Babalaclips is a website that aims to democratize the distribution of short video clips with a simple user interface. Currently, it is instantiated for Mevzular Açık Mikrofon 15. Bölüm I Cumhurbaşkanı Adayı Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. This is a 4-hour interview with one of the two presidential candidates of the Turkish Presidential Elections.

The system works as follows:

• Create a transcription of the video.
• For each subtitle/transcription unit, create a separate video frame.
• Store all frames on an S3 bucket.
• On the website, when a user asks for a segment, merge the frames for that segment.
• Cache created segments by uploading them to S3 and doing a simple storage check.

Currently, the UI allows for a set of simple actions:

• Watch the video with flowing transcription on the side.
• Use the slider to move along the video and the transcript as needed.
• Search for specific keywords or sentences.
• Cut segments based on a simple slide/extend/shorten scheme.

• The video is downloaded using yt-dlp. youtube-dl was too slow, and the resulting encoding was corrupted.
• Storage costs on S3 are unknown for now. I'm continuously monitoring the system to see the system cost.
• The app is deployed on Vercel for serving the front end, fly.io for the backend, and MongoDB Atlas for the database, all free tier.