Alternatives to editly
A declarative command-line video editor that assembles videos from clips, images and text using ffmpeg. Notes say what changes if you switch.
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editly
A declarative command-line video editor that assembles videos from clips, images and text using ffmpeg.
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FFmpeg
The command that converts, cuts, streams and inspects essentially any audio or video file in existence.
FFmpeg's filter graphs can assemble clips, overlays and text directly from scripts without Node.js, but its syntax is harder to write than editly's declarative format.
Shotcut
A free cross-platform video editor with a multi-track timeline that edits most formats without importing them first.
Auto-Editor
A command-line tool that automatically cuts silence and dead space out of video and audio.
Kdenlive
KDE’s free video editor, with a multi-track timeline, proxy editing and a large effect set.
HyperFrames
Open source framework that renders HTML and CSS into deterministic MP4 video.
HyperFrames is an Apache-2.0 framework that renders HTML and CSS into deterministic MP4 video, usable from AI coding agents, instead of editly's clip-based declarative specs.
VapourSynth
A Python-scripted video processing frameserver with a plugin ecosystem for filtering and restoring video.
AviSynth+
A frameserver for scripted video processing and filtering, forked from AviSynth.
