[HN Gopher] OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative
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OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative
Author : nateb2022
Score : 109 points
Date : 2025-07-13 21:08 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| rtaylorgarlock wrote:
| Again?
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540804
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44355853
|
| edit: I am genuinely curious about spam prevention on HN. What
| systems we got working against fraudulent actors?
| TheObviousOne wrote:
| Beside the spam issue...Does the repo legit, though?
| rtaylorgarlock wrote:
| Wifey is an influencer and semi-dependent on capcut (features
| the mobile instagram vid editor doesn't offer), so I'm quite
| interested in quality 'simple' timeline-style editors.
| Testing is on my list, though repeat submissions to HN does
| NOT move it up my todo list.
| limagnolia wrote:
| Different accounts doing the submitting- could be the same
| person, but might not be too. Also, HN guidelines don't
| really discourage duplicate submissions, and in some cases,
| HN moderators are known to encourage re-submission.
| echelon wrote:
| Why are you upset that the author resubmitted? The last
| posts got no traction at all.
|
| A post getting _two submissions_ twice does not make this a
| re-post. Nobody on earth saw the previous submissions.
|
| It's permissible for folks to submit posts a few times
| until they actually get noticed or dang steps in to tell
| them to stop. The author is doing things exactly as the
| rules permit.
|
| If you've learned from your wife's social media career, you
| know that you often have to keep trying in order to pick up
| traction. The algorithm requires signal.
| NewJazz wrote:
| Reposts aren't really moderated unless the previous posts were
| highly updated/commented and recent.
| nateb2022 wrote:
| Considering the previous posts never got more than 2 points, I
| didn't think reposting it would be an issue.
|
| I am not a fraudulent actor (not sure what basis there is for
| that accusation) and generally post things I come across.
| OpenCut was in my GitHub feed today, seemed like it could be
| useful to others, ergo I shared it.
| danjl wrote:
| TIL: there's a GitHub feed https://github.com/explore
| jphoward wrote:
| Sorry I'm a bit out of the loop, but what's CapCut?
| nateb2022 wrote:
| CapCut is one of several low-barrier video editing apps
| generally geared towards content creators/ people targeting
| Instagram reels, TikTok, and short video platforms.
| poniko wrote:
| Video editor owned by TikTok, very very popular.
| xnx wrote:
| I really like the idea of an open source alternative to CapCut,
| but the project is currently very far from the ease-of-use that
| makess CapCut one of my favorite editors on Windows.
|
| Very few casual desktop CapCut users are going to get past the
| prerequisits of instal "Bun, Docker and Docker Compose, and
| Node.js"
|
| Blender, Shotcut, OpenShot, or Kdenlive are probably the better
| open source video editor options right now.
| yesbut wrote:
| Kdenlive
|
| https://kdenlive.org/
| greatgib wrote:
| I like the idea but looks fishy at this point even if I did not
| look at the code or try it yet.
|
| So many GitHub stars and not a single screenshot of it anywhere,
| not on GitHub, not on Google, not on the official webpage that
| just have a wait-list and their twitter Bash capcut with
| screenshots of capcut but none of opencutapp.
|
| And I mean I wish something like that to succeed, but it doesn't
| look like that they have much to show for at the moment.
| acheong08 wrote:
| https://xcancel.com/OpenCutApp
|
| Follower count and activity looks about right. There's some
| screenshots there. I assume the star count is due to some
| amount of marketing.
| eddythompson80 wrote:
| The project is 3 weeks old with mainly 1 guy. I'm curious how
| you get (legit/organic) 17k start and 3k twitter followers
| for a 3 week old project presumably while I'm busy with it.
|
| I know buying stars and followers is pretty straight forward.
| laxd wrote:
| Openshot, Shotcut, Opencut ... It's getting confusing.
| ujkhsjkdhf234 wrote:
| Someone tell CJ Fly he doesn't have to use the free trial any
| more.
| eddythompson80 wrote:
| https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut/blob/main/apps/web/sr...
|
| Well then.
| pram wrote:
| I kinda wonder why ByteDance charges for anything in CapCut at
| all, considering it would make sense to make it as easy and
| cheap as possible to get more slop on TikTok?
| another_twist wrote:
| >> useEffect(() => { initializeApp(); }, [initializeApp]);
|
| Thats a weird bit of code. If the function changes execute it ?
|
| Ref: https://github.com/OpenCut-
| app/OpenCut/blob/main/apps/web/sr...
| bravesoul2 wrote:
| You often end up doing this to please the linting deities.
|
| They want to make sure you call out dependencies. It annoys me
| alot when you know they won't change. And if they do (some
| reference change on render)... well that's just a footgun of
| React and I argue this doesnt help.
| another_twist wrote:
| I think this is the one which detects dependencies of
| closure. react-hooks/exhaustive-deps is the rule I think.
|
| Makes sense. A few years back, a stale closure bug consumed
| two full working days and one full night for me.
| another_twist wrote:
| I see that ShadCn has been used here. Good choice !
| bravesoul2 wrote:
| Next Photopea?
|
| Also if you love the F word read this file:
| https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut/blob/main/apps/web/sr...
| timhigins wrote:
| You can test it out at https://opencut.app/projects. I added some
| screenshots to the README here
| (https://github.com/alexkreidler/OpenCut/tree/main?tab=readme...)
| and opened a PR to merge the update upstream.
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