Higher level video editing API

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W3C Workshop on Web and Media production

https://www.w3.org/2021/03/media-production-workshop/

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Higher level video editing API #55

Open tidoust opened 2 years ago

tidoust commented 2 years ago

Search, locate, cut, compose, clip are common operations in media. This is doable through WebCodecs but tedious convenient as frames need to be processed one by one.

Possibly related (past) proposal: Improved client side video editing.

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chcunningham commented 2 years ago

Possibly related (past) proposal: Improved client side video editing.

For Chrome, that particular proposal is currently shelved in favor of building JS tools on top of WebCodecs. See discussion here.

But I definitely don't want to shut down conversation on possible higher level APIs. I'll watch here as others reply :)

jamespearce2006 commented 2 years ago

I think the WebCodecs API is a nice, generic foundation on which developers can build their own editing platforms and libraries.
An in-browser media editing API feels a bit too "single-purpose", and is likely to end up not quite satisfying anyone. This feels a much better fit for implementation in JS.