Show HN: Open-Source Video Editor Web App

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2 years ago

Hey everyone, for the past like six months I've been working on a portfolio project. I got tired of doing easy projects, so I decided to tackle something bigger and more challenging. That's when I came up with the idea of a video editor. This piece of work is intended to showcase my skills and land me a job, but I like to think when working on projects that my idea is so cool that people will like to use it, and I treat every project like a startup idea. Also I havent seen many open source video editors especially on web so that was one of the points why I decided to make that and not something else, but in the end its learning experience and im not expecting much if at all.

A bit about the video editor itself:

-website: https://omniclip.app/

-its free

-its open source (MIT Licensed)

-its using Webcodecs API for quick rendering

-works fully inside browser, client side, no private data is kept

-I made some readme with more details, im not expecting contributions but I added bit about it: https://github.com/aegir-assembly/omni-clip

Features:

-Trimming

-Splitting

-Supports - Text, Audio, Video (mp4) and Images

-Clip editing on preview - rotating, resizing, text styling and more

-Undo/Redo

-Render in different resolutions, up to 4k.

Things to know before using this editor:

-it is simple editor, but its my main project im working on and improving it.

-right now it only works with videos 25 fps and more but not less

-only 4 tracks -- its something I could improve quickly but forgot

-bug here and there (eg. filmstrip not rendering until timeline scroll moved)

-its not working on phones yet (drag and drop API problems)

I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on it.

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