Hi, I'm Mads 馃憢
I'm Mads Paaskesen, an independent full-stack developer in Copenhagen, Denmark. I've built websites, backends and tools for many years (PHP, Node.js, .NET, and lately a lot of Rust).
About a year ago I built a small side project, Aether Renderer: an engine that turns animations into video with real transparency, and put it on GitHub. Then it sat quietly, until I noticed people were actually downloading it. That's when I picked it up again, and web2vid is the result.
What makes it different
- Frame-perfect: every frame is stepped on its own clock, so the video is the same every time, no matter how fast the computer is.
- Real transparency: WebM with alpha, MOV ProRes 4444, GIF, and MP4 when you want a background.
- Built on the web: make the animation with the tools you already know (CSS, GSAP, canvas, SVG) instead of learning a motion-graphics program.
- Open source: the engine (core andcapture) and the desktop app are MIT licensed. If web2vid ever went away, you could still run the engine yourself.
What you can use today
- The desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux, free (signed on macOS and Windows): download it.
- The cloud demo in your browser, no signup: try it.
- The command-line tools and Rust crates for developers: aetherrenderer.com.
Free accounts with 1080p, MOV ProRes and uploads come next. Get early access.
How it's run
web2vid is a one-person project, run by me as a private individual for now. I read every message myself. Uploaded animations are deleted shortly after rendering, and there are no cookies, no tracking across sites and no ads. See the privacy policy and theterms.
Get in touch
Questions, bugs, ideas or a custom setup for your company:write to me. More of my work:mp-it.dk 路 Hardcore Websmith 路GitHub.