Shrimply Documentation

Shrimply brings your ideas to life.

Shrimply is a free and open-source video editor for creating videos from start to finish, whether you are making a quick edit or something fancy.

Shrimply editor showing the inspector, video preview, and multitrack timeline

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  • Getting started explains how to launch Shrimply, create a project, edit the timeline, and export it.

  • Editor describes the main workspaces and shortcuts.

  • Importing and creating media lists accepted sources and the content Shrimply can generate.

  • Manim explains how to use Python animation scenes and expose their values in the inspector.

  • Expressions covers values and functions for procedural and audio-reactive properties.

  • Compute server covers optional AI and compute features.

  • MCP integration documents live editor automation.

  • Development contains the supported repository workflow.