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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 flohofwoe »

RobotToaster wrote: post #22
mohebifar wrote: post #2

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

This is absolutely not an open source license https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0/ It violates point 1,5 and 6 of the open source definition https://opensource.org/osd

For nitpicking like that let me do some counter-nitpicking: please write 'Open Source (OSI)', 'Open Source (TM)' or at least capitalize it as 'Open Source' so that people know where you're coming from. The commonly used 'open source' just means 'the source is in the open'. Let's not allow organizations to hijack commonly used words.

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

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Post by jofzar »

mohebifar wrote: post #6
bensyverson wrote: post #4

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.

Yes, but the goal is to become the photopea of video editing. Something quick that you can launch via web that can support 80% of the day to day use cases.

Good goal, I love photopea for this exact reason. I have no need for photoshop anymore (which I had purely for quick edits) I would love the equivalent for video

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

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Post by jofzar »

mashreghi wrote: post #75
pjmlp wrote: post #70

This will only handle toy videos, given the browser limitations in sandboxing and 3D rendering. Not really sure why someone would use this instead of a proper native application.

Photopea wasn't "Photoshop replacement" either, still massively useful.

Imo photopea is a Photoshop replacement, it's just not a professional Photoshop replacement.

It's for everyone who had a pirated version of cs3 on their computer for basic edits.

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

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

mohebifar wrote: post #33
RobotToaster wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is absolutely not an open source license https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0/ It violates point 1,5 and 6 of the open source definition https://opensource.org/osd

You are absolutely right. I just changed the license to ELv2.

I genuinely recommend putting something like AGPL if you wish to go towards Open Source route.

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

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Post by onion2k »

pjmlp wrote: post #70

This will only handle toy videos, given the browser limitations in sandboxing and 3D rendering. Not really sure why someone would use this instead of a proper native application.

Unreal Engine 5 can run in your browser. What "3D rendering" capability is missing for video work?

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

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Post by m00dy »

mohebifar wrote: post #85
m00dy wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A chrome tab still has 4gb max memory limit right ?

Much of Tooscut's heavy data lives outside the V8 heap. We use WASM linear memory which is not counted against V8 heap. GPU buffers is in VRAM. Bitmaps are also native allocations. Also, video files are never fully decoded. We use the browser's native WebCodecs on demand. Only a small buffered window gets decoded and sent to the compositor. So it can even handle long 4K videos.

good info, thanks.

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

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Post by ErroneousBosh »

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?

It doesn't require an account to download.

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

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Post by ErroneousBosh »

mohebifar wrote: post #5
thefourthchime wrote: post #3

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?

Ah I believe I should have clarified browser support. Safari is not very well supported. Have you tried chrome?

It's not supported in Chrome either.
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