mifi/editly

Health v2 · maintenance only

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5477 stars · 371 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Editly is a declarative non-linear video editing tool and framework built on Node.js and ffmpeg, offering both a CLI and a JavaScript API. It programmatically assembles videos from clips, images, audio, and titles with transitions, overlays, and effects using streaming for speed and low storage.

Use cases

• create a slideshow from photos with text overlays
• programmatically render a promo or trailer video from clips
• resize and letterbox a video to a required resolution and framerate
• generate an animated GIF from video clips
• overlay subtitles or titles onto videos via a JSON spec
• apply custom GL shaders or Canvas-based dynamic effects to video

When to choose

• you want to automate video creation in scripts or CI rather than a GUI editor
• you need declarative, reproducible video edits from a spec file
• you want fast streaming edits without huge intermediate files
• you need flexible output sizes like Instagram or YouTube aspect ratios

When to avoid

• you need interactive timeline-based manual editing with a visual GUI
• you need advanced professional NLE features like multi-track color grading
• your project does not use Node.js and you cannot install ffmpeg

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

video-processing cli animation image-processing audio-processing media developer-tools cli cross-platform video-editing ffmpeg declarative slideshow transitions subtitles opengl-shaders nle video automation nodejs

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