Really nice - need to try it with a few hobby use cases.
Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code
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#22Just curious, are you the founders of https://haven.run (YC S23)? I noticed that the Linkedin company page now redirects to Revideo. Would you mind sharing a bit about your pivot? I always find these stories interesting!
Yes, that's us! We started out in the open source LLM space, but realized that most companies didn't really have any real use cases for custom fine-tuned LLMs. Maybe we were too early, but everyone we talked to was best served by just using OpenAI. Late last year, we started looking at other areas and became fascinated with AI-generated social media content, which sent us down a rabbit hole that led us to build Revideo. It's been a very long and painful process, but we now have a lot of really cool and smart users building really useful stuff, which is something we haven't experienced with any of our previous pivots.
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#23Really nice - need to try it with a few hobby use cases.
Thank you! Would love to hear your feedback when you give it a try :)
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#24How is this different to / better than remotion.dev?
Revideo is different to Remotion.dev in a couple of ways:
First, we use generator functions to describe the flow of animations - every yield within the generator function corresponds to a frame in the video. As a result, our API feels quite "procedural" (animations described at the start of the function appear in the start of the video, animations described at the end appear at the end). Remotion's React-based approach is rather declarative - it gives you a frame number and lets you describe what your video should look like as a function of the frame number. Personally, we find our "procedural" API a bit more intuitive and easier to write than the declarative approach, but we might obviously be biased here.
Secondly, we render to the HTML canvas instead of the DOM. Both have advantages and disadvantages: Rendering to the DOM lets you define animations using CSS, which most programmers are already familiar with. On the other hand, an advantage of using the HTML canvas is that it should allow you to render entirely in the browser rather than using server-side rendering, as you can simply capture the current canvas using canvas.toBlob(). We have not yet implemented this for Revideo, but people in our Discord server have made good progress towards it.
Thirdly, we're MIT licensed while Remotion is not FOSS (if your company has more than three employees, you need to purchase a company license to use Remotion). As described in the post, this was one of our original motivations to build our own video editing framework while we were building video products.
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#25Hey this is really cool, we just launched our video embedding model: https://learn.mixpeek.com/vuse-v1-release/
I wonder if there's opportunities for collaboration. It seems we're the only cloud-agnostic video embedding model that allows users to own their embeddings.
Here's a reverse video search tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H92cEhG9uMI&ab_channel=Mixpe...
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#26Looks promising - I've been using Shotstack's visual editor to create video templates but keep running into limitations. Looks like Revideo has an "editor" that allows previews but not edits? Is editing through the GUI on the roadmap?
>> I've been using Shotstack's visual editor to create video templates but keep running into limitations
What limitations are you hitting?
What’s your functionality wishlist?
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#27How does this compare to VapourSynth or AviSynth?
Hey! I'm not really familiar with either one so take this with a grain of salt. On the first glance, it doesn't seem like these projects are designed to be run in the browser. We're mainly focussing on the use-case of using Revideo as a part of web-apps (we're building on top of the HTML canvas API which makes it really easy to preview instantly). There might be some use-cases where a lower level implementation is more suitable.
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#28I see that Revideo uses generator functions which seems intuitive to me as it linearizes frame sequences wrt time as the function yields. How does this compare to Remotion^ which uses "React" mental model? ^: https://remotion.dev
Yes, exactly! We're also big fans of the generator function model. In Remotion, you get the current frame of the animation through a React hook called useCurrentFrame(). You then use React to build the UI based on the return value of the hook. By structuring it as a generator function, later parts of the function are for later parts of the animation, which makes it a bit easier to read and write. We found this to be…
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#29Just curious, are you the founders of https://haven.run (YC S23)? I noticed that the Linkedin company page now redirects to Revideo. Would you mind sharing a bit about your pivot? I always find these stories interesting!
Yes, that's us! We started out in the open source LLM space, but realized that most companies didn't really have any real use cases for custom fine-tuned LLMs. Maybe we were too early, but everyone we talked to was best served by just using OpenAI. Late last year, we started looking at other areas and became fascinated with AI-generated social media content, which sent us down a rabbit hole that led us to build Revid…
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, that's us! We started out in the open source LLM space, but realized that most companies didn't really have any real use cases for custom fine-tuned LLMs. Maybe we were too early, but everyone we talked to was best served by just using OpenAI. Late last year, we started looking at other areas and became fascinated with AI-generated social media content, which sent us down a rabbit hole that led us to build Revid…
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no worries at all - I appreciate the feedback. Out of curiosity, what makes you think this is a tarpit idea? I roughly understand the term as "ideas that seem obvious and easy, but have non-obvious problems".
Ideally, we would like Revideo to be used to build any kind of web-based video editor. A lot of video editors exist, and many of them make a lot of money. Based on my experience, building a video editor from scratch is also really hard - I would think that people would choose a framework that makes it easy to build them if it exists.
My biggest worry is more about the technical difficulty of the problem (becoming the standard way to build a category of products is probably not easy), rather than this being an actual problem. I'd love to hear your opinion though!