# trykimu/videoeditor

Your Creative Copilot for Video Editing

Repository: https://github.com/trykimu/videoeditor
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/videoeditor
Homepage: https://trykimu.com
Language: TypeScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: canva, capcut, react, remotion, typescript, video-editing, editor, oss, videoeditor, video, video-editor
Last push: 2026-06-09T11:37:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 58/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 86, release rhythm 35, longevity 33
- inputs: {"age_days": 468, "days_push": 85, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2194, forks 249 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:25.102151+00:00)

## What it is
Kimu is an open-source, AI-powered web video editor positioned as an alternative to CapCut and Canva. It combines a React/Remotion-based multi-track timeline editor with an AI assistant that generates edits, timing, and layouts from natural-language descriptions.

## Use cases
- edit videos with a multi-track timeline in the browser
- generate video edits from a text prompt using AI
- find an open-source alternative to CapCut or Canva
- preview video edits in real time without rendering
- export rendered videos quickly
- organize and search a media library by tags and sentiment
- sync video projects across devices

## When to choose
- you want a self-hosted, open-source video editor with AI assistance
- you need multi-track timeline editing with real-time preview
- you prefer a web-based editor built on React and Remotion
- you want to extend or customize an editor codebase yourself

## When to avoid
- you need a polished, fully stable commercial-grade editor out of the box
- you only need simple command-line video transcoding or trimming
- you cannot run the required backend services (Postgres, FastAPI, renderer)
- you need a permissively licensed project - the license is non-standard

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, editor, gui, llm-inference, chatbot
- domain: media, web-development, artificial-intelligence
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: video-editor, ai-assistant, remotion, capcut-alternative, canva-alternative, multi-track-timeline, fastapi, react, video, web-server, docker, nodejs

## Member repositories
- trykimu/videoeditor (main) score 58

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:25.102151+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:47:17.651291+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/trykimu/videoeditor (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:25.102151+00:00, sha efaade699a51)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.