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  • 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.
    by armcat
  • Thanks! That sounds like a really interesting use case. I'd love to see how it turns out. If you end up making those tweaks for full agentic narration and video cutting, feel free to share your experience or ideas, I'd be happy to learn from them and see if they could be incorporated into the tool.
    by ronak_parmar
  • you can just give claude code access to ffmpeg
    by mikert89
  • demo is up, as promised: https://github.com/ronak-create/FableCut/releases/download/v...

    its a real session, not staged: one prompt ("edit a reel from these assets"), claude code plans the cut for ~6 minutes, writes the entire timeline as one json document, and the editor is already live with it. the 24.5s reel it produced is also in the release, untouched: https://github.com/ronak-create/FableCut/releases/tag/v1.3.0

    fittingly, the demo video itself was also edited in fablecut.

    by ronak_parmar
  • 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

    by faangguyindia
  • Absolutely, in fact just give it clips, voice and a reference video(optional), command it and wait untill it finishes..
    by ronak_parmar
  • A demo video would be good.
    by Jayakumark
  • Yeah actually, that's a great idea, working on it ..(～￣▽￣)～
    by ronak_parmar
  • 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
    by KaseKun
  • That was the goal. Thankyou btw.
    by ronak_parmar
  • What's the benefit of SSEs here?
    by devolving-dev
  • Super cool, but maybe it is worth considering using OTIO format instead of the simple JSON for a timeline? LLMs are pretty good with handling OTIO.
    by PlkMarudny
  • Nice idea, let me give it a go-through. Thanks btw!!
    by ronak_parmar
  • I've looked at it and i've found thatit is more verbos for LLMs not less, curently the format is optimized for cheap agent patching, and OTIO support as an interchange adapter (not a native format swap).
    by ronak_parmar
  • Yeah I'm sure you need fable for the heavy reasoning task of editing tiktoks
    by xyzsparetimexyz
  • My impression was that they made this editor with Fable, and its JSON project structure would only serve well for manipulation by lesser models.
    by heresalexandria
  • You should strongly consider using Mediabunny to do all of the rendering client-side!
    by vanilagy
  • 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

    by genxy
  • 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.
    by heresalexandria
  • Thankyou. I am planning to make it opencode friendly too.. I think that would openup versatality and more experiments..;)
    by ronak_parmar
  • Reminds me of https://www.screenkite.com/ The AI powered video editors are fun.
    by miltonlaxer
  • yup but I had Premier Pro and Palmier Pro in mind while making it, hence the UI.;)
    by ronak_parmar
  • 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
    by spottedmarley
  • noted.
    by ronak_parmar