Show HN: Video editor app that generates FFmpeg commands

65 pointsposted a day ago
by pdyc

15 Comments

nadermx

11 minutes ago

This is marvelous. Any thoughts on open sourcing it?

pdyc

2 hours ago

Added support for audio as well both for adding audio files and playback of audio within video in preview. Now the app size is whooping 350KB.

stuaxo

3 hours ago

Wonderful. Finally an ffpeg wrapped I can get behind.

I wonder what a gstreamer equivalent would be like.

yodon

3 hours ago

Professional video UIs pretty much all use dark mode, so light mode UI reads as "non-professional" or "toy" in this space.

I suspect flipping the UI from light to dark will significantly increase adoption.

prvt

25 minutes ago

based

tehwebguy

3 hours ago

Have wanted this exact thing in the past!

factormeta

11 hours ago

Wow!! This is like the pgadmin4 of postgres!!!

It is much much needed to make ffmepg on par with a video editor!

pdyc

11 hours ago

pgadmin is GOAT, i hope this tool lives upto expectation, i have some time today will probably add some more features like export setting and audio support to it.

Narciss

19 hours ago

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.

pdyc

14 hours ago

glad you liked it

alexliu518

11 hours ago

Very good application, but it seems that the video cannot be played after uploading

pdyc

11 hours ago

you mean in preview player or after encoding using ffmpeg video is unplayable? Can you give some more details about your browser, browser version, os, os version and pc/mobile, file, if its publically available that i can replicate. Any other info to debug would be helpful as well. Last but not the least i hope you have pressed play button and waited for some time like 2-3 seconds.

jslpc

17 hours ago

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

pdyc

14 hours ago

i needed this before starting the project but than i might not have started it at all :-)