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Re: Show HN: Open-source AI video editor

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Post by drochetti »

dylan604 wrote: post #35
thangngoc89 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s here: https://fal-video-studio.vercel.app/

and you found that link how? am I just missing it in TFA? Edit: What do the buttons next to the play/pause button do? Typically, I'd expect to frame advance, or jump to next the next clip. I click and see nothing happening. I dropped two images I uploaded into the timeline, yet there's nothing visible in the timeline. The monitor shows something, but nothing in the timeline indicating how the clip fits in the timelin…

The link is on the GitHub repo.

As for the feedback, fair enough. As I said, this is just a demo and it's in its early stages. It has no goal of replacing professional video editors or even matching their features. Some annoying bugs and missing features, we will tackle them.

As for your last comment, feel free to judge, but I can say it was not quick at all to do this just to post on HN. You can check all the commit history and the codebase so you can have an idea how much care was put into it.

Re: Show HN: Open-source AI video editor

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Post by nikolayasdf123 »

someone please add "AI Video Editing". I don't care about generating assets with AI.

scrolling frame by frame through hours of hundreds of tiny videos, fixing their exposure, fixing their dropped frames, fixing transitions, fixing and matching visual narration to textual and audio narration, aligning music to video, making "vlog" like templates. there is just so much to be fixed in this industry, but everyone is concerned with generating assets. that's just not the biggest issue video editors are facing. like not at all.

Re: Show HN: Open-source AI video editor

#43

Post by EyMaddis »

nikolayasdf123 wrote: post #42

someone please add "AI Video Editing". I don't care about generating assets with AI. scrolling frame by frame through hours of hundreds of tiny videos, fixing their exposure, fixing their dropped frames, fixing transitions, fixing and matching visual narration to textual and audio narration, aligning music to video, making "vlog" like templates. there is just so much to be fixed in this industry, but everyone is conc…

Because for generation you just have to make a prompt to OpenAI and get a VC to throw money at you. Why bother with the hard thing

Re: Show HN: Open-source AI video editor

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Post by t0bia_s »

nikolayasdf123 wrote: post #42

someone please add "AI Video Editing". I don't care about generating assets with AI. scrolling frame by frame through hours of hundreds of tiny videos, fixing their exposure, fixing their dropped frames, fixing transitions, fixing and matching visual narration to textual and audio narration, aligning music to video, making "vlog" like templates. there is just so much to be fixed in this industry, but everyone is conc…

Absolutely agree. I don't care about generating footages with non existing content, just let me help with editing of already taken real life footages to speed up post-production!

Re: Show HN: Open-source AI video editor

#45

Post by nikolayasdf123 »

EyMaddis wrote: post #43
nikolayasdf123 wrote: post #42

someone please add "AI Video Editing". I don't care about generating assets with AI. scrolling frame by frame through hours of hundreds of tiny videos, fixing their exposure, fixing their dropped frames, fixing transitions, fixing and matching visual narration to textual and audio narration, aligning music to video, making "vlog" like templates. there is just so much to be fixed in this industry, but everyone is conc…

Because for generation you just have to make a prompt to OpenAI and get a VC to throw money at you. Why bother with the hard thing

you don't even need VC. people would love it and more than happy to pay for it, high price! I bet China has already some of such apps. I see many very similar vlogs in Little Red Note, likely edited automatically by some kind of software. build it and. ship it

Re: Show HN: Open-source AI video editor

#46

Post by dutchbookmaker »

varispeed wrote: post #30
echelon wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fal wants to sell compute, and since they're straggling behind the compute-as-an-API leaders they've attached their cart to the art, image, and video subset of the market. They think they've got a leg up on their model partners. That the foundation model companies will mostly become generic copies of one another, servants of the compute layer. There are so many foundation video models now, and they'll battle it out o…

Call me thick, but it's like back in the day, rich bored person goes to an artist and says "paint me this and that". Except now the "rich" person calls themselves an artist and "actual" artist is replaced by AI contraption that basically regurgitates real artist works. It's kind of comical. But also makes sense. If you wanted e.g. music, you could either look at catalogue of what's out there or try to make your own.…

This is all nonsense.

People don't want to watch two chess computers play even if they can both smoke Magnus Carlsen.

Art is an even more extreme version of this. Part of what makes a Dali painting a Dali painting is the mimetic desire of the general weirdness of the human Salvador Dalí.

AI can't displace human mimetic desire. AI art is just worthless muzak playing in the background at Dennys. Non-artistic/non-creative people right now are amazed at how they can make muzak but muzak is shit by its very nature.

Re: Show HN: Open-source AI video editor

#47

Post by bobxmax »

echelon wrote: post #38
bobxmax wrote: post #36

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No, you don't know. Stable Diffusion came before Midjourney. What first mover advantage? Flux has been around almost a year, by your reasoning everyone should have switched. They didn't. Everyone who used Midjourney a year ago is still using it. The Midjourney sub on reddit has 1.6M subs. The Stable Diffusion sub has 600k. I don't care what AI studios you know want to use. They use Premier Pro. Just like every film s…

> Stable Diffusion came before Midjourney. You've got your facts wrong. > Flux has been around almost a year It's been around half that time. And you're also underestimating how many billions of images have been generated with Flux. The marginal cost and value of these models will trend towards zero. > The Midjourney sub on reddit has 1.6M subs. The Stable Diffusion sub has 600k. So you're saying that they're within…

They're at $90M ARR right now and accelerating, so no that's not ambitious. Midjourney is close to half a billion in ARR.

Figma destroyed Photoshop & Sketch.

Whatever, you have your opinion, none of the facts today support it, maybe you'll be right in the future (you won't be).

Re: Show HN: Open-source AI video editor

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Post by varispeed »

dutchbookmaker wrote: post #46
varispeed wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Call me thick, but it's like back in the day, rich bored person goes to an artist and says "paint me this and that". Except now the "rich" person calls themselves an artist and "actual" artist is replaced by AI contraption that basically regurgitates real artist works. It's kind of comical. But also makes sense. If you wanted e.g. music, you could either look at catalogue of what's out there or try to make your own.…

This is all nonsense. People don't want to watch two chess computers play even if they can both smoke Magnus Carlsen. Art is an even more extreme version of this. Part of what makes a Dali painting a Dali painting is the mimetic desire of the general weirdness of the human Salvador Dalí. AI can't displace human mimetic desire. AI art is just worthless muzak playing in the background at Dennys. Non-artistic/non-creati…

I think you are correct too. In my opinion both takes are correct.

Re: Show HN: Open-source AI video editor

#49

Post by dylan604 »

drochetti wrote: post #41
dylan604 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and you found that link how? am I just missing it in TFA? Edit: What do the buttons next to the play/pause button do? Typically, I'd expect to frame advance, or jump to next the next clip. I click and see nothing happening. I dropped two images I uploaded into the timeline, yet there's nothing visible in the timeline. The monitor shows something, but nothing in the timeline indicating how the clip fits in the timelin…

The link is on the GitHub repo. As for the feedback, fair enough. As I said, this is just a demo and it's in its early stages. It has no goal of replacing professional video editors or even matching their features. Some annoying bugs and missing features, we will tackle them. As for your last comment, feel free to judge, but I can say it was not quick at all to do this just to post on HN. You can check all the commit…

It is quite clear by the result that you've spent all of your time/effort building some front end to genAI vs making a video editor. As of now, I see very little that looks like a video editor. There is no basic transport controls, there's no obvious way of trimming clips, there's nothing that says "you can edit videos" in this.

This is a very premature demo that does more harm than good in promoting your product. If you said we built a tool that makes it easy to generate content, then you'd have a much more interesting product. Tacking on claims of this being a video editor is extremely disappointing, as the most basic of abilities of a video editor are missing. This is what brings on the criticism of being a rushed product launch just for the PR postings.

Re: Show HN: Open-source AI video editor

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Post by dgreensp »

Thanks for posting it!

Remotion does look really cool for in-browser video editing. People should note that you can’t make free-to-use software with Remotion. It is a paid product, and you can download and run the code for free in very limited circumstances that let you experiment with it. You can’t use the output of your own software built on Remotion for any for-profit purpose, nor can anyone else, without a license.

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