FilmCraft

FilmCraft is a non-linear video editor for people who know Adobe Premiere Pro: it keeps the same panels, workspaces, tools and shortcuts so editing feels immediate, but rebuilds the engine from the bitstream up in pure Rust as a free, open-source project by the ArtCraft team.

It goes deep for a young app. The H.264, HEVC, ProRes and AAC codecs are written from the public specifications — no FFmpeg — with ProRes decode from 422 Proxy to 4444 XQ. Keyframes behave like Premiere's, with value and velocity graphs and draggable influence handles; the text engine handles OpenType shaping, bidirectional text and kerning; caption tracks support CEA-608, CEA-708 and Teletext with frame-exact SRT, WebVTT and SCC import/export and burn-in. A GPU compositor works in linear light and frame math runs on exact integer time, so edits never drift. Export covers media files plus YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, Instagram and FTP destinations at H.264 and HEVC.

Interchange is treated seriously: OpenTimelineIO round-trips every FilmCraft detail, and AAF Edit Protocol import and export targets Avid Media Composer and Pro Tools workflows. FilmCraft runs natively on macOS, Windows and Linux and in the browser via WebAssembly, and it sits roughly 45% of the way to Premiere Pro parity today, with a public roadmap tracking every milestone. As with the rest of the ArtCraft suite, an MCP server, CLI and JSON control channel let AI agents drive every command.