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

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Amazing work man! This looks and feels great! Dropped it on producthunt, hope you get some boost there!

Holy shit this is awesome. Wow thank you! Can I buy you a coffee or lunch? Hit me up on Twitter @michaelaubry that is very thoughtful of you :)

All good man, added you as a maker, accept the invite and promote it! It deserves to be seen more! :)

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

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I was looking for something like this last week, I will explain my problem then you can potentially add it to your backlog. I'm not sure how common this is.

I have some footage shot on my phone at 30fps and some footage shot on my cheap go-pro knock-off at 24fps. (an AKASO)

If I import them into iMovie, the frame rate gets set to whichever video is first in line, so for example the 24fps one gets blank frames inserted to match the frame rate of the first one. I downloaded openshot but the titles don't seem quite as easy as iMovie.

Best of luck with the venture!

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

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THAT... IS... AWESOME.... dude you really out did yourself. usually i criticize people because their product homepage doesn't tell nor show anything about their product so i'm confused about what it does and how to use it. YOU... DID.. IT... PERFECTLY your homepage not only tells me exactly what this does, but shows me to the point where i'm excited to use it. good on you. others should learn from you. my one thing t…

This means a lot. I have spent some time getting it down. A lot of blood, sweat, and tears haha. I agree with the templates. I am trying to allocate my time wisely and I think expanding that will be major. I am drawing up a way to make it even easier for people to create amazing videos. When you click "add new video" I plan to make it interactive and guide you along every step. Your options will be Do you want to cre…

man.. huge respect. you did an amazing job here. i have build products almost on my own and know the pain. i know exactly what you mean by blood, sweat and tears :). good luck. hope it takes off well.

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

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This is a really great point. First you are right, pricing will go up. As I add more assets (animated text 100+, templates 100+, progress bars and other elements 100+) I will raise the price. Early adopters will be grandfathered in for life. I think adjusting the pricing based on your feed is very appropriate, makes a lot of sense and its giving me a lot of ideas.

I’d be cautious increasing the price. It’s not an enterprise product and you’d be weakening your case as an After Effects alternative. In fact - if you can scale easily - you might be better off lowering the price and going for those that can’t afford / can’t be bothered to learn After Effects. Make it something that an average 16 year old can afford, and you’ll create a loyal customer base. Like that you may be able…

> It’s not an enterprise product

It absolutely should be. This has a lot more value to large social media teams who have to iterate on content daily to test conversion than it does to just an individual who wants to make nice posts for their side hustle.

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

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Had the same thought that something like this should exist every time I've found myself having to waste an afternoon putting social content together for someone. But obviously didn't care enough to go any make it myself.

Great work, you'll be on to a winner here if you nail the workflow. I'd say you really have to focus on building it as a tool for larger social media teams to bash out iterations when driving conversions little creators is fine but the real money will be in that and you can charge a lot more for it.

You know what Figma has done for templating/design systems within a team with it's strong internal asset libraries. Things like that for social media teams to work from the same sheet on assets are going to be key.

Turn "We need to try a different copy line" from a 40 minute job to a 2 minute job and companies will pay.

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

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There's a few companies already in this space, but all I'm aware of are of the "Contact our sales for pricing" type and require you to spend at least 100k annually. Many contracts go into millions - just for the apps & services, without media spend.

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

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Looks great! Question regarding the features. Do I need to record my videos using something else or can I do the actual recording using your product?

HAHA no one has asked me this. I have this built out and hooked up to S3 I disabled it as I thought users wouldnt want it. In the early days. I would use the webcam, record me talking. Then caption it on the spot, add some letterbox text and publish to my Instagram story. I might have to reveal it and bring it back. This is of course if people want it and it solves a pain point worth paying for.

This sounds interesting. My use case for a SAAS video editing product would be to do some video screen captures, then edit them together, then add voiceover, subtitles etc (are interactive hotspots on your roadmap?) to get a half-decent final cut I could add to my site or share on YouTube.

Also: excellent website. I wish you much fortune in your endeavour!

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

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as a developer i am curious about how it works? do you use ffmpeg? do you upload all videos on server?

FFMPEG is a huge component. There isnt a silver bullet there are many moving parts. Essentially FE handles collecting information. BE handles parsing information and using various rendering techniques to stitch together the pieces.

What about hosting stack, doesn't video processing eats up insane amount of resources on backend?
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