Openvid
open-source cinematic screen recorder and mockup editor
Details
- External ID
- 48142911
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Openvid
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3053311793214863
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- screen recording and demo creation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source screen recording and mockup editor
- Manually corrected
- False
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.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1020 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #759 of 1021 (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
- Raw Screen Recordings into Cinematic Apple-Style Product Demos · hn · 2026-09-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- Seedance 2.0 · hn · 2026-02-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- OpenScreenShot: open-source full-page screenshot and annotation tool · hn · 2026-07-09 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- omaframe · github · 2026-09-28 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Elah · hn · 2026-06-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- VideoPhysEdit · github · 2026-09-26 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- opus-in-motion · github · 2026-09-25 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.60
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