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dylan604 | on: Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM
If you want free, Resolve will run circles around whatever open source thing you can find. No need for WGPU, it just runs the GPU.

Sadly, things like this just put a bad taste in my mouth about the whole concept of running code in a browser like this. It's buggy as hell. It doesn't run in all browsers. And I really have to ask why we think the browser is the place to run this. We've moved from Java and now to WASM in a browser, but only some browsers.

mashreghi | parent | next
Different use case. "Runs everywhere instantly" beats "installs + config" for a lot of workflows.
tim-projects | parent | next
In my experience getting it to run on my Intel gpu on Linux was not trivial. And when I did I discovered it doesn't support standard video formats making it a complete non starter.

Kdenlive is much better imho for basic edits

vunderba | parent | next
+1 for Davinci Resolve. I used the free version for years (Windows and Mac versions) before finally picking up a copy of Studio which is still very reasonably priced and is a flat fee.
hrmtst93837 | parent | next
Browser editing makes sense for review links, shared projects, and zero-install onboarding, but if the job is just cutting footage fast on one machine then a desktop app will smoke it and the compatibility mess buys you nothing. The browser sandbox is a decent distribution hack, yet once you stack WebGPU, WASM, codecs, file access, and browser-specific bugs on top of each other, you are rebuilding a worse native stack with extra failure modes and pretending that counts as progress. Resolve exists.
mashreghi | root | parent
If your baseline is Resolve, sure. But most people aren't cutting Hollywood timelines.
Fabricio20 | parent | next
Resolve requiring an account to download is what turned me away when I needed to do a quick edit the other day. Oracle much?
windowsrookie | root | parent | next
Black Magic gives video editing software that actual professionals use away for free. They sell professional grade equipment that regular consumers can afford. They also offer a ton of training videos teaching you how to edit professionally....for free. A ton of independent filmmakers have started their career using Black Magic software/devices.

They are absolutely not anything like oracle.

nullpoint420 | root | parent | next
I always put asdf@asdf.com and it lets me download it
motoxpro | root | parent | next
Why not just have a throwaway email account for these types of things. Opens up a lot of great software if this is a barrier for you.
ErroneousBosh | root | parent
It doesn't require an account to download.
RobotToaster | parent | next
I stopped trusting resolve after they decided to paywall reactor. Putting a paywall on plugins that users contribute for free is just shitty.
csomar | parent
> And I really have to ask why we think the browser is the place to run this.

This is a big barrier if you want cross-compatibility and making Linux usable for everyday people. My whole interface is a terminal and a browser. I could use/pay for something like this in the same way I use figma. I don't need an app and when I open my iPad I can access whatever I was working on.

The browser should have been the place to run all of this from the very start; but Apple/Google decided to create walled gardens for their systems.