I Generate $50 Stock Videos With One Command. Here's the Open-Source Tool.

Stock footage sites charge $15–50 for a single looping background video. Gradient flows. Plasma effects. Aurora animations. The kind of stuff streamers use behind their webcam, designers drop into hero sections, and indie devs layer behind title screens. I got tired of paying for something a computer can generate from math. So I built loopkit — a single Rust binary that generates perfectly seamless looping videos from the command line. loopkit generate --preset plasma --duration 5 -o plasma_loop.mp4 That's it. One command. Full HD. Perfectly looping. Free. The Problem You need a looping background video. Your options: Pay per clip — Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, Envato. $15–50 each. Licensing restrictions. Watermarks until you pay. Learn After Effects — Steep learning curve for something that should be simple. Use Processing/TouchDesigner — Great tools, but heavy setup and a runtime to manage. Find free clips on Pexels — Limited selection, everyone uses the same ones. None of these feel r