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Show HN: Vento, a screen recorder that lets you rewind and record over mistakes
Hey folks, we made this screen recording tool to fix one simple problem - fixing your mistakes easily when recording so you don’t have to constantly restart or stitch.
I’m not particularly great at presenting and so mistakes will inevitably happen during a screen recording, and it’s worse when you’re already 5 minutes into your recording, forcing you to restart completely.
Please check this out and let us know what you think!
- hasseo 4y agoDoes it record a chrome tab in the background?
- MPlus88 4y ago[flagged]
- dang 4y agoPlease don't do this here.
- retox 4y agoLooks very useful and intuitive. Does it cost anything? Either way I think it would helpful if you called it out somewhere.
- ckle 4y agoYea we’ll have to charge probably like $5-10mo eventually. For now, just want to know if the rewind feature is useful!
- albert_e 4y agoMinor nit: Misquoting Mahatma Gandhi for humor is perfectly fine. Misspelling his name as Ghandi, not so much.
- quentinadam 4y agoLooks awesome! You should submit it to ProductHunt!
- fernly 4y agoThe site says nothing about itself. Is it only a Chrome extension? In what platforms can it record the screen (win? mac? linux? only in a browser?). What other features does it have, eg select a portion of the screen, visual indication of mouse clicks, etc.
- layer8 4y agoI agree. At least when visiting on mobile, there’s too little basic information on what this even runs on, etc., making me leave the site without bothering further.
- lefan 4y agoThanks for the feedback. Currently the tool works the best on Chrome (with or without extension) on Mac and Window, with minor support for Safari. We'll be sure to make a FAQ section on which platform we support and plans for features in the future. Thanks yall
- zapzupnz 4y agoThat shouldn't be an FAQ section, that should be front and centre.
- albert_e 4y agoI use OBS as recording tool with YouTube Live Streaming as target. Even though I don't intend to publish every screen recording I make. I set videos to private so that I just save the recordings as is first. Very few, after edits, get published to public. I can create much more public content in my field if there was an easy way (like OP) to correct mistakes and redact some content. This saves a ton of local storage space for me. More importantly all important stuff is backed up to cloud and readily viewable by me on any device anywhere. I am loving this (will Google let me push this into TBs of free storage?) I really wish there was either a capability that allows me to "pause" the recording on a live stream :) or otherwise easily edit, redact YouTube recordings after recording. The tools provided by YouTube (I am not a paying customer) are very rudimentary and barely useable performance-wise. Good luck OP. Do you have any OBS plug-ins of similar kind in mind.
- Local90 4y ago[flagged]
- DueDilligence 4y ago.. part of the google infrastructure? not. gonna. happen.
- CharlieDigital 4y agoWhat's the tech stack? Looks really handy for those takes when the dog barks or the kids are yelling!
- sanat 4y agoLooks great and congrats on the HN launch! I can see myself using this to make my next screen recording.
- ckle 4y agoThanks! Please give it a shot and let us know what you think!
- limitedsupply 4y agoThis is a really handy tool, and the demo video goes straight to the point! One minor criticism: it's a bit of a turn off when a well-known logo (and even its position in the header/footer) is so brazenly copied.
- spencerchubb 4y agoWhose logo is being copied? It's just the name of the service in italics
- limitedsupply 4y agoIt looks very similar to Vimeo (just more italicized). The placement is identical too.
- 411111111111111 4y agoDifferent fonts, different spacings. I don't see how this is supposedly a ripoff.
- TuringTest 4y agoThat's just commodification of design; websites tend to exhibit very similar structures, styles, and design elements, so they're eventually bound to coincide at some point. The logo is nothing more than the product name with a fancy italic font face; that's not even copyrightable. The similarity comes from having names with some matching letters.
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- yasoob 4y agoI didn't feel as if it was a ripoff. It didn't even register with me that you were referring to Vimeo until I read the comments. Slightly similar font with a different name altogether shouldn't count as ripoff in my opinion :)
- ckle 4y ago
- boundlessdreamz 4y ago1. Where are the videos stored? 2. Can they be exported? Formats supported for export 3. What resolutions are supported?
- lefan 4y agoStored on the cloud (google cloud storage). We don't support export yet, but it might be a feature for pro users (MP4/H264)! Currently videos are recorded at 1080p.
- DavorDK 4y agoLooks pretty easy and straight forward to use. I myself use my phone for filming videos (over OBS), so I probably won't use it. I will recommend it to some of my fellow videomakers that could benefit from it, though.
- psychphysic 4y agoI'm concerned about the business model. So it's free, but presumably I will have to pay to export my video?
- yasoob 4y agoI was curious about the same thing. But turns out you can download (export) the video without paying anything for now. Maybe it will become paid in the future?
- ckle 4y agoFree for now! But we're hoping to build a small side business out of this, so we'll probably charge for say, over 10m videos, higher fidelity videos, hosting lots of videos, etc. Anything in that list feel unfair? Anything you'd add?
- psychphysic 4y agoIt's not at all unfair. But I'd never use the service. Still is suspect HN isn't your target audience anyways.
- ckle 4y agoYou're probably right. Can I ask why you'd never use it? What if you could download & delete the cloud recording with one button?
- psychphysic 4y agoI'd considered them givens under GDPR!
- jack_riminton 4y agoVery nice idea and execution. Keeping it simple is the best way to go. Would love to see you turn it into a cheaper Loom competitor! (viewer counts for example)
- dezzeus 4y agoI'd like to highlight the wordplay around re-wind: Vento means wind (as moving air) in Italian, and ventoso (vento.so) translates to windy. :)
- jaclaz 4y agoAs an Italian I am failing to see the cleverness, even if they are written the same wind and wind (different pronounciation) have different roots and meanings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homograph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homograph It would be like you had a site about planting seeds and had the site named por.ca. Now, if it was something like riavvol.to, it would have made more sense.
- luxoramonrising 4y agoJust enable windows game bar for your ide and browser. It allows you to export past 30 seconds of your screen capture.
- chmod775 4y agoI know this pain. What this tool purports to do can be accomplished with a video editing software, BUT that's super annoying and a time sink. Kudos for trying to make this more ergonomic.
- johny115 4y agoLooks good, but since there is no transparency on pricing, it doesn't motivate me to sign up. Not sure if there is pricing visible after signing up, but I can't be bothered to find out. Id be clear what is offered for free and where does/will paid plan start, if there is even anything for free at all, or it's jut premium pricing.
- ckle 4y agofree right now! but we do plan to add a paid tier at some point. But the hope is to always have some amount of the service free
- mrlinx 4y agoIs there an alternative but that does it all locally? I'd love to avoid the cloud part. And I'd like it to be as easy as this, unlike OBS/Camtasia.
- danuker 4y agoI use SimpleScreenRecorder. You can choose "Separate file per segment", and each time you pause you get a new file. I then delete the mistaken takes, and concatenate everything with an FFMPEG script.
- brk 4y agoOn Mac: Quicktime + iMovie. Quicktime has a very simple/flexible screen recorder built in. You can record a section of your screen, or full screen. If you make a mistake, pause for 5 seconds and then just do a re-take on the fly. Import the QT recording into iMovie. Clip out of the unwanted sections and export your video.
- ckle 4y agoWe'll let you download the video after, and delete it too! Maybe all in one-button. I'm assuming you don't want cloud because of your data? Even better for us, we don't have to pay for hosting..
- taubek 4y agoThis looks like a interesting tool. I usually use desktop app for cutting out the parts where I made a mistake.