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Top 23 Python video-editing Projects
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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.
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video-retalking
[SIGGRAPH Asia 2022] VideoReTalking: Audio-based Lip Synchronization for Talking Head Video Editing In the Wild (by OpenTalker)
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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.
> A simple but powerful video editor that gets the job done. Works on any platform.
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I would have expected a bit more from the main page.
For the FOSS video editing software out there, I tried out Shotcut (https://www.shotcut.org/) and OpenShot (https://www.openshot.org/), though both of them were either a bit unpolished or unstable, with the occasional crash along the way.
I had a way better experience with kdenlive, which was my main video editor for a bit, has the basic features I'd expect, as well as decent codec support: https://kdenlive.org/
As for other options, DaVinci Resolve still feels like the more professional software suite that you'd go for, sans the cost, albeit the UI can be a bit awkward in places to someone used to the likes of kdenlive/Sony Vegas: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
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AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator
Open-source alternative to Opus Clip, Vidyo.ai, Klap & SubMagic. Turn long-form YouTube videos into viral 9:16 shorts using LLM highlight detection, Whisper transcription, and auto vertical cropping — free, no watermarks, no per-clip credits.
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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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MIMO
Official implementation of "MIMO: Controllable Character Video Synthesis with Spatial Decomposed Modeling"
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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: SparkVSR: Video Super-Resolution You Can Control with Keyframes | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-22
https://github.com/taco-group/SparkVSR
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OmniVoice-Studio
The open-source ElevenLabs alternative. Local voice cloning, design, creation and cinematic video dubbing with real-time dictation.
Building an open-source ElevenLabs-like AI voice platform called OmniVoice Studio.
It supports voice cloning, dubbing, transcription, and local/self-hosted workflows with Docker + desktop UI support.
Using open-source models like Whisper, Qwen, OmniVoice and more.
GitHub: [OmniVoice Studio](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio)
Thanks for checking it out
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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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seedance-2.0-watermark-remover
Remove Seedance 2.0 watermark (AI生成) from videos automatically. No GPU required. Free open-source tool.
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RAVE
RAVE: Randomized Noise Shuffling for Fast and Consistent Video Editing with Diffusion Models [CVPR 2024] (by RehgLab)
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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 |
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| 1 | LivePortrait | 18,544 |
| 2 | moviepy | 14,686 |
| 3 | backgroundremover | 7,913 |
| 4 | ShortGPT | 7,320 |
| 5 | video-retalking | 7,245 |
| 6 | openshot-qt | 5,875 |
| 7 | Text2Video-Zero | 4,250 |
| 8 | AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator | 3,851 |
| 9 | VACE | 3,814 |
| 10 | TokenFlow | 1,711 |
| 11 | MIMO | 1,574 |
| 12 | StableVideo | 1,441 |
| 13 | Director | 1,394 |
| 14 | transparent-background | 1,241 |
| 15 | Text2LIVE | 888 |
| 16 | SparkVSR | 675 |
| 17 | WebmGenerator | 593 |
| 18 | OmniVoice-Studio | 505 |
| 19 | movis | 474 |
| 20 | Video-P2P | 431 |
| 21 | seedance-2.0-watermark-remover | 410 |
| 22 | RAVE | 316 |
| 23 | LAMP | 283 |
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