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Have an UI mode that's optimized for casual users! So many of my relatives ask me where Windows Movie Maker went - it wasn't the most powerful tool of course,
by meibo 6y ago
Have an UI mode that's optimized for casual users!
So many of my relatives ask me where Windows Movie Maker went - it wasn't the most powerful tool of course, but it was so easy to use and arrange videos with, especially for not too tech-literate people.
There's nothing that comes close, especially not what MS has built-in at the moment (basically just generating videos from slideshows with confusing UX).
- CinematicStudio 6y agoThanks! I'll take another look at Windows Movie Maker, apparently :) I would say my app is quite friendly, but then again, I may be biased :)
- omk 6y agoMicrosoft Photos App does provide a video editor now. Make sure you vet against its existing features.
- CinematicStudio 6y agoThanks! I did check MS Photos app a while ago, and I've got pretty much all it has (and a lot more ;)) However, I added it to my todo list to take another look ;)
- Mayzie 6y ago> Have an UI mode that's optimized for casual users! Kdenlive[1] is very good for this and kind of resembles Windows Movie Maker of old. I'm not a movie editor, so Kdenlive is my goto clip editor when all I want to do is something simple without having to think how to do it (I've tried iMovie and Premiere). Very intuitive! [1] https://kdenlive.org/en/ https://kdenlive.org/en/ Open source, KDE, Qt-based project.
- CinematicStudio 6y agoThanks! I wasn't aware of kdenlive, until a few days ago when it popped in my news feed :D I'll take a look :)
- CinematicStudio 6y agoI did take a look. It's a nice tool even though the UI is not the most modern :) Seems the features that it has have already been suggested by others in the thread. Having said that, since I installed it on my desktop, I will take another look at it later, and maybe draw a bit more inspiration :) Thanks again!
- hobby-coder-guy 6y agoA UI. Not “an”.
- teleforce 6y agoThis. Please optimize for casual users and due to Covid-19 social distancing more people are forced to making and editing their own video. These are my two suggestions: 1)Try to enable targeted video size feature for the generated/exported video. Also design a simple UI menu to automatically transcode and resize the generated video according to the chosen video format. 2) Make it easy for the authoring of the sub-title by including dead simple and easy to use vector graphic editor built-in and integrated inside the video editor (not third party full blown vector editor).
- CinematicStudio 6y agoThanks! > This. Please optimize for casual users and due to Covid-19 social distancing more people are forced to making and editing their own video. Agreed! I've done my best to do just that - but clearly, you will be the judge of that :) > 1)Try to enable targeted video size feature for the generated/exported video. Also design a simple UI menu to automatically transcode and resize the generated video according to the chosen video format. Agreed! I would say I've done achieved this - basically, when you click 'Export', you can set the FPS, and the video format (low, HD, Full HD, 4k - coming soon). There's also an option for video ratio (such as 16:9, 4:3, and so on) - available via the project's settings. Hopefully people won't think it's buried too deep in the settings menu :) > 2) Make it easy for the authoring of the sub-title by including dead simple and easy to use vector graphic editor built-in and integrated inside the video editor (not third party full blown vector editor). Added to my todo list. I want to do it similar to what Adobe has - which will be a bit of work :D But yeah, I'll have it ;)