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Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

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Post by adzicg »

gregmac wrote: post #19

From a technology point of view, this is really cool. From the view of someone that occasionally watches videos on YouTube, I am trying to figure out a nice way to say... I hate it. Or more specifically, I hate that it generates the voice, and basically enables video content spam. What we don't need more of is cheap, easy to automatically generate videos that are basically spam and/or clickbait, trying to get views.…

you can easily replace generated voice with professionally recorded voice later, and have it re-sync everything. generated voice is great for experimenting and iterating.

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

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Post by formalsystem »

I love this. I've been messing around with Premiere Pro and Audacity for the past couple of days trying to get more into making video. Video puppet looks way easier to debug and collaborate on since scrolling back in forth in your video looking for stuff gets very tedious very quickly.

Is there any way I can add my own voice and then still write the words that I want my voice to say?

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

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Post by adzicg »

formalsystem wrote: post #23

I love this. I've been messing around with Premiere Pro and Audacity for the past couple of days trying to get more into making video. Video puppet looks way easier to debug and collaborate on since scrolling back in forth in your video looking for stuff gets very tedious very quickly. Is there any way I can add my own voice and then still write the words that I want my voice to say?

Video Puppet integrates with several voice synthesis services, including Amazon Polly, which offers custom branded voices [1].

You could create a custom brand voice with Amazon, and we can then integrate it into Video Puppet.

- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/02/amazon-po...

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

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Post by DagAgren »

I'm not sure I see why you would want to base this on Markdown. Markdown is designed for a very specific niche, and this falls far outside that niche.

It seems it would make a lot more sense to just design the language from scratch, rather than try to bend Markdown to do something it was not at all meant for.

For instance, why would you WANT to have an example like this:

![](london.jpg)

Welcome to London

---

![](berlin.jpg)

Welcome to Berlin

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

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Post by jez »

I haven't gotten the chance to try it out yet, but an alternative in this space is Komposition, which bills itself as "a video editor built for screencasters". I gather that mostly means that if you take certain liberties when recording your screen and voice (putting pauses in the right places), Komposition will take care of automatically splitting your input media based on when it determines a transition.

https://owickstrom.github.io/komposition/

Slightly different aim compared to Video Puppet (the source being plain text is not the goal, which means you will likely have to edit and re-record a script multiple times) but still interesting, especially you'd rather avoid an auto-generated voice.

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

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Post by adzicg »

DagAgren wrote: post #25

I'm not sure I see why you would want to base this on Markdown. Markdown is designed for a very specific niche, and this falls far outside that niche. It seems it would make a lot more sense to just design the language from scratch, rather than try to bend Markdown to do something it was not at all meant for. For instance, why would you WANT to have an example like this: ![](london.jpg) Welcome to London --- ![](berl…

you can use JSON or YAML if you like more structure. Markdown has good editor support, so using it as source for videos means video sources render nicely in GitHub, for example.

Also, if you don't like ![](), you can just use stage directions with brackets. The equivalent script will be :

(image: london.jpg)

Welcome to London

---

(image: berlin.jpg)

Welcome to Berlin

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

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Post by adzicg »

jez wrote: post #26

I haven't gotten the chance to try it out yet, but an alternative in this space is Komposition, which bills itself as "a video editor built for screencasters". I gather that mostly means that if you take certain liberties when recording your screen and voice (putting pauses in the right places), Komposition will take care of automatically splitting your input media based on when it determines a transition. https://ow…

you can easily replace auto-generated voice with your own, or a professional recording in Video Puppet scripts. Just add (audio: file.wav) to your scene.

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

DagAgren wrote: post #25

I'm not sure I see why you would want to base this on Markdown. Markdown is designed for a very specific niche, and this falls far outside that niche. It seems it would make a lot more sense to just design the language from scratch, rather than try to bend Markdown to do something it was not at all meant for. For instance, why would you WANT to have an example like this: ![](london.jpg) Welcome to London --- ![](berl…

I totally disagree, and I have the exact opposite reaction. Markdown is something tons of people know already. I literally just glanced over the article and felt I could generate a "narrated PowerPoint", which seems like the main purpose of this, extremely quickly. Why would I want to learn a completely new language because there are some trivially minor syntax oddities with using Markdown?

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

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Post by adzicg »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #29
DagAgren wrote: post #25

I'm not sure I see why you would want to base this on Markdown. Markdown is designed for a very specific niche, and this falls far outside that niche. It seems it would make a lot more sense to just design the language from scratch, rather than try to bend Markdown to do something it was not at all meant for. For instance, why would you WANT to have an example like this: ![](london.jpg) Welcome to London --- ![](berl…

I totally disagree, and I have the exact opposite reaction. Markdown is something tons of people know already. I literally just glanced over the article and felt I could generate a "narrated PowerPoint", which seems like the main purpose of this, extremely quickly. Why would I want to learn a completely new language because there are some trivially minor syntax oddities with using Markdown? The perfect is the enemy o…

btw, for narrated powerpoint, you can actually use Video Puppet directly with Powerpoint files - just put narration into speaker notes. Here's more info on that: https://videopuppet.com/docs/powerpoint/
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