Buying a video editor template
If you want to build a video editor application quickly, you can purchase pre-built editor templates and components rather than building everything from scratch. Here are the available options:
Editor Starter by Remotion
The official template by Remotion that provides a comprehensive video editor foundation.
This is the editor built by the Remotion team and includes the best practices recommended by us. It features:
- Zoomable timeline with drag and drop, multiple selection, thumbnails, waveforms
- Interactive canvas allowing moving and resizing layers with inline text editing
- Uploading assets to S3 and local caching
- Rich font support with Google Fonts
- Captioning with OpenAI Whisper
- Rendering with Remotion Lambda
More details under: remotion.dev/editor-starter
Timeline component by Remotion
A minimal timeline interface component that follows all of Remotion's best practices and recommendations.
Features:
- Playhead
- Resizable, moveable layers
- Create and move tracks
- Filmstrip video thumbnails
This is recommended if you need just the timeline functionality and want to build the rest of your editor around it.
More details under: remotion.pro/timeline
React Video Editor
The most popular Remotion video editor template, used by many companies, with many features:
- Timeline Controls
- Comprehensive video editing capabilities
- Transitions & Effects
- Captions
- Keyframing
- Exports
This is a mature solution that offers extensive video editing features and has been battle-tested by many developers.
DesignCombo
Another third-party option that's been used by various products in the ecosystem.
Features:
- Text, video, audio, image layers
- Various transitions
- AI voiceovers and captions
- Exports