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Ever had a good livestream moment happen before you thought to record it?

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a program I’ve been developing on my own called Weorclip. Before getting into the features, I thought it would make more sense to explain why I started working on it.

There are some great video editors out there. I know a lot of time and effort goes into building them. But not everyone has the budget for paid software or another monthly subscription. Especially if you’re not making money from your videos, paying just to edit your own recordings can feel like an extra burden.

Sometimes you just want to trim a recording, add subtitles to a conversation, or take a short section from a longer video. Getting excited about making something and then running into a payment screen before you’ve even started can be frustrating. That’s basically where this project came from: people should have a way to edit their videos even if they can’t afford a subscription, or simply don’t want one.

I’m developing Weorclip as a free project, without a profit motive. It makes use of open-source tools and libraries. There’s a lot of valuable work in the open-source community, built by people who have spent years making things available for others to use. I’m building on those resources and trying to bring different workflows together into one usable program.

I’m not claiming I’ve made something better than every paid editor. That wouldn’t be realistic, and it isn’t what I’m trying to do. I just want to offer another option that helps people get things done without feeling they have to pay first.

The program includes video editing, automatic subtitles, silence removal, and smart reframing for vertical videos. I’m using AI-assisted tools to reduce some of the repetitive work, while still letting you review and change the results on the timeline.

There’s also a live clipping feature. You can set how much recent livestream footage to keep in the background. For example, you might keep the last five minutes, but that duration is adjustable. When something happens that you want to save, you can capture the clip with a shortcut. If you enable AI editing, the captured clip can also be processed in the background using your chosen settings.

It includes downloading from supported video links too. You can save a whole video or just the section you need. There are quite a few possible uses: stream highlights, gameplay clips, podcast segments, lesson recordings, or short videos for social media. It currently supports 12 languages. I’ve put the other features and details on the website so this post doesn’t turn into an entire user manual 🙂

One difficult part of developing something alone is that, after a while, you stop seeing it through someone else’s eyes. A button that makes sense to me might mean nothing to someone opening the app for the first time. Something I can do in a few clicks might leave another person wondering what to do next. You dont always catch those things by testing everything yourself.

That’s why I’m sharing it. Of course I want people to know it exists, but I also want to understand where it falls short. If you try it, comments like “this didn’t work,” “I couldn’t figure out this step,” or “this would be more useful if it worked this way” would help a lot. Specific criticism is just as useful to me as a positive comment.

I also understand that people might not want to download software from a developer they’ve never heard of. You can watch the videos first. Even feedback on the interface or how clearly I explain things would be useful, without installing anything.

Website: https://weorclip.com/en/
Tutorials and example videos: https://www.youtube.com/@weorclip

I’m attaching a short video here as well. Thanks to anyone who takes the time to have a look. Knowing that something I’ve made could help someone finish their own video means a lot to me. Hopefully, with your feedback, I can keep making it more useful.

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