Instant video editing and associated methods and systems

A computer-implemented method for video editing, the computer-implemented method executable by a hardware processor, the method comprising:

• receiving a video file, the video file comprising a plurality of labeled video segments and a playlist, the playlist comprising a plurality of segment labels providing an order for playing the labeled video segments, wherein each labeled video segment comprises a plurality of frames and a corresponding plurality of timestamps;
• receiving a trim request, the trim request comprising a target time range to be removed from the video file, wherein the target time range starts at a beginning bookend timestamp and ends at an ending bookend timestamp;
• identifying a beginning bookend segment and an ending bookend segment from the plurality of labeled video segments based on the beginning bookend timestamp and the ending bookend timestamp;
• processing, just-in-time, one of the beginning bookend segment and the ending bookend segment based on the target time range to be removed, wherein processing the beginning bookend segment comprises removing each frame of the beginning bookend segment that is after the beginning bookend timestamp to generate a modified beginning bookend segment, and wherein processing the ending bookend segment comprises decoding the ending bookend segment, removing each frame of the ending bookend segment that is before the ending bookend timestamp, and re-encoding one or more frames of the ending bookend segment that are after the ending bookend timestamp to generate a modified ending bookend segment;
• identifying one or more given labeled video segments to be deleted from the playlist based on the beginning bookend timestamp and the ending bookend timestamp;
• removing deleted segment labels from the playlist corresponding to the given labeled video segments to be deleted;
• and
• generating an edited video file by generating a modified playlist, the edited video file comprising the modified playlist and one of the modified beginning bookend segment and the modified ending bookend segment.