Capcut reverse engineer link media

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i am a developer working on a video editor project and trying to develop a feature that exports videos into capcut. One thing im stuck with i linking the media (lost media). Capcut seems to know where the files are from its draft_info.json file material paths but still wants me to link it manually. Does anyone has experience with reverse engineering capcut projects? Would be awesome if the solution comes from here.

adithya adi · Accepted Answer · 2025-07-29 16:37:12Z

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Try placing your media directly inside the CapCut project directory under material/import/ and update all references in draft_content.json to use relative paths (CapCut often prefers local paths for self-contained portability).

Try re-encoding media using FFmpeg:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -preset fast -crf 18 -c:a aac output.mp4

Update: Turns out CapCut uses more than just file paths as it likely checks UUIDs, import timestamps, and maybe even file hashes.

I found a full reverse-engineering process and a working Python script that automatically relinks CapCut media by updating draft_info.json and draft_content.json correctly.

edited Jul 29 at 16:37

answered May 18 at 20:39

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