Hi everyone,
I’ve been exploring a workflow where capcut is used as the main editing tool, and Django acts as the backend system to manage and publish final video assets across a web platform.
The idea is fairly straightforward:
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Edit and finalize videos in capcut
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Export optimized media files (video + thumbnail)
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Push the exported content into a Django API endpoint
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Store metadata (title, duration, tags, publish status) in Django models
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Serve the content across web/apps from a centralized backend
In some test runs after exporting from capcut, I had to try a few times inside the upload interface just to verify whether the API response was correctly registering the uploaded media.
I’m curious if anyone has implemented something similar where capcut acts as the “content creation layer” and Django handles the full publishing pipeline.
A few questions I’m trying to figure out:
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Is it better to upload directly to Django via API click here, or route media through cloud storage (like S3) first?
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Any recommended structure for handling large video files efficiently in Django?
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Would this approach scale well for frequent capcut exports, or does it introduce unnecessary complexity?