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Re: Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

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Post by tomgs »

Terretta wrote: post #138
tomgs wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually do that as a service for companies: https://syntaxcinema.dev I think that product tutorials are somewhat of a black art. On the one hand you have: 1. Keeping the flow moving and the video fast-paced and interesting 2. Adding aftereffects and other visual niceties 3. Pointing out the relevant bits with zooms, highlights, etc... But on a deeper level, you also have questions of: 1. Am I using the right sampl…

At what point in the process do I tell you I read somewhere that lack of pricing on a website sucks so give me a discount? Some point before we've bargained on the pricing, or after? :-)

Right here in the thread so everyone knows that I offer discounts, clearly! :)

Re: Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

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Post by maccard »

josephernest wrote: post #69
maccard wrote: post #65

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I record these videos for my workplace on windows. We use Loom + Davinci Resolve - it's nowhere near as smooth as screenstudio

With which of these 2 software can you do the "zoom in", "move mouse cursor", and "zoom out"?

Record at 4k with loom - that gives you mouse cursors. Then edit in Davinci to get the zoom effect

Re: Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

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Post by maccard »

josephernest wrote: post #89
vicluz wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's done in two steps, first use loom to record the mouse movement in much higher res than needed and then use resolve to zoom, follow and frame as needed.

> to record the mouse movement in much higher res than needed how can this be done? if the monitor resolution is say 1600 x 900, how can it record the frames and/or mouse movement in higher resolution than this?

I've a 4k monitor and we publish 1080p videos.

Re: Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

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Post by SushiHippie »

chihuahua wrote: post #136
SushiHippie wrote: post #75

My 2 cents: I really don't like these demos, they are really nauseating to me. As I generally don't like videos with many/fast transitions like many popular YouTube videos and movies are, I'm probably a minority in this regard.

This one was quite pointless. It's someone scrolling some web page from top to bottom, with a few gratuitous zooms and some mouse pointer movement. What am I supposed to take away from this? I can't even read all the text, and there's no voice-over, so really all it communicates is "we have a web page that says supercharge your growth with AI"

Yeah for this particular example a link to the website would be way more informative/helpful than the video.

Re: Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

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Post by fragmede »

tomgs wrote: post #105
peteforde wrote: post #67

Arcade looks genuinely great, so thanks for posting this question. Several folks have already mentioned that the real value of screen capture tools is to create assets that can be used by a person whose job it is to explain abstract concepts to an audience. I would go so far as to say that if you're a founder, hiring someone who is really good at product videos is something you should 100% outsource even if you're ta…

I actually do that as a service for companies: https://syntaxcinema.dev I think that product tutorials are somewhat of a black art. On the one hand you have: 1. Keeping the flow moving and the video fast-paced and interesting 2. Adding aftereffects and other visual niceties 3. Pointing out the relevant bits with zooms, highlights, etc... But on a deeper level, you also have questions of: 1. Am I using the right sampl…

still, give me a ballpark for pricing. is this a $50 thing, $500, or $5,000? how many videos so I get for $50,000?

that looks super neat and I'd love to do those for people. if there was a way to get those kinds of jobs, one-off, I'd give it a try. RIP taskrabbit.

Re: Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

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Post by soared »

dfeehrer wrote: post #129

CEO at Kite (YC S23) here, thanks for the mentions! Like Screen Studio, Kite lets you record your screen and automatically zoom in on the action. But with some key upgrades: - Combine multiple recordings - Add text scenes with animations - Place your recordings on a 3D device like a phone or laptop - Add music and AI voiceovers With lots more in the works. It's still early, but we have lots of startups using Kite reg…

> Place your recordings on a 3D device like a phone or laptop

What does this mean?

Re: Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

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Post by dnsbty »

soared wrote: post #146
dfeehrer wrote: post #129

CEO at Kite (YC S23) here, thanks for the mentions! Like Screen Studio, Kite lets you record your screen and automatically zoom in on the action. But with some key upgrades: - Combine multiple recordings - Add text scenes with animations - Place your recordings on a 3D device like a phone or laptop - Add music and AI voiceovers With lots more in the works. It's still early, but we have lots of startups using Kite reg…

> Place your recordings on a 3D device like a phone or laptop What does this mean?

I'm guessing they mean overlaying the screen recording on top of a 3D render of a phone or laptop to show them being used "on device" instead of just as a flat screen recording.

Re: Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

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Post by purple-leafy »

pando11 wrote: post #48

Hi everyone! I'm the CEO of Arcade (who a few people have already mentioned...thanks!). +1 to that being ScreenStudio. Sometimes people import ScreenStudio videos into Arcade to add branching, annotations, and get analytics about who is engaging with the tool. We're about to announce a big release on May 17th which will be very relevant - we're going to show how you can capture beyond the browser and get even more po…

Hey mister Arcade CEO, from a fellow entrepreneur and extension developer (there are dozens of us!), have you found any pros/cons of building in the extension space versus a typical web app?

I basically exclusively build extensions because I strongly believe most startups and devs overlook the space

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