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Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by walterbell »

codetrotter wrote: post #13
nihey wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get what you're saying, personally, I prefer more slowly-paced videos. This fast-paced editing with no breathing in between sentences is a trend that I believe will shift sometime in the future. My tool allows the user to choose whether he would like to remove the silence and how much time between each cut. Hopefully, this will work for both kinds of editing styles.

What I’d like to see is an algorithmically controlled middle-ground that cuts out most of the pauses but also leaves natural pauses every now and then to give breathing room. Basically a kind of auto-edit that helps give natural flow with breaks for the audience to absorb the material. Think of fluent public speakers. Some of them speak in a way that their words are confident and coherent while not being just a const…

  Creator AI:       removes pauses
  Viewer AI:        inserts pauses for synthetic viewer or speaker
  Sci-Fi Viewer AI: modifies speed/pitch/pause by live neural feedback

Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by wishpal »

Congrats on launching this! Website looks good and I like the "Create your video (Free)" CTA right there. I tried working on a youtube video, but its taking way too long right now. If I can get a feedback as to how much time it would take for the video to process and for me to start editing - that would be great. I often use tools like biteable for video creation and editing and I like the feedback messaging while they process etc.

Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by woolion »

sebastiennight wrote: post #3

Hi, congrats on launching! We've been in this field (AI-based online video editing) for 2+ years now with https://www.onetake.ai ; so I have a hard-earned lesson I'd like to share as a suggestion. While your landing page is very clear about your features, it is a bit lacking as to the use cases / specific avatar (persona) you are targeting. You do have a "why Us?" question in your FAQ, but it's not clear who is the "…

Different strokes for different folks.

Comparing the two, I'm interested to test OP's site but not yours. The "Get OneTake for 5x Cheaper" and "Birthday discount" give me really off vibes, as well as the absence of a clear pricing page with no fluff, the fake (1) notification in the title, ... The yearly plan gives "30 minutes of editing with OneTake AI" which seems very little (are we talking of 30 minutes working or 30 minutes of video?) and I'm not even sure what is the pricing on that. Also the testimonials all show a date between 3 and 5 minutes, which seems extremely dubious. Clicking the link they do seem legit, but the weird meddling makes it suspicious.

I'm totally willing to believe these tactics work well for you, but I also strongly feels I'm not part of the target audience.

Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by nihey »

jedbrooke wrote: post #17

is this built using https://github.com/WyattBlue/auto-editor ?

No, I did not previously know about this project. But it is quite neat.

I'm currently using a combination of these technologies: - Whisper - FFMPEG - Remotion

To make the video generation.

Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by nihey »

35mm wrote: post #20

Is there a way to export just the text/captions with an alpha channel? I’d like to quickly create some stylised captions (the kind that are centred and 1-2 words at a time) and then add as a layer in Davinci Resolve.

Not currently, but this is my roadmap. If you would like, I can contact you as soon as it is implemented, just email me at contact@autoeditor.video and I'll let you know.

It should not take long to be implemented.

Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by nihey »

codetrotter wrote: post #12

> You will not even have to worry about going to YouTube downloading websites, we can process videos straight from it. I assume you use yt-dlp for this? In that case, look out for suddenly having your server IP banned by YouTube. I was running yt-dlp on a server for a long time (many months) and then one day it stopped working. And I wasn’t even auto-downloading videos. They were all manually triggered by me, to save…

Thanks for the warning, I'm using yt-dlp so there is this risk that someday it will simply stop working. I'm currently always caching downloaded videos so that I will not have to download the same video more than once.

If we come to that, I'll definitely need to use a proxy service to work around it.

I've used ProxyMesh in the past for some WebScraping products (https://proxymesh.com/) and have been able to keep everything working for years so it may be a good workaround.

Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by jedbrooke »

nihey wrote: post #24
jedbrooke wrote: post #17

is this built using https://github.com/WyattBlue/auto-editor ?

No, I did not previously know about this project. But it is quite neat. I'm currently using a combination of these technologies: - Whisper - FFMPEG - Remotion To make the video generation.

it has the export to premier/FCP function that another commenter mentioned, so definitely worth looking in to to not have to rewrite those functionality from scratch

Hey and congrats on the launch! I actually tried to make a product similar to this (basically a cloud wrapper for the github repo I linked). I used auto-editor a lot as a student to condense lecture videos to be able to get through them faster.

Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by nihey »

wishpal wrote: post #22

Congrats on launching this! Website looks good and I like the "Create your video (Free)" CTA right there. I tried working on a youtube video, but its taking way too long right now. If I can get a feedback as to how much time it would take for the video to process and for me to start editing - that would be great. I often use tools like biteable for video creation and editing and I like the feedback messaging while th…

Thanks!

The YouTube video download is something I indeed need to improve, it can take some time, especially for long 4K Videos.

I'll definitely work on better feedback on how much estimated time it would take. For some really long and heavy videos, maybe some feedback after they're finished processed would be nice.

Re: Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks

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Post by Redster »

nihey wrote: post #7
sebastiennight wrote: post #3

Hi, congrats on launching! We've been in this field (AI-based online video editing) for 2+ years now with https://www.onetake.ai ; so I have a hard-earned lesson I'd like to share as a suggestion. While your landing page is very clear about your features, it is a bit lacking as to the use cases / specific avatar (persona) you are targeting. You do have a "why Us?" question in your FAQ, but it's not clear who is the "…

Thank you! Landing Page / Marketing has always been my weakness in the business. We indeed need the "who" more clear in our landing page and it should be a top priority here. Video editing is indeed a huge market and one I've struggled with in the past with other products that did not reach their PMF due to targeting the wrong user type. This product is my first take in an AI-based product, united with something I ha…

I actually think that your landing page is on the right track. At least, if I'm your target customer. As someone who has hours and hours of long-form video, this page looks like I can take the videos that I have recorded and mince them into smaller self-contained pieces very easily. For perspective, I am a paid user of Descript and have played with Riverside.fm. This tool intrigues me (I've already signed up and am experimenting) because it looks like it can even auto-detect where B-Roll should go. If this is true, then no other tool really does this that I'm aware and is kind of a killer feature. You also seem adjacent to [AutoPod](https://www.autopod.fm/)
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