Ditch the Cloud: Building a Real-Time In-Browser Video Editor with WebCodecs, WebGPU, and Canvas
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For over a decade, building a video editing SaaS came with a massive hidden tax: cloud infrastructure costs. Every time a user applied a cinematic color grade, cropped a 4K frame, or stitched clips together, those raw bytes had to travel across the network, hit an expensive GPU-backed server cluste…
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- 2026-08-23 20:00 · DEV Community — AI
Ditch the Cloud: Building a Real-Time In-Browser Video Editor with WebCodecs, WebGPU, and Canvas