Ignix Editor

Render videos from HTML on your own computer: reels made from scratch, edits of your recorded videos and clips from long ones. It is the video engine behind Ignix's reel and edit playbooks for AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT) and behind Ignix Creator.

Ignix Editor is for Ignix customers: it needs an active Ignix plan. Your AI assistant gets a short-lived license (72 h) from the Ignix MCP tool get_editor_license and saves it with ignix-editor license <token>; the license is checked on your machine, offline.

npx @ignix-social/editor license <token> # saves the license from the Ignix MCP
npx @ignix-social/editor doctor        # checks Node 22+, ffmpeg, whisper and the H.264 encoder
npx @ignix-social/editor init my-reel  # creates ~/ignix-videos/my-reel
npx @ignix-social/editor render ~/ignix-videos/my-reel

Commands: license, doctor, init, check, snapshot, render, preview, transcribe, faces, ffmpeg, ffprobe, skills add, fetch, serve, creator-job, help.

• Everything runs locally; your footage never leaves your machine.
• ffmpeg (GPL build, without libx264) and whisper.cpp are downloaded once per machine into ~/.ignix-editor, checked against their SHA-256. Chrome for rendering is downloaded once from Google's official channel.
• No telemetry and no automatic updates: the version you install is the version that runs. At most once a day it asks ignix.social which version is recommended (a plain request, nothing about you or your projects is sent) and, if yours is older, prints the command to update; it never updates by itself. Turn the check off with IGNIX_EDITOR_NO_UPDATE_CHECK=1.
• The final audio is normalised to −14 LUFS.
• Analysis (faces, and serve, the local service Ignix Creator talks to: shots, people, faces, burned-in text, voice clean-up, transcription) runs on ONNX Runtime with open models (YOLOX, YuNet, PP-OCR, CLIP), downloaded the first time they are needed and checked against their SHA-256.
• ignix-editor skills add installs the ignix-editor skill for Claude.

Requires Node.js 22 or newer. Runs on macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon) and Windows 10/11 (x64).

License

Apache-2.0. Ignix Editor is based on HyperFrames by HeyGen, Inc. (Apache-2.0), included in vendor/hyperframes with the modifications listed in patches/. See NOTICE. Ignix Editor is not affiliated with or endorsed by HeyGen.