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Top 23 Python video-editing Projects
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Hey HN! We’re building Revideo (https://github.com/redotvideo/revideo), an open source toolkit that lets you programmatically create and export videos with the animation library Motion Canvas (https://github.com/motion-canvas/motion-canvas). This is useful whenever you want to build apps that automate certain video tasks, which is increasingly possible using AI tools - for instance, one of our first users is building an app that turns code documentation into video tutorials.
Revideo extends Motion Canvas with features that are essential for creating video, such as the ability to export audio tracks, a nodejs package for headless, parameterized & much faster rendering, and audio components that make audio editing and syncing easier. While Motion Canvas aims to be a standalone editor [1], we want to build a set of libraries that lets developers integrate video editing functionality into their apps. Our goal is to provide an open-source alternative to Remotion (https://github.com/remotion-dev/remotion).
At the start of this year, we explored a bunch of product ideas in the space of AI-based video creation. For example, we’ve built apps that automatically create educational short videos and have experimented with automatically A/B testing and personalizing video ads.
While building these products, we were frustrated with the video editing frameworks we used: Moviepy (https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy), which we relied on initially, doesn’t offer a way to preview your videos, so we’d often have to wait minutes for a video to render to test our code changes. Remotion (https://github.com/remotion-dev/remotion), which we switched to later, is really good, but we didn’t want to rely on it as it is not open source (source-available only). That’s why we decided to build Revideo.
We’d already been following Motion Canvas for some time and really liked using it, so we thought that extending it would get us to something useful much faster than building an animation library from scratch. Initially, we tried to build our features as Motion Canvas plugins, but this did not provide enough flexibility to achieve the desired functionality. Additionally, video-specific features (such as audio support) were generally considered out of scope by the Motion Canvas maintainers, which is why we ultimately ended up creating a fork. We’re unsure if this is the right way to go in the long term, and would prefer to find a way to build Revideo without diverging from Motion Canvas too much - if you have suggestions on how to solve this, we’d love your input.
Compared to Remotion, which builds on top of React, Motion Canvas uses the HTML Canvas API and makes you define animation flows with generator functions. Its API is more “procedural”, as it makes you define the things that happen in your animation as a sequence of yields, whereas Remotion gives you a frame number and lets you declare how your video should look like at that frame.
Our current focus is improving the open source project. In the long term, we want to make money by building a rendering service for developers building apps with Revideo. Such a service would offer a pretty similar deployment experience to Vercel, but instead of web apps, we let developers deploy Revideo projects and expose a rendering endpoint for them. Letting us manage the infrastructure will allow us to offer much faster rendering, as we can massively parallelize rendering jobs on our servers (e.g. spinning up 100 headless browsers that render 100 frames each to render a video with 10,000 frames).
We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions! You can find our repo at https://github.com/redotvideo/revideo, We’ve also released an example video editing app at https://github.com/redotvideo/revideo-saas-template. Thank you!
[1] “Motion Canvas is not a normal npm package. It's a standalone tool that happens to be distributed via npm.” - https://github.com/orgs/motion-canvas/discussions/1015
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backgroundremover
Background Remover lets you Remove Background from images and video using AI with a simple command line interface that is free and open source.
Project mention: Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background using WebGPU | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-26 -
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openshot-qt
OpenShot Video Editor is an award-winning free and open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows, and is dedicated to delivering high quality video editing and animation solutions to the world.
OpenShot is great, FOSS and works well on my 2014 MBP: https://www.openshot.org/
I used DaVinci Resolve but it was very sluggish on older hardware.
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TokenFlow
Official Pytorch Implementation for "TokenFlow: Consistent Diffusion Features for Consistent Video Editing" presenting "TokenFlow" (ICLR 2024)
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Text2LIVE
Official Pytorch Implementation for "Text2LIVE: Text-Driven Layered Image and Video Editing" (ECCV 2022 Oral)
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Project mention: Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background using WebGPU | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-26
I've tried many different background removal algorithms and found that InSPyReNet has been the most successful one. I use `transparent-background` on pip a whole bunch and it rarely fails on me compared to remove-bg and whatnot
https://github.com/plemeri/transparent-background
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movis
Python library for video editing, presentation video generation, motion graphics, shader art coding, and other video production tasks
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RAVE
RAVE: Randomized Noise Shuffling for Fast and Consistent Video Editing with Diffusion Models - CVPR 2024 - Official Repo (by RehgLab)
Project mention: Recapping the AI, Machine Learning and Computer Meetup — June 27, 2024 | dev.to | 2024-06-27Project: RAVE: Randomized Noise Shuffling for Fast and Consistent Video Editing with Diffusion Models
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Implicit-Internal-Video-Inpainting
[ICCV 2021]: IIVI: Internal Video Inpainting by Implicit Long-range Propagation
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Project mention: List of Stable Diffusion research softwares that I don't think gotten widespread adoption. | /r/StableDiffusion | 2023-12-10
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Project mention: Show HN: Custom Action Recognition with ActionAI | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-23
Hello HN!
We made an update to our most popular open source project ActionAI: https://github.com/smellslikeml/ActionAI
It's a toolkit to help anyone train and deploy custom action recognition models on the edge. More here: https://www.hackster.io/actionai/actionai-custom-tracking-mu...
We made a CLI so that it's even easier to install and deploy. This update uses Intel's dlstreamer with a gvapython element to run the classifier.
If you're interested in other kinds of model customizations, check out our efforts at https://remyx.ai.
Would love to hear your thoughts.
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Video-Motion-Customization
VMC: Video Motion Customization using Temporal Attention Adaption for Text-to-Video Diffusion Models (CVPR 2024)
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AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator
A python tool that uses GPT-4, FFmpeg, and OpenCV to automatically analyze videos, extract the most interesting sections, and crop them for an improved viewing experience.
Project mention: Show HN: Create AI-generated short videos for YouTube quickly and easily | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-06 -
crispy
Crispy is a machine-learning algorithm to make video-games montages efficiently. It uses a neural network to detect highlights in the video-game frames (by Flowtter)
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source video-editing projects in Python? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | moviepy | 12,332 |
| 2 | backgroundremover | 6,640 |
| 3 | ShortGPT | 5,508 |
| 4 | openshot-qt | 4,246 |
| 5 | Text2Video-Zero | 3,939 |
| 6 | auto-editor | 2,819 |
| 7 | TokenFlow | 1,551 |
| 8 | OpenTimelineIO | 1,439 |
| 9 | StableVideo | 1,369 |
| 10 | Text2LIVE | 877 |
| 11 | transparent-background | 702 |
| 12 | WebmGenerator | 503 |
| 13 | Video-P2P | 369 |
| 14 | movis | 343 |
| 15 | RAVE | 255 |
| 16 | Implicit-Internal-Video-Inpainting | 251 |
| 17 | LAMP | 251 |
| 18 | SAFA | 176 |
| 19 | FFMPerative | 169 |
| 20 | Video-Motion-Customization | 166 |
| 21 | AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator | 122 |
| 22 | crispy | 82 |
| 23 | Video-Silence-Remover | 36 |
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