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video editing cli

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Declarative command-line video editing

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5 positive, 15 neutral or mixed, 5 critical. Score +0.02

LikedUseful for automating video creation, e.g. user guide videos or resizing

ObjectedRequires ffmpeg installed, which is hard to set up

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Shown by mifino on Apr 28, 2020. Click the card to turn it over.

429points

75comments

#71of 3,028 in 2020

Top 3%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

5 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 5 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.

Idea: 2 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against

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Requires ffmpeg installed, which is hard to set up
From 1 comment
- Looks great, from looking at the use cases and examples. What scares me is the requirement to have ffmpeg and ffprobe installed and available of course. Had a painful experience…
  areactnativedev on HN
Requires Node.js
From 1 comment
- tbh, what turned me off is having to have Node.js installed
  btbuildem on HN
Written in JavaScript, seen as an ffmpeg wrapper
From 1 comment
- Judging by the comments here I guess I'm the only one that feels extremely awkward about this being written in Javascript. I don't mind wrappers but is this essentially just an…
  hnarn on HN
Audio support is very limited
From 1 comment
- No, audio support is very limited for now.
  mifino on HN

Mute audio sections within clips
From 2 comments
- Is there a way to mute specific windows of clips? I see you can do `cutFrom` and `cutTo` but say I just want to mute that section, not remove the entire section
  umvi on HN
- By mute I mean silence the audio for a specified duration in a clip
  umvi on HN
Pandoc integration
From 1 comment
- Has anyone hacked together some Pandoc glue? It would be nice to just point it at some pandoc files. (Granted there will be a need for a few extra details with imagery.)
  xhkkffbf on HN
Easier ffmpeg install instructions in README
From 1 comment
- Looks great, from looking at the use cases and examples. What scares me is the requirement to have ffmpeg and ffprobe installed and available of course. Had a painful experience…
  areactnativedev on HN

What is the use case?
From 1 comment
- Cool, but why? What’s a use case for this?
  gnomesteel on HN
Can regular videos (not only GIFs) be created?
From 1 comment
- Is this only for creating gifs? I was hoping it could create regular videos.
  jacobush on HN
Can shadertoy GLSL transitions be used?
From 1 comment
- Can I use other glsl transition from shadertoy?
  kimown on HN

moviepy
From 1 comment
- This looks great! Two alternatives if you are interested in doing similar things in python are moviepy (https://zulko.github.io/moviepy/) and vidpy (which I am working on, and…
  saaaam on HN
vidpy
From 1 comment
- This looks great! Two alternatives if you are interested in doing similar things in python are moviepy (https://zulko.github.io/moviepy/) and vidpy (which I am working on, and…
  saaaam on HN
Descript
From 2 comments
- descript.com does this I believe
  G2H on HN
- This is pretty much exactly what Descript.com does with its “overdub” feature. You can even choose the emotion and intonation of the generated audio. It works freakishly well.
  didgeoridoo on HN
Raw ffmpeg CLI
From 2 comments
- Hmmm. I thought ffmpeg was already pretty good for declarative command-line video editing.
  jonas21 on HN
- Until now couldn't the "Programmatic video editing tool" step be replaced with ffmpeg via CL?
  Andrex on HN