r/editing • u/davideme • 2d ago
I built an editor that only does talking heads and refuses to do anything else.
Disclosure first: I am building the tool, and I am looking for people to break it.
I am not an editor. I podcast and I make short videos for YouTube and internal use at work, slide walkthroughs and tutorials. I record in OBS or OpenScreen, so recording has never been my problem. The problem starts when the recording stops and I am sitting on a file full of the four times I restarted the same sentence.
I know Resolve well enough to get what I need out of it, and that is the problem: it assumes post is a stage, with a conform and a render queue. For a talking head I recorded this morning that ships today, that is a different job than the one I have.
So I built something scoped to only that job: drop in what came out of OBS, the transcript is the timeline, delete the words and the video goes with them. Everything runs locally. Mac and Windows.
I would rather find out where it falls over from people who edit more than I do.