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OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative
- rtaylorgarlock 1y agoAgain? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540804 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540804 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44355853 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44355853 edit: I am genuinely curious about spam prevention on HN. What systems we got working against fraudulent actors?
- TheObviousOne 1y agoBeside the spam issue...Does the repo legit, though?
- rtaylorgarlock 1y ago[flagged]
- limagnolia 1y agoDifferent accounts doing the submitting- could be the same person, but might not be too. Also, HN guidelines don't really discourage duplicate submissions, and in some cases, HN moderators are known to encourage re-submission.
- echelon 1y agoWhy are you upset that the author resubmitted? The last posts got no traction at all. A post getting two submissions twice does not make this a re-post. Nobody on earth saw the previous submissions. It's permissible for folks to submit posts a few times until they actually get noticed or dang steps in to tell them to stop. The author is doing things exactly as the rules permit. If you've learned from your wife's social media career, you know that you often have to keep trying in order to pick up traction. The algorithm requires signal.
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- NewJazz 1y agoReposts aren't really moderated unless the previous posts were highly updated/commented and recent.
- nateb2022 1y agoConsidering the previous posts never got more than 2 points, I didn't think reposting it would be an issue. I am not a fraudulent actor (not sure what basis there is for that accusation) and generally post things I come across. OpenCut was in my GitHub feed today, seemed like it could be useful to others, ergo I shared it.
- rtaylorgarlock 1y ago[flagged]
- colecut 1y agodon't give yourself too much credit..
- therealpygon 1y agoNone would be better.
- rtaylorgarlock 1y agoThis is hn. Do i seem like the sort of homie to expect anything other than shame here? Have a great day.
- colecut 1y agoAll you have done in this thread is try to shame?
- danjl 1y agoTIL: there's a GitHub feed https://github.com/explore https://github.com/explore
- tomhow 1y agoThis is covered in the FAQ: If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Three counts as "a small number of reposts", particularly when it's from different users, and the fact that it eventually attracted upvotes and a good discussion indicates the reposts were warranted, as randomness plays a big role in whether or not a submission gets traction. Also, we don't like to see public "callouts" like this, and the guidelines ask us to avoid accusations of astroturfing, shilling, etc, because a false public accusation is more harmful than a valid one is beneficial. Please contact us at hn@ycombinator.com if you see anything suspicious. FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- jphoward 1y agoSorry I'm a bit out of the loop, but what's CapCut?
- xnx 1y agoI really like the idea of an open source alternative to CapCut, but the project is currently very far from the ease-of-use that makess CapCut one of my favorite editors on Windows. Very few casual desktop CapCut users are going to get past the prerequisits of instal "Bun, Docker and Docker Compose, and Node.js" Blender, Shotcut, OpenShot, or Kdenlive are probably the better open source video editor options right now.
- codedokode 1y ago> Very few casual desktop CapCut users are going to get past the prerequisits of instal "Bun, Docker and Docker Compose, and Node.js" They just need to pack it as an single AppImage or Electron app. Bun and Docker are made for developers, not users.
- yesbut 1y agoKdenlive https://kdenlive.org/ https://kdenlive.org/
- simple10 1y agoNice! I've never heard of Kdenlive. Do you know how it compares to Davinci Resolve's free version?
- codedokode 1y agoIt runs on Linux.
- awkwardpotato 1y agoDavinci Resolve also runs natively on Linux (with some codec licensing restrictions)
- flexagoon 1y agoSo does DaVinci
- Liftyee 1y agoI've made a couple photo/music montages with both tools. Not an advanced user, but I found Kdenlive was more stable on Ubuntu and the UX is similar between the two.
- margarina72 1y agoUsed it instead on Davinci Resolve on a few computer because Davinci Resolve require GPU and doesn't always recognize it - so it doesn't even start. Kdenlive doesn't have this issue.
- WhyNotHugo 1y agoI've tried this tool a few times over the years. It's quite far from being intuitive. Maybe it makes sense to professionals to work in the field full-time, but for a regular mortal who just wants to edit a video, it's impossible to grasp. Even something as basic as opening a video file is a huge challenge. I can't just open a video file. Instead, I need to "create a new project", which requires that I specify the exact resolution and FPS of the video file beforehand (why!?). After I use a completely separate tool to extract these attributes from the video that I'm editing, I have a blank canvas onto which I can drag the actual video.
- greatgib 1y agoI like the idea but looks fishy at this point even if I did not look at the code or try it yet. So many GitHub stars and not a single screenshot of it anywhere, not on GitHub, not on Google, not on the official webpage that just have a wait-list and their twitter Bash capcut with screenshots of capcut but none of opencutapp. And I mean I wish something like that to succeed, but it doesn't look like that they have much to show for at the moment.
- _lvbh 1y agohttps://xcancel.com/OpenCutApp https://xcancel.com/OpenCutApp Follower count and activity looks about right. There's some screenshots there. I assume the star count is due to some amount of marketing.
- eddythompson80 1y agoThe project is 3 weeks old with mainly 1 guy. I’m curious how you get (legit/organic) 17k start and 3k twitter followers for a 3 week old project presumably while I’m busy with it. I know buying stars and followers is pretty straight forward.
- muratsu 1y agoThe timing of the project was pretty good and things were just aligned: AI video is booming, capcut is popular but changed pricing, there’s regulatory risk, and the dev is building publicly.
- greatgib 1y agoThey can get a small celebrity, nothing legit can explain such a growth in term of stars or forks in just a couple of days in my opinion ... https://www.star-history.com/#OpenCut-app/OpenCut&Date https://www.star-history.com/#OpenCut-app/OpenCut&Date Like when you have nothing to show off, after the first day, already gaining thousands of stars per day. And the last 5 days, with 2 or more thousands per day consistently, linearly... And let's say that we believe in the stars, just look at the number of forks, why so many persons would fork the project so fast, to still do nothing, no contribution or personal commits. Accounts of new users, or almost empty, or shaddy like the following one: https://github.com/1234567891o12?tab=repositories https://github.com/1234567891o12?tab=repositories https://github.com/kietsyu?tab=overview&from=2025-02-01&to=2025-02-28 https://github.com/kietsyu?tab=overview&from=2025-02-01&to=2... https://github.com/jakele86?tab=overview&from=2025-03-01&to=2025-03-31 https://github.com/jakele86?tab=overview&from=2025-03-01&to=... https://github.com/Lukriss98?tab=overview&from=2024-06-01&to=2024-06-30 https://github.com/Lukriss98?tab=overview&from=2024-06-01&to... Or the following one that is quite fun: https://github.com/laga5074 https://github.com/laga5074 In this one, the only other project is a AI generated SEO optimized recipe blog with all the boilerplate still there.
- laxd 1y agoOpenshot, Shotcut, Opencut ... It's getting confusing.
- shawnlower2 1y agoPrefixing your project name with "open" is pretty reasonable, and yet I feel these project names might be worth reconsidering. Maybe the next version can be called OpenWound or ShotCutStabbed
- laxd 1y agoI was thinking Open ChangeScene Massacre for one of them.
- another_twist 1y agoI see that ShadCn has been used here. Good choice !
- ujkhsjkdhf234 1y agoSomeone tell CJ Fly he doesn't have to use the free trial any more.
- eddythompson80 1y agohttps://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut/blob/main/apps/web/src/app/why-not-capcut/page.tsx https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut/blob/main/apps/web/sr... Well then.
- pram 1y agoI kinda wonder why ByteDance charges for anything in CapCut at all, considering it would make sense to make it as easy and cheap as possible to get more slop on TikTok?
- Aurornis 1y agoSimple: They charge because people pay for it. It’s the back door way to collect money from content creators and businesses. Most of the people I know who were using CapCut either had their employers pay for it or had some way to tax deduct it as part of their creator activities. Paying $20/month on top of an actual business is usually trivial, especially if it saves someone time or improves quality of the content. The TikTok slop posts aren’t spending any time perfecting their edits. They’re mass producing content as rapidly as they can from phone camera to TikTok
- Aurornis 1y ago> You probably use CapCut and think your video editing is special. You think your fucking TikTok with 47 transitions and 12 different fonts is going to get you some viral fame. You think loading up every goddamn effect in their library makes your content better. Wrong, motherfucker. I know this edgy style appeals to some people, but it’s a quick way to alienate most users. Nothing screams “this project is not for you” like copy that feels like it was targeted at impressing someone’s friends in an edgy Discord, not actual potential users. Although I don’t think this project is trying to appeal to a general audience with the level of technical expertise required to even begin to use it.
- deadbabe 1y agoThis style is a way to fight back against the inevitable entitlement that people get when they use an open source software and then demand the creators do this and that. By dropping any pretense of being polite or approachable, you basically encourage people to shut the f*ck up and either be happy with what they got or else submit a PR.
- another_twist 1y ago>> useEffect(() => { initializeApp(); }, [initializeApp]); Thats a weird bit of code. If the function changes execute it ? Ref: https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut/blob/main/apps/web/src/components/editor-provider.tsx https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut/blob/main/apps/web/sr...
- bravesoul2 1y agoYou often end up doing this to please the linting deities. They want to make sure you call out dependencies. It annoys me alot when you know they won't change. And if they do (some reference change on render)... well that's just a footgun of React and I argue this doesnt help.
- another_twist 1y agoI think this is the one which detects dependencies of closure. react-hooks/exhaustive-deps is the rule I think. Makes sense. A few years back, a stale closure bug consumed two full working days and one full night for me.
- tonyhart7 1y agoso its a dumb technology or noo???
- madeofpalk 1y agoAll technology is dumb. The trick is recognising in which ways its dumb.
- tonyhart7 1y ago"All technology is dumb" implying that javascript and rust in the same tier is mistake
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- bravesoul2 1y agoNext Photopea? Also if you love the F word read this file: https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut/blob/main/apps/web/src/app/why-not-capcut/page.tsx https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut/blob/main/apps/web/sr...
- starsep 1y agohttps://opencut.app/why-not-capcut https://opencut.app/why-not-capcut
- timhigins 1y agoYou can test it out at https://opencut.app/projects https://opencut.app/projects. I added some screenshots to the README here (https://github.com/alexkreidler/OpenCut/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#screenshots https://github.com/alexkreidler/OpenCut/tree/main?tab=readme...) and opened a PR to merge the update upstream.
- cddotdotslash 1y agohttps://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut/issues/192 https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut/issues/192 I don't know if this style of... discussion is something the Cluely team made popular recently, or if it took off sooner, but I really hope it doesn't catch on further.
- edoceo 1y agoThat thread is trash. If anyone is looking for tips on what to NOT do, it's a gold mine.
- Imustaskforhelp 1y agoYou are mentioning as to what Zaid did, right?
- edoceo 1y agoYes
- arp242 1y agoCluely seems sort of AI tool? How does that relate to that thread?
- Thorrez 1y agoI guess their team posts stuff in a style like that sometimes. E.g. https://x.com/cluely/status/1932966330904506501 https://x.com/cluely/status/1932966330904506501
- SpaceNoodled 1y agoNot a cluely
- lucideer 1y agoDid anyone read that linked thread in full? There's no "style of discussion" there, there's a lot of people engaging in a very normal, constructive discussion, which is being interupted by a single disruptive commenter (Zaid). Nothing there seems to reflect poorly on the project as far as I can tell?
- renewiltord 1y agoCool dude. I’ll give it a spinach. Nice to see a docker-compose. Should make this easy.
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- lpln3452 1y agoPromotion without a single screenshot. Not interested in projects with READMEs like this. If it's actually good, it'll spread on its own. Honestly the 'Project Structure' section which is just a directory listing, feels like it was generated by an LLM.
- AlienRobot 1y ago>If it's actually good, it'll spread on its own. That's not how it works, but I agree it's weird there is no screenshot.
- satvikpendem 1y ago"If you build it, they will come" is one of the oldest myths tech founders seem to still believe, even though it's been disproven time and again.
- dawnerd 1y agoThere’s been such a massive increase in LLM generated apps being shared especially on the self hosted subreddit. They get mad when you call them out. It’s incredibly obvious.
- vrthink 1y agoI’m really excited about the concept of an open-source alternative to CapCut. However, the current state of the project is far from being as user-friendly as CapCut, which is one of my favorite video editors on Windows. The requirement to install Bun, Docker, Docker Compose, and Node.js as prerequisites will likely deter most casual desktop CapCut users from even trying it out. I’m hopeful that with continued development and community support, this new project can evolve into a truly accessible and powerful alternative to CapCut. There’s a lot of potential here, and I’m excited to see where it goes!
- hugh1st 1y agoThis looks super interesting – how close is the current feature set compared to CapCut? Any plans to support mobile export/editing down the road?
- alexfromapex 1y agoDoes a waitlist mean it will be monetized?
- m-p-3 1y agoWould have enjoyed some screenshots or a quick tour in video form.
- snvzz 1y agoThere are many video editors (arch example[0]). What are the pros and cons of this one? 0. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Multimedia#Video_editors https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Multim...
- m3kw9 1y agoThis stuff sounds enterprising
- sparkalpha 1y agoI like this!
- lompad 1y agoYou previously posted this: >Hey, have you tried TwitterCut yet? It’s this cool tool I found that turns your tweets into awesome videos in just one click. Super easy to use—just @cutcutai in a Twitter thread, and it creates the videos directly for you. Are those tools affiliated or are you affiliated with either?
- Imustaskforhelp 1y agoSo I actually pulled the docker compose and now when I try to run it, it opens up at localhost:3100 and when I go there, its just what the website https://opencut.app/ https://opencut.app/ does, and it asks me for wishlist. I just want to use your application and recommend it to my friend who uses capcut but this seems so AI generated, so ragebait induced with Zaid and the code of conduct is not followed, the stars feels like they are frauded and even though I starred your project, I feel like unstarring it, since I am not even sure if this project has a simple prototype we can use at this point and I am clearly frustrated.
- darajava 1y agoYou need to go to opencut.app/projects
- montakaoh 1y agoTried it before and it was barely functional - how is it getting starred?
- darajava 1y agoMost people in this thread seem to be talking about how it's a fake project with fake stars but there is actually a live version linked in this comment[0]. It's pretty good too! I wish the authors would put more time into polishing the README and pointing to the online version but it's missing so many basic features now that it probably only makes sense for developers to currently use. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44554541 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44554541
- arnaudsm 1y agoThis is great, there are too few open-source video editing projects! However, why do you have a waitlist for an open-source project? And why do you brag of having Databuddy analytics built-in? Are you just a startup that's building in public and using open-source as a marketing trick before monetizing it?
- KronisLV 1y ago> A simple but powerful video editor that gets the job done. Works on any platform. > Enter your email. Join waitlist > 59284 people already joined I would have expected a bit more from the main page, would be helpful to have a link to the /projects URL that someone else mentioned, or a screenshot demonstrating the software! For the FOSS video editing software out there, I tried out Shotcut (https://www.shotcut.org/ https://www.shotcut.org/) and OpenShot (https://www.openshot.org/ https://www.openshot.org/), though both of them were either a bit unpolished or unstable, with the occasional crash along the way. I had a way better experience with kdenlive, which was my main video editor for a bit, has the basic features I'd expect, as well as decent codec support: https://kdenlive.org/ https://kdenlive.org/ As for other options, DaVinci Resolve still feels like the more professional software suite that you'd go for, sans the cost, albeit the UI can be a bit awkward in places to someone used to the likes of kdenlive/Sony Vegas: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
- Obscurity4340 1y agoLuma Fusion is amazing as well, wonder your thoughts on it
- icemelt8 1y agoI like how open-source software is gate-kept behind complex processes.
- motoxpro 1y agoWhat do you mean? The deployment? It seems pretty straightforward to me. I can't actually see how it could be simpler.
- bacchusracine 1y agoDoes it actually do anything? I'm seeing a lot of posts from people discussing everything and anything other than whether or not the application is fit for purpose and does what it's claiming it does.
- jchw 1y agoI played with it for a few seconds. As someone mentioned here, you have to go to opencut.app/projects to actually see the actual application. Most features are still just TODO, but you can at least overlay text onto video. The interface seems reasonable so far, basically works like any other NLE I've ever used. If this continued to evolve, I can only imagine many would consider it to be a very useful tool to have available.
- bityard 1y agoUh, if it's open source, why is there a waitlist? What is there to wait on and what do they need your email for? Pretty fishy. (Or phishy?)
- tobi_bsf 1y agoNot sure if they have a feeling for what makes CapCut. Mostly it’s the remote AI features like magical background removal, instant TikTok style captions, templates, cross platform cloud sync.. No need to make a good, free video editor. We have davinci for that.