A native, node-based video editor for Windows, macOS and Linux, written in Rust with GPUI.

Inside, everything is a node: media, clips, effects, tracks, the sequence and the export. Outside, it is a familiar editor (media bin, viewer, inspector, timeline). Press Tab on a clip to peek at its nodes, or Shift+Tab to see the whole sequence as a graph.

• Interactive UI mockup: mockup/videode.html
• Product context: PRODUCT.md · Design system: DESIGN.md · Plan: docs/PLAN.md

Milestone M4: playback and sound.

• Sound: audio clips play through the default output device, mixed with their Gain and Fade nodes; muted tracks are silent. At normal speed the sound's clock drives the playhead, so picture follows audio. J/K/L shuttle runs silent.
• Meters: peak meters beside the viewer, green to −12 dB, yellow to −3 dB, then red.
• Timeline: waveforms on audio clips and filmstrips on video clips.
• Viewer: Grade, Blur and rotation are drawn (on the CPU for now), along with Transform, Crop, Opacity and Fade.
• Media: import by menu, Ctrl/Cmd I or drag and drop; thumbnails; offline files can be relinked, and other missing files in the same folder come along.

From M2: every clip is a chain of nodes. Edit any value in the inspector, peek at a clip's nodes with Tab, see the whole sequence as a graph with Shift+Tab, and search everything with the command palette (Ctrl/Cmd K). From M1: timeline editing, undo/redo and .vde project files. Export arrives in M5.

Requires Rust 1.95 or newer (rustup update stable) and FFmpeg (shared libraries plus the ffmpeg tool, developed against 9.0), found through pkg-config.

cargo run -p videode-app            # opens the editor
cargo run -p videode-app --example snapshot -- out.png 1440 900        # offscreen screenshot
cargo run -p videode-app --example snapshot -- out.png 1440 900 demo   # same, demo project
                                                                      # (also: settings, about, [email protected],
                                                                      #  media, peek, graph, output, focus, edit, palette=<q>)
./scripts/brand.sh                     # regenerate icons from assets/brand/*.svg
./packaging/linux/install.sh           # install binary, launcher and icons to ~/.local

macOS:

brew install ffmpeg pkg-config

Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) needs GPUI's system libraries and FFmpeg's development packages:

sudo apt install libasound2-dev libfontconfig-dev libwayland-dev libx11-xcb-dev \
  libxkbcommon-x11-dev libssl-dev libzstd-dev libvulkan1 pkg-config clang \
  ffmpeg libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev \
  libswresample-dev libavfilter-dev libavdevice-dev

Windows: download a shared FFmpeg build (for example from BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds), set FFMPEG_DIR to it, put its bin folder on PATH, and install LLVM for libclang.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for tests and pull requests.

crates/
  videode-core/   project model and node graph engine (no UI)
  videode-media/  FFmpeg probing, frame-accurate video and sample-accurate audio decoding
  videode-audio/  mixer and output engine (cpal); its sample clock drives playback
  videode-render/ pixel effects: Grade, Blur, rotation
  videode-app/    the GPUI application: window, theme, editor shell
assets/fonts/     Geist and Geist Mono (SIL OFL 1.1)
mockup/           approved HTML mockup with synthetic demo media

videode is free software under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later, which builds on the GNU GPL v3.

FFmpeg is linked dynamically and is not bundled. If you distribute videode with an FFmpeg build that includes GPL components, that distribution as a whole falls under the GPL.

Bundled fonts are under the SIL Open Font License (assets/fonts/OFL-Geist.txt); icons are Lucide (ISC), via GPUI Kit.

Found a security problem? See SECURITY.md.