Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

PSA stop putting bigco IP in your project names!

has clawdbot taught us nothing?

Cool concept, will try it out! I've had decent results with computer use operating conventional editing tools, but being able to directly edit JSON project files is a solid optimization and opens up a lot of opportunities with things like modular templating.

Reminds me of https://www.screenkite.com/ The AI powered video editors are fun.

This is pretty dang cool but I guess I was hoping to see some very clever use of vision and maybe waveform analysis to give the model "eyes and ears" to edit audio and video. V2

Yeah I'm sure you need fable for the heavy reasoning task of editing tiktoks

I have no use for this, however I am stunned by the simple and effective solution of using json+sse instead of an API to allow agent interaction Amazing work

cool!

can this be used to make these style of videos from prompt?

Style 1: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vGjrv2zjfsM

Style 2: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6KoRHpAZ4zk

You should strongly consider using Mediabunny to do all of the rendering client-side!

This looks great, will try it out. I had a crazy idea of doing a full agentic demo video narration and cutting, so might try your tool with some tweaks.

you can just give claude code access to ffmpeg

A demo video would be good.

Have you thought about integrating Remotion into this?

Love that the timeline is just JSON and the UI hot-reloads. Agents and humans on the same edit is the interesting part.

I have little experience with video editing; a tool like this might be an ideal path to learn more. Thanks for creating and publishing it and sharing here!

You should have a hosted site for this - It is entirely frontend - right?

Ya, a demo video would be nice .

Very cool project but having fable in the name makes it sound so tacky

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