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Show HN: Video editor app that generates FFmpeg commands

147 pointsby pdyc6 months ago
Hello Friends, I have built a new video editor app that generates ffmpeg commands to get the edited video. This gives you flexibility to use it in scripts etc. for your video editing workflows and makes editing tasks smooth by letting you visually adjust video elements that are difficult to adjust in commandline.<p>Demo is here<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KSvazNBEfTc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KSvazNBEfTc</a><p>Link is here<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newbeelearn.com&#x2F;tools&#x2F;videoeditor&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newbeelearn.com&#x2F;tools&#x2F;videoeditor&#x2F;</a><p>Features are<p>- video, image, text editing<p>- adjustable timeline and layers<p>- adjust position, size , alignment, font size color, borders etc.<p>- quick info of image, video files<p>- preview player to get the idea of edited video with play, pause, seek.<p>Limitations are<p>- Audio files(mp3) are currently not supported though audio inside mp4 will work<p>- player is not frame accurate it just gives u close enough approximation.<p>- file paths are not supported due to browser&#x27;s security limitations.<p>- I have only tested happy path so there would be many bugs but it should work for simple tasks<p>Others<p>- Completely free<p>- No registration&#x2F;login etc.<p>- Works online does not requires any installation<p>- Works offline after first load<p>- Works locally does not requires server<p>Background is i generally have one off video tasks and i don&#x27;t mind using ffmpeg for it but recently i had to create a bunch of product videos and it was difficult to get text etc. right on commandline, i tried kdenlive and openshot as well but couldn&#x27;t figure out how to something simple like adding a logo and text to it(i guess i am dumb) so i created this new app to suit my workflow

10 comments

pdyc6 months ago
Added support for audio as well both for adding audio files and playback of audio within video in preview. Now the app size is whooping 350KB.
stuaxo6 months ago
Wonderful. Finally an ffpeg wrapped I can get behind.<p>I wonder what a gstreamer equivalent would be like.
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nadermx6 months ago
This is marvelous. Any thoughts on open sourcing it?
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factormeta6 months ago
Wow!! This is like the pgadmin4 of postgres!!!<p>It is much much needed to make ffmepg on par with a video editor!
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Narciss6 months ago
I really love this. I find ffmpeg to be a bit of a pain to work with, but it&#x27;s so very powerful. This tool might help me craft some cool flows in my app.
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alexliu5186 months ago
Very good application, but it seems that the video cannot be played after uploading
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tehwebguy6 months ago
Have wanted this exact thing in the past!
jslpc6 months ago
This is neat.<p>While only tangentially related, I dove into a rabbit hole not long ago trying to find the best ffmpeg GUI (that doesn&#x27;t require Wine or a VM to run on macOS) and found some good stuff. Handbrake [1] is great and uses ffmpeg as part of its backend, but it gets somewhat limited when you start requiring more advanced things like vf chains, scripting&#x2F;automation, obscure&#x2F;legacy codec support, or specific hardware acceleration needs. I wanted to find something that gets (close to) as densely packed with features as ffmpeg from the command line, and here&#x27;s what I found. I&#x27;m not going to list all their features and pros&#x2F;cons, but just let others know about some of these as a starting point.<p>I&#x27;m not affiliated with any of these programs (Handbrake and ffmpeg included) in any way, I just want to point others in the right direction if they come across this comment.<p>StaxRip [2] - One of the most popular and complete options. Seems like one of the the go-tos on the VideoHelp [3] forums for video editing GUIs. Supports AviSynth+ and VapourSynth scripts among other advanced features.<p>clever FFmpeg-GUI [4] - Another VideoHelp go-to. I&#x27;m not 100% sure if this supports AviSynth&#x2F;VapourSynth, but it&#x27;s pretty damn feature-complete as far as ffmpeg goes.<p>Shutter Encoder [5] - Probably has the most intuitive UI of the bunch, it feels much closer to a Premiere Pro&#x2F;Davinci Resolve type program rather than an ffmpeg wrapper, albeit those applications are much more robust for different tasks.<p>Hybrid [6] - My favorite out of these, purely because it was easy enough to get running on macOS and didn&#x27;t sacrifice many ffmpeg features. Also supports AviSynth&#x2F;VapourSynth.<p>Honestly, probably didn&#x27;t even need to comment this; I wish I had more knowledge about these to share in-depth. If you&#x27;re serious about video encoding, your best bet is to start learning how to use ffmpeg from the command line anyways, then maybe add AviSynth+&#x2F;VapourSynth into the mix as you see fit, though those are a good deal more advanced than even ffmpeg. Just my two cents.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;handbrake.fr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;handbrake.fr&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;staxrip&#x2F;staxrip">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;staxrip&#x2F;staxrip</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.videohelp.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;sections&#x2F;video-encoders-h264-vc1?orderby=Comments" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.videohelp.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;sections&#x2F;video-encoders-h...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.videohelp.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;clever-FFmpeg-GUI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.videohelp.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;clever-FFmpeg-GUI</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shutterencoder.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shutterencoder.com&#x2F;</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.videohelp.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;Hybrid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.videohelp.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;Hybrid</a>
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prvt6 months ago
based
yodon6 months ago
Professional video UIs pretty much all use dark mode, so light mode UI reads as &quot;non-professional&quot; or &quot;toy&quot; in this space.<p>I suspect flipping the UI from light to dark will significantly increase adoption.
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