enjoy it, not everyone does. A "Make vacation video" button for those people for whom that's a chore and not fun, and don't remotely care to be semi-professional video editors is the target market for a program with a feature to find decent photos and snippets of video from a giant pile of stuff, and arrange them into something cromulent.
As far as state of the art for generated content, a cousin of mine used AI to take a still image of the extended family at dinner with their hands under the table, and turn it into a convincing video where everyone raises their hands and waves (with the correct number of fingers, in case that needed to be stated.)
Anyway, to answer your question, the react library backing this for building your own to drop in is called Remotion. If you'd rather a different video editor, https://omniclip.app/ was mentioned as being an open source no-upload video editor.
some feedback so far:
- allow me to drag + drop video clips to add them to the media section
- allow me to trim the beginning of a clip - right now i can only trim the end of a video clip
- allow me to drag the playhead (right now i can only click to move the playhead somewhere)
- make most of the text on the page be select-none - there were many times when i tried to drag something and it selected a bunch of text on the page
I don't like the auto-scrolling of the timeline when the red bar reaches the halfway point it's too jumpy.
Consider hosting some sample clips for people to play with.
Redacting an area of the screen is easy with a bit of practice, even though the location of the password on screen may move, you just have to trace a path for the black box to move along. However, thattakes a bit of time unlike a hypothetical hide password with AI button.
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Aborted() The progress bar is experimental in FFmpeg WASM, so it might appear slow or unresponsive even though the actual processing is not.
I was able to wrest back some of my software by starting with
LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
This forces CPU rendering through bypassing the intel GPU shitstack.
Or that's at least what I think happened. Took a loooong time to figure out.
Edit: I should include that part of the issue might be hamfisted aspects of the updates that penalize variable frame rates, which phone cameras use, and also comprises 100% of my videos. Still not sure though.