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I like the idea, good luck! But I uploaded a very short sound effect (2s) instead of music, hoping it would complete faster but 15 minutes later and still waiting... A cancel button would also be nice. How do you render the video on the server? Do you open selenium and take screenshots of each frame and then stitch them together using ffmpeg?

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Hi, sorry, looks like the server was down because it couldn't handle the load. I am currently running a "poor man's setup", everything is on EC2 instance. I am not so big on DevOps side of things, so I have an API that does all the FFmpeg processing and the frontend calls that API. I am looking for a better way to do things and been considering Lambda functions too. I would love to hear if you have any tips on handling a long processing job like this.

You could do this entirely client side

I've worked on something similar for a project of mine and used AWS Lambda which has been nice because it scales well and didn't cost me money while it wasn't running. The limit is 15 minutes which should be fine for something like this.

As others mentioned, I would go with a client-side approach if it works for you though.

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