Show HN: Video editor app that generates FFmpeg commands

147 points

2 years 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.

Demo is here

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSvazNBEfTc

Link is here

- https://newbeelearn.com/tools/videoeditor/

Features are

- video, image, text editing

- adjustable timeline and layers

- adjust position, size , alignment, font size color, borders etc.

- quick info of image, video files

- preview player to get the idea of edited video with play, pause, seek.

Limitations are

- Audio files(mp3) are currently not supported though audio inside mp4 will work

- player is not frame accurate it just gives u close enough approximation.

- file paths are not supported due to browser's security limitations.

- I have only tested happy path so there would be many bugs but it should work for simple tasks

Others

- Completely free

- No registration/login etc.

- Works online does not requires any installation

- Works offline after first load

- Works locally does not requires server

Background is i generally have one off video tasks and i don'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'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

32 comments