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Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM

Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM

mohebifar

Comments (47)

  • caijia
    Curious about the headless story. The "Photopea of video editing" comparison is apt — Photopea's real moat ended up being the API and programmatic access, not just the browser UI. Companies embed it for automated image processing workflows.For a browser-native NLE, the killer feature might not be the timeline UI — it could be exposing the WGPU rendering pipeline as an API that other tools can call. Imagine CI pipelines that render video assets without needing FFmpeg on the server.
  • TechSquidTV
    I like the promise, but the hill is very steep and I don't see much on delivery here. Very hopeful, but I would rather see this kind of thing launch significantly further than where it is at. This appears to be a good base, now let's see it again when there is Text support, animations, transitions, filters, etc.
  • xrd
    I've been using kdenlive and it is functional as an open source video editor. I don't know if kdenlive supports shared assets and projects, but this feels like something this project could offer and exceed expectations. Is that on the roadmap?
  • Retr0id
    Tried it in Firefox and it was working for a few minutes and then managed to crash the whole browser. Definitely a firefox and/or gpu driver bug though. I can't wait for WebGPU browser/platform support to get a bit more mature, because it's awesome (although the security implications do make me nervous).
  • skiing_crawling
    What would be really awesome is if it could use the server its hosted on's GPUs. I have a multi GPU server and it would be great to be able to edit videos from my table or couch without spinning up my laptop so hard.
  • mohebifar
    Free and open source NLE video editor powered by WGPU, WASM, WebGPU, Rust, and Tanstack Start
  • xnx
    How does this compare to https://omniclip.app/ ?
  • bensyverson
    Really cool! It may not replace a dedicated NLE for professional editors, but I love that it's a fully functional NLE that you could drop into an existing web app that handles video.
  • Jayakumark
    great project but non commercial license, makes me not to go near it.
  • skyberrys
    This looks cool! I'll check it out later from my computer, I'm guessing it's not so easy to use on mobile.
  • thefourthchime
    This is very cool!! but a test video I did and I played it back on Safari, the video playback was very, very choppy (m2 air). Is this a known issue?
  • cerrO
    The UI is very good. Thank you, OP.
  • Jaxkr
    Great project. The last time someone did this idea well they got acquired by Microsoft. Clipchamp has since been enshittified, making them ripe for disruption. The wheel continues to turn…
  • bstsb
    looking good! getting red/inverted video flashes on Firefox, M4 Pro. could be an issue with canvas anti-fingerprinting though, not sure its root cause
  • SlavikCA
    Great project!Is there similar project for image editing?Just basic features:- cropping- rotating- brightness & contrast
  • cerrO
    The UI is very good compared to Omni. Thank you.
  • baibai008989
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  • devnotes77
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  • bitwize
    Is it feature-parity with Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro? If not, then it's not professional.
  • Richard_Jiang
    It‘s really a new project,I will try,if I need professional video editing.