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nihey commented on Show HN: TailConverter – The easiest way to convert CSS to Tailwind CSS   tailconverter.com... · Posted by u/guivr
nihey · a year ago
Congratulations on the launch!

That's a nice tool, I loved how we can preview it on the website itself.

nihey commented on Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks   autoeditor.video/... · Posted by u/nihey
8mobile · a year ago
Hi,

This is exactly what I was looking for, a great audio editor for shorts. I'll try it right away. What technology did you use? I'll try the basic version and give you some feedback.

Thanks Otto

nihey · a year ago
Thanks! I'm excited to hear your feedback!

I'm currently using a combination of Remotion (https://www.remotion.dev/) and ffmpeg (https://www.ffmpeg.org/)

Basically, ffmpeg helps with simple operations like cutting, cropping, compressing and resizing and most of the more complex animation are done with remotion.

nihey commented on Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks   autoeditor.video/... · Posted by u/nihey
tubeChannel · a year ago
I just played with it. Looks cool. A few questions -

1. Who are you targeting? Influencers, YouTubers, Instagramers?

2. What happens if video is in foreign language? E.g. German, Urdu. Does it still work?

3. How are using Remotion for building video? You might just not need it.

nihey · a year ago
Thanks!

1 - I'm targeting Influencers, Shorts YouTubers and TikTokers, mostly people who produce short content, anyone who has to make short videos from a long one.

2 - It works with about 40+ Languages, our transcription engine, German and Urdu are included.

3 - I'm using it to add some final styling to the subtitles and preview the main video. All of the effects are achievable through other methods like After Effects automation and ffmpeg too, but Remotion helps to make it quicker, it also was the best (and most reliable) browser preview method I've found so far.

nihey commented on Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks   autoeditor.video/... · Posted by u/nihey
wishpal · a year ago
Congrats on launching this! Website looks good and I like the "Create your video (Free)" CTA right there. I tried working on a youtube video, but its taking way too long right now. If I can get a feedback as to how much time it would take for the video to process and for me to start editing - that would be great. I often use tools like biteable for video creation and editing and I like the feedback messaging while they process etc.
nihey · a year ago
Thanks!

The YouTube video download is something I indeed need to improve, it can take some time, especially for long 4K Videos.

I'll definitely work on better feedback on how much estimated time it would take. For some really long and heavy videos, maybe some feedback after they're finished processed would be nice.

nihey commented on Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks   autoeditor.video/... · Posted by u/nihey
codetrotter · a year ago
> You will not even have to worry about going to YouTube downloading websites, we can process videos straight from it.

I assume you use yt-dlp for this? In that case, look out for suddenly having your server IP banned by YouTube. I was running yt-dlp on a server for a long time (many months) and then one day it stopped working. And I wasn’t even auto-downloading videos. They were all manually triggered by me, to save copies of videos that I liked. So in total I was downloading far fewer videos on the server than the number of videos I was watching on my phone via the YouTube app on the phone.

nihey · a year ago
Thanks for the warning, I'm using yt-dlp so there is this risk that someday it will simply stop working. I'm currently always caching downloaded videos so that I will not have to download the same video more than once.

If we come to that, I'll definitely need to use a proxy service to work around it.

I've used ProxyMesh in the past for some WebScraping products (https://proxymesh.com/) and have been able to keep everything working for years so it may be a good workaround.

nihey commented on Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks   autoeditor.video/... · Posted by u/nihey
35mm · a year ago
Is there a way to export just the text/captions with an alpha channel?

I’d like to quickly create some stylised captions (the kind that are centred and 1-2 words at a time) and then add as a layer in Davinci Resolve.

nihey · a year ago
Not currently, but this is my roadmap. If you would like, I can contact you as soon as it is implemented, just email me at contact@autoeditor.video and I'll let you know.

It should not take long to be implemented.

nihey commented on Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks   autoeditor.video/... · Posted by u/nihey
jedbrooke · a year ago
nihey · a year ago
No, I did not previously know about this project. But it is quite neat.

I'm currently using a combination of these technologies: - Whisper - FFMPEG - Remotion

To make the video generation.

nihey commented on Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks   autoeditor.video/... · Posted by u/nihey
voltaireodactyl · a year ago
Impressive work! One thing that would make this exponentially more useful immediately: if it could export the cut list as an FCP or Adobe XML, for import into a real editing program. Being able to use this as a very basic rough draft automator is a real potential niche.
nihey · a year ago
Thanks!

This could be a nice future feature. It might be a bit challenging to support many editing software, as each one has proprietary formats that need to me implemented from scratch (as far as I know), but would be nice to get professional editors as customers too.

nihey commented on Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks   autoeditor.video/... · Posted by u/nihey
sebastiennight · a year ago
Hi, congrats on launching!

We've been in this field (AI-based online video editing) for 2+ years now with https://www.onetake.ai ; so I have a hard-earned lesson I'd like to share as a suggestion.

While your landing page is very clear about your features, it is a bit lacking as to the use cases / specific avatar (persona) you are targeting.

You do have a "why Us?" question in your FAQ, but it's not clear who is the "who" you're targeting.

Once we started talking about our user and their needs rather than talking about the technology, that's when MRR shot up. I think this market is tremendously huge - from hobbyists on Reels, to enterprise creating employee trainings, to SMBs needing TikTok content, to information businesses working with mostly long-form video (which is the niche we are after).

But because the market is so big, you need to be clear who can make the most from your tool, so that they can find you. This will also guide your feature set and your UX (e.g. we decided to never ever have a timeline, which is the opposite of everything else that was in the market at the time). There are a bunch of counter-intuitive contrarian moves ahead of you if you want to reach PMF, and I believe you can't figure those out without talking to a narrow type of user.

Just my two cents. I wish you a super successful launch!

nihey · a year ago
Thank you!

Landing Page / Marketing has always been my weakness in the business. We indeed need the "who" more clear in our landing page and it should be a top priority here.

Video editing is indeed a huge market and one I've struggled with in the past with other products that did not reach their PMF due to targeting the wrong user type.

This product is my first take in an AI-based product, united with something I have some year of experience in (Programming + Video Production Automation)

Loved your product too! English not being my primary language I have some of these hesitation problems when recording in a single take.

nihey commented on Show HN: AutoEditor – Edit your video in just a few clicks   autoeditor.video/... · Posted by u/nihey
juliushuijnk · a year ago
> We can detect which parts of your video do not include any speech, and could be cut off your video, saving you hours of editing to cut off silence and non-relevant content.

Please don't (over)do this. My brain can't handle a literal constant stream of speech. I've had to stop watching quite a number of videos about topics I was interested in because of this.

For example the 'Wired' YouTube channel. The 'tech support' videos look really fun, but I can't watch and listen to that for more than 30 seconds.

So I just do 'never recommend this channel again' on those.

Are more people like me in this regard, or is it just my brain?

nihey · a year ago
I get what you're saying, personally, I prefer more slowly-paced videos.

This fast-paced editing with no breathing in between sentences is a trend that I believe will shift sometime in the future.

My tool allows the user to choose whether he would like to remove the silence and how much time between each cut. Hopefully, this will work for both kinds of editing styles.

u/nihey

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