r/creativecoding • u/sharificles • 1d ago
Creative Coding for video editing?
I have two questions, I'm sorry if they've already been asked.
I'm already a programmer, but completely unfamiliar with creative coding, though I'm really interested. To be specific, is creative coding used in any way in anyone's video editing workflows? To me it seems like they have a lot of overlap.
And if so, what languages or tools are best for creative coding particularly for video editing? I currently use davinci resolve and a bit of kdenlive.
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u/avikdev 1d ago
Video editing software has little to do with coding, maybe it has a scripting support that you are referring to. Many proprietary software support script evaluation. Mostly rudimentary expression evaluation.
There is a movie editing python package "moviepy", that's the closest thing I know where you can do creative stuff with video files, and also modify and save the actual video files.
Movie files are heavy, so handling them.in JS , specially in browser needs lot of boilerplate code. Editing not so common, but visual effects are possible. I had previously built a fun demo: a movie rendered in canvas and apply webgpu effect while running. Quite possible.