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 · 3h 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 · 2h 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 · 48m 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.
xnx · 6h 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.
Wow this is really great! I can't believe this is a one person project
I can definitely get inspiration from it.
mohyware · 6h ago
looks cool
dylanjha · 25m ago
Ever consider shipping this as an SDK that other apps can embed? This is something I’ve heard many people ask for.
jony1266 · 6h 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 · 5h ago
no sign in IS SO NICE
purplecats · 5h ago
limited time offer (almost certainly only until they get some users) but for the purposes of demonstration in HN i love it
mohyware · 6h ago
Glad you liked it!
I’ll add these to the to-do list
jasonthorsness · 5h 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 · 4h ago
Thanks!
u can disable it with the Track Marker button or the (T) shortcut.
I'll also consider this.
mncharity · 1h 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).
90s_dev · 2h 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!
indigodaddy · 3h 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.
Don't domain cost money? Then you have to keep it around for years.
andsoitis · 3h ago
Like $10 - $20 per annum.
mvdtnz · 2h ago
So, money.
eth0up · 4h 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 · 4h ago
Nice project !
HenryBemis · 5h 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?
feznyng · 4h 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 · 4h ago
Yep you are right. The only reason was time since I don't have much experience with deployments.
mohyware · 5h ago
No files are uploaded everything is stored locally in the browser using IndexedDB and processed with FFmpeg (WebAssembly port) in the browser.
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.
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.
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.