I Made an App that Edits my Videos in 30 Seconds

== [ Description ] == In 2020, I quit my tech job to pursue creating content on YouTube full-time. The biggest problem I had with making videos was editing/removing silence from them. For reference, it takes 1 hour to edit 10 minutes of video. The engineer in me was itching to solve this problem so I put aside 2 weeks in June to learn video editing technologies (WaveSurfer.js + FFmpeg) and make a proof of concept - this is the result. It's really rough around the edges but saves me a lot of time while editing.

Main Features:

• Automatically detect silence in the video
• Regenerate silent regions based on length and loudness
• Remove detected silent regions on export
• Add/remove padding to silent regions

Tech Stack:

• Vue/Vuex
• Electron.js (desktop app)
• Tailwind CSS (core UI)
• WaveSurfer.js (audio wave display)
• Fluent FFmpeg (export edited video)
• Font Awesome (icons)
• Hotkeys (keyboard shortcuts)

== [ Socials ] == Twitter ▶ https://twitter.com/SuboptimalEng Github ▶ https://github.com/SuboptimalEng Subscribe ▶ https://youtube.com/SuboptimalEng?sub_confirmation=1

== [ Timestamps ] == 00:00 Intro 00:20 Why Make an App? 01:28 Demo 04:24 Tech Stack 05:23 Helpful JS Libraries 07:34 Fin

== [ Tags ] == #suboptimal #startups #videoeditor