Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)
64 points by ronak_parmar 3 hours ago | 41 comments
hotpartition 47 seconds ago
Love that the timeline is just JSON and the UI hot-reloads. Agents and humans on the same edit is the interesting part.
replyJeremyHerrman 23 minutes ago
PSA stop putting bigco IP in your project names!
replyhas clawdbot taught us nothing?
armcat 10 minutes 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.
replyheresalexandria 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.
replyronak_parmar 2 hours ago
Thankyou. I am planning to make it opencode friendly too.. I think that would openup versatality and more experiments..;)
replyspottedmarley 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
replymiltonlaxer 3 hours ago
Reminds me of https://www.screenkite.com/
The AI powered video editors are fun.
replyronak_parmar 2 hours ago
yup but I had Premier Pro and Palmier Pro in mind while making it, hence the UI.;)
replyvanilagy 41 minutes ago
You should strongly consider using Mediabunny to do all of the rendering client-side!
replyfaangguyindia 2 hours ago
cool!
replycan this be used to make these style of videos from prompt?
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..
replyxyzsparetimexyz 3 hours ago
Yeah I'm sure you need fable for the heavy reasoning task of editing tiktoks
replyheresalexandria 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.
replyKaseKun 2 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
replyspacemanspiff01 58 minutes ago
You should have a hosted site for this - It is entirely frontend - right?
replyronak_parmar 51 minutes 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.
replya 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
chrisweekly 2 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!
replyronak_parmar 2 hours ago
My pleasure. If you have any ideas, lets connect and make it more helpfuul!!
replyspeedping 2 hours ago
Very cool project but having fable in the name makes it sound so tacky
replyronak_parmar 2 hours ago
Yeah I though so but as people are so fond of Fable.. This would give them a poke to just take a look..;)
replyYiin 2 hours ago
oh, I read fable as a story, fable cut meaning you can stitch up stories which is a form of storytelling, so quite fitting for video editor
replymonitorlizard 2 hours ago
Since people like an unrelated product, you thought it would be good marketing to jack the brand? Maybe I should start calling my B2B SaaS products Salesforce too!
replyda_grift_shift 2 hours ago
The readme is full of compound Claudeisms, so why not ;-)
reply per-shot energy
frame-accurate
word-pop
reference-video
CSS-@keyframes-animated SVGs render frame-accuratelyselfhoster11 45 minutes ago
That’s just how some humans write. These words didn’t come from an LLM vacuum.
replyda_grift_shift 42 minutes ago
>That’s just how some humans write.
replySure, but we can't handwave away every observation about LLM output with "(some of) the original training corpora came from humans". Qualitatively, the vibes are off™.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uok58g/claudes_s...
https://x.com/emollick/status/2049894109318459798
Remember the gremlin thing?