I Built a Local Video Processing Workstation with AI — Here's the Complete Journey (opens in new tab)

From idea to release in 3 weeks, using Claude Code to build ClipForge — a cross-platform desktop app powered by Electron and FFmpeg. The Problem Most video processing tools force you to: Upload files to the cloud (privacy concerns ) Deal with file size limits Pay for premium features I wanted a fully local, feature-rich, good-looking video processing tool. So I built ClipForge. What is ClipForge? ClipForge is a desktop app that handles 20+ video/audio operations locally: Transcode — MP4, WebM...