This is pretty awesome looking. I have hours and hours of gopro footage, and no edited video to show for it. Target demographic here.
great outericky! get at me mike@shredvideo.com I'd love your feedback!
Shred Video (YC S15) Turns Hours of Video into a Montage in Seconds
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#12Does the iTunes licence permit using songs from your player in a video montage that is then shown to others/uploaded on Youtube? I would have thought any music you have purchased is only for your personal use and derivative work is not allowed?
the same licensing rules apply if you edited the song yourself to a movie in final cut/imovie/premiere and then posted to youtube. we've found that most times youtube detects content in a video, they'll pre-roll an ad to make sure the artist gets paid.
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#13Does the iTunes licence permit using songs from your player in a video montage that is then shown to others/uploaded on Youtube? I would have thought any music you have purchased is only for your personal use and derivative work is not allowed?
Definitely not, which is why people should only be using Creative Commons licensed music in their video creations.[0]
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#14Hi everyone! I'm one of Shred Video's founders. We endeavored to make Shred Video after suffering too many hours trying to edit surf trip footage into movies that were any good. We hope to make editing GoPro and adventure travel footage fun and painless, so we can all spend less time editing and more time living. Happy to answer any questions about Shred Video, or just talk shop about movie-making!
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#15Hey guys, realistically speaking, what are the chances of a linux port ?. Also if you could tell us anything about how it works under the hood (segment classification ?) that would be pretty cool.
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#16I wish I had similar problems, surfer problems.
Nice video though. It's really clear to me what your product is supposed to do.
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#17Does the iTunes licence permit using songs from your player in a video montage that is then shown to others/uploaded on Youtube? I would have thought any music you have purchased is only for your personal use and derivative work is not allowed?
It doesn't. I know this since I was working on a startup using 30 second clips from itunes and consulted with multiple music lawyers who told me it was a grey enough area that I would get sued. I've advised for other music startups and they face similar challenges with music (one just hit 1mm downloads and got hit from Apple -> RIAA about the content).
Its incredibly frustrating when interesting applications like Shred pop up and the music folks make it difficult. Hopefully they can get some licenses and not have to sell their kidneys to do it.
This talk from Dalton is dated but still pretty relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTOlrN5-UGU
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#18Does the iTunes licence permit using songs from your player in a video montage that is then shown to others/uploaded on Youtube? I would have thought any music you have purchased is only for your personal use and derivative work is not allowed?
the same licensing rules apply if you edited the song yourself to a movie in final cut/imovie/premiere and then posted to youtube. we've found that most times youtube detects content in a video, they'll pre-roll an ad to make sure the artist gets paid.
So it is legal?
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#19I like the concept of short remixes made from the music (the music processing is impressively fast), but I noticed some glitches, sometimes the beat detection was not perfectly accurate and so the junctions were not beat-matching.
Also, the music sync is not as good as I expected: I made a few trials with different bunches of videos and music tracks, and for the majority of them the beat drop at the start of the chorus was missed. The rhythm of the video cuts was interesting, though.
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#20Hi everyone! I'm one of Shred Video's founders. We endeavored to make Shred Video after suffering too many hours trying to edit surf trip footage into movies that were any good. We hope to make editing GoPro and adventure travel footage fun and painless, so we can all spend less time editing and more time living. Happy to answer any questions about Shred Video, or just talk shop about movie-making!
Hey! First things first: awesome idea! I'm not sure how successful you guys can be in the long term but IMHO this is something that has been lacking for the target customers (me!). So:
1. The app UI and UX are terrible, just terrible; find someone who knows these to work on the app with you please. It feels "cheap". Also, the app icon on Launchpad.
2. I can make the app crash on OSX 10.9.4 whenever I want, all I have to do is to drop a few random .mov from my iPhone 4S in there and boom! Or even some random .jpg, boom again. Seems some basic QA was missed before the last release. If you're confident about the app stability we could then talk about sharing my files with you to reproduce it.
3. That "buy movie" button triggered a WTF in my mind. Those are my stuff, my movies! Maybe make it more specific, I don't know, like "buy this edited movie" or something like that.
4. Tried some shred videos and they all looked nice with the soundtrack I selected, but every time I dropped some pictures togethers with the other movies the final cut always had duplicated pictures showing up all the time. Like boringly all the time. Maybe tune this down for pictures?
5. Why would I pay that much for the edited movie if I a) can't edit it anymore once it's finished (unless I redo the whole thing and buy it AGAIN) and b) I won't probably be allowed to upload it to YouTube without being flagged? Maybe if the edited videos kept part of the original audio tracks it would help with this? No idea, just wondering if it's worth the money given this legal issue...
Usually I'm the guy my friends ask for help to edit their Go Kart races or whatever or any GoPro movies or vacations stuff because I took the time to learn how to use GoPro's software and Apple's, but although I'd just love to leave them behind to use Shred I'm still not convinced of the price versus benefits here...
Congrats again and keep up the good work, I'll keep trying the next releases, specially after my vacations at the Kilimanjaro next month :-)