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

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

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Post by mohebifar »

caijia wrote: post #49

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Good point. I agree that could be a very interesting direction.

I have used Remotion for years because the DX is great, but the performance and overhead is significant. Even something like attaching subtitles to a video can take around 10x more time and resources than bare FFmpeg because of the chromium layer.

A headless version of this wgpu renderer with a clean API and eventually a nicer DX layer such as a react renderer could be a strong replacement for that kind of workflow.

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

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Post by Fabricio20 »

dylan604 wrote: post #47
mohebifar wrote: post #2

Free and open source NLE video editor powered by WGPU, WASM, WebGPU, Rust, and Tanstack Start

If you want free, Resolve will run circles around whatever open source thing you can find. No need for WGPU, it just runs the GPU. Sadly, things like this just put a bad taste in my mouth about the whole concept of running code in a browser like this. It's buggy as hell. It doesn't run in all browsers. And I really have to ask why we think the browser is the place to run this. We've moved from Java and now to WASM in…

Resolve requiring an account to download is what turned me away when I needed to do a quick edit the other day. Oracle much?

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

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Post by motoxpro »

Fabricio20 wrote: post #52
dylan604 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want free, Resolve will run circles around whatever open source thing you can find. No need for WGPU, it just runs the GPU. Sadly, things like this just put a bad taste in my mouth about the whole concept of running code in a browser like this. It's buggy as hell. It doesn't run in all browsers. And I really have to ask why we think the browser is the place to run this. We've moved from Java and now to WASM in…

Resolve requiring an account to download is what turned me away when I needed to do a quick edit the other day. Oracle much?

Why not just have a throwaway email account for these types of things. Opens up a lot of great software if this is a barrier for you.

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

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Post by csomar »

dylan604 wrote: post #47
mohebifar wrote: post #2

Free and open source NLE video editor powered by WGPU, WASM, WebGPU, Rust, and Tanstack Start

If you want free, Resolve will run circles around whatever open source thing you can find. No need for WGPU, it just runs the GPU. Sadly, things like this just put a bad taste in my mouth about the whole concept of running code in a browser like this. It's buggy as hell. It doesn't run in all browsers. And I really have to ask why we think the browser is the place to run this. We've moved from Java and now to WASM in…

> And I really have to ask why we think the browser is the place to run this.

This is a big barrier if you want cross-compatibility and making Linux usable for everyday people. My whole interface is a terminal and a browser. I could use/pay for something like this in the same way I use figma. I don't need an app and when I open my iPad I can access whatever I was working on.

The browser should have been the place to run all of this from the very start; but Apple/Google decided to create walled gardens for their systems.

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

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Post by windowsrookie »

Fabricio20 wrote: post #52
dylan604 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want free, Resolve will run circles around whatever open source thing you can find. No need for WGPU, it just runs the GPU. Sadly, things like this just put a bad taste in my mouth about the whole concept of running code in a browser like this. It's buggy as hell. It doesn't run in all browsers. And I really have to ask why we think the browser is the place to run this. We've moved from Java and now to WASM in…

Resolve requiring an account to download is what turned me away when I needed to do a quick edit the other day. Oracle much?

Black Magic gives video editing software that actual professionals use away for free. They sell professional grade equipment that regular consumers can afford. They also offer a ton of training videos teaching you how to edit professionally....for free. A ton of independent filmmakers have started their career using Black Magic software/devices.

They are absolutely not anything like oracle.

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