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What I've Learned in the Past Year Spent Building an AI Video Editor

by burningion on 9/23/24, 8:05 PM with 66 comments

  • by 35mm on 9/24/24, 5:29 AM

    As someone who has worked as a video editor, the most helpful AI tool would be prompt based editing.

    For example “find all the interview sections where people are talking about x and make a sequence”.

    OpusClip claims to have this but it’s behind a waitlist.

  • by mips_avatar on 9/24/24, 3:59 AM

    I agree that building AI on top of the video editor is probably a mistake. Maybe the format of the representation of the video can be something better than a series of matrices of pixel values.
  • by mcdow on 9/24/24, 4:58 PM

    It seems like we are currently in the "skeuomorphic" product design era for AI products. Which is to say we are building the same products but with AI tacked on. I appreciate that you are approaching this problem from first principles and attempting to break from the model of the previous generation. Kudos.
  • by lukaqq on 9/24/24, 5:44 AM

    Impressive blog! I am building a professional web video editor - https://chillin.online and trying to embed various AI workflows into it. Your article has given me a lot of inspiration. Thank you!
  • by Narciss on 9/24/24, 11:48 AM

    Good work on pushing through. It’s like you say, building anything is an achievement.
  • by SCUSKU on 9/24/24, 6:59 AM

    Love the author sharing their winding journey as well as the tools and things they learned along the way. You can tell the author did grow a lot through this process, and through the year. Great stuff, thanks for sharing these great tips :D
  • by Arelius on 9/24/24, 3:02 PM

    Because I don't see it mentioned elsewhere, I wanted to plug OpenTimelineIO, as a lot of the industry is building support around it as a format right now, and it would be great for any new video editor to support.

    https://opentimelineio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

  • by sfmike on 9/24/24, 5:33 AM

    what do you think of this versus the ai that is hiring actors that are then reused as models in the videos via script
  • by 1oooqooq on 9/24/24, 1:48 PM

    did i miss something or this is "video editing was too hard so i just made a Wikipedia reading bot that generates drivel for Instagram and TikTok at the same time"?