Show HN: Geneva – CLI video editor and compositor with a native HTML/CSS engine

Category: devtools

Tags: video-editing, html-css-rendering, compositor, cli-tool, rust

Score: 8.0/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 9, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Geneva is a command-line video editor and compositor that treats edits as JSON documents and renders HTML/CSS titles and graphics without a browser, using a custom Rust layout engine and FFmpeg codecs. It stands out for its deterministic frame rendering, GPU/CPU compositing, distributed rendering with 'geneva farm', and impressive performance benchmarks against Playwright and Remotion, making programmatic video production fast and scriptable.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, content automation engineers, video engineers, and AI agents

Repository: https://github.com/geneva-render/geneva · Rust · MIT · 11 stars

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