There is a technical barrier to editing video which often needs the know-how of complex Non-Linear Editor (NLE) applications. But that barrier has now been significantly reduced by taking advantage of granular metadata, advances in web technologies, and a cameo from A.I.

By leveraging in and out timecode per word generated by automatic speech recognition, you can now edit video in the browser as easily as you would copy and paste text in a word processor. Production teams collaborate to mark key soundbites, order them as they like, and lay the spine of their story. All from the web. Then the editor exports the XML – which automatically recompiles the sequence in the NLE – and focuses on the fine cut. This talk will go through the journey we took to implement a responsive and novel video editing experience from within the browser, including the challenges faced to provide real-time preview playback throughout the editing process, and managing seamless cutting from one video source to another. We may or may not have had to hack around HTML5 video player. ;) Presented at Demuxed 2020.