Show HN: Cinecandy, a Movie Studio As A Service (MSAAS)

cinecandy.com

19 points·fapi1974··8 comments

Cinecandy turns moviemaking into an easy and social experience by letting you create group videos with your friends, without ever touching a camera or a video editor.

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Looks cool, I could see using this for a wedding video compilation.

Some feedback - it's a little hard to decipher what the service is all about upon landing upon the homepage. I would suggest making the page longer to explain how it works. groupme.com is a good example to look at.

Thanks! What sort of wording do you think is better than "creating group videos?"

Perhaps "Creating videos as a group."

I agree there is a tradeoff between too many words and too few. I'd suggest that you can improve it by just making the landing page longer, ie - put more information in the scrollable area.

Looks great!

A nitpick - when I log in via Facebook, my photo gets resized to a square, which looks weird (proportions get distorted). I'm pretty sure other websites tended to maintain proper aspect ratio and just crop a scaled down image to fit into a square.

FYI - if you can make do with smaller images (50x50 or lower), you can use the param 'type=square' to pull Facebook's standard square photos. For example, graph.facebook.com/ID/picture?type=square

> Now matter how hard it is to shop for someone

I'm unsure of what it means to "shop for someone" but I'm pretty sure you meant "No matter" instead of "Now matter"...?

Oops good catch - thanks!

I would suggest having an example group video on the homepage, maybe to start the screencast you already have?

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