I did a project like this in 2006 and also struggled with Adobe Premiere's manual steps. I wish there was an affordable audio & video editor that created and e

I did a project like this in 2006 and also struggled with Adobe Premiere's manual steps. I wish there was an affordable audio & video editor that created and edited transform scripts, with support for offline rendering. Then I could save the transform script along with the source files. An ancient Premiere project file is unlikely to work in the future. To re-render or edit those old videos again, I will need to run a cracked ancient Premiere in a VM. That's a poor way to work with archives. With a good transform script format, we could make software that renders the transformation on the fly. You could save a transform file with a URL to the source files. To display the transform file, your browser will download the source files, apply the transformations, and show it in real-time. We could also use software engineering process tools on transform scripts: source control, code reviews, integration tests, declarative artifact generation like Bazel, etc. Do tools like this exist?