This is really awesome. One suggestion; if you got rid of standard definition from the free plan and made it HD across the board I think it would help you in the long run from word of mouth based on the quality people see. Free version would essentially be used for word of mouth marketing so compromising quality on that could harm the brand in the long term imo. Just my two cents!
Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies
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#242This looks awesome! One prospective customer group, I'm helping a teacher friend of mine (she teaches Y1-4) as she produces basically an episode of Playschool/Sesame Street per day to her students. She's working in iMovie and looking to move to Final Cut Pro, specifically for better editing and effects. So this looks like an awesome halfway house. I can also see a marketplace for templates around your editing product…
Thats really cool. I will definitely follow up.
So the videos are hosted for you and a part of the plan. I encode the video so it's supported on phones and all social media platforms.
To post on Instagram you have to download it. You can easily embed the video using the hosted link onto blogs and you can tweet the link, use the link in SMS, etc.
I'd love to help more :)
Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies
#243This looks awesome! One prospective customer group, I'm helping a teacher friend of mine (she teaches Y1-4) as she produces basically an episode of Playschool/Sesame Street per day to her students. She's working in iMovie and looking to move to Final Cut Pro, specifically for better editing and effects. So this looks like an awesome halfway house. I can also see a marketplace for templates around your editing product…
I don't see any contact info though. You can email me if you are interested michael @ storycreatorapp.com or @michaelaubry
Looking forward to it. See you on the inside!
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#244This looks amazing, congrats!! One quick note: on your features page, the trim section has the same text as resize gifs. You pasted the wrong copy there ;). Again, congrats on your great work! [EDIT] found one more: when I use your demo, the onboarding tutorial stops after step three. Regardless of whether I click next, click "skip", or drag the playhead marker, I never get shown step 4 out of 6.
Great catch. Yeah I think for Step 3 or 4 it's looking for a CSS class selector I removed. Need to buff that one out. Its going in the backlog. Thanks for letting me know. You rock!
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#245This looks amazing, well done! Really intuitive and easy to use. A minor suggestion: the phrase "Free Demo" on the landing page sticks out to me and feels awkward. I think maybe changing it to "Try" or "Demo" would be more fitting. Adding "Free" seems unnecessary and distracting. I also think it should be highlighted, maybe changing it to blue text. Or maybe green. Just my opinion.
Great feedback. I had demo before some people said it made it feel like an enterprise product where demo was booking a sales demo. So I tried to make it clear it wasnt that.
Maybe try sample or something could be more fitting.
What do you think?
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#246Nicely done!
A thing that really stood out was the design on the front page; the fonts, shadowing, graphics etc
Did you use any kind of existing style guide for this?
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#247This looks like a really great product, but scrolling the landing page is laggy AF (Firefox). Doesn't make me want to try it out.
Got it. Sorry about that. Hopefully youll check it out in the future.
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#248Isn't this the same as Adobe Premiere?
It has aspects of premiere. Sort of a merger between the two. It's tailor made for social media content. Which means adding some motion graphics with the ability to trim audio and video.
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#249Looks great, but looking at the pricing page makes me wonder, what is this Video limit. Do I get to edit 20 videos for $19 per month, or what? Why would you limit the number of videos if storage is already limited? Maybe add little help icons next to the points that clarify the limits.
Great feedback. I think you're right it could use some more context.
I think FAQs would also be nice.
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
I came to say the same thing. If you're going to compare yourself to AE, then you better bring some heavy hitting features. The iMovie comparison is exactly what I was thinking. It's a FisherPrice "baby's first NLE". That sounds a lot harsher than I mean for it to be, but it is apropos. People that have never used an editor and wants to get into it, then this very well may be an amazing option for them. For $32/mo th…
You can't just compare it by saying "$50/mo gets you the full Adobe Suite" -- there's a hidden cost there. Yes, you get access to the full Adobe Suite of software, but there's a huge learning curve that comes with that and dozens (hundreds?) of hours of learning required to get good. This tool seems pretty much effortless to learn and use. There's intrinsic value in that.
Bingo, right now, I use Kapwing for basic video editing, very easy to do the basics and the results are good enough for what I need.
No way I'd spend the time to come up to speed with Adobe to do the same things.