Hey oskarahl, as a solo dev working on https://ente.io , I was looking for something just like this! The MVP imo is the ability to zoom. What I'd kill for is the ability to add text widgets to point out/explain features. Thanks for building this, and congratulations for launching. All the best!
Thanks! Yes sliding in texts / headers / annotations are on the upcoming features list. Any specific kind of text widgets that you are thinking of?
I was thinking of a widget where in I can set the font-style and related properties, along with the background color and padding.
Hi @oskarahl - I'll give it a go. Two questions: 1. How does video capture work - does it need local installation or does it do something clever through the browser? 2. How well suited is it to recapturing an updated version of a video, without redoing all the config again by hand? On the second point, my common scenario is an app gets updated and there's a new button or slight change in a part of the screen (not the…
Thanks for checking it out. 1. Currently it's a web-based video editor (so no download required) where you edit screen recordings, so at the moment you'll need to record your screen and then upload it. 2. I see, maybe adding a "skeleton" loader overlay over content that's not affected by the core feature would handle this? e.g. something like this: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/1275154148938461185
On point 2, yes that could work. Originally I'd been thinking of it remembering the same screen capture size/locations etc, so it would just reapply those to my updated capture but your way would help keep people focused and avoid distraction with surrounding UI.
Looks really solid. I built a similar product called Automagical awhile back ( https://automagical.ai/ ) that we exited to a media agency. A few notes from my experience: 1. Using gifs in this way as part of a composite video is unfortunately against giphy's ToS. We received a cease & desist from them after awhile, so just be aware of that up front. 2. If you want to support more variety in your transitions, check ou…
> Using gifs in this way as part of a composite video is unfortunately against giphy's ToS That seems silly, as I don’t think they own/have a license to any of their GIFs.
But they do have a license to their API which you are using to access those GIFs.
Nice job, this is exactly what I'll be using on my weekend project to show my other projects! (makers.page, a place for makers to show their projects, blog etc.)
Nice job, this is exactly what I'll be using on my weekend project to show my other projects! (makers.page, a place for makers to show their projects, blog etc.)
Hi HN, I’m a big fan of following feature updates for my favourite apps, and I’ve always wondered how they make videos that have all these nice transitions and zooms. And so I wanted to create a product that a non-professional video editor / solo developer / bootstrapping tech founder can use to edit a screen recording of your app. Features: - Add padding and set a frame from Unsplash - Gifs - Highlight user interact…
Hi HN, I’m a big fan of following feature updates for my favourite apps, and I’ve always wondered how they make videos that have all these nice transitions and zooms. And so I wanted to create a product that a non-professional video editor / solo developer / bootstrapping tech founder can use to edit a screen recording of your app. Features: - Add padding and set a frame from Unsplash - Gifs - Highlight user interact…
this looks so good! care to share details about your stack and major technical challenges?