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Ask HN: I'm building an easy-to-use video editor, tell me your pain points
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Re: Ask HN: I'm building an easy-to-use video editor, tell me your pain points
#12I want to edit "as live". So, I throw in 3 or 4 camera shots covering the same period, then I play them all simultaneously, cutting between them with the number keys as if it's a live show.
Of course, after I might make some adjustments, but this is a great way to get a fast first cut.
Re: Ask HN: I'm building an easy-to-use video editor, tell me your pain points
#13I want to edit "as live". So, I throw in 3 or 4 camera shots covering the same period, then I play them all simultaneously, cutting between them with the number keys as if it's a live show. Of course, after I might make some adjustments, but this is a great way to get a fast first cut.
Cool! That sounds like a really cool stuff to have.
Do you also want to show several cuts at once, at the same time (with some mask on each)?
I have the foundation for this, but to fully implement it, it will take a bit of time (maybe 1.5-2 months time frame)
Re: Ask HN: I'm building an easy-to-use video editor, tell me your pain points
#14Just to give you another POV, might be useless - my main pain point would be how to know I am speaking well, that I’m interesting and clear, that people are getting something out of watching. I’ve not done much YouTube (1 or 2 private videos for product explainer ever) but it’s something that interests me, but only if I can create good content. Sorry I’m not directly answering your editing question as I have nothing…
This guy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMMgvkLj8es says pretty much "Start before you're ready" - once you start doing videos, even if they don't look good at first, you just need to keep at it. It's the only way to grow.
In time, you'll figure everything out ;)
Re: Ask HN: I'm building an easy-to-use video editor, tell me your pain points
#15Full, complete Linux support.
Right. I will quote from my other answer: "In the long term, I believe I will have this. Due to the complexity of video editing (I mean, implementation wise), I chose to go with a single platform for now (Windows 10). The more I think about it, the more I think I should have gone with Mac, but that's another story. All in all, I do want to go multi-platform, once I've gotten all the right features ready."
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Re: Ask HN: I'm building an easy-to-use video editor, tell me your pain points
#17I want to edit "as live". So, I throw in 3 or 4 camera shots covering the same period, then I play them all simultaneously, cutting between them with the number keys as if it's a live show. Of course, after I might make some adjustments, but this is a great way to get a fast first cut.
Cool! That sounds like a really cool stuff to have. Do you also want to show several cuts at once, at the same time (with some mask on each)? I have the foundation for this, but to fully implement it, it will take a bit of time (maybe 1.5-2 months time frame)
In my use case I basically never do picture in picture. I just want to produce content "as live". If you go on YouTube you can find a bunch of behind the scenes videos of people editing together live events on the fly. This should give you a good idea of what "as live" editing is like.
Re: Ask HN: I'm building an easy-to-use video editor, tell me your pain points
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cool! That sounds like a really cool stuff to have. Do you also want to show several cuts at once, at the same time (with some mask on each)? I have the foundation for this, but to fully implement it, it will take a bit of time (maybe 1.5-2 months time frame)
In my use case I basically never do picture in picture. I just want to produce content "as live". If you go on YouTube you can find a bunch of behind the scenes videos of people editing together live events on the fly. This should give you a good idea of what "as live" editing is like.
Since you never do picture-in-picture, I assume i understand what you mean.
However, I don't think I found examples on youtube. For some searches, the closest I got was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFRI6YTAhvw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTpo9Tj-xQg
Can you post a youtube video of what you mean (even though I think I understand :D)? Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: I'm building an easy-to-use video editor, tell me your pain points
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my use case I basically never do picture in picture. I just want to produce content "as live". If you go on YouTube you can find a bunch of behind the scenes videos of people editing together live events on the fly. This should give you a good idea of what "as live" editing is like.
Since you never do picture-in-picture, I assume i understand what you mean. However, I don't think I found examples on youtube. For some searches, the closest I got was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFRI6YTAhvw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTpo9Tj-xQg Can you post a youtube video of what you mean (even though I think I understand :D)? Thanks!
Here is a nice example with a gameshow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL6OBjMWYYI
Basically the director is giving instructions to camera people and then switching feeds on the fly. (though the actual feed switching is done by an assistant). I want to watch my footage in realtime and just hit 1,2,3,4 to switch between the various feeds.
Re: Ask HN: I'm building an easy-to-use video editor, tell me your pain points
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since you never do picture-in-picture, I assume i understand what you mean. However, I don't think I found examples on youtube. For some searches, the closest I got was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFRI6YTAhvw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTpo9Tj-xQg Can you post a youtube video of what you mean (even though I think I understand :D)? Thanks!
Here is a nice example with a gameshow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL6OBjMWYYI Basically the director is giving instructions to camera people and then switching feeds on the fly. (though the actual feed switching is done by an assistant). I want to watch my footage in realtime and just hit 1,2,3,4 to switch between the various feeds.
Got it, so my initial understanding (I hope :D) was correct.
Having said that, you don't want to do this process live, right? (if so, what you want will definitely be doable, withing 1.5 months or so)
LATER EDIT: On another note, I'm curious how big of a use-case is this, 'cause if it's big enough, I could actually make a subset of my app which would do just this (allow you to cut which camera is the "active" one) - and I would give this for free.