Openvid
open-source cinematic screen recorder and mockup editor
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HN · launched May 15, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: screen recording software · 203 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial While an Electron or web-based UI for screen recording is standard, generating smooth 60fps 'cinematic' camera zoom/pan animations, high-performance canvas composite rendering, and hardware-accelerated video export (WebCodecs/FFmpeg) requires sophisticated graphics pipeline engineering.
What it would actually take: A production-grade app like Screen Studio or Openvid uses Electron/Tauri with WebCodecs, WebGL/WebGPU, and native OS accessibility APIs to track cursor coordinates simultaneously with screen frames. The complex engineering lies in synchronizing high-framerate cursor telemetry with raw video streams, calculating dynamic cinematic easing paths for auto-zoom, and rendering the final output using GPU shaders or native FFmpeg pipelines without frame drops. Developing this requires specialized knowledge in real-time computer graphics and video codec pipelines.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2935 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2191 of 2936 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 196 days after the earliest competitor.
- BetterCapture · hn · 2026-02-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.78
- Slice · github · 2026-10-16 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.78
- Raw Screen Recordings into Cinematic Apple-Style Product Demos · hn · 2026-09-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- ScreenCraft · github · 2026-10-12 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- SunShot · github · 2026-11-08 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- video-flick · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- hypercam-media-tool · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- DaisyCap · github · 2026-11-02 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.68
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