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upmostly
Have you thought about integrating Remotion into this?
ronak_parmar
What do you think the next update will be about..^_~
upmostly
Just watch out for their license...
ronak_parmar
Oh!! yeah that can be an obstacle.. no issues, I guess I found Mediabunny at the right time..
Jayakumark
A demo video would be good.
ronak_parmar
Yeah actually, that's a great idea, working on it ..(～￣▽￣)～
xyzsparetimexyz
Yeah I'm sure you need fable for the heavy reasoning task of editing tiktoks
heresalexandria
My impression was that they made this editor with Fable, and its JSON project structure would only serve well for manipulation by lesser models.
speedping
Very cool project but having fable in the name makes it sound so tacky
da_grift_shift
The readme is full of compound Claudeisms, so why not ;-)

    per-shot energy

    frame-accurate

    word-pop

    reference-video

    CSS-@keyframes-animated SVGs render frame-accurately
selfhoster11
That’s just how some humans write. These words didn’t come from an LLM vacuum.
arnab777
Ya, a demo video would be nice .
KaseKun
I have no use for this, however I am stunned by the simple and effective solution of using json+sse instead of an API to allow agent interaction Amazing work
chrisweekly
I have little experience with video editing; a tool like this might be an ideal path to learn more. Thanks for creating and publishing it and sharing here!
xgulfie
You aren't going to learn by having the AI do it for you...
chrisweekly
Agreed. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. It was more about having every facet represented in JSON in one place.
spottedmarley
This is pretty dang cool but I guess I was hoping to see some very clever use of vision and maybe waveform analysis to give the model "eyes and ears" to edit audio and video. V2
heresalexandria
Cool concept, will try it out! I've had decent results with computer use operating conventional editing tools, but being able to directly edit JSON project files is a solid optimization and opens up a lot of opportunities with things like modular templating.
mikert89
you can just give claude code access to ffmpeg
spacemanspiff01
You should have a hosted site for this - It is entirely frontend - right?
vanilagy
You should strongly consider using Mediabunny to do all of the rendering client-side!
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dang
Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079.

Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed or not, but some of your posts (like this one) have been getting classified that way.

ronak_parmar
I apologise for the activity as some of my replies were AI-assisted. As I wanted to be precise and frame my idea accordingly. I'll keep the guidelines in mind and maintain the legitimacy of my comments and post.
JeremyHerrman
PSA stop putting bigco IP in your project names!

has clawdbot taught us nothing?

tidbeck
Guess it is efficient for attention.
armcat
This looks great, will try it out. I had a crazy idea of doing a full agentic demo video narration and cutting, so might try your tool with some tweaks.
ronak_parmar
Thanks! That sounds like a really interesting use case. I'd love to see how it turns out. If you end up making those tweaks for full agentic narration and video cutting, feel free to share your experience or ideas, I'd be happy to learn from them and see if they could be incorporated into the tool.
hotpartition
Love that the timeline is just JSON and the UI hot-reloads. Agents and humans on the same edit is the interesting part.
ronak_parmar
demo is up, as promised: https://github.com/ronak-create/FableCut/releases/download/v...

its a real session, not staged: one prompt ("edit a reel from these assets"), claude code plans the cut for ~6 minutes, writes the entire timeline as one json document, and the editor is already live with it. the 24.5s reel it produced is also in the release, untouched: https://github.com/ronak-create/FableCut/releases/tag/v1.3.0

fittingly, the demo video itself was also edited in fablecut.

PlkMarudny
Super cool, but maybe it is worth considering using OTIO format instead of the simple JSON for a timeline? LLMs are pretty good for handling OTIO
ronak_parmar
Nice idea, let me give it a go-through. Thanks btw!!
ronak_parmar
I've looked at it and i've found thatit is more verbos for LLMs not less, curently the format is optimized for cheap agent patching, and OTIO support as an interchange adapter (not a native format swap).