Show HN: ClipJS – Edit your videos from a PC or phone
43 comments
·May 21, 2025zoogeny
leptons
>That might be something you want to investigate now that video gen apis are becoming more common.
No, it doesn't need that. It just needs to be a good web-based video editor.
aio2
Wrong, depending on his priorities.
If he just wants a good website to do the job, sure, genai is uselesse
But if he wants to market it, in this day and age, it's practically a need.
leptons
>But if he wants to market it, in this day and age, it's practically a need.
No, it isn't. AI content creation is a fundamentally different thing that a video editor. Maybe you can't tell the difference, but I can. AI isn't going to edit the video how I want, it isn't going to create the video I want from a prompt when I've already got the video clips I want to edit. I don't need to edit clips of people with 7 fingers, I need to edit my family vacation video, or whatever it is I need a video editor for. There's nothing about AI that would improve this as a video editor, at all.
If I could import this project into my existing React-based web app, I will use it to edit clips of content for my specific application, and for that it is useful. AI would just bloat it and be annoying where it isn't needed.
xnx
https://omniclip.app/ is another online video editor option that runs entirely in the browser (i.e. no video sent to an unknown server). Also open source.
dobladov
Another one https://pikimov.com/app/
talkingtab
I get a message from pikimov.com about Firefox not supported.
mohyware
Wow this is really great! I can't believe this is a one person project I can definitely get inspiration from it.
mohyware
looks cool
jony1266
looks cool, love how there's no sign in required.
some feedback so far:
- allow me to drag + drop video clips to add them to the media section
- allow me to trim the beginning of a clip - right now i can only trim the end of a video clip
- allow me to drag the playhead (right now i can only click to move the playhead somewhere)
- make most of the text on the page be select-none - there were many times when i tried to drag something and it selected a bunch of text on the page
jacktheturtle
no sign in IS SO NICE
purplecats
limited time offer (almost certainly only until they get some users) but for the purposes of demonstration in HN i love it
mohyware
Glad you liked it! I’ll add these to the to-do list
jasonthorsness
This is remarkably good for a month-old project. I wish all apps could remain this snappy!
I don't like the auto-scrolling of the timeline when the red bar reaches the halfway point it's too jumpy.
Consider hosting some sample clips for people to play with.
mohyware
Thanks! u can disable it with the Track Marker button or the (T) shortcut. I'll also consider this.
dylanjha
Ever consider shipping this as an SDK that other apps can embed? This is something I’ve heard many people ask for.
koakuma-chan
It looks like I can only edit the first 30 seconds of my video, which is 23 minutes long? https://i.imgur.com/L39MS2r.png
indigodaddy
Haven't even looked at this, but does this or similar webapps (saw some others posted in comments) make it easy to redact passwords or any other sensitive information in videos? I've explored some desktop tools (very cursorily tbf), and it always seems dreadfully complicated so I've never really even attempted beyond a half-assed effort. I really think there should be some tool that makes this point and click so that even a lazy half-asser can do it easily.
mncharity
Perhaps add a screenshot to the landing page? The current "Ok, what does it look like?" path seems discouragingly long (landing page, Get Started, Add Project, name project, click on project).
90s_dev
Wow. I didn't know we could make video editors online now. Amazing job. I tried to do this so many times over the past 10 years, and it's a lot harder than it looks. But the "power" apps in this area are disproportionately too hard to use, and capcut and tiktok are easier but have their own major problems. Looking forward to using this! Also to reading the source!
asadm
It would be good to add a default project to just test it out without uploading our own content.
aaurelions
Rendering...
Aborted() The progress bar is experimental in FFmpeg WASM, so it might appear slow or unresponsive even though the actual processing is not.
dested
Incredible use of remotion.
I got about 30% through making something very similar then moved on to another project. This is very nicely done.
It is worth noting that I did a lot of research in this space when I was working on my own video editor and there are a lot of these now (I have about 30 in a spreadsheet). Ever since there was a ffmpeg WASM port many people have made these web based editors. It is so cool we live in a time where that kind of powerful technology is freely usable by others to build these tools.
My angle was to add gen ai video as a first class feature. That might be something you want to investigate now that video gen apis are becoming more common.