Observed arrival · 2026-10-21
Reelsaw: a self-hosted video clipping pipeline
Reelsaw turns long videos into vertical clips with AI-selected moments, reframing, and word-highlight captions, running locally by default.
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- Creators publishing video clips every week
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- Each stage checkpoints work in Postgres, so a worker restart can resume a render rather than restart the pipeline.
Field notes
The documented flow uses yt-dlp and ffprobe to ingest a source once, then processes transcription in parallel chunks with word timestamps. For moment selection, the page describes comparing top candidates head-to-head with positions swapped to counter judge bias. Its local installer sets up Ollama and Speaches; the page also lists external model providers as configurable alternatives.
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