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I am a tech writer and I write tasks and procedures using DITA-XML. I was thinking about transforming my .dita files to .mlt to use in shortcut/melt, but I think I'm going to use this instead.
Seems you could do something along these lines to avoid the video generation part.
I could see this being really useful for creating product onboarding video tutorials - wondering if there's an ability to preview and edit/adjust before exporting the final video?
Building a full video is fairly quick compared to traditional editing tools, so I haven't built any faster preview yet. I usually just build the whole thing and look at it, then tweak the script and build it again.
You can easily upload just the script file into an existing project and re-build the video as many times you like, then download the version you are happy with at the end.
I could see this being really useful for creating product onboarding video tutorials - wondering if there's an ability to preview and edit/adjust before exporting the final video?
What kind of preview are you thinking about? Building a full video is fairly quick compared to traditional editing tools, so I haven't built any faster preview yet. I usually just build the whole thing and look at it, then tweak the script and build it again. You can easily upload just the script file into an existing project and re-build the video as many times you like, then download the version you are happy with…
I'll give it a try, perhaps its so fast that previews aren't really necessary.
I also think this could be an amazing tool for personalizing video marketing too
https://connect.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Automated+Video...
The existing tools for doing this sort of thing seem to either require quite a bit of programming / video skills e.g. Media Lovin' Toolkit, ffmpeg, sox, jimp, ImageMagick etc or they are templated / opinionated tools like https://www.magisto.com/
What I love about Video Puppet is that it provides a simple and easy to use set of tools and an API that through GitHub actions allows you to put version control and early/often feedback loops at the heart of your projects.
I'm using it to document the development story and back story of an Indie Video Game I'm working on. Previously I was doing it as a Google doc which I was sharing with my collaborators.
With Video Puppet, it requires little more overhead - I was writing this stuff already - but when I see and hear the results played back I can immediately see whether the story makes sense or not. I can see if I am jumping into talking about something I haven't set up properly or if I am trying to say too much.
One thing that would help me is to get feedback on fails in the markdown script quicker, before even pushing to GitHub. For code, including things like Terraform, I'd use a linter, or CircleCI has a validator tool you can run locally.
The other place I'm going to start using it is for describing defects in a product I am coaching a team on. Previously I would do a screen cap and then upload that to frame.io. Now I can do the screen cap, describe the problem and stick the whole lot into version control with a bunch of github actions to point the team to the resulting video.
I will be following this product closely and actively using it.
Greak work Gojko!
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What kind of preview are you thinking about? Building a full video is fairly quick compared to traditional editing tools, so I haven't built any faster preview yet. I usually just build the whole thing and look at it, then tweak the script and build it again. You can easily upload just the script file into an existing project and re-build the video as many times you like, then download the version you are happy with…
I was thinking about adjusting parameters like: background music volume, segment length, pauses, etc. I'll give it a try, perhaps its so fast that previews aren't really necessary. I also think this could be an amazing tool for personalizing video marketing too
From the view of someone that occasionally watches videos on YouTube, I am trying to figure out a nice way to say... I hate it. Or more specifically, I hate that it generates the voice, and basically enables video content spam.
What we don't need more of is cheap, easy to automatically generate videos that are basically spam and/or clickbait, trying to get views. The problem with auto-generated voices in videos like this is as a viewer I can't distinguish between work that someone put deliberate production time into, and something churned out by a content farm. The demo video even tricked me at first, I didn't realize it was a generated voice until a couple sentences in, at which point I had a visceral negative reaction, the same as when I accidently click on a content farm-generated video.
It seems a major feature is automatically syncing the narration to the slides. Perhaps a way to enhance this while avoiding spam generation is to use the generated voice only for internal timing, and generated a karaoke-like display for a narrator (human) to read? As a paid service, you could even provide professional voice-offers as an add-on.
Related: A very basic prototype I’ve been working on, but for video zines https://kickscondor.com/slaptrash Seems you could do something along these lines to avoid the video generation part.
edit: I'm going down a rabbit hole looking through your site. Digging the twisted early internet aesthetic.