Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by dceddia on Sunday May 16, 2021 @02:29PM (#27175880)

Last year I built Recut[0], a native Mac app that helps speed up video editing by automating the rough-cut process. It finds silence, gaps, and pauses and removes them, creating a cut list that you can import into editors like ScreenFlow, Final Cut, Premiere and Resolve. Here’s the Show HN [1] from a couple months ago.

I built it because I was making screencasts and cutting out silence + mistakes was 90% of my editing time. This makes it a ton faster. There were some command-line scripts to do a similar thing but I wanted something visual with a fast feedback loop, where I could quickly preview how it would sound and tweak the parameters in real time.

I didn’t know anything about video and had never built anything with Swift before so it’s been a fun way to learn a bunch of new stuff.

0: https://getrecut.com

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26317265

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by exikyut on Sunday May 16, 2021 @10:36PM (#27179552)

I genuinely wonder what Taran Van Hemert (LTT video editor) would think of this.

It seems a reasonable part of his workflow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6ERELse_QY) is doing this exact thing.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by dceddia on Monday May 17, 2021 @04:34PM (#27188101)

Good thought! LTT was a big help when I was building a PC for the first time in years. Might see if he has any interest in trying it out.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by thestephen on Sunday May 16, 2021 @07:34PM (#27178291)

This solves a huge problem for me, and is easily worth three times the amount I paid for it. Thank you!

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by dceddia on Sunday May 16, 2021 @09:25PM (#27179108)

Awesome, thanks! Let me know if you have any feedback/feature ideas.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by mh- on Sunday May 16, 2021 @10:28PM (#27179511)

"Want to check this out back at your computer?"

This is clever.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by dceddia on Sunday May 16, 2021 @10:42PM (#27179588)

Thanks. Not many have signed up for it but probably a quarter that many have told me this is a cool idea :)

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by Moosdijk on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @03:18PM (#27199657)

I don't make videos, but I'd recon that someone who makes long videos, doesn't have time to look at the result of all of the cuts.

Maybe a separate time line with just the cuts that you can fast forward through and see/hear if there's anything you still want.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by dceddia on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @03:55PM (#27200180)

That's an interesting idea! Right now it lets you preview either the original file, or with the silence cut out (and you can quickly toggle between those). I guess this could be a third state, to only play back the cuts.

For my own workflow I usually play back the recording with the silence cut out, and tweak as I go. (The new version I'm working on has the ability to manually cut/keep parts of the timeline). It's way faster than what I used to do, which was play it back while making the cuts as I went. I'm not sure I'd personally want to listen back to only the cuts because it'd be easy to lose my place, but I could see how someone could want to do that.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by ronyeh on Sunday May 16, 2021 @02:40PM (#27175953)

Genius. You need to find a way to market to the right audience and up your price to $79 or something. The current price seems too low for all the time it saves (if I'm a serious vlogger).

I'll definitely check it out (and maybe purchase it before your price increase, haha).

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by dceddia on Sunday May 16, 2021 @03:33PM (#27176322)

Hah, I’ve been thinking about exactly both of those things! $79 is the ballpark I was gonna aim for too.

I’m thinking the YouTuber audience might be a good place to start. People seem to “get it” right away, but nobody knows about it yet.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by hivacruz on Sunday May 16, 2021 @03:06PM (#27176113)

I'm not a vlogger or anything but this is a great product. Nice job!

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by dceddia on Sunday May 16, 2021 @03:27PM (#27176276)

Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by mavsman on Monday May 17, 2021 @08:18PM (#27189932)

Starting to get more serious about video editing for my YouTube channel and I'll definitely be giving this a try, most likely purchasing it!

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by dceddia on Monday May 17, 2021 @08:44PM (#27190100)

Great! I'd love to hear what you think, whether it fits your workflow or if there are missing pieces that you'd need. Contact info is in my profile if you're open to a chat!

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by apuchitnis on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:38PM (#27187434)

This is awesome - love the landing page too. Great job!

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by dceddia on Monday May 17, 2021 @04:32PM (#27188080)

Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by vdraman259 on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:21AM (#27180836)

Thats damm good.

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