Though I come from the design world, I realized how much speed and power advantage there is in the command line, and spent the time – over several years – learning how to use it. The speed advantage is so apparent in comparison to GUIs, and now Web Apps, but I guess that's the geek appeal;)
I've been using ffmpeg as my primary video editor for over a decade now. Most of my edits are just combining or cropping clips or the occasional enhancement. I've done a few large projects like slideshows for funerals and weddings, combining both pictures and video and titles into the slideshow. It's an incredibly powerful tool.
Are there any video editing software that take advantage of ffmpeg? I once thought about making something to draw geometry through SVG and use ffmpeg then, or maybe add some UI or whatever, or just to add text, but I never started.
Avidemux feels like it's a bit that.
Since ffmpeg internals are quite raw and not written to be accessed through a GUI, any video editor based on it would probably be quite clunky and weird and hard to maintain.
Maybe an editor that use modules that just build some kind of preview with an command explainer, or some pipeline viewer.
ffmpeg is quite powerful, but it's a bit stuck because it only works with a command line, which is fine, but I guess it somehow prevents it from being used by some people.
I've already written a python script to take a random amount of clips, and build a mosaic with the xstack filter. It was not easy.
Recently I've been learning kdenlive to edit videos. I believe it uses ffmpeg on the backend. It's been great! The open source tooling around video recording and editing actually seems fairly good.
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