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How to make a demo video for your startup

49 points by monsterix 14y ago

crimsonzagar 14y ago
Hi HN, I am Sagar Sharma and I have done graduation in animation and design. Above is my first animation project using flash CS5 that introduces the product I am helping my boss with. Please view it and let me know what do you guys think about it?
- davidjgraph 14y ago
  Very nice, bet that took weeks to get like that (EDIT: OK, 9, read it too fast). Not sure about the mouse clicking noise for an iPad, but that's a very minor detail.
  - crimsonzagar 14y ago
    Yeah on iPad there is no sound. Or may be a sound to indicate 'tap' can be used. A short rubbery finger sound on glass or something. I will look into this. This video I made considering web app.
    - bradleyland 14y ago
      The "standard" method to illustrate taps and movement on a touch device is to use a translucent, white circle that changes transparency when a click event occurs. This video is the first example I could find, even though the video itself is more of a product walkthrough than an advertisement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAbYNIk0un0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAbYNIk0un0
- cheez 14y ago
  Damn bro, nice job. You've got a bright future if you want it.
ck2 14y ago
I'd say that was up there near the quality of a google product demo/commercial. Very well done! 20 years old is just icing on the cake, you have a great understanding of many things.
- crimsonzagar 14y ago
  Thank you ck2. That is generous.
bobsy 14y ago
Why put your age on this? I am sure someone on HN did something of this quality when they were 15. You only need to put your age on dating websites. As for the video. Its alright. I don't really get the product. The person is using an iPad but then a mouse appears. An iPad doesn't have a mouse. An iPad also doesn't have a stylus so I don't get how the person is doing such nice writing. I also don't like how the video draw's attention to another flaw in the app. After each sentence you need to resize and position the text. Seems like a pretty slow way to email. Content aside, the animations are nice. All in all its alright. I just don't get why it is on hn. EDIT: OK the link has good content at the bottom. When I posted the comment it just had the author asking "Please view it and let me know what do you guys think about it?" I didn't even notice the page scrolled. The page cropped nicely on my monitor just below the bottom of the video and the with the link title didn't realise there was more to it.
- monsterix 14y ago
  Hey there, I am Arvind - one of the guys behind bubbles here. Let me clarify on this: > The person is using an iPad but then a mouse appears. An iPad doesn't have a mouse. Bubbles is a web-app which works on both desktop and iPad. So you could get a mouse pointer and click sound while doodling using a mouse on your computer. But obviously it's more fun to doodle on iPad, and there is no pointer or click sound there.
  - duiker101 14y ago
    I think that the point he was trying to make is that it's illogical to have all this elements on the video.
    - monsterix 14y ago
      Yeah and with more of our world entrenched to use native apps and web separately, it is quite hard to show a webapp which functions on touch surface too.
- namzo 14y ago
  An iPad also doesn't have a stylus so I don't get how the person is doing such nice writing. > You can purchase a stylus for an iPad.
citricsquid 14y ago
The video left no questions regarding what was presented, excellent. Looking through your website you have "@bubbles" everywhere; at first I assumed it was to do with your Twitter account but now it seems that the site is sort of a bit like Twitter in that people can publicly share doodles and talk to each other? I'm confused about that aspect, is this a sort-of doodle twitter, instead of a doodle based email?
- monsterix 14y ago
  Hi Arvind, one of the guys behind @bubbles. Bubbles is a kind of SVG based messaging system. So you can essentially send doodled messages (or collage) to another user simply by mentioning their bubble id. Such a message is private (unless you want to publish online), and yes you can sort of draw a parallel to DMs of Twitter. What's nice is that you're not tied to Unicode character system anymore. If you know Chinese or Hindi or just want to imply something, you can simply use your fingers to pass on those vectors. Yes, you're right to consider this more close to Twitter for now, but obviously our aim is to help our users send mails in their handwriting.
canadev 14y ago
looks like a very interesting product. nice video.
revorad 14y ago
Very nice video. I signed up to try the app and sent one message, but I was surprised that it was sent as a zipped file. The web link would hav been enough. Getting a zipped attachment is not a great experience :-)
- monsterix 14y ago
  Hey revorad, Arvind one of the guys behind bubbles here. We send the letter as a zipped file when recipient is not on bubbles along with a web link. Did you not receive the web link?
  - revorad 14y ago
    I did receive the web link. I'm just saying that itself is enough. The zipped file attachment just felt odd when all I sent was a one-word hand-scribbled message.
    - monsterix 14y ago
      Hm, feedback taken. It does however get interesting when you receive a doodle rich PDF in your handwriting though. :-)
rplnt 14y ago
A bit of offtopic: The content (text) of the post is not aligned within the borders for certain paragraphs in Opera (latest version). Why is that I don't know, but the text is unreadable because of that.
JVIDEL 14y ago
The animation is great, I would only change the music which is a little distracting at times. I get that you probably choose it to keep with the Parisian theme of the video, but at times it feels out of place in an app video.
- monsterix 14y ago
  Hmmm, why so?
hnriot 14y ago
It's a well made video, I don't get why anyone would want email like that. The grammar is wrong in the text, exams be over, not get over.
- sonicaa 14y ago
  Explain Pythagoras theorem to a friend?
jalajboy 14y ago
Well done! The video shows off the doodling capability of @bubbles nicely! For me personally, showing a smile on the mother's face on receiving the hand-written letter with pictures and the daughter's personality wud have been the way to end..

49 points by monsterix 14y ago

Hi HN, I am Sagar Sharma and I have done graduation in animation and design. Above is my first animation project using flash CS5 that introduces the product I am helping my boss with. Please view it and let me know what do you guys think about it?

davidjgraph 14y ago
Very nice, bet that took weeks to get like that (EDIT: OK, 9, read it too fast). Not sure about the mouse clicking noise for an iPad, but that's a very minor detail.
- crimsonzagar 14y ago
  Yeah on iPad there is no sound. Or may be a sound to indicate 'tap' can be used. A short rubbery finger sound on glass or something. I will look into this. This video I made considering web app.
  - bradleyland 14y ago
    The "standard" method to illustrate taps and movement on a touch device is to use a translucent, white circle that changes transparency when a click event occurs. This video is the first example I could find, even though the video itself is more of a product walkthrough than an advertisement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAbYNIk0un0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAbYNIk0un0
cheez 14y ago
Damn bro, nice job. You've got a bright future if you want it.

ck2 14y ago

I'd say that was up there near the quality of a google product demo/commercial. Very well done! 20 years old is just icing on the cake, you have a great understanding of many things.

crimsonzagar 14y ago
Thank you ck2. That is generous.

bobsy 14y ago

Why put your age on this? I am sure someone on HN did something of this quality when they were 15. You only need to put your age on dating websites. As for the video. Its alright. I don't really get the product. The person is using an iPad but then a mouse appears. An iPad doesn't have a mouse. An iPad also doesn't have a stylus so I don't get how the person is doing such nice writing. I also don't like how the video draw's attention to another flaw in the app. After each sentence you need to resize and position the text. Seems like a pretty slow way to email. Content aside, the animations are nice. All in all its alright. I just don't get why it is on hn. EDIT: OK the link has good content at the bottom. When I posted the comment it just had the author asking "Please view it and let me know what do you guys think about it?" I didn't even notice the page scrolled. The page cropped nicely on my monitor just below the bottom of the video and the with the link title didn't realise there was more to it.

monsterix 14y ago
Hey there, I am Arvind - one of the guys behind bubbles here. Let me clarify on this: > The person is using an iPad but then a mouse appears. An iPad doesn't have a mouse. Bubbles is a web-app which works on both desktop and iPad. So you could get a mouse pointer and click sound while doodling using a mouse on your computer. But obviously it's more fun to doodle on iPad, and there is no pointer or click sound there.
- duiker101 14y ago
  I think that the point he was trying to make is that it's illogical to have all this elements on the video.
  - monsterix 14y ago
    Yeah and with more of our world entrenched to use native apps and web separately, it is quite hard to show a webapp which functions on touch surface too.
namzo 14y ago
An iPad also doesn't have a stylus so I don't get how the person is doing such nice writing. > You can purchase a stylus for an iPad.

citricsquid 14y ago

The video left no questions regarding what was presented, excellent. Looking through your website you have "@bubbles" everywhere; at first I assumed it was to do with your Twitter account but now it seems that the site is sort of a bit like Twitter in that people can publicly share doodles and talk to each other? I'm confused about that aspect, is this a sort-of doodle twitter, instead of a doodle based email?

monsterix 14y ago
Hi Arvind, one of the guys behind @bubbles. Bubbles is a kind of SVG based messaging system. So you can essentially send doodled messages (or collage) to another user simply by mentioning their bubble id. Such a message is private (unless you want to publish online), and yes you can sort of draw a parallel to DMs of Twitter. What's nice is that you're not tied to Unicode character system anymore. If you know Chinese or Hindi or just want to imply something, you can simply use your fingers to pass on those vectors. Yes, you're right to consider this more close to Twitter for now, but obviously our aim is to help our users send mails in their handwriting.

canadev 14y ago

looks like a very interesting product. nice video.

revorad 14y ago

Very nice video. I signed up to try the app and sent one message, but I was surprised that it was sent as a zipped file. The web link would hav been enough. Getting a zipped attachment is not a great experience :-)

monsterix 14y ago
Hey revorad, Arvind one of the guys behind bubbles here. We send the letter as a zipped file when recipient is not on bubbles along with a web link. Did you not receive the web link?
- revorad 14y ago
  I did receive the web link. I'm just saying that itself is enough. The zipped file attachment just felt odd when all I sent was a one-word hand-scribbled message.
  - monsterix 14y ago
    Hm, feedback taken. It does however get interesting when you receive a doodle rich PDF in your handwriting though. :-)

rplnt 14y ago

A bit of offtopic: The content (text) of the post is not aligned within the borders for certain paragraphs in Opera (latest version). Why is that I don't know, but the text is unreadable because of that.

JVIDEL 14y ago

The animation is great, I would only change the music which is a little distracting at times. I get that you probably choose it to keep with the Parisian theme of the video, but at times it feels out of place in an app video.

monsterix 14y ago
Hmmm, why so?

hnriot 14y ago

It's a well made video, I don't get why anyone would want email like that. The grammar is wrong in the text, exams be over, not get over.

sonicaa 14y ago
Explain Pythagoras theorem to a friend?

jalajboy 14y ago

Well done! The video shows off the doodling capability of @bubbles nicely! For me personally, showing a smile on the mother's face on receiving the hand-written letter with pictures and the daughter's personality wud have been the way to end..