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Re: Shred Video (YC S15) Turns Hours of Video into a Montage in Seconds

#31

Post by mikeshreds » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 6:45 PM UTC

jimboyoungblood wrote: post #29

i 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?

great observation, we don't have a setting for that yet. we do the downsampling for speed in UX, makes sense to add a toggle to give user that preference. thanks for the suggestion!

Re: Shred Video (YC S15) Turns Hours of Video into a Montage in Seconds

#32

Post by heynk » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 6:51 PM UTC

I wrote a semi-detailed review from my first try today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9924721

Overall it's not perfect but I like it and it got the job done. I'm also pretty confident that with time, they'll be able to make this a pretty solid product. I bought it.

tl;dr is that I got this very meh video with no effort:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/gnarhub/hank/whatcom+falls+-+bad.mp...

And this pretty solid edit with some tweaking:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/gnarhub/hank/whatcom+falls.mp4

Re: Shred Video (YC S15) Turns Hours of Video into a Montage in Seconds

#33

Post by mikeshreds » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 7:44 PM UTC

heynk wrote: post #32

I wrote a semi-detailed review from my first try today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9924721 Overall it's not perfect but I like it and it got the job done. I'm also pretty confident that with time, they'll be able to make this a pretty solid product. I bought it. tl;dr is that I got this very meh video with no effort: https://s3.amazonaws.com/gnarhub/hank/whatcom+falls+-+bad.mp... And this pretty solid edit…

thanks for the detailed review - you're tweaked video was really good! gainers were sick. for readers, this will be a pretty common reaction w/ first time use: the first version will not be that great, but with a few tweaks can make it a lot better.

any thoughts on what we could do to make the videos better post-tweaking?

Re: Shred Video (YC S15) Turns Hours of Video into a Montage in Seconds

#34

Post by datamart » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 9:13 PM UTC

Awesome! Is there a plan to process footage if the user does not want to add music?

Re: Shred Video (YC S15) Turns Hours of Video into a Montage in Seconds

#35

Post by jdthomas » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 9:17 PM UTC

Hmm. Really needs a way to save and resume editing a "shred" I was in the middle of selecting some different portions of a bunch of videos and accidentally quit. Seems like an app with potential though.

Re: Shred Video (YC S15) Turns Hours of Video into a Montage in Seconds

#36

Post by mikeshreds » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 9:41 PM UTC

jdthomas wrote: post #35

Hmm. Really needs a way to save and resume editing a "shred" I was in the middle of selecting some different portions of a bunch of videos and accidentally quit. Seems like an app with potential though.

we're working on a recovery feature, so if you liked the previous shred better than a new one you can go back to it. we can probably use that to salvage the last shred in the event of the crash. thanks for the suggestion!

Re: Shred Video (YC S15) Turns Hours of Video into a Montage in Seconds

#37

Post by mikeshreds » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 10:27 PM UTC

datamart wrote: post #34

Awesome! Is there a plan to process footage if the user does not want to add music?

hi datamart not at the moment. for the kinds of movies Shred Video creates music is too critical to forego.

Re: Shred Video (YC S15) Turns Hours of Video into a Montage in Seconds

#38

Post by jakejake » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 11:57 PM UTC

jmickey wrote: post #8

Does 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?

There's nothing in the iTunes license that gives you permission to do this. The terms vary depending on who has the publishing rights for the music. If you upload it to YouTube, then one of these things will happen, depending on YouTube's agreement with the publisher:

1. Nothing

2. You get a copyright notification from YouTube and they will show ads on your video, with the revenue going to the music publisher

3. You get a copyright violation notification from YouTube and your audio will be removed from your video.

It could have an effect on your account as well if you are a YouTube partner - where part of the agreement is that you only post content that you created or own the rights.

Re: Shred Video (YC S15) Turns Hours of Video into a Montage in Seconds

#39

Post by jaimex3 » Wed, Jul 22, 2015, 1:34 AM UTC

heynk wrote: post #32

I wrote a semi-detailed review from my first try today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9924721 Overall it's not perfect but I like it and it got the job done. I'm also pretty confident that with time, they'll be able to make this a pretty solid product. I bought it. tl;dr is that I got this very meh video with no effort: https://s3.amazonaws.com/gnarhub/hank/whatcom+falls+-+bad.mp... And this pretty solid edit…

How does it compare to uploading the videos to Google Photos and using auto-awesome?

Re: Shred Video (YC S15) Turns Hours of Video into a Montage in Seconds

#40

Post by koobz » Wed, Jul 22, 2015, 5:09 AM UTC

A part of me feels like this would work extremely well as a kind of Vine or Instagram for people with GoPros doing cool shit. Yep, social media features and content hosting might be a bit out of scope but it would really close the loop on the whole "videos I've made that no one will ever see" problem.