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16 hours agoby pdyc

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

I really love this. I find ffmpeg to be a bit of a pain to work with, but it's so very powerful. This tool might help me craft some cool flows in my app.

11 hours agoby Narciss

This is neat.

While only tangentially related, I dove into a rabbit hole not long ago trying to find the best ffmpeg GUI (that doesn'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/automation, obscure/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's what I found. I'm not going to list all their features and pros/cons, but just let others know about some of these as a starting point.

I'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.

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.

clever FFmpeg-GUI [4] - Another VideoHelp go-to. I'm not 100% sure if this supports AviSynth/VapourSynth, but it's pretty damn feature-complete as far as ffmpeg goes.

Shutter Encoder [5] - Probably has the most intuitive UI of the bunch, it feels much closer to a Premiere Pro/Davinci Resolve type program rather than an ffmpeg wrapper, albeit those applications are much more robust for different tasks.

Hybrid [6] - My favorite out of these, purely because it was easy enough to get running on macOS and didn't sacrifice many ffmpeg features. Also supports AviSynth/VapourSynth.

Honestly, probably didn't even need to comment this; I wish I had more knowledge about these to share in-depth. If you'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+/VapourSynth into the mix as you see fit, though those are a good deal more advanced than even ffmpeg. Just my two cents.

[1] https://handbrake.fr/

[2] https://github.com/staxrip/staxrip

[3] https://www.videohelp.com/software/sections/video-encoders-h...

[4] https://www.videohelp.com/software/clever-FFmpeg-GUI

[5] https://www.shutterencoder.com/

[6] https://www.videohelp.com/software/Hybrid

9 hours agoby jslpc