alt Hacker NewsThe goal here is not to replace Premiere Pro across every professional workflow. But it is also not intended to be a toy editor.
Modern browser and GPU capabilities are already sufficient for a large category of practical video editing tasks. We are not targeting blockbuster scale 8K movies at least for now, but we are targeting real jobs people do every day across social, commercial, and non-commercial video production.
Except WebGPU 1.0 isn't modern, it exposes hardware capabilities from a decade ago, better than WebGL 2.0 sure, which is what mobile GPUs were in 2010.
And the sandboxing get up to 4 GB, which in most cases will kill the browser depending on how many tabs are open.