Awesome Video Production

A curated list of software, services, and resources to create videos.

Tip

I use this knowledge to produce videos for my YouTube channel.

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• Screenwriting
• Storyboard / Animatic
  • Apps
  • SaaS
• Image Editing
• Animations
• Audio
  • GUI
  • CLI
  • SaaS
• Video Editing
  • GUI
  • CLI / Code
  • SaaS
• YouTube Channels
• Research

Screenwriting

• Fountain - Plain text markup language for screenwriting.
• Plotdot - AI-Powered screenwriting assistant.
• Scriptio - Minimalist screenwriting tool.

Storyboard / Animatic

Apps

• Storyboarder - Visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures.

SaaS

• [Blooper] - Pre-production assistant and management.
• Boords - Storyboarding tool to plan creative projects.

Image Editing

• rembg - Tool to remove image background.

Animations

• Anime.js - JavaScript animation engine.
• Animo - Make animated videos from text using AI.
• Babylon.js - 3D engine for the web.
• Bauble - Playground for making 3D art with lisp and math.
• Blender for Story Art - Blender's tools for making animations.
• Clipnote Studio - Basic animation software.
• CodeWorld - Webapp for creating drawings and animations with code.
• Expressive Animator - SVG animation software.
• Friction - Motion graphics app for vector and raster animations.
• Manim - Python library for creating mathematical animations.
• Motion Canvas - Create animated videos using the Canvas API.
• Nannou - Creative coding framework for Rust.
• p5.js- Create 2D and 3D animations using JavaScript.
• Pencil2D - Tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.
• Reanimate - Declarative animation library for SVG documents.
• Spine - Tooling for 2D animations in games.
• Theater.js - Animation library for the web.

Game engines can be used as well:

• Bevy Image Export - Bevy plugin for rendering image sequences
• Cocos - Open-source, cross-platform game engine.
• Defold - Supports recording the game frame-buffer to a file.
• Fyrox - Save the contents of the texture after each engine.render call.
• Godot - Creating movies with Godot's offline renderer.
  • Phantom Camera
  • Little Camera Preview
  • Anima
  • Movie Maker Timestamp
• LOVR - Save the contents of the texture on each render call.
• WickedEngine - Write C++ using FFmpeg to encode image to video file.

Audio

GUI

• Audacity - Open source, cross-platform audio recording and editing app.

CLI

• StyleTTS2 - Open source text-to-speech model.

SaaS

• ElevenLabs - Generative Voice AI.
• OpenAI TTS - API to generate speech from text.

Video Editing

GUI

• Audapolis - Editor for spoken-word audio with automatic transcription.
• Blender for Video Editing - Blender's built-in video sequencer.
• Bons-AI - Modular automation stack for faceless video creation.
• ClipJS - Edit videos from your PC or phone.
• Flowblade - Multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux.
• GoZen - Minimalist Video Editor implemented in Godot.
• KDENlive - Open-source video editor.
• Olive - Free open-source non-linear video editor.
• Recut - Desktop app to automatically remove silence.
• Remotion - Video editing in React.
• ShotGPT - AI framework for automated short/video content creation.

CLI / Code

• Auto-Editor - Automatically edit video & audio by analyzing the content.
• Cut the Crap - Automated video editing for streamers.
• Editly - Declarative command line video editing & API.
• Etro - Typescript video-editing framework for the browser.
• Graphics livecoding in Common Lisp
• Jumpcutter - Automatically edits videos.
• LosslessCut - The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing
• MoviePy - Python library for video editing.
• Revideo - Open source framework for programmatic video editing.
• RobustVideoMatting - Robust video matting in PyTorch.
• VapourSynth - App, plugin, and library for video manipulation.

SaaS

• Animaker - Platform for beginners and non-designers to create animation & live-action videos.
• Animoto - Drag-and-drop video maker.
• Biteable - Online video maker.
• Captions - AI-powered creative studio.
• Descript - Write, record, transcribe, edit, collaborate, and share videos & podcasts.
• Diffusion Studio - AI powered Text-To-Video Editor.
• Eggnog - Create AI videos with consistent characters
• InVideo - Create videos with text prompts.
• Lumen5 - Video creation platform.
• Moovly - AI-powered video creation.
• Pika - AI-powered video generation.
• Renderforest - All design tools in one place.
• Rive - Create animations for any platform. (Supports video export.)
• Shortbread - Create comics with AI.
• Super Simple Teleprompter - Web-based teleprompter to deliver your lines.
• Veed - Full featured video editor.
• Viddyoze - Video templates marketplace.
• Videobolt - Video templates marketplace.
• Videocreek - Video intro maker.
• Vidtoon - Online video animation software.
• Wave.video - Easy-to-use platform to make and record videos.

YouTube Channels

• Reanimated Science - Science videos created with Reanimate.
• TheHiistoricAI - AI-generated history videos (by @RayVenturaHQ).

Research

• FilmAgent - Multi-agent framework for end-to-end film automation in virtual 3D spaces.