Description
🖼️ Tool Name:
Editly
✏️ Overview & Key AI Features (2026 Edition):
Declarative Video Editing: You don't "edit"; you "describe." You provide a JSON object defining clips, transitions, and text overlays, and Editly handles the rendering.
Smart Content Fitting: Automatically scales and crops images and videos to fit specific aspect ratios (16:9 for YouTube, 9:16 for TikTok) without manual adjustment.
SVG & HTML Support: Allows for high-quality vector graphics and web-style styling to be rendered directly into video frames, ensuring sharp text and logos.
Automatic Subtitle Sync: When paired with transcription APIs, Editly can overlay perfectly timed captions, a staple for 2026 social media content.
Transition Engine: Includes a wide library of professional transitions (crossfade, wipe, zoom, etc.) that can be triggered via simple parameters in your code.
Audio Layering & Ducking: Automatically manages background music levels, lowering the volume (ducking) when a voiceover is present.
⭐️ User Experience (2026):
"The Developer's Power Tool": Rated 4.8/5 in the GitHub and DevOps communities. It is praised for being lightweight compared to heavy enterprise tools like Adobe After Effects.
Batch Efficiency: Users love the ability to render 100 localized versions of a video (different languages/pricing) in a single command line run.
💵 Pricing & Plans (February 2026 Status):
🎁 How to Get Started:
If you are a developer, the best way is via NPM (Node Package Manager). Run npm install editly in your terminal. You can then create a simple editly.json file defining your scenes and run the command to watch your video render in real-time. For non-developers, using a front-end wrapper like JSON2Video (which uses similar principles) is recommended.
⚙️ Access or Source:
Official GitHub
Category: Programmatic Video Editing, Developer Tools, Video Automation.
Primary Use Case: Building automated YouTube channels, generating personalized sales videos, and creating data-viz videos for finance or weather.
🔗 Experience Link:
https://github.com