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Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by KronisLV »

999900000999 wrote: post #105

Any reason you couldn't bundle this into an Electron application? It's cool, and free. But what happens when you get bored and take the site down ?

> Any reason you couldn't bundle this into an Electron application?

I know people hate on Electron (sometimes rightfully so), but this does seem like a nice use case, meet your users wherever they are, even offline!

As for when I need something native, Kdenlive is pretty nice: https://kdenlive.org/ (it's FOSS, they could probably also use a donation https://kdenlive.org/en/fund/)

Oh and DaVinci Resolve, even though effects aren't the main focus (it's a fully featured editing suite): https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by notachatbot1234 »

clementpiki wrote: post #46
notachatbot1234 wrote: post #12

It says "Privacy respected" but there are Google Ads and Analytics included.

Without Analytics, I'm blind: I can't tell which feature are popular and which aren't. I need those infos to undertand where I should focus, what are users the more interested in. By "Privacy respected", I meant that I am not asking you for your email, your name, and what you do on the editor stays on your machine: no cloud uploads of your files.

What exactly is tracked though? What information about my videos and my usage patterns are send to Google?

It would be great if you could use a self-hosted analytics platform instead! :)

And I would strongly advise not to develop based on anonymous analytics, users might tell you different desires if you ask them and use completely different workflows if added. Optimizing for web analytis metrics has ruined many projects.

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by Kye »

Zambyte wrote: post #104
Kye wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know what you're on about, but it does show the past and any new network activity.

Yes. Exactly. It omits future network calls (things that have not yet happened by the moment you look), which is what the person you were replying to was talking about.

It does not omit future network calls. You can, in fact, use the network tab to monitor a page's ongoing network activity as originally suggested.

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by Kye »

aaarrm wrote: post #109
Kye wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know what you're on about, but it does show the past and any new network activity.

They're saying you won't know until after a request is already sent, and seem to be implying that this somehow stops someone from learning if data is sent to the server or not. I think they've forgotten the original point of this thread because their replies are missing the point

I'm not sure. The impression I get is they're not aware that the tab isn't just a log of stuff before the page "finishes" loading, or not aware that the notion of a static page that can't make network requests at any time without a full reload went out with AJAX in the 2000s.

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by Timon3 »

gwervc wrote: post #92
Timon3 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've long wished for something like OpenBSDs pledge to be available in browsers, ideally both through meta tags and through JS APIs. Once a pledge is made, the resource will be unavailable to the page until it's closed, like: - I pledge to only make network connections to X, Y and Z - I pledge to only make GET requests to http://example.com/foo/ * - I pledge not to use canvas, iFrames or storage APIs This info wouldn…

>- I pledge to only make GET requests to http://example.com/foo/ * Doesn't solve any trust issue since data can be send as part of the URL, and the backend response can change at will.

That was just an example - it fully solves trust issues if the pledge is "only make GET requests to exactly example.com/favicon.ico or example.com/style.css". This way you can't send any data (as there's no body, and encoded data wouldn't match the URLs).

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by ptsd_dalmatian »

suyash wrote: post #110
bluelightning2k wrote: post #18

As a developer it's rare to see something which leaves me feeling "how would you even build something like that..." but this is one of those. Huge cudos for even attempting and following through with something like this!

You start by building your knowledge around computer graphics and modern web development, basically WebGL and modern web APIs have made doing sophisticated graphic applications on the browser. Only limitation right now I see is single threaded limitation on the browser.

What about workers? Isn’t it basically the same as offloading computation heavy work to separate thread? Also, we have WebAssembly. Afaik, js threads can now share memory using SharedArrayBuffers. So I don’t think we have this single thread limitation anymore :)

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by [deleted] »

martin-adams wrote: post #90

This is a very nice project and any competition to After Effects is very welcome. One model I'd love to see is a web based front end, but all video processing happens in the backend. Then ship the app as a combined front/backend, or just the front end that connects to a remote backend. That backend could be a server in a studio with beefed up specs, or offloaded to the cloud for solo animators working on complex proj…

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Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by pier25 »

martin-adams wrote: post #90

This is a very nice project and any competition to After Effects is very welcome. One model I'd love to see is a web based front end, but all video processing happens in the backend. Then ship the app as a combined front/backend, or just the front end that connects to a remote backend. That backend could be a server in a studio with beefed up specs, or offloaded to the cloud for solo animators working on complex proj…

This model would be great even for some desktop apps. Imagine you could offload rendering Blender projects to the cloud automatically.
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