One of the reasons I never bought a GoPro for skiing was I felt like the footage would just sit on my hard drive. If this proves useful I would consider getting a camera a lot more. Would be interesting if this gets picked up by GoPro soon.
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
On YouTube it's "legal" because they have agreements with movie and music industries so they revenue from those ads go to them, not you. Even then, in some countries (Germany?) they flag it anyway and you won't even have the ads option, hence those quotes around legal.
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#23Hi 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…
thanks for the feedback!
1. haha yes Kevin OP working with us on this. we've spent a lot more time on the backend tech than the front-end.
2. yes would love if you'd send the bad files! mike@shredvideo.com super helpful thx
3. yeah we could have more clear messaging here. we wanted to align our interests with the user's (as in: you only pay once we help you make a movie you feel is worth paying for), will continue to work this.
4. sounds like we need to make the app smarter when just a few pics are added. we first optimized for the case where user has lots of footage/photos.
5. this the reason for the unlimited SKU - save as many movies as you want! on content, we've found more and more artists are choosing to pre-roll an add when users upload their content, instead of blocking them outright.
thx again for the feedback! would love to hear more of your ideas for how we can make the app better, send any ideas or feature requests right to me mike@shredvideo.com thanks!
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#24I 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 chor…
thanks for trying it out!
mind sharing which songs had trouble staying on beat? will help us improve our beat tracker.
yeah catching that beat drop is super critical, mind sharing which songs it missed on? super helpful thx!
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#25Reminds me of Vix
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7496430
Someone needs to get this type of NLE done right. I like the simplicity of Shred although it needs some stability improvement - it crashes when I change clip length in the detail editor.
More than happy to help test future versions.
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#26Hey 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.
hey there! proooobably not a linux port right away, we want to get the UX fully dialed before we port to other platforms.
sure! want to know more about our video analysis, or the way we remix music? the short on each: video analysis is looking for changes in speed and smoothness of the video. music tries to find a seamless path through the song where the transitions fit each other, so you get a shorter version of the song that still sounds like the original song (i.e. has intro/verse/chorus/outro).
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#27Reminds me of Vix https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7496430 Someone needs to get this type of NLE done right. I like the simplicity of Shred although it needs some stability improvement - it crashes when I change clip length in the detail editor. More than happy to help test future versions.
thanks nivals!
send the crash details to mike@shredvideo.com? we'll try write a fix for you asap!
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#28One of the reasons I never bought a GoPro for skiing was I felt like the footage would just sit on my hard drive. If this proves useful I would consider getting a camera a lot more. Would be interesting if this gets picked up by GoPro soon.
this is the very motivation that caused us to build Shred Video! "I paid $400 for this camera, and the footage sits dormant" is a super common experience with these cameras, one we felt personally.
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#29i just purchased it.
was a bit disappointed that it downsampled my 4k videos to 720p. was there some sort of preference setting that i overlooked?
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#30Does 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 Shr…
yeah it's hard for a giant industry like music to adapt to all the changes digital, internet, and now streaming in so short a time. I feel the music industry just wants the distribution it had w/ records: buy something you can share w/ your friends, but not distribute to the whole world at once.
I think Shred Video perfect aligns with the music industry's objectives here. Shred Video is not designed to help professional videog's make movies that will be seen by millions, it's designed to make movies folks like you and me can share with our friends. In this way Shred Video is a service that will encourage more music purchases, a win for the artists.
If you happen to make a movie in Shred Video that gets a million views (rooting for you!), YouTube has ways of making sure the artist maintains their rights to their content and/or gets paid. This stuff will evolve, but there's definitely a way to get the artist paid and the users able to make art with the music they love.