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Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by sebastiennight »

bithavoc wrote: post #9
sebastiennight wrote: post #3

Hi, congrats on launching! We've been in this field (AI-based online video editing) for 2+ years now with https://www.onetake.ai ; so I have a hard-earned lesson I'd like to share as a suggestion. While your landing page is very clear about your features, it is a bit lacking as to the use cases / specific avatar (persona) you are targeting. You do have a "why Us?" question in your FAQ, but it's not clear who is the "…

I’m looking at your website, where did you get this idea? It’s kind of genius: > If you're reading this fine print, this is a message from the Universe: take a subscription now! Your life will be immediately happier, people will high-five you in the street, you'll be rich and your videos will be famous worldwide. Or, failing any of that, at least you'll have great professional content. And that's important.

On my very first website in high school (back when you had to code the HTML by hand) I added a tongue-in-cheek tag somewhat like this:

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Six months later my friends and I were selected to meet French President Jacques Chirac at the Elysee Garden because of that website.

... I've been adding hypnotic commands to all my websites ever since!

Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by codetrotter »

> You will not even have to worry about going to YouTube downloading websites, we can process videos straight from it.

I assume you use yt-dlp for this? In that case, look out for suddenly having your server IP banned by YouTube. I was running yt-dlp on a server for a long time (many months) and then one day it stopped working. And I wasn’t even auto-downloading videos. They were all manually triggered by me, to save copies of videos that I liked. So in total I was downloading far fewer videos on the server than the number of videos I was watching on my phone via the YouTube app on the phone.

Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by codetrotter »

nihey wrote: post #5
juliushuijnk wrote: post #2

> We can detect which parts of your video do not include any speech, and could be cut off your video, saving you hours of editing to cut off silence and non-relevant content. Please don't (over)do this. My brain can't handle a literal constant stream of speech. I've had to stop watching quite a number of videos about topics I was interested in because of this. For example the 'Wired' YouTube channel. The 'tech suppor…

I get what you're saying, personally, I prefer more slowly-paced videos. This fast-paced editing with no breathing in between sentences is a trend that I believe will shift sometime in the future. My tool allows the user to choose whether he would like to remove the silence and how much time between each cut. Hopefully, this will work for both kinds of editing styles.

What I’d like to see is an algorithmically controlled middle-ground that cuts out most of the pauses but also leaves natural pauses every now and then to give breathing room.

Basically a kind of auto-edit that helps give natural flow with breaks for the audience to absorb the material.

Think of fluent public speakers. Some of them speak in a way that their words are confident and coherent while not being just a constant stream of words.

For example Steve Jobs. If my memory of watching him speak on video, he speaks but he also takes plenty of pauses in between. (Presentations that he had rehearsed over and over before walking on stage and giving them.)

That kind of thing would be magic to have automatically done by the editor.

Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by grugagag »

juliushuijnk wrote: post #2

> We can detect which parts of your video do not include any speech, and could be cut off your video, saving you hours of editing to cut off silence and non-relevant content. Please don't (over)do this. My brain can't handle a literal constant stream of speech. I've had to stop watching quite a number of videos about topics I was interested in because of this. For example the 'Wired' YouTube channel. The 'tech suppor…

Yes, the way I’d describe it is just like very very sugary food, such extreme sweetness that produces nausea instead of the desired effect. My brain gets irritated by this and I have no choice but to avoid it. I’m somewhat alergic to advertising as well, a related affliction.

Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by grugagag »

emzo wrote: post #4
juliushuijnk wrote: post #2

> We can detect which parts of your video do not include any speech, and could be cut off your video, saving you hours of editing to cut off silence and non-relevant content. Please don't (over)do this. My brain can't handle a literal constant stream of speech. I've had to stop watching quite a number of videos about topics I was interested in because of this. For example the 'Wired' YouTube channel. The 'tech suppor…

Totally agree, this annoys me to. The gaps between sentences make speech easier to listen to and digest.

Yes. Sometimes I need a longer pause to let an idea properly lay down in my brain, so I gravitate towards content with a natural cadence.

Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by juliushuijnk »

nihey wrote: post #5
juliushuijnk wrote: post #2

> We can detect which parts of your video do not include any speech, and could be cut off your video, saving you hours of editing to cut off silence and non-relevant content. Please don't (over)do this. My brain can't handle a literal constant stream of speech. I've had to stop watching quite a number of videos about topics I was interested in because of this. For example the 'Wired' YouTube channel. The 'tech suppor…

I get what you're saying, personally, I prefer more slowly-paced videos. This fast-paced editing with no breathing in between sentences is a trend that I believe will shift sometime in the future. My tool allows the user to choose whether he would like to remove the silence and how much time between each cut. Hopefully, this will work for both kinds of editing styles.

I get this is a tool, and it's up to the creator on how to use it. I was mostly curious if I was the only one who had this experience. I agree with codetrotter on the middle ground part. It would be nice if the tool could smartly add/keep certain pauses.

My assumption is this trend started with YouTubers looking at their stats on when people leave their video. Presumably when a video has a pause, it is a moment someone can think, and thus also think about perhaps not watching the video. People like me who stop watching because of the lack of pause, stop at a seemingly random moment, so there is no clear signal in the stats.

Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by juliushuijnk »

grugagag wrote: post #14
juliushuijnk wrote: post #2

> We can detect which parts of your video do not include any speech, and could be cut off your video, saving you hours of editing to cut off silence and non-relevant content. Please don't (over)do this. My brain can't handle a literal constant stream of speech. I've had to stop watching quite a number of videos about topics I was interested in because of this. For example the 'Wired' YouTube channel. The 'tech suppor…

Yes, the way I’d describe it is just like very very sugary food, such extreme sweetness that produces nausea instead of the desired effect. My brain gets irritated by this and I have no choice but to avoid it. I’m somewhat alergic to advertising as well, a related affliction.

I have that same related affliction. It's not easy if I visit my parents and they have the TV on and then they'll just keep the advertisements on with full audio.

Don't want to fully high-jack the AutoEditor post comments. So to bring it back to feedback; that video on the top of the site is also too flashy and quick for me. I do like that it shows the feature of using text as a way to scroll through the video.

On the marketing side, I think the site works well, but I would focus even more on that it saves time.

From the website:

> Why use AutoEditor instead of other solutions? > Some of our key advantages are: > Direct access to the C-Level of the company - meaning you can request features and we'll tend to it > Good free tier so you can get started without having to commit > The best request/price ratio in this market > Our editor provides a flexible way to edit the videos exactly how you want them to be

I wouldn't do it like that. I would say something like "Save hours on every video you edit using our features like text-based editing and quick import and export." and if you want to show you are open to feedback, I would again talk about speed along the lines of "If you know of ways how we can save you even more time creating great video content, you can directly discuss these feature request... etc"

Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by wanderingmind »

codetrotter wrote: post #12

> You will not even have to worry about going to YouTube downloading websites, we can process videos straight from it. I assume you use yt-dlp for this? In that case, look out for suddenly having your server IP banned by YouTube. I was running yt-dlp on a server for a long time (many months) and then one day it stopped working. And I wasn’t even auto-downloading videos. They were all manually triggered by me, to save…

Might be a good reason to use proxy to connect to YT servers.
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