Moving My Video Tool Into the Browser With FFmpeg and WebAssembly
A desktop tool has a wall around it: installation. To use mine you needed Python, FFmpeg on the PATH, and my script,…
lessons learned
When My Tool Got Too Slow, I Tried Learning Rust
My toolkit worked, and it was slow. Not broken slow, just heavy enough that every run broke my flow, and most of…
The Word Automatically Was Hiding Three Hard Problems
The plan sounded easy when I said it out loud. The tool joins the clips, then adds captions automatically. One sentence. But…
Composing the Final Video, and a Preview That Saved Me
The two tools I had built, one to break a movie into clips and one to join clips together, were really steps…
Building a Second Tool to Join Clips Into Finished Videos
By now I had a tool that could pull clips out of any movie. But that was only half of what I…
Making a Tkinter App Fit Any Screen With a Scrollable Layout
Every time a tool grows, the same thing happens. The screen fills up. I had added new modes and new output types,…
Adding Interval and Screenshot Modes by Reusing What I Had
By this point my tool did one thing well. It found scene changes and cut clips from them. But the more I…
Rebuilding My Video Tool’s Engine With FFmpeg Scene Detection
My tool looked cleaner now, and it was lighter underneath after cutting the scene detection library. But I had left a hole.…
How Deleting Features Made My Video Tool Better
A few days after I built my video tool, I opened it again, not as the person who made it, but as…
How I Built My First Video Tool in Python, and Why It Started as a Mess
Everyone says start small. My first real project was not small at all. It was a desktop tool to turn long movies…