Video editors are usually big, clunky, and complicated to learn. I wanted to make something I could drop a new user into, have them learn it in a day, and get youtube-friendly video output, right out of the box, without having to fight with projects, settings, and config toggles.
I didn't quite make it all the way through this one during the jam, I wound up spending a lot of time fighting with FFMPEG's API, it's not well documented once you start hitting the fringes of PTS/DTS settings, converting to/from formats that are a little fussier like mp4.
It was a great learning project though!