Muvy: a nonlinear video editor

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Document version 0.9
Copyright © 2009 by Zack Smith.
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Introduction

Muvy is my video editor for Windows. I've created Muvy because for many years I've waited for someone else to take up the task of creating a decent video editing program and although some have tried, no one has succeeded.

I've always argued that a basic nonlinear video editor should not be terribly difficult to either design or implement. A complicated one at the level Final Cut Pro would be, but that program is overkill anyway. So I am creating Muvy for Windows using C++ and making it portable in case I later want to use it under 64-bit Linux.

Goals

With Muvy I'm attempting to achieve a small, fast program that doesn't rely on lots of other software libraries. Non-reliance on other people's software is a key strategy to ensure long-term survival of the project and to minimize maintenance.

The project consists of:

  • The program itself
  • Four built-in fonts (3 of my design and one from TeX).
  • My own widget system (which I have also ported to Windows Mobile)
  • zlib
  • Video For Windows for reading/writing AVIs.

Portability is another goal. I'm writing Muvy for the native Win32 platform (not .NET or MFC), and coding my own platform-independent widget system so that I can later port it to 64-bit Linux.

I'm further enhancing portability by including several fallback fonts of my own design. For text captions I have embedded a large TeX font in the code.

My target features are as follows:

  • Transitions: I have implemented dissolve, wipe, and iris so far.
  • Per-video-clip filters for colors: I have implemented about 15 so far e.g. negative & sepia.
  • Per-video-clip transformations: I have implemented about twenty of these e.g. rotate 90 degrees, shrink to upper-left quadrant, resize to user specified rectangle, add border, etc.
  • Overlay of text i.e. captions. I have implemented a simple bottom-of-screen caption. I plan to add more caption types.
  • Importation of AVI files: I have implemented import of compressed and non-compressed AVI.
  • Importation of BMP images: I have implemented photo import.
  • Montage: I have implemented a montage feature that shows a series of user-specified photos in succession.
  • Rendering to AVI files: I have implemented render to non-compressed AVI.
  • Project open/save.

Muvy.exe is currently about 310 kB and 17000 lines of C++, which includes comments.

FrugalWidgets

Muvy relies on my own custom C++-based widget set, called FrugalWidgets.

Clip types

Currently I support these types of video clips:
  • AVI files (uncompressed and compressed) without sound
  • Videos made from one photo
  • A simple caption
  • A montage of multiple photos
  • A two-color gradient for testing
The program does not currently support sound.

Screenshot

From version 0.112:

Download

  • Installer not available at this time
  • Source code

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