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Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by DrSiemer »

doctorpangloss wrote: post #169
clementpiki wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for your feedback, the 30fps limit is temporary, until I have fully tested perfs with video files at a higher framerate can you tell me more about 'and let go with momentum', not sure what you mean? Is it about loss of precision, not being responsive, bad snapping to closest frame?

When I click and drag on the timeline play bar or a key frame widget in a layer; then, if I release the mouse button with velocity; the play head and key frame keep moving for a little bit, even though I am not dragging them anymore, as though they have momentum and are being dragged to a stop; the widgets should not behave this way. The big picture feedback is that often there is an alignment between “I have a lot o…

Although this seems like the right way to go about it, isn't there some kind of limit to how much you _can_ copy AE before it becomes a copyright issue?

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by CJefferson »

clementpiki wrote: post #157
doctorpangloss wrote: post #153

This is from my point of view as an experienced developer and VFX artist, including in-depth knowledge of AE. A 30fps limit is surprising 23.976 as an fps does not seem to be dealt with gracefully Clicking report bug should take me to a bug report form with info Interacting with "rectangle" is surprising because the corners aren't draggable. Probably should default to full size I should be able to wind input fields b…

Thank you for your feedback, the 30fps limit is temporary, until I have fully tested perfs with video files at a higher framerate can you tell me more about 'and let go with momentum', not sure what you mean? Is it about loss of precision, not being responsive, bad snapping to closest frame?

This is easiest to do by moving things far too fast, if I pick up a ball and 'flick' it with my mouse, then let go of the button and mouse, the ball ends up moving along further.

If you can't duplicate it, I can send you a short screen recording (I would just upload, but where do you upload <1MB binary files nowadays that isn't an ad-filled mess?)

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by padenot »

swyx wrote: post #208
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!

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?

We've been working on the Web Codecs API for a few years now. It only handles encoding and decoding media codecs, ffmpeg does much more (container handling, filters and everything needed really).

Web Codecs can take a compressed media packet and get you the decoded image or audio buffer it corresponds to. Conversely it can take audio or images with timestamps and get you a series of encoded media packets you can then containerize (we say mux) and get you e.g. an mp4 file.

https://w3c.github.io/webcodecs/

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by DonHopkins »

itslennysfault wrote: post #143

What's that little blue bird icon in the top right corner? Seems to go to X, but I'm not sure why. ...jk! On a serious note, this is REALLY cool. Great job. Tiny feedback, your console is extremely chatty. I get this is a beta, but it still might be worth disabling that logging for production deploys. I hope to see this evolve into a commercial product I really think it fills a need and it seems to work incredibly we…

It's OK to deadname and misgender Twitter, because she's owned by Elon Musk, and it pisses him off to get a taste of his own medicine.

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by latexr »

joseda-hg wrote: post #144
latexr wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. I have a suggestion which has always served me well: Ask. Or don’t even ask, users will tell you what they want anyway. Analytics will only give you skewed information, as you are unable to distinguish the popularity of a feature is due t…

That's a totally reasoble way to do it, but it leaves you with other blindspots People will tell you what they want anyway but also, sometimes people aren't aware of what they want or need Non visible parts of aproject tend to get neglected a lot more if you just ask your users What will get more people talking to you, a 10% speed up split among many small interactions, or a visual glitch that doesn't affect usabilit…

> sometimes people aren't aware of what they want or need

And analytics won’t tell you that, so I don’t see your point.

> Non visible parts of aproject tend to get neglected a lot more if you just ask your users

Do they? Perhaps if you keep relying on analytics, they do. In my experience, users will just tell you anyway. And some of them will be better at feedback than others. Treasure those.

Also, and this is another topic, why don’t you use periods in your sentences? Your comment was unnecessarily hard to parse.

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by perk »

padenot wrote: post #155
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #28

Can you please clarify, which exactly key features are missing from Firefox that make this app say 'use Chrome or Edge'?

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…

Thanks, I have some of the same issues with FF on www.render.video - will look into this ASAP :)

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by Faaak »

CJefferson wrote: post #232
clementpiki wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for your feedback, the 30fps limit is temporary, until I have fully tested perfs with video files at a higher framerate can you tell me more about 'and let go with momentum', not sure what you mean? Is it about loss of precision, not being responsive, bad snapping to closest frame?

This is easiest to do by moving things far too fast, if I pick up a ball and 'flick' it with my mouse, then let go of the button and mouse, the ball ends up moving along further. If you can't duplicate it, I can send you a short screen recording (I would just upload, but where do you upload <1MB binary files nowadays that isn't an ad-filled mess?)

swisstransfer.com, up to 25GB for free

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by kristiandupont »

codelord wrote: post #205
eamonobr wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

In this context that's a very reasonable assumption.
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