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What's coming next for OpenCut (last updated: July 14, 2025)
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import { Metadata } from "next"; import { Badge } from "@/components/ui/badge"; import { GithubIcon } from "@/components/icons"; import Link from "next/link"; import { Footer } from "@/components/footer"; import { Header } from "@/components/header"; import ReactMarkdown from "react-markdown"; import { cn } from "@/lib/utils"; const roadmapItems: { title: string; description: string; status: { text: string; type: "complete" | "pending" | "default" | "info"; }; }[] = [ { title: "Start", description: "This is where it all started. Repository created, initial project structure, and the vision for a free, open-source video editor. [Check out the first tweet](https://x.com/mazeincoding/status/1936706642512388188) to see where it started.", status: { text: "Completed", type: "complete", }, }, { title: "Core UI", description: "Built the foundation - main layout, header, sidebar, timeline container, and basic component structure. Not all functionality yet, but the UI framework that everything else builds on.", status: { text: "Completed", type: "complete", }, }, { title: "Basic Functionality", description: "The heart of any video editor. Timeline zoom in/out, making clips longer/shorter, dragging elements around, selection, playhead scrubbing. **This part has to be fucking perfect** because it's what users interact with 99% of the time.", status: { text: "In Progress", type: "pending", }, }, { title: "Export/Preview Logic", description: "The foundation that enables everything else. Real-time preview, video rendering, export functionality. Once this works, we can add effects, filters, transitions - basically everything that makes a video editor powerful.", status: { text: "In Progress", type: "pending", }, }, { title: "Text", description: "After media, text is the next most important thing. Font selection with custom font imports, text stroke, colors. All the text essential text properties.", status: { text: "Not Started", type: "default", }, }, { title: "Effects", description: "Adding visual effects to both text and media. Blur, brightness, contrast, saturation, filters, and all the creative tools that make videos pop. This is where the magic happens.", status: { text: "Not Started", type: "default", }, }, { title: "Transitions", description: "Smooth transitions between clips. Fade in/out, slide, zoom, dissolve, and custom transition effects.", status: { text: "Not Started", type: "default", }, }, { title: "Refine from Here", description: "Once we nail the above, we have a **solid foundation** to build anything. Advanced features, performance optimizations, mobile support, desktop app.", status: { text: "Future", type: "info", }, }, ]; export const metadata: Metadata = { title: "Roadmap - OpenCut", description: "See what's coming next for OpenCut - the free, open-source video editor that respects your privacy.", openGraph: { title: "OpenCut Roadmap - What's Coming Next", description: "See what's coming next for OpenCut - the free, open-source video editor that respects your privacy.", type: "website", images: [ { url: "/open-graph/roadmap.jpg", width: 1200, height: 630, alt: "OpenCut Roadmap", }, ], }, twitter: { card: "summary_large_image", title: "OpenCut Roadmap - What's Coming Next", description: "See what's coming next for OpenCut - the free, open-source video editor that respects your privacy.", images: ["/open-graph/roadmap.jpg"], }, }; export default function RoadmapPage() { return (
What's coming next for OpenCut (last updated: July 14, 2025)
OpenCut is open source and built by the community. Every contribution, no matter how small, helps us build the best free video editor possible.