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📣 vaughan

Is there a markup language for video editing


Similar to how there are tools to [make slide decks from Markdown][1], is there something that would allow you to edit a video with Markdown or a similar syntax?

I could only find something called [VEAML][2] so far.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/johnloy/27dd124ad40e210e91c70dd1c24ac8c8 [2]: https://david.quotient.space/veaml/

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For a very loose interpretation of “Markdown or similar syntax” (XML is text, too), there’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronized_Multimedia_Integr... (spec at https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-smil/smil30.html, examples at https://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/RA-examples.html)

QuickTime used to support it, but I don’t think it’s well supported nowadays. If it did, writing a transpiler from something more Markdown-like to SMIl might be an option.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AviSynth ?

[2] http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Main_Page

[3] https://github.com/AviSynth/AviSynthPlus/

[4] https://avs-plus.net/

[5] http://avspmod.github.io/

[6] http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=153248

and from there on an endless deep dive into almost bitrotten software, which nonetheless refuses to die, because the concepts are viable, and liked by many.

Also: [7] http://www.vapoursynth.com/ and

[8] https://github.com/vapoursynth/vapoursynth

and recursing deep dive into

[9] http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?f=82