Recut
Creative
video editing
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
12 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 39 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Idea: 5 for, 4 againstExecution: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Impressive launch and well-executed focused feature set
From 2 comments
Super impressed with the launch, really well executed. I can relate to part of your journey, I developed an iOS app in 2012, learnt just enough Objective-C to develop it. The…
adnanc on HNGreat job identifying a niche and executing well on a focused feature set. That’s something I wish I could do better!
programmarchy on HN
Fast performance; 35 min file loads in about 5 seconds
From 1 comment
Hey, author here :) It varies by the length of the video and some other things, but on a 2019 Intel MBP it's loading up a 35min file in about 5 seconds. After that, it's…
dceddia on HN
Objections
Cutting pauses makes videos jarring and unnatural
From 3 comments
First thought: This is really great! Based on the amount of YouTubers that I see do this to their videos, I can imagine this would be a really great tool, and I think it's…
JadoJodo on HNThis program looks like it fulfills its purpose quite nicely. Well done! Unfortunately, that purpose happens to be something that absolutely drives me up the wall. Few things…
yellowapple on HNI like the idea of cutting out silence, but editors need to understand that we need a bit of a gap in order to consume the content. I feel like I'm listening to a 10 year old…
danielvaughn on HN
Similar to existing jumpcutter tools
From 1 comment
This looks pretty cool. Might be too similar to https://jumpcutter.com/ though.
hillcrestenigma on HN
Requests
Linux version
From 1 comment
Awesome tool. I hope it gets a Linux release some day :) As a DaVinci Resolve user I'm amazed at how good the Smooth Cut transition is at hiding cuts if the head moved very…
PaoloBarbolini on HN
Command line interface for batch editing
From 1 comment
Yeah, 100%, this is why I made Recut in the first place. The CLI approach would be great to support though and I can see some other really nice side effects of having that, like…
dceddia on HN
Facial expression awareness or manual override of cuts
From 1 comment
Is it possible for your app to take into account not just audio but also facial expressions? AKA do not cut out the parts where the speaker is silently making unusual faces or…
KaoruAoiShiho on HN
Questions
What license is the app under
From 1 comment
Which license is the app under? The trial installer didn't show me any EULA.
gyan on HN
What video library is used for processing
From 1 comment
this is great. Thanks for sharing. Just one question: what library did you use for processing videos?
DoryMinh on HN
Alternatives named
jumpcutter
From 2 comments
This looks pretty cool. Might be too similar to https://jumpcutter.com/ though.
hillcrestenigma on HNnice relaunch, i've been following recut for a while. I was once working on a web version of this all before I discovered recut https://beta.jumpcutter.pro/
amccloud on HN
auto-editor
From 1 comment
For those of us on Linux, check out https://github.com/WyattBlue/auto-editor: "Auto-Editor is a command line application for automatically editing video and audio by analyzing a…
asicsp on HN
ffmpeg silencedetect scripts
From 2 comments
Cheap and free one-liner to cut silent audio with ffmpeg ffmpeg -i input.mkv -filter_complex "[0:a]silencedetect=n=-90dB:d=0.3[outa]" -map [outa] -f s16le -y /dev/null |& F='-aq…
rschachte on HNI love this idea. I stumbled upon a Gist[0] from vivekhaldar[1] some time ago and it really helped out when I had to create a screen recording for a colleague. Definitely not as…
tjfl on HN