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FilmCraft is an open-source, non-linear video editor developed by the ArtCraft team and community as a clean-room reimplementation of the Adobe Premiere Pro workflow. It is written in pure Rust, with native applications for macOS, Windows and Linux and a WebAssembly version for browsers.
The editor provides Premiere-like panels, workspaces, tools and shortcuts for editing, color, effects, audio, titles, captions, formats, export and interchange. Its engine uses integer-based time, a GPU compositor built on wgpu, linear-light compositing, a Rust DSP library, and native implementations of video, audio and container formats rather than bundling FFmpeg; FFmpeg is used externally for tests. It also exposes the same command system through the user interface, CLI, JSON control channel and MCP server, allowing agents to operate the editor.
FilmCraft is in alpha. The project reports approximately 86% feature breadth relative to Premiere Pro and estimates that approximately 56% is ready for real work, while noting gaps including limited hardware acceleration, no direct Premiere project-file import, no plugin hosting and limited testing on real-world media. It is distributed for multiple desktop platforms, as a browser build, and under the MIT or Apache-2.0 license.
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The Artcraft Premiere Pro alternative. The host did a full real edit with it: rendering works, it has Premiere-like natural preview rendering, and the README claims about 86% of Premiere Pro's features with 56% ready for real work. It contains no FFmpeg, having its own AI-written H.264, H.265, and ProRes codecs tested against FFmpeg.
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