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This will only handle toy videos, given the browser limitations in sandboxing and 3D rendering. Not really sure why someone would use this instead of a proper
by pjmlp 8mo ago
This will only handle toy videos, given the browser limitations in sandboxing and 3D rendering.
Not really sure why someone would use this instead of a proper native application.
- mohebifar 8mo agoThe goal here is not to replace Premiere Pro across every professional workflow. But it is also not intended to be a toy editor. Modern browser and GPU capabilities are already sufficient for a large category of practical video editing tasks. We are not targeting blockbuster scale 8K movies at least for now, but we are targeting real jobs people do every day across social, commercial, and non-commercial video production.
- pjmlp 8mo agoExcept WebGPU 1.0 isn't modern, it exposes hardware capabilities from a decade ago, better than WebGL 2.0 sure, which is what mobile GPUs were in 2010. And the sandboxing get up to 4 GB, which in most cases will kill the browser depending on how many tabs are open.
- m00dy 8mo agoA chrome tab still has 4gb max memory limit right ?
- mashreghi 8mo agoSure, and most social/video workflows fit comfortably under that. Not everything is 8K RAW timelines.
- mohebifar 8mo agoMuch of Tooscut's heavy data lives outside the V8 heap. We use WASM linear memory which is not counted against V8 heap. GPU buffers is in VRAM. Bitmaps are also native allocations. Also, video files are never fully decoded. We use the browser's native WebCodecs on demand. Only a small buffered window gets decoded and sent to the compositor. So it can even handle long 4K videos.
- m00dy 8mo agogood info, thanks.
- mashreghi 8mo agoPhotopea wasn't "Photoshop replacement" either, still massively useful.
- mashreghi 8mo agoSame argument was made about Figma vs native tools, didn't age well.
- aprilthird2021 8mo agoSame argument was also made about progressive web apps vs native apps, and the latter are still going quite strong. Idk
- pjmlp 8mo agoFigma is the exception that confirms the rule, and mostly used by Web designers anyway.
- smallerize 8mo agoFigma made the switch in 2017, and since then, they are still the example that gets brought out because other deployments have been a lot more muted.
- onion2k 8mo agoUnreal Engine 5 can run in your browser. What "3D rendering" capability is missing for video work?
- pjmlp 8mo agoUnreal Engine 5 can limp on my browser, and usually most demos end up crashing it, not really a good example. What is the most successful game on the browser, done with Unreal 5 that can compare to Flash 3D games, other than the citadel demo done with Unreal 3, and with Infinity Blade graphics as baseline? Exactly, crickets.