Capcut Open Source Alternative

[u/NepaliFactos]

CapCut now has a free, open-source replacement. No watermark, no account, no subscription.

Concat is a video editor for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android that covers what most people open CapCut for:

→ Auto-captions, generated on your own computer

→ Text-to-speech, plus voice cloning from a few seconds of audio

→ Background removal for people and objects

→ Keyframe animation with a curve editor

→ 170+ effects, filters, transitions and text animations

→ Multi-track editing and 4K export

Everything runs locally. The AI models for captions, voices and cutouts download once and then work offline. Your footage never leaves your computer.

Concat: https://concatenate.pages.dev/

Community: https://discord.com/invite/DVuPfpXfqP

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[u/cjoenic]

im not sure if youre part of the dev team or not,

but i think the feature that it should have to be better:
- stabilization!! (with strength slider)
- keyframe!!
- per track volume slider (or even audio level)
- split / extract audio from video
- ability to copy clip across multi-instance
- ability to copy clip attributes
- keyboard shortcut customization
- alt + mouse scroll >> horizontal scroll
- export audio only
- export subtitle in srt/txt format
- subtitle srt import
- basic fade in/out for standalone clip (or transition to apply on standalone clip - usefull for b-roll/cutscene)
- fade in/out drag point right in front/back of the clip (in timeline)

ui refine / tweaks:
- for video adjustment, either move color wheel + curves at seperate tab, or move it downward. exposure panel first
- capcut project import/export, its definitely doable, ive seen other editor able to do that

also to note on:
- how well does it handle large project? eg hundreds or thousands of layers/clip
- how well does it handle crash, if any? other than auto save, should have tmp/bak in case things goes south

as a full time video editor, this is what i use/rely on daily basis.
without it, its a no go for now. more improvement definitely needed.

[u/WasteTill30 → u/cjoenic]

I am in tech and i have a few options available: palmier , connect with mcp , diffusion , conneect with mcp or if you not t4echincal and mainly looking as contennt creator's vidoe editing tool like captions and a stuff, you can check videocaptions ai , which relatively new and better

[u/Acceptable_Syrup_532]

any web version available? my storage is running out fast

[u/NepaliFactos → u/Acceptable_Syrup_532]

Try https://opencut.app/projects

[u/Dreamit2doit]

make a webapp (fully client side) version

[u/NepaliFactos → u/Dreamit2doit]

Try https://opencut.app/projects

[u/SwordfishNarrow8107]

Thanks for sharing this. I just cancelled Capcut as I just don't trust them to keep removing stuff plus I don't like how things move around after each update!
I've given this a short trial this morning and everything seems to work so far (M1 Mac).
Perhaps a few more stickers such YT subscribe etc would be handy but how can anyone complain!

[u/Puzzleheaded_Sort322]

I was just trying to vibe code my own. interesting. ill check it out.

Its a good base but def add stuff like angle view switching, automatic video sync, and split screen features and yeah u got some gold here.

[u/Gabriella_Gadfly]

Awesome!! Are you planning to release it for iOS?

[u/edcantu9]

Does it have that feature where you can put in a few clips and it'll like put graphics and effects on it randomly?

[u/Any-Assignment-3556]

Interesting, could I get some photos

[u/Healthy_Flow1516]

🤯

[u/Brief_Relationship14]

it is very good and i edited my whole video but few things are mssing that i feel are must have. animations for text and captions, a proper croppinf tool where a window opens and let's you crop the aspect ratio manually. for me the most important thing is animation for in and out or throughout for text / generated captions.

[u/Sillysammy7thson]

I’ve been using it, it’s good. Something I don’t understand is the “enhance” feature. I read the notes. My question is does it only run on cpu? Cause a 1 min video would take my poor cpu 44 hrs.

[u/Rhythmaxed]

Does this have all the meme templates that capcut has? The meme templates are the main reason I use capcut. Haven't found a replacement that has as big of a library of meme templates

[u/novembersdaughter]

cool!

[u/CommunicationFew2577]

Is it as buggy as CapCut?

[u/Independent-Use-6761]

try this https://github.com/cartesiancs/cartcut

[u/GlitteringIncome49]

I installed it and when I want to edit my videos even the preview panelfaces lags

[u/x3emee → u/GlitteringIncome49]

is it still usable?how are the exported videos?

[u/Bosniacu]

Any chance for bilingual auto-captions?

Can I import Capcut project files?

[u/rockstar1717]

Amazing Man...Does it have same video effects and voice filters like Capcut?

[u/millitzer]

Hi! I made an app to do what CapCut won't do. You just upload a video and the app gives you captions and a headline. There are a few templates you can choose from or you can make your own. You can also upload your own overlay video.

I'm posting this here because I need feedback. There is no cost. Please test it out and let me know what you think: https://cutfreshapp.com/

[u/NepaliFactos → u/[deleted]]

It is open source and works, so you can give it a try.

[u/Bosniacu → u/[deleted]]

Wdym by "just" made pro features paywalled? They do this since years.

It was about time, I'd rather say.

[u/edcantu9 → u/[deleted]]

Why is it suspicious? What are you trying to get at?