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[see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45988611 for explanation]

Damn, you beat me to it. I was building something similar but got too caught up optimizing the context extraction. I actually ended up building a full spec for it—basically a PoC of "grep for videos."

My end goal was to let an agent make semantic changes (e.g., "remove the parts where the guy in the blue dress is seen") by simply grepping the context spec for the relevant timestamps and using ffmpeg to cut them out.

How are you extracting context from videos?

how would this be different from vector embeddings / semantic search?

Vector embeddings are fuzzy on finding boundaries. With my spec approach, my goal is to get precise start/end times for ffmpeg to do edits. The downside is, that there is a lot of pre-processing of raw footage in my approach. Vectors win on zero-shot flexibility here.

if you have an example you could share i'd be very curious on what you mean.

As a creator who films long form content, editing (specifically clipping for short form) is such a nightmare - this solves such a huge problem and the ui is insanely clean.

Will be using this a ton in the future

great to hear — I'd recommend using the clips tile to create clips, but you can also use the rough cut tile to help edit down the raw footage for the long-form

this is so cool, can we see some demos of edits you'd make with it?

thanks! check out the demo video here of the latest version of the interface: https://screen.studio/share/SP7DItVD

i playback parts of the cinematic edit I made to the conversation between Dwarkesh Patel and Satya Nadella (e.g. added cinematic captions, motion graphics)

i can post the full edit as well if you're interested

You can see the care in every little decision, workflow, and feature — I’ve never had this much fun editing videos.

I didn’t expect great video editing to become democratized so quickly. Kudos to the team!!

- a happy customer

thanks for the kind word and for being an early supporter!

Agree this looks very promising.

thank you! if you get a chance to try it, let me know if you have any feedback

Been following this team from the early days. Amazing founder story, even better product. Just what people need today

thanks for the kind word and for being an early supporter!

Damn this is good.

Thank you! :)

When I see a hn post with no critical comments I assume all comments are either seeded or biased (commenting on my own bias)

scroll down and you'll see all the critical comments about the landing page lol

Submarining - well-known issue on HN.

it's hilarious how many have less than 5 karma.

Well, half the comments are a variation of "this is so cool... I'm building something similar" so you'd expect them to be incredibly supportive, and with the churn in the AI field a 6 month old account with 100+ karma is relatively ancient!

YOOOO, this is super awesome. Love this for you all. Lets make life easier for more creators.

thanks!

best of luck guys!!

thank you! let us know if you have any feedback!

This is one of those ideas that seems obvious after you hear about it, yet somehow didn't exist yet. So many potential applications. Met the founder back in SF and he's one of the coolest, down to earth dudes there is. Best of luck to the team!

thank you so much for the kind word!

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