What is this?
Shrimply is a cross-platform video editor built in Rust, currently in a pre-alpha stage of development.
Shrimply is a cross-platform video editor built in Rust, currently in a pre-alpha stage of development.How do I get it running?There's no packaged release yet, so you follow the Getting Started guide on the documentation site to install it, or build it yourself using the Development docs.
There's no packaged release yet, so you follow the Getting Started guide on the documentation site to install it, or build it yourself using the Development docs.What does Shrimply actually run on under the hood?Its interface is built on GTK 4 and libadwaita, rendering runs through Skia, wgpu, Slang, and CUDA, media handling uses FFmpeg and PipeWire, and there's a separate Python-based compute server.
Its interface is built on GTK 4 and libadwaita, rendering runs through Skia, wgpu, Slang, and CUDA, media handling uses FFmpeg and PipeWire, and there's a separate Python-based compute server.What should I expect from pre-alpha software like this?Expect 'slop', build failures, undocumented footguns, performance regressions, irreversible project file breakage, random crashes and resource leaks, and no sandboxing — importers like Manim can run arbitrary code without any validation.
Expect 'slop', build failures, undocumented footguns, performance regressions, irreversible project file breakage, random crashes and resource leaks, and no sandboxing — importers like Manim can run arbitrary code without any validation.Which operating systems does it build for?CI pipelines build Shrimply for Windows, macOS, and Linux (packaged as a Flatpak), consistent with its description as a cross-platform editor.
CI pipelines build Shrimply for Windows, macOS, and Linux (packaged as a Flatpak), consistent with its description as a cross-platform editor.What's the licensing situation?Shrimply itself is GPL-3.0-or-later free software, but some features depend on non-free components like NVIDIA's CUDA Toolkit, OptiX SDK, Optical Flow SDK, Video Codec SDK, and separately licensed model weights, which keep their own license terms.
Shrimply itself is GPL-3.0-or-later free software, but some features depend on non-free components like NVIDIA's CUDA Toolkit, OptiX SDK, Optical Flow SDK, Video Codec SDK, and separately licensed model weights, which keep their own license terms.What rendering engine does Shrimply use?It renders through a mix of Skia, wgpu, Slang, and CUDA, combining software and GPU-accelerated rendering paths.
It renders through a mix of Skia, wgpu, Slang, and CUDA, combining software and GPU-accelerated rendering paths.Is it safe to open a project file someone else sent me?Not currently — there's no security validation, and importers like Manim can execute arbitrary code, so only open projects you trust.
Not currently — there's no security validation, and importers like Manim can execute arbitrary code, so only open projects you trust.Why does it need a Python component alongside Rust?The main app is written in Rust, but it pairs with a separate Python-based compute server listed in the tech stack; the README doesn't elaborate on exactly what it computes.
The main app is written in Rust, but it pairs with a separate Python-based compute server listed in the tech stack; the README doesn't elaborate on exactly what it computes.Which topics is it in?wgpu, libadwaita, free-software, gtk, video-editor, creative-tools, video-editing, content-creation, video-processing, ffmpeg, app, video
wgpu, libadwaita, free-software, gtk, video-editor, creative-tools, video-editing, content-creation, video-processing, ffmpeg, app, video