[echelon]

Has anyone done video compositing in WebGL?

I'm very interested in moving video editing tools to the cloud where the heavy rendering can be offloaded and the browser can do lightweight work and scaled down approximations.

As a side effect you'd be able to use such an editor on Linux, which while not a central motivator, is compelling.

[antoineMoPa]

I'm working on a web based movie sequencer with special effects as a side project right now and the development of this thing is absolutely doomed. There are tons of problems on this path (codec/browser compatibility, browser bugs, slow performances, firefox unable to go to a desired time fast enough during render, etc.)

[BubRoss]

This has been done but holds very few advantages. Nuke and davinci resolve already run on linux. In either case local bandwidth and multiple cores are the biggest factors. Transferring images back and forth to a server is a waste of time when it takes longer than the processing time.