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Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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Post by dorkwood » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 3:27 AM UTC

mdoms wrote: post #129

michaelaubry wrote: post #125

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Let's see your product that you've coded? I spent years learning to code. Dropped everything to live in a car in Silicon Valley so I didn't have to work at a gas station in the middle of nowhere. I then worked my way up to a $200k salary. Quit that to pursue being an entrepreneur. Last year I made $20k and risked it all for this. Thanks for your time and energy checking it out though. I'm looking forward to your vers…

Don't get defensive dude, it's obnoxious. All he said is it's not in the ballpark as a product that has hundreds of developers and over a quarter of a century of development effort.

To be fair, the comment he was responding to didn't have any value. All it basically said was "I don't understand why people like this", which, in my opinion, is a lot more obnoxious than the response.

People who create and put things out into the world deal with these sort of comments all the time. I think it's fair to be critical of them.

Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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Post by xenospn » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 3:30 AM UTC

michaelaubry wrote: post #31

xenospn wrote: post #17

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Looks awesome! BTW, the 'About' page has a missing image (I'm assuming it's you).

I think there is an issue on mobile. Should work on desktop. I think the CSS doesnt have a height set or something.

I'm on desktop.

Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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Post by 29athrowaway » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 3:33 AM UTC

michaelaubry wrote: post #2

I quit my job over a year ago. Been bootstrapped on savings. I picked up a gig last year and only made $30K in 2019. Hoping my efforts pay off.

This looks very polished. Good work, man.

Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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Post by jozzy-james » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 3:35 AM UTC

stopachka wrote: post #49

michaelaubry wrote: post #45

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Thanks for catching that. Hot keys have been a pain. I also found an issue with copy pasting inside text boxes. I promised myself and my startup friends I wouldn't touch code until I handled doing marketing and sales. It's on the backlog now, thanks for letting me know. This feedback goes along way :)

Mousetrap is the best shortcut library I’ve used, and can help you do this well, catching a bunch of edge cases

e.keyUp...c'mon man, don't need a whole library

Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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Post by jozzy-james » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 3:38 AM UTC

so am i correct in that this essentially scripts an AE program and renders when done (used to do those for automated things myself)? if so, kudos - and if not, kudos as well

Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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Post by artursapek » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 3:38 AM UTC

michaelaubry wrote: post #125

canada_dry wrote: post #96

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> pushing to increase price serious? I agree. I'm puzzled why this is getting so much excitement, it's hardly in the ballpark of "After Effects".

Let's see your product that you've coded? I spent years learning to code. Dropped everything to live in a car in Silicon Valley so I didn't have to work at a gas station in the middle of nowhere. I then worked my way up to a $200k salary. Quit that to pursue being an entrepreneur. Last year I made $20k and risked it all for this. Thanks for your time and energy checking it out though. I'm looking forward to your vers…

It's completely fair to compare your product to its competitors (especially one you referenced in your post title) when discussing the pricing scheme you landed on.

Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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Post by steventey » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 3:50 AM UTC

michaelaubry wrote: post #35

saadshamim wrote: post #26

out of technical curiosity, how do you render the video? is the whole thing like a canvas element?

Combination of several rendering techniques. The idea is as long as you have all the information the user wants in in each layer. Then you can do a lot of things with this understanding. The major pieces of information you need to collect while working on a 2D plane are these. - The x,y coords - The width and height - A path to the asset - additional properties like colors and opacity From having this critical inform…

"send it to a human" lol that made me chuckle!

Thanks for explaining this in detail, Michael! Really great work here!

Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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Post by tomc1985 » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 3:53 AM UTC

michaelaubry wrote: post #128

tomc1985 wrote: post #114

This obsession with "stories" is getting out of hand. It's like that horrible "Made with Love" trend from a few years ago.

You sound like a real fun person

I'm not very much fun around folks that use frothy-sounding trendwords unironically

Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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Post by jacob_rezi » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 3:55 AM UTC

Looks awesome, Michael! Looks like we did the exact same thing using the Ouch Scribbles. Take a look - https://www.rezi.io/

Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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Post by ricahe2559 » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 4:00 AM UTC

This looks great, Michael! Do you take individual screenshot on a headless browser for all layers and stitch them using FFMPEG?

I played around with FFMPEG to when my company needed dynamic videos (ie. They wanted to create videos like the ones Facebook automatically generates). And that's at least what I did.