A local short-form video pipeline
Most “turn your footage into a short” tools are cloud SaaS: you upload your raw clips, a server transcribes and renders them, and you pay per minute. I wanted the opposite, a pipeline that lives entirely on my own machine, uses only open-source tooling, captures only what I tell it to, and never sends a frame anywhere. This is that pipeline. It takes raw recorded footage and produces a finished vertical short-form video framed correctly for TikTok or Instagram Reels, with word-level captions burned in and platform-aware layout. macOS / Apple Silicon, no cloud, no paid APIs, driven from a single CLI over an input folder. ...