Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

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76 points | by ronak_parmar 3 hours ago

19 comments

  • JeremyHerrman 1 hour ago
    PSA stop putting bigco IP in your project names!

    has clawdbot taught us nothing?

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  • heresalexandria 2 hours ago
    Cool concept, will try it out! I've had decent results with computer use operating conventional editing tools, but being able to directly edit JSON project files is a solid optimization and opens up a lot of opportunities with things like modular templating.
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    • ronak_parmar 2 hours ago
      Thankyou. I am planning to make it opencode friendly too.. I think that would openup versatality and more experiments..;)
  • miltonlaxer 3 hours ago
    Reminds me of https://www.screenkite.com/ The AI powered video editors are fun.
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    • ronak_parmar 3 hours ago
      yup but I had Premier Pro and Palmier Pro in mind while making it, hence the UI.;)
  • spottedmarley 2 hours ago
    This is pretty dang cool but I guess I was hoping to see some very clever use of vision and maybe waveform analysis to give the model "eyes and ears" to edit audio and video. V2
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  • xyzsparetimexyz 3 hours ago
    Yeah I'm sure you need fable for the heavy reasoning task of editing tiktoks
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    • heresalexandria 2 hours ago
      My impression was that they made this editor with Fable, and its JSON project structure would only serve well for manipulation by lesser models.
    • ronak_parmar 3 hours ago
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  • faangguyindia 2 hours ago
    cool!

    can this be used to make these style of videos from prompt?

    Style 1: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vGjrv2zjfsM

    Style 2: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6KoRHpAZ4zk

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    • ronak_parmar 2 hours ago
      Absolutely, in fact just give it clips, voice and a reference video(optional), command it and wait untill it finishes..
  • KaseKun 3 hours ago
    I have no use for this, however I am stunned by the simple and effective solution of using json+sse instead of an API to allow agent interaction Amazing work
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  • vanilagy 2 hours ago
    You should strongly consider using Mediabunny to do all of the rendering client-side!
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    • genxy 1 hour ago
      I couldn't find a skill in your project that would help integrate mediabunny. The docs and examples look like they could really help. Having good example coverage allows agents to pickup libraries easily.

      https://github.com/Vanilagy/mediabunny

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      • vanilagy 1 hour ago
        Just point the agent at the docs, it'll understand them quickly. Mediabunny also has many examples and even a dedicated LLM page.
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  • armcat 1 hour ago
    This looks great, will try it out. I had a crazy idea of doing a full agentic demo video narration and cutting, so might try your tool with some tweaks.
  • mikert89 2 hours ago
    you can just give claude code access to ffmpeg
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  • Jayakumark 3 hours ago
    A demo video would be good.
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    • ronak_parmar 3 hours ago
      Yeah actually, that's a great idea, working on it ..(～￣▽￣)～
  • hotpartition 1 hour ago
    Love that the timeline is just JSON and the UI hot-reloads. Agents and humans on the same edit is the interesting part.
  • upmostly 3 hours ago
    Have you thought about integrating Remotion into this?
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    • ronak_parmar 3 hours ago
      What do you think the next update will be about..^_~
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      • upmostly 23 minutes ago
        Just watch out for their license...
  • chrisweekly 3 hours ago
    I have little experience with video editing; a tool like this might be an ideal path to learn more. Thanks for creating and publishing it and sharing here!
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    • ronak_parmar 3 hours ago
      My pleasure. If you have any ideas, lets connect and make it more helpfuul!!
    • xgulfie 2 hours ago
      You aren't going to learn by having the AI do it for you...
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  • spacemanspiff01 2 hours ago
    You should have a hosted site for this - It is entirely frontend - right?
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    • ronak_parmar 2 hours ago
      almost! the editor/compositor is fully browser side, but the server is doing real work: project.json lives on disk (thats the whole point, any agent or script can edit it and fs.watch + sse hot reloads the ui), plus ffmpeg for the final export encode. so it needs the local server for the actual workflow.

      a hosted demo mode is a good idea though, project in localstorage + sample footage + mediarecorder export would let people feel the editor without cloning. the one thing it cant show is the main trick, watching an external agent rebuild your timeline live, since theres no local file for it to edit. might do a stripped demo build if theres interest

  • arnab777 3 hours ago
    Ya, a demo video would be nice .
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  • speedping 3 hours ago
    Very cool project but having fable in the name makes it sound so tacky
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