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I am working on Magnetron (https://magnetron.ai)

It is a tool that lets you create whiteboard explainers.

You can prompt it with an idea or upload a document and it will create a video with illustrations and voiceover. All the design and animations are done by using AI apis, you dont need any design skills.

Here is a video explainer of the popular "Attention is all you need" paper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x_jIK3kqfA

Would love to hear some feedback

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I really like the idea! One issue though is that the content seems to "stream" much slower than what's being spoken. The result is that I'm sitting there waiting to see whats going to come, even though its already been said which makes it hard to focus on whatever new information is coming.

The animations / drawings themselves are solid too. I think there's more to play with wrt the dimensions and space of the background. It would be nice to see it zoom in and out for example.

Thanks for the feedback. Will work on making the narration and the animations sync better.

this look super cool but is it hugged to death? i can’t upload the document :(

how does it work with long papers? will it ever work with small books?

will try it out tomorrow again

> how does it work with long papers? will it ever work with small books?

yes it should work.

> i can’t upload the document

Could you please drop an email to rahul at magnetron dot ai with the document. I will set things up for you

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