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Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by clementpiki »

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

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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…

The inertia issue you described is now fixed. Thank you for pointing it out. Also I agree with the Gimp comments from below

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by ijidak »

clementpiki wrote: post #159
SillyUsername wrote: post #147

Where did you get the time to do this as a hobby? I spend evenings and weekends working on a project for the last 6 months and it's only half as good. 10x developer maybe, small team, millionaire? xD

I had previous experience doing editors, and I am not ashamed to admit ChatGPT gave me a hand on some features I was not comfortable with, like editing audio in javascritt for example.

I'm curious. How long did this take?

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by clementpiki »

noduerme wrote: post #227
LoganDark wrote: post #221

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> 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 Isn't this no longer an issue thanks to SharedArrayBuffer? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... I believe the ONNX Runtime uses this for multithreading on the web, see https://github.com/nagadomi/nunif/issues/34

Ooh. Interesting. I wrote my last worker-based app a couple years ago for chunking and crunching some large datasets. I'll have to give this a go one weekend.

Indeed, Pikimov is using SharedArrayBuffers to decode video frames outside of the main thread

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by dylan604 »

dartos wrote: post #244
dylan604 wrote: post #108

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Web only does bring with it the notion of web scale rendering. Cloud render farms are already a thing, so it would be a compelling feature. Lots of video acquisition is already cloud based, so the footage is already there. There are still plenty of times where the render stage takes enough time that rendering on my local single machine is not pleasant.

You can have a local program which hands off rendering to some other server (eg. A cloud render farm) but which can also render locally. I believe blender can do this, for example. Nothing web specific about it.

> Nothing web specific about it.

Except I have to have those servers to run it on. It's the basic premise of why cloud vs onPrem. I didn't think that really needed to be stipulated at this level on this particular forum.

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by verbalstoner »

This seems like an awesome project, but for the love of God, why did you use JavaScript when you are obviously capable of making it in a decently performant low-level language like C or Rust? Browser apps have such terrible performance; I just don't understand your choice of framework.

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by m_eiman »

Aldo_MX wrote: post #148
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'?

Why the entitled tone demanding "to clarify which exactly key features"? It is the right of developers to say "I don't want to support your browser" and you should respect that decision even if you disagree with it. As a reality check, see this ticket: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390936 It took Firefox 17 years of back and forth with developers to add parity with an Internet Explorer feature that Chr…

> as an aside, you knew what you signed up for when you made Firefox your main browser

I did - a better browser than Internet Explorer. Granted, that was 20 years ago.

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