Frame Forge

Frame Forge is a light-weight video editing app developed in java. It uses the FFmpeg library to work with videos as frames, and then processes them using openCV ibrary.

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Below are some comparisions that we made with the existing video editing applications

Feature	Frame Forge	Clipchamp	OpenShot
Startup Time	4.38 seconds	29.2 seconds	13 seconds
Open Source	✅	❌	✅
Unique Filters	Periodic Noise Removal	None	None
Basic Filters	Fade In, Fade Out, Gaussian Blur, BnW	Fade, Blur, Saturate and more	Fade, Crop, Color Adjustment and more
Resource Efficiency	Frame-by-frame processing, low buffer storage usage	High memory consumption	Moderate CPU and memory usage
Video Summarization	GPT-based API integration	❌	❌
User Interface	Simple, minimalistic	Feature-rich	Feature-rich

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• Installation
  • 1. Installing Maven
  • 2. Cloning this repo
  • 3. Try it out
• Examples
  • Video Summarization
  • Basic Filters
  • Advanced Filters
• TODO

Installation

We are using the Maven Project Manager for our project

Installing Maven

Firstly, install Maven and follow the steps given there.

Check if it has been installed with mvn -v

Cloning this repo

To clone this repo-

git clone https://github.com/L-10-rush/Frame-Forge
cd Frame-Forge

Alternatively, you can download the source code as a zip file from the github page and unzip it. Here's a link to it: Download zip

Try it out

Run these maven commands to compile it.

mvn clean compile

Once all the dependencies are downloaded and the source codes compiled, you can execute the application by:

mvn exec:java

Examples

Video Summarization

images demonstrating video summarization

Basic Filters

Applying a basic Black and White Filter Before-

After-

Advanced Filters

As of now only 1 Advanced filter is available. That is a periodic noise removal filter. Applying it onto a frame like the one below

we get a much smoother frame

TODO

• ☑ Video Summarization
• ☑ Denoising
• ☐ Motion Blur
• ☐ Better GUI