Lisp Based Video Editing?

Question

Hi HN,I've an assignment to make a instruction video in my class. I'd like to try out creating the video with a programming language. I remember that one I saw a lisp based video creation/editing/animation software here on HN.My internet searches in the last hour only yielded https://lang.video. What I search is pretty similar. However it had a very beautiful UI and could be used/tested directly in the browser.I loved that software and I remember that the creator(s) also made a small game, a text editor for macOS and some other stuff. Each application was minimalistic and themeable with the same theme-specification, also created by them.Sadly I don't remember the name and can't find it in my notes or with my internet search engines.Does anyone know the one I seek or other video editing programming languages or DSLs?

brudgers · Accepted Answer

Don&rsquo;t know what you saw, but it sounds like Racket. And indeed there is thishttps://docs.racket-lang.org/video@video/index.htmlI googled &ldquo;racket video editor&rdquo; and it popped top.

CinematicStudio · Answer

I'm curious why you'd actually want to go through the pain of using a programming language to do this. I think there's a reason why this isn't popular -- video editing is insanely hard if you want something non trivial, and basically doing this in a programming language is sort of doing Assembly compared to doing C#.

psyklic · Answer

Many creative coding libraries directly support (or have extensions for) exporting your animation to a video. For example you may want to look at Processing, Nannou (Rust), openFrameworks (C++), and Cinder (C++). Many of these also support audio and playing back other videos in your animation.

marttt · Answer

Not sure if this is what you're after, but there's also blind by the suckless.org community:https://tools.suckless.org/blind/

kleer001 · Answer

You can use any programming language you like to control ffmpeg.Is that what you mean?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwzRZ3360nQ

totetsu · Answer

Did you search HN comments?

Lisp Based Video Editing?

Don’t know what you saw, but it sounds like Racket. And indeed there is this
https://docs.racket-lang.org/video@video/index.html
I googled “racket video editor” and it popped top.

Many creative coding libraries directly support (or have extensions for) exporting your animation to a video. For example you may want to look at Processing, Nannou (Rust), openFrameworks (C++), and Cinder (C++). Many of these also support audio and playing back other videos in your animation.

Not sure if this is what you're after, but there's also blind by the suckless.org community:
https://tools.suckless.org/blind/

You can use any programming language you like to control ffmpeg.
Is that what you mean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwzRZ3360nQ

Did you search HN comments?