Building reels by stitching short clips together works, but hard cuts can make the final video feel rough. I wanted Reel Quick to produce something smoother without forcing creators to leave the app and finish the job in a separate editor.
This update adds scene transitions to Reel Quick. When creating a reel, you can now choose a transition and have it applied automatically at every scene boundary. That keeps the workflow simple while making the final output feel more polished.
On the backend, I added a transition catalog for supported FFmpeg xfade effects, including fade, dissolve, fadeblack, fadewhite, wipeleft, wiperight, slideleft, slideright, circleopen, and circleclose. The API validates the selected transition, stores it with the video, and exposes transition records so the frontend can load only active options.
On the frontend, the create-video flow now fetches available transitions and lets the user pick one before the job is queued. From there, the worker passes that choice into the render pipeline, and FFmpeg applies the selected transition between trimmed clips during output generation.
One detail that matters: this feature depends on FFmpeg support for the xfade filter. If the local FFmpeg build supports it, Reel Quick can now turn plain stitched clips into cleaner, more watchable reels with no extra editing step.
This is the kind of update I like most: small on the surface, but meaningful in the final result. It improves creator output, keeps the API workflow clean, and moves Reel Quick closer to being a practical open source reel-production tool.
Output video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HqOj9ZctlApq2AO2ylS16YXYhy6gu7AO/view?usp=sharing
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