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> We got frustrated trying to accomplish simple tasks in video editors like DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere Pro. Features are hidden behind menus, buttons, and icons, and we often found ourselves Googling or asking ChatGPT how to do certain edits.

Hidden behind a UI? Most of the major tools like blade, trim, etc. are right there on the toolbars.

> We recorded hours of cars driving by, but got stuck on how to scrub through all this raw footage to edit it down to just the Cybertrucks.

Scrubbing is the easiest part. Mouse over the clip, it starts scrubbing!

I’m being a bit tongue in cheek and I totally agree there is a learning curve to NLE’s but those complaints were also a bit striking to me.

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hey! You're right that most of the basic tools like splitting / trimming are available right in the timeline. but things like adding a keyframe to animate a counter, for instance, I had no idea where to go or how to start.

Scrubbing is easy enough when you have short footage, but imagine scrubbing through the footage we had of 5 hours of cars driving by, or maybe a bunch of assets. This quickly becomes very tedious.

I don’t need to imagine, I do it haha but again I was being tongue in cheek. I personally would love an effective tool that can mark and favorite clips for me based on written prompts. Would save me an awful amount of time!

curious — what kind of content do you edit?

Now? Mostly long form educational content. But historically? Everything more or less! Freelancer for about 15 years until my current in-house producer role.

Hey I just wanted to come back and be clear that yeah I was being tongue in cheek, but looking back at it comes off as a little snarky/“this isn’t even a thing!” and I’m sorry for that - what you built is really cool and I’m excited to try it out.

Good luck out there!

no worries at all. compared to some other comments in this thread, I didn't find your tone snarky at all. I appreciate your engaging with the conversation and the thread :)

obligatory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Like I said, the description of some of the issues was just kind of funny to me - I think this could be a potentially very useful tool.

Do you think this is the next Dropbox?

next dropbox? lets go!

That question definitely sounded way more skeptical than I intended! Man I just can’t get my tone right today

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