CinematicStudio

Thank you!

Thanks for the kind words!

About comparison to Animoto - I don't even know where to start. Just think about the fact that it doesn't even have several video layers. It's so simplistic that you can't do anything non-trivial with it. My app is insanely powerful -- it took me months to optimize the timeline to be instant, no matter what you do. And to be able to zoom in/out of the timeline instantly. And to allow for keyframes. And masking. And just look at how many options I give you for editing text. Or if you checked out the second page of features, to see how easily you can work with colors and gradients. Animoto maybe has 5% of my features at best. And the other ones as well.. Now that I think about it, maybe I should do a comparison against each of the web editors, to show how powerful my app is :)

> if the subscription model works for you and enables you to further work on the application rather than a single time payment, definitely keep doing it

Yes, that is the idea behind it. To be able to always improve, and serve my customers better. And tailor it to their needs. And always, make it insanely fast :D

Thanks again!

Thanks for sharing!

To give you a bit of background -- I'm not trying to compete with Resolve. I'm not targeting experts, but instead targeting beginners and intermediate people when it comes to video editing. And I do offer quite a few features, and my main focus has been on speed from the get go (for instance, Instant Preview everywhere, which as far as I know is only present in Final Cut and nowhere else).

Another focus has been removing as many pain points as possible, making your workflow as fast as possible (obviously, this is always a work in progress).

And when it comes to competing, try to look at https://invideo.io/, https://animoto.com/, https://wevideo.com and so many other softwares, and compare what I'm offering to those.

Side note: even apple is thinking about it (https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/24/final-cut-pro-subscription/)

Curious, are you actually making money from video editing? Would you not pay if an app cuts down your editing time in half?

What are your editing pain points? (to see if I can help)

Seems someone thought I was lying. Here's the article: https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/24/final-cut-pro-subscription/

Thanks :) My thoughts exactly :D

As far as I know, they don't. But I think I read something a while back that they're actually thinking about doing that.

It all started with me trying to bring into the spotlight my then photo viewer app. I created a way to animate between the photos in an album. People started to react positively to that (duh!).

So I improved on the animations. Added more ways to animate... After roughly 2 months I realized this trumped everything else. So I decided to create a video editor. That was more than 3 years ago.

Added more animations, added videos, effects, transitions. Talked to people to understand their pain points... Analyzed other editors for inspiration, spiced it all with a lot of my ideas...

Worked on it non-stop, a lot of crazy hours, a LOT of time spent on optimizations, a lot of time spent on dealing with stupid Microsoft APIs. Luckily, I wasn't alone -- my two dogs have been my emotional support through all the ups and downs (https://www.tiktok.com/@lupiandbelasuperstars/video/69959083...). I love them more than I can express into words -- and of course, a lot of the money I make will be spent on treats and toys, and just making sure those tails never stop moving ;)

Finally, I'm happy with the result, and I'd like to share it with you guys!

Obviously, there's a discount - 40% OFF , it will last until Sun 5th of December.

If you have any questions, I'm more than happy to answer them!

So, the idea is really cool. I do get what it does, and I played with it for a bit.

It is not very intuitive though. What I suggest is, for each cell, allow creating an "arrow" on the left, or on the right. Then, for each arrow, be able to drag it to another node (where you want).

Right now, I simply don't know how to link a node I created (below "party!") to "cleanup".

My project: https://cinematicstudio.app

Seems like someone is training some AI, and dumping videos in the process. It may be the way to track progress (like, as he develops his app, videos should get better), maybe to attract investors?

I can tell you from my experience as a freelance, about more than 15 years ago. I actually did something even cooler: 3 day-weeks (12h/day) -- which is higher than 4d work week.

It was beyond awesome!

Unfortunately, it didn't last for more than roughly 2 years, since I made the insanely stupid decision to run the Romanian office of an international outsourcing company (all went downhill from there).

The plan is to eventually return to this, but in the current environment, it's pretty hard to do.

Ouch, that sucks big time. Probably the only thing you can do is to have your boss at least buy (or ask for donations for) SSDs. That would speed up compilations quite a bit.

More RAM could help, but since they're so old, not sure how easy it will be to find it now.

UWP (Universal Windows Platform). Or namely, the subsystem called WinRT (Windows Runtime_crap).

It's been developed in a vacuum, with no feedback from developers. This bullshit could have bankrupted Microsoft, had it not had so much money (to throw away).

side note: WinRT is what Windows 8/8.1 is based on, and quite a lot of it has persisted to this day (Win10) in one form or another.

^ Priceless.

How's this any different than: hey, I printed my own cool banknotes, and guess what, there's a limited supply? Common, buy some!

P.S. Those who invest in crypto will always find a way to rationalize the fact that it simply has no value. I'm really really curious when this will burst.

As someone who's had dark mode turned on only a few months ago, after being in "normal" mode for 20+ years, I can tell you this: there will come a time when the "whiteness" does mess with you.

Since I work probably 14 hours/day on my computer, it starts to matter. At some point, I simply couldn't focus on the screen, even with my glasses on. And at that point I switched to dark mode. And it's slowly been better.

However, if this is not an issue for you, by all means, don't use it :D

Stop looking at it. Put it on silent, and don't check it. It sounds too simple to be true, but it actually is. Only the first 2-3 days are a pain, after that, it will get easier and easier.

As someone who's about to implement this myself (for a long time, while in beta, I allowed users to skip typing their email), I can tell you this: some of the feedback you will get will be much more polite if people know you can reply back.

Just my $.02.

One, at this time - https://cinematicstudio.app

When I used to also work as a contractor, I usually juggled 6-7 at a time. Not that funny, but it was a must.

C# / UWP / Visual Studio 2019 + Resharper

- Compile time sucks big time (that's related to WinRT/UWP). - I really need it to be 64bit, to handle large projects. Apparently, it will happen on Visual Studio 2022, which is awesome news!

I'd go with C# + Uno (https://platform.uno/).

Disclaimer: I haven't used Uno before, but from their presentations and what i've seen online, they are top-notch. I plan to test them in the mid-term future.

I'm building https://cinematicstudio.app - a video editor focused on speed + simplicity. It's been an insane few years, and hopefully I'll manage to launch it in 1 month :D

^ agreed 100%

There's no single goto place. I bought mine from comodo, which is now sectigo.com

Indeed, an OV is sufficient, Sectigo is pretty fast at this -- you will need proof of business (phone number + proof to see that the business is still running), and that's about it.

Another "fun" fact - when you start signing, every browser will flag your app as "this application is not commonly downloaded", and this will go on for a while (2-3 weeks, sometimes even more). This might also happen for Antiviruses -- yeah, it's really fucked, I could say.

A few years back Microsoft came up with another type of code signing certificate (don't remember the name), that doesn't have the problems I outlined above. However, it usually costs 4-5x as much, and personally I don't think it's worth it.

I've always hated big companies, because of the red tape/politics. I've slowly gravitated to freelancing/working from home, and I've been doing it (WFH) since roughly 2003.

I've lately had a client almost for 10 years, and towards the end, I really really wanted to create my own product. I won't bore you with the details, but it's a video editor and I will launch it in about 1 month.

I have saved up enough money to last for 1 year no matter what happens. So it's a risk -- it may or may not pan out.

If it doesn't, I'll go back to consulting.

Coming back to meetings: with this client, I had 2 meetings/week, I didn't really enjoy it, but on the plus side, they were very thorough (the meetings were very short, 15-30 minutes)

I would suggest you simply find another place to work.

By reading your post, I don't think you'll really be satisfied here -- I think this will be a recurring theme, and will slowly drain you out. Most managers seem to not get this at all -- we programmers HATE meetings, and unless it's ABSOLUTELY ABSOLUTELY necessary, I'd rather be left out of all meetings.

I HATE meetings, the most I can muster is 2 meetings/week (scrum). Right now, I have my own business, and even when I meet with contractors, I still very seldom have more than 2 meetings/week.

This is one of the reasons I left a job a few years back - 2 meetings/day, it was simply driving me insane.

You don't necessarily need a niche. I think all you need is, when looking for projects, to make sure you partially know the business domain (so you don't jump into something completely new, which is very risky).

Do use common sense, don't pick too-risky projects, and make sure you get better and better at estimating (this is a huge one!).

I used an ergonomic keyboard, unfortunately it's not on the market anymore (I should have bought several :)). Anyway, after using that for I think 5 years, I was very conscious when typing (on a laptop). The thing is for the hands to be relaxed -- once you have that, RSI will slowly go away.