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Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Re: Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Post by daysm »

cush wrote: post #34
onion2k wrote: post #9

This looks amazing for audio. There's no doubt that this will massively improve podcasts, radio, etc. I can't imagine watching a video that's been chopped up like that would be a particularly nice experience though. Editing video to remove unwanted sections and not have it look like people's heads are jumping around weirdly is really hard. Cuts are really noticeable. If they've managed to fix that with ML it's going…

Every modern YouTube video is cut just like this. It looks good. Jumping heads turn out to not look bad, when the audio flows perfectly. https://youtu.be/2UP6CSZsc5o

In the video you linked it looks very natural. I think that's mainly because the cuts are between sentences. Not sure if it would still look good with mid-sentence stop words cut out.

Re: Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Post by ambivalents »

robenkleene wrote: post #37
iansinnott wrote: post #8

It's a very cool product, which I've only used briefly. However, product aside, their promotional videos are _phenomenal_. Not sure if they are making these in-house or some company is putting them together, but someone is doing a great job.

Both this video ( https://sandwich.co/work/descript-video/ ), and their original promotional video ( https://sandwich.co/work/its-how-you-make-a-podcast/ ), were done by Sandwich.

Just watched a few more of their videos and they are indeed great: https://sandwich.co/work/category/featured/

But--potentially dumb question--where the heck would you encounter these videos in the wild? These sadly aren't e.g. the types of video I see as Youtube ads.

Re: Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Post by simonmales »

robenkleene wrote: post #37
iansinnott wrote: post #8

It's a very cool product, which I've only used briefly. However, product aside, their promotional videos are _phenomenal_. Not sure if they are making these in-house or some company is putting them together, but someone is doing a great job.

Both this video ( https://sandwich.co/work/descript-video/ ), and their original promotional video ( https://sandwich.co/work/its-how-you-make-a-podcast/ ), were done by Sandwich.

Could anyone spit ball the cost of such a video?

I'll try: $100k (USD)

Higher or lower?

Re: Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Post by rjvs »

From the pricing page, it looks like even if you pay for the most expensive option, you still only get to remove their watermark for 30 minutes! If you are paying for the basic service (NOT free) you can only remove their watermark for 2 minutes!

Apart from that, it looks like an interesting product.

Re: Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Post by jodrellblank »

Erazal wrote: post #47
Erazal wrote: post #43

s/Descript/self-promotion/g Descript is an amazing product and one of the main inspirations for our startup and product : www.spoke.app We offer the same services of editing by high-lighting text, but differ in so far as we offer video + direct capture of your content (both your microphone and system sound). Our goal isn't as much to produce nice, clean-cut videos, than to offer to summarize any video-conversation yo…

Here's a small demo I made for the new year, comparing speeches from different heads of State : https://cutt.ly/happy_new_year_from_spoke Western leaders all seem to adopt the same compassionate tone, and wish to shine hope on the new year (with the exception of Trump). On the other hand, Xi Jinping is just....self-congratulating.

Your demo takes me to:

> Oops Your browser is not supported. Install Firefox or Google Chrome.

Safari on iOS has 6x the market share of Firefox and is quite capable of playing audio and video, it’s not IE6.

Re: Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Post by chris_st »

XCSme wrote: post #32

The video is one of the best I've seen, really makes me excited for the product. As for the product itself, I think the biggest "feature" is the ability to cut the audio by cutting the transcript, which makes it easier to quickly edit files. Transcribing is pretty common, the dubbing also sounds interesting but depends on how good the quality is. I think the use-case for this is not YouTubers who expect high-quality,…

That is BY FAR the best product video I've ever seen. Wow. "Really makes me excited for the product."... well said! I think that's what marketing is supposed to do.

Re: Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Post by davezatch »

ced wrote: post #15
JMTQp8lwXL wrote: post #4

The user quotes sound almost too good to be true. When I think of the average YouTuber discussing video editing software, the words "best productization of machine learning I've ever seen" do not come to mind.

Some of the HN comments here are suspicious as well.

I just downloaded it and tested it out. It really is a very cool, polished product.

The video cuts when you remove "uh" and "um" are too jarring for anything professional, but OTOH for some internal work stuff I could see a use for this. And as someone who has used 0 video editing software, I was able to start making changes within like a minute, which I think is quite impressive.

That said, not sure I have enough use case to pay for it, personally.

NB: it's kind of impossible to prove you're not a sock puppet, because of _course_ a sock puppet account would say they're not a sock puppet account.

Re: Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Post by anentropic »

rjvs wrote: post #56

From the pricing page, it looks like even if you pay for the most expensive option, you still only get to remove their watermark for 30 minutes! If you are paying for the basic service (NOT free) you can only remove their watermark for 2 minutes! Apart from that, it looks like an interesting product.

Where did you read that? I can't see anything about watermarking here https://www.descript.com/pricing
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