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.
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.
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).
I have lot of large gopro videos (have a 4 year old with all 4 years of gopro videos), that I painstakingly have to edit when my 256 GB card fills up (currently I have 500GB of vodes sitting) . No matter how careful you are while recording it has some parts that needs to be trimmed out for saving space and also play time. As of now I use quickplayer loading single videos for each and every one and have to save them carefully. I have not found any app or tool that can efficiently just show me the files on a sidebar that I can select and edit using simple edit options like trim to remove unwanted parts in 3 to 10GB files.
anyone know any tools that work. The tools suggested here did not even load these files :(
1. clipjs.vercel.app
2. https://pikimov.com/app/
3. https://omniclip.app/
I will happily pay for this tool. AI to show me the part where there are no humans, I will pay more :) by ofcourse all locally and no cloud shenanigans.
Of course people saying why record so much, why do we do anything ? :) try to be optimistic nihilist
Please don't only start to edit the videos when you fill up the 256GB card. You would regret when you have to recover lost files from it. I've seen too many people lose irreplaceable memories due to card corruption or accidental deletion and it is even painful for me to scan and recover their >256GB cards.
Move them out as early as you can and do regular backups. Videos of your child are much more precious than a whole backup solution.
The problem is that its stored in IndexedDB in the browser, which has a 2 GB limit. also FFmpeg (WASM), which renders the files, cannot process files larger than 2–4 GB. So the tool needs to be running either on the cloud or locally outside the browser like Adobe Premiere.
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!
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.
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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.
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.
I will happily pay for this tool. AI to show me the part where there are no humans, I will pay more :) by ofcourse all locally and no cloud shenanigans. Of course people saying why record so much, why do we do anything ? :) try to be optimistic nihilist
https://mifi.no/losslesscut/
Move them out as early as you can and do regular backups. Videos of your child are much more precious than a whole backup solution.
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.