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Re: Show HN: Edit videos faster by automatically removing silences

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Post by shahahmed »

powrtoch wrote: post #7

Whoa. For years I've been seeing YouTube videos that seem to just teleport choppily around what I assumed were silences. I always assumed there was a standard tool that everyone used to do this. I can do the equivalent thing to a podcast episode in like 5 seconds in Logic. The notion that people have been doing this by hand is staggering, but kudos to you for finally coming along and filling this niche.

thanks! yeah, we have several video editors on our team and i edit a lot of videos - it's just how it is haha. there are tools that help with this problem, but they tend to be plugins or one-off tools, but we're happy that we can go end to end in one spot all in the browser

Re: Show HN: Edit videos faster by automatically removing silences

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Post by shahahmed »

phren0logy wrote: post #12

How would you compare your offering Descript? The pricing appears similar.

i think there is overlap with descript, however i do think descript is transcript-first, and they focus on that level of control. I think video should be edited with a timeline as the core driver. I'm sure the right answer is somewhere in the middle, but I think having a robust timeline is important for video editing

Re: Show HN: Edit videos faster by automatically removing silences

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Post by shahahmed »

unfocussed_mike wrote: post #8

Somewhere in the afterlife, Harold Pinter is cursing.

i think pinter pauses will always be a thing! it's up to the creator to decide what they're going for, certainly punchy dialogue and jump cuts have their place + i think with this UX we have, you can decide which pauses you want to keep

Re: Show HN: Edit videos faster by automatically removing silences

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Post by shahahmed »

copperx wrote: post #10
powrtoch wrote: post #7

Whoa. For years I've been seeing YouTube videos that seem to just teleport choppily around what I assumed were silences. I always assumed there was a standard tool that everyone used to do this. I can do the equivalent thing to a podcast episode in like 5 seconds in Logic. The notion that people have been doing this by hand is staggering, but kudos to you for finally coming along and filling this niche.

I'm pretty sure of seeing an ad for such a plugin more than 5 years ago. Is it now built in into most editors such as Final Cut Pro?

if you know how to do this natively in Final Cut, I would love to know how -- would be super useful for me!

Re: Show HN: Edit videos faster by automatically removing silences

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Post by Jedd »

I watched the demonstration videos on the landing page, and the effect wasn't as bad as I often see on some youtube videos, but I think that's because the subject was sitting at a desk, rather than standing, moving around much more.

Anecdata - heavily jump-cut edits on youtube instantly inspire me to find an alternative source of the same information, as the breathless, rapid-fire, jerky-video, sensation is irksome. Evidently I'm in the minority, and I'm okay with that.

Re: Show HN: Edit videos faster by automatically removing silences

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Post by shahahmed »

Jedd wrote: post #16

I watched the demonstration videos on the landing page, and the effect wasn't as bad as I often see on some youtube videos, but I think that's because the subject was sitting at a desk, rather than standing, moving around much more. Anecdata - heavily jump-cut edits on youtube instantly inspire me to find an alternative source of the same information, as the breathless, rapid-fire, jerky-video, sensation is irksome.…

I think it's a gradient -- one extreme is that you have a recording with multiple takes and several long pauses as you're reading a script, in which case you want to streamline the clean up process. But I think it's a creative decision to make the cuts extremely tight and jumpy, not for everyone!

Re: Show HN: Edit videos faster by automatically removing silences

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Post by gracewind »

phren0logy wrote: post #12

How would you compare your offering Descript? The pricing appears similar.

I feel like Descript doesn't work well when you're editing footage with other noises or the video isn't talking based. eg. for a vlog, there are talking sections and non-talking sections where Descript wouldn't be helpful for editing

Re: Show HN: Edit videos faster by automatically removing silences

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Post by lasean »

I get the use case. Not sure there's enough value here as a cloud-based SaaS product. I use a similar product called Recut (https://getrecut.com/). $99 one-time fee (no subscription). Easy to open the edited project in NLEs. macOS only. Unclear that Kapwing is a better option when Recut would be breakeven at seven months and you can don't need to round trip videos in the cloud.

Re: Show HN: Edit videos faster by automatically removing silences

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Post by vlunkr »

shahahmed wrote: post #17
Jedd wrote: post #16

I watched the demonstration videos on the landing page, and the effect wasn't as bad as I often see on some youtube videos, but I think that's because the subject was sitting at a desk, rather than standing, moving around much more. Anecdata - heavily jump-cut edits on youtube instantly inspire me to find an alternative source of the same information, as the breathless, rapid-fire, jerky-video, sensation is irksome.…

I think it's a gradient -- one extreme is that you have a recording with multiple takes and several long pauses as you're reading a script, in which case you want to streamline the clean up process. But I think it's a creative decision to make the cuts extremely tight and jumpy, not for everyone!

Or you have multiple camera angles and you switch between them to hide the cuts. Like they've done in movies forever. People started doing jump cuts in youtube videos and for some reason we're stuck with it.
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