Can you configure the flipbook FPS?
Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living
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#102Interesting. Back in 2007 my company Motionbox partnered with flipclips.com to sell themed flipbooks very similar to these. Both companies are defunct now. Demo at a trade show: https://youtu.be/FIiLsyeAM_I?si=BQHt5Q4Q80y3Il5f
I still have one from a conference I went! Very awesome swag.
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#103At the risk of sounding one of those people posting "I can do that in a weekend" ... I honestly think that not just I but almost literally anyone can cob this conversion together for themselves with Bash, FFmpeg, ImageMagick, a printer, a pair of scissors or paper guillotine, a bit of glue and a sprinkle of AI assistance so as not to have to read a shred of documentation.
can you do this with 1hr of your time, from "i want this vid as a flip" to having it in your hand?
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Guaranteed that others have thought of this. Execution is where you succeed or fail.
It strikes me as odd that so many people think a business has to be unique to succeed. 99% of businesses do something that another business already does. For that matter, almost by definition, most businesses are not the leader in their niche. That doesn't make them unprofitable.
But what about moats??? My business guru told me I need an ironclad irreproducible moat! /s
Re: Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living
#106I uploaded a vertical video and it was a little unclear to me where the binding would be. I'm assuming it's on the left. It might be helpful to have a ui element to the side of the video container that looked like the binding so it was clear that would be the end product.
If they ship internationaly or to manga fans, they may want to add the option to bind on the other side
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, the software conversion part is the easiest part. Do you have any experience with printing at scale? Printing and binding the books is probably 90% of the effort and knowledge in this business. Plus, the machinery and space alone adds up quickly. Props to the OP, this isn't an easy or quick side business to get into especially if you are printing yourselves.
But the point is that I don't need scale; just one or two personal vids and then I'm probably done with this for good. Scale is the problem of someone who wants to convince the world that they need it done as a service. There is scale in that hordes of people can independently pull this off. Like gluing beads to paper is being done at scale, if we consider all the kindergartens in the world as an aggregate producer.
> just one or two personal vids and then I'm probably done with this for good.
I think you're underestimating the skill involved in making the flip book.
While you may just have one or two videos to make into flip books, I strongly suspect it will take you at least 4 or 5 attempts on the 1st one to get something that isn't a pile of crap that doesn't perform as a flip book very well, and/or falls apart almost immediately.
In the long run unless you really want to go through the process of refining the process for the enjoyment of that, it would be cheaper in both time and material costs to buy from the OP.
Re: Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living
#108At the risk of sounding one of those people posting "I can do that in a weekend" ... I honestly think that not just I but almost literally anyone can cob this conversion together for themselves with Bash, FFmpeg, ImageMagick, a printer, a pair of scissors or paper guillotine, a bit of glue and a sprinkle of AI assistance so as not to have to read a shred of documentation.
I don't know how literal you are being, but it is not "literally anyone". If you know what FFmpeg is, you are a very small minority of the population.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
OP is single-handedly keeping you in business
I see a merger in the works
flipception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTAhvKoF948
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#110I have used flipstory.com (no longer in business) in 2011 cu create 2 very nice flipbooks. It was 7,99 Euros, transport included from France to Romania. I still enjoy it, I keep it beside other family photos, as it's my months old son crawling on the floor towards the camera.
Good luck!