#Looking for people to help me out with an event-based video editor.

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eager loom
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Hello everyone!

I am working on an open source video editor made with C++. I have noticed a lack of tools for the "digital video" type of creators (youtubers) and I figured that a free and open source tool might be the best thing to give to those people.

Before you think I'm some overambitious college grad, I just want to make an editor with people I can hang out with. I don't want to spend full time on this unless it will shape up to be something really really good. It's about the journey, not the destination. I have 10 years of experience in coding and video editing. I can even do most of the work as I am perfectly capable of doing such an editor by myself, but that would be lonely. I can do a majority of the work, but having others to help out when I'm not sure of something is what I'm looking for.

Here is my vision:

  • Easy to use, yet powerful: Simple things must be quick to do, (like cutting, transforming or putting transitions), and complex things must be as easy as possible.
  • Event based editing: Instead of clips, you have events, which can act like clips, but can also be a general duration based object. Like a camera motion or a post processing effect.
  • DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself): Basically templates. So that you can reuse parts of your video. Like a slow image zoom with a fade in/out transition, all within a single template YOU can create. Templates should have configurable parameters which you can connect properties to.
  • Browser extension: Allows you to put any image/video from the internet in the editor from your browser. Must be only 1 click.
  • Animated properties: Self explanatory, you can animate properties of events with keyframes.
  • UI needs to be out of your way: You shouldn't fight the UI when you need to do something. Something which many editors seem to forget.
  • Help available inside the editor: The [?] button should be prevalent all across to clear any confusion with pictures or short videos.
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eager loom
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Note that this is not a job, this is simply a passion project which I really would like for people to be interested in and help out because I do not want my vision and solutions to be the only ones, every perspective is important. I want this to be as good of a video editor as it can be, and locking myself to only my own views wont let me achieve that.

If you have questions feel free to ask me, I will happily answer anything!

You can DM me if you are interested.

Currently, my prototype code resides on: https://github.com/CZEditor/CZEditor. I have gotten help from others, but minor.

It's not supposed to be a HUGE AMBITIOUS PROJECT, its about doing small things one after another. Slowly but surely making the editor. It's about the journey not the destination.

hallow chasm
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do you have a discord where it can be discussed?