This is incredible work! Is a desktop version planned?
Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
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Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
I (Firefox developer working on anything media related) got in contact with the dev on Twitter, and he told me that Web Codecs was missing (and we're shipping this in a month or so, it's been in Nightly for some time), and something to save project file to disk ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/show... ). So I spoofed the user-agent in a nightly build here on my Linux desktop workstation, then…
Wow, so you do have a workaround for the missing window.showSaveFilePicker, that's promising!
Probably the dev needs to use a different method to save (effectively download), much as Adobe Photoshop does when it exports files on Firefox. Not hard to do at all. Likely the same for reading files, if this tool needs that.
OPFS provides high-speed read and write for temporary files and non-exported files; again this is what Photoshop uses. There is a 10GB limit per domain currently. I'm not sure this particular app actually needs that, though
Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
#203I thought this is using AI so I was gonna dismiss it. But then saw the No AI sign and immediately signed up. Seriously though why is "No AI" a "feature" worth mentioning on top?
Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
#204I thought this is using AI so I was gonna dismiss it. But then saw the No AI sign and immediately signed up. Seriously though why is "No AI" a "feature" worth mentioning on top?
Adobe had some clause where they could train AI based on your creative, effectively building a model that can ultimately plagiarize your work. No AI is a nice appeal in this context. That and it being simple, fully offline, not at the whims of execs trying to bump their share price with AI features that put the user second.
Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
#205I thought this is using AI so I was gonna dismiss it. But then saw the No AI sign and immediately signed up. Seriously though why is "No AI" a "feature" worth mentioning on top?
Adobe had some clause where they could train AI based on your creative, effectively building a model that can ultimately plagiarize your work. No AI is a nice appeal in this context. That and it being simple, fully offline, not at the whims of execs trying to bump their share price with AI features that put the user second.
I wish people stopped equating AI with Adobe's content policy.
Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
#206Side note: I just wanted to comment on the variance of HN submission popularity. OP submitted this same amazing tool as a "Show HN" 20 days ago, with very similar title and shorter description [0]. It got no votes. Today this submission is climbing rapidly. Was the tool very different 20 days ago? I honestly don't know! But you never know how submissions will perform here. It feels pretty random, which makes sense, a…
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Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
#207As 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!
I notice it's written in Ember, which is billed as the framework for ambitious web developers -- in this case, it definitely checks out.
Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
#208As 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!
yeah i'm gonna need a TLDR of the major moving parts. how do you even do video editing in the browser? is there a "ffmpeg in the browser"? is that the basic building block?
Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
#209Side note: I just wanted to comment on the variance of HN submission popularity. OP submitted this same amazing tool as a "Show HN" 20 days ago, with very similar title and shorter description [0]. It got no votes. Today this submission is climbing rapidly. Was the tool very different 20 days ago? I honestly don't know! But you never know how submissions will perform here. It feels pretty random, which makes sense, a…
It went viral on Twitter this weekend, which is probably why more people are noticing it now.
I saw it posted on HN by someone other than the author, noticed it had a recent show hn submission and emailed hn@ycombinator.com to see if it might be worth sending the author a repost invite. The author then reposted it.
Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 :)
Idk about this specific app, but the main problem with workers is that any data their working on needs to be copied in or side-loaded into them once they spin up. I imagine for huge video files, having each worker load up a separate copy could be a bottleneck.