| ▲ | Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)(github.com) |
| 75 points by ronak_parmar 4 hours ago | 46 comments |
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| ▲ | JeremyHerrman 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| PSA stop putting bigco IP in your project names! has clawdbot taught us nothing? |
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| ▲ | heresalexandria 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Cool concept, will try it out! I've had decent results with computer use operating conventional editing tools, but being able to directly edit JSON project files is a solid optimization and opens up a lot of opportunities with things like modular templating. |
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| ▲ | ronak_parmar 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Thankyou. I am planning to make it opencode friendly too.. I think that would openup versatality and more experiments..;) |
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| ▲ | miltonlaxer 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Reminds me of https://www.screenkite.com/
The AI powered video editors are fun. |
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| ▲ | ronak_parmar 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | yup but I had Premier Pro and Palmier Pro in mind while making it, hence the UI.;) |
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| ▲ | spottedmarley 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is pretty dang cool but I guess I was hoping to see some very clever use of vision and maybe waveform analysis to give the model "eyes and ears" to edit audio and video. V2 |
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| ▲ | xyzsparetimexyz 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yeah I'm sure you need fable for the heavy reasoning task of editing tiktoks |
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| ▲ | heresalexandria 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | My impression was that they made this editor with Fable, and its JSON project structure would only serve well for manipulation by lesser models. |
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| ▲ | faangguyindia 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| cool! can this be used to make these style of videos from prompt? Style 1: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vGjrv2zjfsM Style 2: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6KoRHpAZ4zk |
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| ▲ | ronak_parmar 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Absolutely, in fact just give it clips, voice and a reference video(optional), command it and wait untill it finishes.. |
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| ▲ | KaseKun 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I have no use for this, however I am stunned by the simple and effective solution of using json+sse instead of an API to allow agent interaction
Amazing work |
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| ▲ | armcat an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This looks great, will try it out. I had a crazy idea of doing a full agentic demo video narration and cutting, so might try your tool with some tweaks. |
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| ▲ | vanilagy 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You should strongly consider using Mediabunny to do all of the rendering client-side! |
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| ▲ | genxy 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I couldn't find a skill in your project that would help integrate mediabunny. The docs and examples look like they could really help. Having good example coverage allows agents to pickup libraries easily. https://github.com/Vanilagy/mediabunny | | |
| ▲ | vanilagy an hour ago | parent [-] | | Just point the agent at the docs, it'll understand them quickly. Mediabunny also has many examples and even a dedicated LLM page. |
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| ▲ | mikert89 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| you can just give claude code access to ffmpeg |
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| ▲ | Jayakumark 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A demo video would be good. |
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| ▲ | hotpartition an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Love that the timeline is just JSON and the UI hot-reloads. Agents and humans on the same edit is the interesting part. |
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| ▲ | upmostly 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Have you thought about integrating Remotion into this? |
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| ▲ | chrisweekly 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I have little experience with video editing; a tool like this might be an ideal path to learn more. Thanks for creating and publishing it and sharing here! |
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| ▲ | ronak_parmar 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | My pleasure. If you have any ideas, lets connect and make it more helpfuul!! | |
| ▲ | xgulfie 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You aren't going to learn by having the AI do it for you... | | |
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| ▲ | spacemanspiff01 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You should have a hosted site for this - It is entirely frontend - right? |
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| ▲ | ronak_parmar 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | almost! the editor/compositor is fully browser side, but the server is doing real work: project.json lives on disk (thats the whole point, any agent or script can edit it and fs.watch + sse hot reloads the ui), plus ffmpeg for the final export encode. so it needs the local server for the actual workflow. a hosted demo mode is a good idea though, project in localstorage + sample footage + mediarecorder export would let people feel the editor without cloning. the one thing it cant show is the main trick, watching an external agent rebuild your timeline live, since theres no local file for it to edit. might do a stripped demo build if theres interest |
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| ▲ | arnab777 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Ya, a demo video would be nice . |
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| ▲ | speedping 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Very cool project but having fable in the name makes it sound so tacky |
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| ▲ | ronak_parmar 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah I though so but as people are so fond of Fable.. This would give them a poke to just take a look..;) | | |
| ▲ | Yiin 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | oh, I read fable as a story, fable cut meaning you can stitch up stories which is a form of storytelling, so quite fitting for video editor | |
| ▲ | monitorlizard 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Since people like an unrelated product, you thought it would be good marketing to jack the brand? Maybe I should start calling my B2B SaaS products Salesforce too! |
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| ▲ | da_grift_shift 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The readme is full of compound Claudeisms, so why not ;-) per-shot energy
frame-accurate
word-pop
reference-video
CSS-@keyframes-animated SVGs render frame-accurately
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| ▲ | yieldcrv 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | it also worked | | |
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