The latest articles on DEV Community by Mikael Finstad (@mifi). https://dev.to/mifi https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F363034%2Feebe2372-23c3-47cd-aa42-7919d70549e6.jpeg https://dev.to/mifi en Mikael Finstad Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:58:24 +0000 https://dev.to/mifi/editly-slick-declarative-command-line-video-editing-1c99 https://dev.to/mifi/editly-slick-declarative-command-line-video-editing-1c99 <p>I created an opinionated, easy to use JS library and CLI that lets you cut/assemble videos without a GUI.</p> <p>Editly is a tool and framework for declarative NLE (non-linear video editing) using Node.js and ffmpeg. It allows you to <strong>easily and programmatically</strong> create a video from set of clips, images and titles, with smooth transitions between.</p> <p>There is a simple command line for quickly assembling a video from a set of clips or images, or you can use it from Javascript!</p> <p>Inspired by <a href="https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/ffmpeg-concat">ffmpeg-concat</a>. The problem with that project is that it is quite slow and uses an extreme amount of disk space, especially for HD/4K videos. This projects solves that by doing <strong>streaming</strong> editing, so it doesn't store any temporary files.</p> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/LNeclLkxUEY"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--A9SmTQa9--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_66%2Cw_880/https://github.com/mifi/gifs/raw/master/commonFeatures.gif" alt="demo"></a></p> <p>This GIF/YouTube was created with this command:<br> "editly <a href="https://github.com/mifi/editly/blob/master/examples/commonFeatures.json5">commonFeatures.json5</a>"</p> <p>Hope you find it useful!</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/mifi/editly">https://github.com/mifi/editly</a></p> node javascript opensource