raea export

The composition as a CapCut draft ready in its timeline: its footage and sounds as clips of their own files at their trims and gains, everything raea draws as transparent overlay clips above them.

raea export capcut edit.tsx            # into CapCut's projects; open CapCut and it's in the list
raea export capcut edit.tsx -o drafts/ # a draft folder to copy into CapCut's projects folder yourself

raea renders the composition three times. The first render, as it is, is kept in out/capcut/NAME/reference.mp4 to compare against. The second hides the footage and draws everything else with a transparent background: titles, lower thirds, shapes, 3D and effects. That render becomes one transparent movie, cut into a clip wherever something is drawn, on a track above the footage. The third draws only the backgrounds that sit behind the footage (a card behind a picture in picture, a coloured page), and goes under it unless it's black.

Each stretch of frames that shows one video file becomes a clip of that file, starting where the composition starts it and playing at its rate. It is placed and scaled as object-fit shows it in raea (cover, contain, a crop). Clips covering the whole frame go on the main track; the others go on tracks above it. A video's own sound stays on its clip at the composition's volume; every other sound becomes an audio clip with its gain and fades. The output names what doesn't carry over, such as the Tone graph's music, which has no file, or a clip that moves or fades within its shot (placed as its first frame shows it).

CapCut rewrites its project list when it quits, so raea export capcut refuses to write into CapCut's projects while CapCut is open. Quit it first, or pass --no-register or -o. The previous project list is kept first in ~/.raea/capcut/backups (%LOCALAPPDATA%\raea\capcut\backups on Windows), never in raea's own folder.

#Usage

raea export capcut EDIT.tsx [--composition ID] [-o DIR] [--name NAME] [--alpha-codec prores|hevc|rle|png] [--no-register]   (the composition as a CapCut draft ready in its timeline: its footage and sounds as clips of their own files at their trims and gains, everything raea draws as transparent overlay clips above them; into CapCut's projects, entered in its project list while CapCut is closed, or a draft folder in DIR; the reference render and the overlay movie kept in out/capcut/NAME)

Headless: it needs nothing running and opens no window. Takes up to 2 arguments besides its flags.

#Flags