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Products that do what FreeMotion – Browser-based Remotion editor with site scraping record does
Hello HN, I’ve been experimenting with the recent Remotion + Claude Code workflow. While generating video code with LLMs is impressive, the feedback loop felt broken to me. You have to prompt, copy code, set up a local Node environment, install dependencies, and run ffmpeg just to see a 5-second preview. I built FreeMotion (https://freemotion.dev) to move this entire workflow into the browser. It is a free, online editor specifically designed to close the loop between "Prompting" and "Rendering". The core problems I tried to solve: Environment Friction: Running Remotion locally…
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2014 · animatron.com
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Create trend motions in your browser!
Jun 2026 · animdock.com
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Built a browser-based FFmpeg editor that runs entirely client-side via WebAssembly. Your files never leave your device -- all processing happens in a Web Worker. Works offline as an installable PWA after first load.
Jun 2026 · github.com
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A free, open source, Descript alternative. Runs on-device.
Aug 2026 · getrescript.com
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2021 · vidds.co
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Saw the remotion claude skills launch earlier, and honestly even though I was surprised how decent some of the results turned out to be I ended up never trying it out with claude code because I knew I'd have to setup remotion, bundler etc and if I was already doing it once I thought I might as well turn it into a site where anyone could just write messages and get a video without any prerequisites. I also know Claude Code is not something everyone has and setting up remotion is a pain. And one of the biggest lessons I learned from this whole experience is that Opus is actually not that good…
Feb 2026 · framecall.com
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Weave is a React app that provides a multi-track timeline editor to perform basic video edits like trimming, stitching, transitions, audio tracks etc. which maps directly to an FFmpeg command to render the video. I tried my best to have the React "video" preview closely replicate the FFmpeg lavfi filtergraph output, but naturally this is not perfect (especially replicating the `eq` filter using SVG filters is quite inaccurate). I've built this as a prototype for another project I'm working on, so I don't plan to actively maintain it, but I thought it'd be cool to share it. Try it live:…
Jul 2026 · github.com
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Descript costs $24/mo, so I built this over a single weekend with Fable! Introducing Rescript: edit videos by simply editing the transcript text. Drop in a video and it is transcribed locally with per-word timestamps and speaker labels. Delete words in the transcript and the corresponding clip is cut from the video. Runs fully in the browser: Local, free, offline and open source. → Github https://github.com/wassgha/rescript → App https://wassgha.github.io/rescript
Jul 2026 · github.com
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I wanted an open-source video editor template for React. Found no good ones. reactvideoeditor.com is paid. So ended up building this. It is powered by Remotion, provides non-linear video editing support, live preview and local exporting for now. If you're building a tool where you need to give customers a video editor in the browser, this can be helpful. MIT licensed. Let me know what you guys think, feel free to drop by and make a PR/Issue. https://github.com/robinroy03/videoeditor
2025 · github.com
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Hey HN! I built Topic2Manim to automate the creation of educational videos like those from 3Blue1Brown. The workflow is simple: 1. Give it any topic (e.g., "how ChatGPT works") 2. An LLM generates an educational script divided into scenes 3. LLM generates Manim code for each scene 4. FFmpeg concatenates everything into a final video Currently working on TTS integration for narration! Would love feedback on the approach and ideas for the TTS integration
Jan 2026 · github.com
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Having spent 20 years in video there is a few commercial tools out there but not really an open source one. Used Claude for some front end and made it easier to get my idea down.
Jun 2026 · github.com
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Mix is an open-source, local agent for multimodal claude code. Claude code users will feel at home. - Uses ffmpeg and local apps like blender instead of clunky cloud based editors - All project data is stored plain text and native media files - absolutely no lock-in. - The backend is an HTTP server, meaning that the frontend is just one of possible clients. - - Our SDK with stdio interface (similar to claude code SDK) is launching soon.
2025 · github.com
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Hello HN! I’m a bachelors student pursuing Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Signal processing and during the year I had the goal to build my first AI Tool and launch it. I got inspired by how capable Whisper is, and combined the Whisper CPP Bindings along with FFMPEG.Wasm to create a tool that is capable of transcribing and captioning video files that contain one or more video tracks. Along with that, I’ve also added the support for transcribing audio files with the option to export those outputs as .SRT, .WebVTT or simply a text file. All done privately on a user’s web browser with…
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Hey HN, OpenReplay — the self-hosted session replay tool that helps developers troubleshoot web apps faster — now supports recording the element. What’s New? - Canvas Support: Easily reproduce bugs by replaying complex graphics and animations. - Co-browse via P2P: Co-browse with users while streaming canvas elements in real-time, and identify issues and frustrations as they happen. - Customize Recordings: Customize FPS and quality of canvas in session replay, for optimal network usage and replay detail. Why it matters? - Gain deep insights into graphics-intensive parts of web applications,…
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