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https://caniuse.com/webgpu

Missing support in Firefox on Linux and Android, otherwise seems to be pretty well supported in recent browsers.

It is possible with two videos. When I did this, I dragged the two video files into the timeline (one a LED globe with background noise, second video a fireplace with fire crackling sounds), clicked the eye to hide the fire in one video, clicked the mute to silence the LED globe noise, and then copy pasted the sounds from the fire video a few times over. I think I know what you mean by the scrolling, I hovered over the lower bar top and made the track bars window taller instead so I didn't need to scroll. I didn't try with an mp3.

I actually prefer browser-based tools. Havent installed hex editors since hexedit for web is available; Photopea covers my occasional photo/picture editing needs, google sheets/slides/docs is my main office suit, etc. It's great to not have to install things.

Amazing! That's really great to hear! Let me know if you ever have any issues or feature requests in the GitHub issues.

Yes, that was part of the thinking behind the licensing choice. The goal was to keep the engine itself open source, while creating opportunities to monetize adjacent offerings like cloud file management, sharing, AI editing, and other higher-level capabilities.

This is a far cry from Adobe's suite. It's like a version of MsPaint Vs Photoshop.

please post link, this is something I need

> napi-rs

why not tauri?

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

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 a browser, but only some browsers.

I think you selected the wrong license. Your license currently as written actually forbids _using_ the software for a commercial purpose, eg if someone monetizes a video edited using your software, they are in violation of your license, which is not what you want.

Look at something like the Hashicorp BSL [1] for inspiration on crafting a license that forbids specific commercialization of the software itself.

[1] https://www.hashicorp.com/en/bsl

Any plugin plans? In case you don't know, there is a standard for it: https://openeffects.org/

Would you like to share your development experience? I suggest creating a CONTRIBUTING.md and enabling discussions if you are open to PRs.

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.

Seems interesting. I had not seen Omniclip specifically. But like most web-based NLEs I've seen, its UX feels unfamiliar. My goal was to build a desktop-grade professional editor that feels familiar to editors like Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Final Cut Pro, rather than reinventing the editing experience.

I had not used either before reading this thread, but omniclip has an odd interface, it's very unfamiliar to me compared to a standard NLE, and the loading time was quite long (maybe just HN load?).

Yep. Unfortunately, Firefox has a poor WebGPU support atm.

We actually already support text, transitions, and animation of basic properties as well as some filters. I would be interested to hear more about your use case and which capabilities you felt were missing from what you saw.

I see. I haven't decided on the commercial license yet. This might be temporary. I started this as part of another for-profit side project (for dubbing videos with AI). I may change the license later as the quote unquote "copyright owner". If I see the open-source community is active and finds it useful, I'd switch to a free-er license. Things are not super clear yet to me re what can be done with a web based video editor.

The goal here is not to replace Premiere Pro across every professional workflow. But it is also not intended to be a toy editor.

Modern browser and GPU capabilities are already sufficient for a large category of practical video editing tasks. We are not targeting blockbuster scale 8K movies at least for now, but we are targeting real jobs people do every day across social, commercial, and non-commercial video production.

Same argument was made about Figma vs native tools, didn't age well.

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

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

Could you please tell me more about your use case. I've changed the license once today. I'm open to changing it again.

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

My tool uses the browser's built in encoders (which vary by browser, but whatever). I did use wasm though, for the MediaPipe background removal stuff.

https://kaliedarik.github.io/sc-screen-recorder/

If people can ship paid work with it, it's professional enough.

photopea?

If you make money at it, you're professional. People are making so much money being content creators and don't give a damn about your definition of needing Pr or FCP to be professional.

It doesn't take much functionality to make jump cut videos and silly zooms an other non-traditional editorial styles that are the new normal for content.

However, as a professional editor, I laugh at these attempts using professional in the description when you're telling me to edit in a browser. <face_palm> It's great that they want to create a new thing and try some experimental stuff, but it's not going any where near my use of professional. Also, the landing page is dry as can be and not really informative. It's the visual equivalent of bullet points. What codecs does it support? What level of audio features are available. The lame video is just some panning shot. There's no editorial features being demoed at all. Does the timeline behave like FCP elastic or a more traditional timeline? What professional tools are available? Hmm, no data available, so I guess we'll have to just play with it. Oops, browser not compatible. Thanks for playing.

"Professional" = people getting paid, not feature checklists.

That's a weird take. There are plenty of professional use cases like quickly putting together a few short clips for social media shorts or whatever, that does not require anywhere near feature-parity with the big NLEs.