ObenCut - AI-Powered Video Editor

A free, open-source AI-powered video editor for web, desktop, and mobile.

ObenCut is a fork of OpenCut with enhanced AI capabilities powered by ComfyUI. This project aims to seamlessly integrate cutting-edge AI-generated content into a professional-grade video editing workflow.

While OpenCut provides the foundation for privacy-first, open-source video editing, ObenCut extends its capabilities to include:

• AI Text-to-Video generation
• AI Text-to-Image generation
• AI Image-to-Video transitions
• AI Image-to-Image effects
• And more ComfyUI-powered features coming soon

• Privacy: Your videos stay on your device
• Free features: Most basic CapCut features are now paywalled
• Simple: People want editors that are easy to use

• AI-Powered Content Creation: Generate videos, images, and effects with AI
• ComfyUI Integration: Leverage powerful AI workflows for content generation
• Seamless Workflow: Use AI-generated content directly in your video timeline
• Still Privacy-First: Your original footage and AI outputs remain local

• Timeline-based editing
• Multi-track support (video, audio, text, stickers)
• Real-time preview
• No watermarks or subscriptions

• Text-to-Video: Generate video clips from text prompts
• Text-to-Image: Create images from text descriptions
• Image-to-Video: Animate images with AI
• Image-to-Image: Apply AI styles and transformations
• Custom Workflows: Use pre-built or create your own ComfyUI workflows

obenbut/
├── apps/web/              # Main Next.js web application
│   ├── src/
│   │   ├── app/          # Next.js app router pages
│   │   ├── components/   # UI and editor components
│   │   ├── constants/    # Application constants
│   │   ├── core/         # Editor core (singleton)
│   │   ├── hooks/        # Custom React hooks
│   │   ├── lib/          # Utility and API logic
│   │   │   ├── api/      # API routes and providers
│   │   │   │   └── comfyui/     # ComfyUI integration
│   │   │   └── ...
│   │   ├── services/     # Background services
│   │   ├── stores/       # State management (Zustand)
│   │   └── types/        # TypeScript types
├── docker/               # Docker configurations for ComfyUI
├── public/               # Static assets
│   └── workflows/        # Pre-built ComfyUI workflows
├── packages/             # Shared packages
│   ├── env/              # Environment variable definitions
│   └── ui/               # Shared UI components
└── tests/                # Test suite

• Bun (recommended) or Node.js 18+
• Docker and Docker Compose
• ComfyUI (optional, for AI features)

git clone https://github.com/bowfeng/ObenCut.git
cd ObenCut

bun install

# Copy environment file
cp apps/web/.env.example apps/web/.env.local

Edit apps/web/.env.local with your configuration:

# Database
DATABASE_URL="postgresql://..."

# Redis
REDIS_URL="redis://localhost:6379"

# ComfyUI (for AI features)
COMFYUI_URL="http://localhost:8188"

# Start database and Redis (optional, for full local setup)
docker compose up -d db redis serverless-redis-http

# Start the web app
bun dev:web

The application will be available at http://localhost:3000.

To use AI generation features, you need to run ComfyUI:

# Using CPU (slower, but simpler)
docker compose -f docker-compose-cpu.yml up -d

# Using GPU (faster, requires NVIDIA GPU)
docker compose -f docker-compose-gpu.yml up -d

ComfyUI will be available at http://localhost:8188.

The repository includes pre-built ComfyUI workflows in public/workflows/:

• text2image.json - Generate images from text
• text2video.json - Generate video from text
• image2image.json - Transform images with AI
• image2video.json - Animate images to video

1. Open the Assets Panel in the editor
2. Select the AI Generation tab
3. Choose a workflow (Text-to-Image, Text-to-Video, etc.)
4. Enter your prompt and adjust settings
5. Click Generate
6. AI-generated content will be added to your assets library

You can extend AI capabilities by:

1. Creating your own ComfyUI workflow in the ComfyUI interface
2. Exporting the workflow JSON
3. Placing it in public/workflows/
4. Registering it in the AI generation store

• More AI workflows for video editing
• AI-based background removal
• AI color grading
• AI voice synthesis and lip-sync
• Real-time AI effects during preview
• Mobile app support

We welcome contributions! ObenCut is built on the foundation of OpenCut, which has an active community.

Great areas to contribute:

• Adding new AI generation workflows
• Improving ComfyUI integration
• UI/UX improvements for AI features
• Performance optimizations
• Bug fixes

See our Contributing Guide for detailed setup instructions and development guidelines.

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

ObenCut is a fork of OpenCut, which is also MIT licensed.