Re:Show HN: Hackreels – Animate your code in HD
by davidtparks on Saturday October 21, 2023 @01:59PM
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This is great feedback! Thanks.
Re:Show HN: Hackreels – Animate your code in HD
by zipped on Saturday October 21, 2023 @03:06PM
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Have you ever looked into Macro Recorder?
https://www.macrorecorder.com/
It allows you to record keystrokes and then edit them after to cut out anything you'd like, stuff like the timings between keystrokes and accidental keys.
Re:Show HN: Hackreels – Animate your code in HD
by archiewood on Saturday October 21, 2023 @07:17PM
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Looks cool, will check it out next time.
Re:Show HN: Hackreels – Animate your code in HD
by ramses0 on Saturday October 21, 2023 @03:16PM
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Alternatively: Kinesis RGB Gaming Freestyle with the incredible "macro" button!
Macro, F1, Hello World, Macro => F1, F1, ad-infinitum
You it has a 10-slot non-keyboard zone which you can use without fear, or map fn-1,2,3, ctrl-shift-1,2,3, etc.
Re:Show HN: Hackreels – Animate your code in HD
by elcritch on Sunday October 22, 2023 @09:26AM
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On Mac there’s ‘Kap’ which has plugins for recording keystrokes and mouse clicks.
https://getkap.co/
Often the full IDE is needed. I record a lot of gifs of VSCode, where part of the gif is typing code, part is interacting with the rest of the IDE / terminal - perhaps to run the code and view the output.
For me the killer app would be one which could pre-record keystrokes (and maybe mouse actions) so that I could do them error free. I often attempt a gif 10 times before I'm happy with the outcome.
I don't personally love the transition animation. I would want the option for something that seems like it's being typed.
The closest tools I've found are:
Typewriter VSCode extesion: Allows you to copy text and then "types" it out for you. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dansilve...
Ascii Cinema: https://asciinema.org/