How does one start developing a video editor?

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  • FFmpeg

    Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

    • Nice one - following! For starters, I would look at existing command line tools to see how they got about this. I've been using ffmeg (https://ffmpeg.org/) and gstreamer (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/) for things like encoding and basic edits.

  • 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.

    • I would not tackle that as a solo project ... but it all depends on how much work / time you want to put into it. Creating a compelling GUI is a whole different story, just take a look at www.openshot.org which is pretty neat for Linux

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