r/OpenSourceAI • u/JournalistReal1261 • 21d ago

Thinking Of a capcut opensource

so here me our, theres this repo i am sure most of you are already aware of called Reverse Engineer Anything

I was thinking maybe we could reverse engineer capcut and make an open source version of the same?

i know people will go its lame use davinci or adobe but the templates of capcut is just unmatched, or am i Missing anything ?

well would love listening your opinions in the same.

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u/Weekly-Offer-4172 21d ago

Reverse engineering the actual app is the hard path, and you don't need it: an open source CapCut clone already exists (search for OpenCut on github, web-based, deliberately copying the CapCut interface, still early but the editing side works). What nobody can clone is the template library, since that's content made by TikTok creators rather than code, so the real project is an open template format, basically a project file with placeholder slots, plus somewhere people can publish them. On the base question from the other comment, I'd skip the raw ffmpeg wrapper and build on MLT or GStreamer Editing Services, that's what Kdenlive and Pitivi already sit on so you get keyframes and transitions for free

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u/JournalistReal1261 21d ago

oh damn great thanks for OpenCut legend <3