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

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Post by michaelaubry »

kreelman wrote: post #146
aldanor wrote: post #39

Looks pretty awesome. Minor nit: hitting backspace to delete a clip (pretty common in editing apps) forces the browser to go back. You might also want to catch other types 'leave page' events and ask for confirmation so that the user doesn't lose their work accidentally.

Also, trim music gave an error for me too. Do you have a place to drop bug reports?

Yeah. I think this is a known bug. Most likely if you dont move the trimmer or try and trim the whole clip messes up the FFMPEG command.

Hasnt effected paying users yet, so it's lower priority, but will be addressed soon.

I am thinking about improving that UX. Instead of immediately prompting the user to trim. This will be in the toolbar as a "tool". So if you want to trim a podcast episode you can, that is the main use case, so it might make the most sense this way.

I slapped this in quickly because I was targeted podcasters for the first few customers and this was a critical tool to have.

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

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Post by michaelaubry »

ricahe2559 wrote: post #160

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.

Yeah thats a great approach.

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

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Post by michaelaubry »

steventey wrote: post #157
michaelaubry wrote: post #35

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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!

Haha it's all about communication. Glad you got a chuckle.

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

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Post by AtHeartEngineer »

michaelaubry wrote: post #92
novaleaf wrote: post #59

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umm... are all these people pushing to increase price serious? I know you want to encourage, but After Effects is "only" $20/mth.

I think pricing works in mysterious ways. There are a lot of variables. - what is the market willing to pay - does this solve the core problem - how much is this problem worth (hint time is the most valuable thing in the world) I don't think it should be more expensive than adobe products at all. My goal is to make it cost efficient for most folks who don't have large budgets. However here are a few points. - hiring…

Targeting the $10-15 price range per month for the lower tiers is ideal. This would basically sit just under adobe's costs, but there wouldn't be the time investment of learning their tools, and the user doesn't need a beefy computer. There's also a good possibility that a small chunk of potential customers may only be using a phone.

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

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Post by michaelaubry »

sethammons wrote: post #141
michaelaubry wrote: post #126

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Good points. Im always on the side of charging more where it makes sense. Still learning the market. I am doing B2B integrations where they get access to the tool embedded in their product and an S3 link sent to their system for $20k annual. This breaks down to $1.6 monthly.

Don’t be afraid of really jacking up prices. We once had an enterprise customer who turned out to only need our self-serve $80/mo package to start. He told us to add at least one zero to that because $80 was too small for him to expense. That customer is now paying over $20k/mo as they’ve grown on our platform.

Geeze thats amazing. See it's all relative. I need to find a customer like that.

You're so right though money is a mindset. You get what value you can reasonably offer but that's not the entire picture. It's what you believe you're worth combined your negotiation skills. As long as you have leverage and good positioning then you can make some sweet deals.

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

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Post by michaelaubry »

ChicagoBoy11 wrote: post #163

Bro I tried the demo and on the surface this looks insanely well executed. If my job goes remote next year (I'm a school admin/support person, so if that's the case I'll have a lot of downtime), you wanna take on an unpaid intern just in exchange for learning from this?

Im from near Chicago. I love the excitement. Hit me up on Twitter DMs @michaelaubry

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

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Post by michaelaubry »

tiffanyh wrote: post #131

I’ve been a happy paying https://clipchamp.com/ User for sometime but will have to give this a try. Congrats Michael. People underestimate how hard it is to build and ship. So massive kudos to you on your new product.

Not a rocket ship but not a baloney sandwich either haha.

I have vaguely heard of them. Cool name. Id love to learn your use case, pain points, and what I need to do as a product creator to make a significantly better product.

If you're interested I would like to get inside your brain. Hit me up on Twitter @michaelaubry or email michael@storycreatorapp . com

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