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How to Get Sponsored: Analyzing Remotion & MediaBunny

The Commercial Open Source Playbook for Kinetix

Which Framework is Best for Kinetix? (React vs. Svelte vs. Vue)

The Commercial Open Source Playbook for Kinetix

Beyond Remotion: Building a Lightweight, Client-Side Video Engine

Building a Lightweight, Client-Side Video Engine

Feature Focus: Drag-and-Drop Video Editing in Kinetix

How we implemented local video file support in the Kinetix engine using Blob URLs and HTML5 Canvas.

Roadmap: Kinetix as the Remotion Killer

The Commercial Open Source Playbook for Kinetix

Short-Term Plan: Generating Cash Flow (0-6 Months)

The Commercial Open Source Playbook for Kinetix

The Social Media Promotion Plan Turning Likes into Donations

The Commercial Open Source Playbook for Kinetix

How to Build and Run Kenichi Desktop in Visual Studio 2022

A step-by-step guide to setting up the Kenichi Desktop environment using Visual Studio 2022.

The Monolith Trap: Why Kinetix Needs a UI Library

A guide to why Kinetix needs a UI library.

Getting Started with Kinetix: The Open Source Video Engine

A comprehensive guide to installing, configuring, and using the Kinetix engine with React, Svelte, and more.

The Perfect Stack: Building a Pro Desktop Editor with Tauri, Rust, & Tailwind

Why we chose the TRRTT stack (Tauri, Rust, React, TS, Tailwind) for Kinetix, and how it enables hyper-speed development with Google Antigravity.

The Frontend Battle: Svelte vs. React for Video Editors (Tauri Edition)

Virtual DOM vs. Compiled Code. Which frontend framework can handle the 60fps demands of a video timeline?

The License Dilemma: MIT vs MPL 2.0

Choosing the right open source license for Kinetix Core. A deep dive into Permissive vs Weak Copyleft.

The Plan: Open Sourcing the Kinetix Engine

A roadmap for extracting the Kinetix video engine into a standalone, framework-agnostic open source library to rival Remotion.

Under the Hood: How Kinetix Builds Video on the Web

A deep dive into the engineering behind Kinetix's browser-based video creation engine, exploring the custom TypeScript engine and its frame-perfect export system.

Building a Web-Based Video Editor: A Technical Deep Dive

Building a Pro Desktop Video Editor: The Tech Stack of Premiere & DaVinci

From C++ and Vulkan to Rust and WebGPU—what does it take to build a competitor to DaVinci Resolve or CapCut on the desktop?

The Crossroads: C++ Qt vs. Tauri + Rust for the AI Era

Choosing a desktop stack in 2026: Why Tauri might be the superior choice when pair-programming with Google Antigravity.

Optimizing Kinetix Create: A Performance Deep Dive

How we analyzed and improved the load time and responsiveness of our browser-based video editor.

Designing for Flow: What Kinetix Learned from Lightroom

Analyzing the industry standard for mobile creative interfaces to improve our creation experience.

Building the Next Generation of Video Tools with Remotion

Why we chose Remotion as our rendering engine and how Kinetix improves upon the standard Editor Starter.

Building a Better Export: Why We Chose MediaBunny

How we achieved native-speed MP4 and MOV export in the browser using the open-source MediaBunny library.

CSS vs. SASS: What's the Difference?

A comparison of standard CSS and the SASS preprocessor.

Pure CSS Animations Collection

A showcase of stunning pure CSS and SVG animations.

Pure CSS Cycling Animation

A showcase of a pure CSS (SCSS) cycling animation.

Why Chrome is King for Web Video Export

Why we recommend Chromium-based browsers for Kinetix, and how we added a warning for Firefox/Safari users.

Kinetix Export Options Explained

A deep dive into the differences between Offline Rendering and Realtime Recording, and when to use WebM vs MP4.

A Friendly Introduction to SVG

Understanding the magic of Scalable Vector Graphics: from coordinate systems to CSS animation.

Next-Gen Video Export: Why We're Betting on MediaBunny

We are overhauling our render engine to support MP4, MOV, and simplified audio muxing using the revolutionary MediaBunny library.

Engineering Kinetix: 60FPS In-Browser Video Export

A deep dive into how we use WebCodecs, Web Workers, and frame-perfect rendering to generate high-quality video entirely in the client.

Changelog: January 2, 2026 - Kinetix Studio Overhaul

A massive update introducing a new Engine Core, revamped UI, Layer Management, Animations, and more.

The Exponential Era: Renewable Energy's Tipping Point

Analyzing the rapid adoption of clean energy technologies using Kinetix's advanced visualization suite.

Introducing New Mindmaps in Kinetix

We're excited to share a massive upgrade to one of your most-loved visuals: Mindmaps. Create branching diagrams faster than ever.

Introducing Custom Generation

Get the visual you want, faster. Today we're launching Custom Generation to give you more control over visuals.

Introducing Elastic Designs

Get the right visuals, faster. Napkin visuals just got better. With Elastic Designs, your visuals now scale automatically.

PPT Export & File Import - Now Live

We've got a big Kinetix update we think you'll love: You can now export visuals directly to PowerPoint, Google Slides, and more.

Introducing Custom Styles

Generate visuals that match your brand. We're excited to introduce Custom Styles—one of our most requested features!

Faster, Smarter, packed with 50+ new designs

Today, we're excited to share a major update with you: Kinetix's visual generation is now 20% faster and 18% more accurate.

Learning from YouTube Create: The Perfect Mobile Text Inspector

Analyzing the specialized text editing workflows in YouTube Create and how we're adapting them for Kinetix.

Mastering Mobile Video Editing: Lessons from YouTube Create

Deconstructing the UI/UX patterns of the YouTube Create app and how we're applying them to Kinetix.

Building a Bar Chart Race in Kinetix

How we implemented a data-driven Bar Chart Race animation using the Kinetix engine.

Eliminating the Freeze: How We Stabilized Long Video Exports

A deep dive into how we fixed system freezes during long MP4 exports by serializing worker tasks and implementing semaphore-based backpressure.

Avoiding the Freeze: Optimizing Heavy Client-Side Video Exports

How we implemented hardware detection and performance throttling to prevent UI freezes during 4K/60fps video exports in the browser.

A Tale of Two Engines: HTML Canvas vs. Remotion

Why Kinetix uses two completely different rendering architectures for its 'Create' and 'Animator' modes.