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Admire your chops for doing this. But what do you honestly want to do with it? From a professional POV, I think this may be a good tool for a mood reel. But,

by l33tbro 13y ago

Admire your chops for doing this. But what do you honestly want to do with it? From a professional POV, I think this may be a good tool for a mood reel. But, even still, client will usually still want precision with that. I would never use this professionally for any of the descriptors you - aside from a wedding video. Your logic entirely negates storytelling - which is why people are saying the example you've posted is so unwatchable. I'm not hating here - just trying to give you a solid critique. That leaves, in my mind, the casual user not really well versed in video literacy. I'm talking your mom'n'pops and road trip bros who have a bunch of Iphone/DSLR footage they want to throw down on a timeline. As someone else said, I think there's a fair few apps out there like this. How is yours going to be different? I think the motion graphics is a nice add.

jawngee 13y ago
Do people not read the blog post, is what I'm wondering right about now because in it, I outline exactly what I want to do with it, what I use it for currently. It was born out of necessity, not because I wanted to slap some weird idea together and throw it out there th change the editing world. If you are talking about Animoto and that other thing that was posted in here, Replay I think it's called, they're not even remotely similar. For one, VIX is real time, Animoto and Replay upload your videos to a server, do the edits on the server and you download the results. For seconds you have the exact same precision in editing that you do with any other NLE, you can't change anything with Animoto or that other thing except for picking a different theme. Yes, you can let VIX automatically edit the video, but you can also change any edit down to the frame. As I said before, you're not going to make a movie with this. You're not going to edit a TV show with this. But there are broad categories of other types of editing where VIX is perfectly suited. So in summary, I made it because I needed it, I put it out there because I hoped others would find it useful. If they don't, it's no real skin off my back, but I know that's not the case. Will it make me a million dollars? No, not when I'm putting it out there for free. I make the millions with the magazine and publishing platform I built VIX to help me build. As for the posted video being unwatchable, it's a matter of demographics and taste, I suppose. It's been tested with our target demo for Em Oi, Vietnamese women ages 18-24, and it tested pretty well against slower/less edits. It also "been blessed" by the people involved, including the photographer who shot it, who himself shoots for every top fashion mag here in Vietnam (http://bobbynguyen.vn http://bobbynguyen.vn). Could it be better? Of course it could! I don't mean to sound defensive, I appreciate that you took the time to offer your advice, but I think you are under the false impression that I'm building a startup around VIX or something, when it's clear in the blog post what startup I'm actually trying to build. If you're interested in that: https://vimeo.com/68565914 https://vimeo.com/68565914 (demo of the magazine app) pw: finalaspektdemo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXlHFhbqzHU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXlHFhbqzHU (building aspekt experiences)

by l33tbro 13y ago

jawngee 13y ago

Do people not read the blog post, is what I'm wondering right about now because in it, I outline exactly what I want to do with it, what I use it for currently. It was born out of necessity, not because I wanted to slap some weird idea together and throw it out there th change the editing world. If you are talking about Animoto and that other thing that was posted in here, Replay I think it's called, they're not even remotely similar. For one, VIX is real time, Animoto and Replay upload your videos to a server, do the edits on the server and you download the results. For seconds you have the exact same precision in editing that you do with any other NLE, you can't change anything with Animoto or that other thing except for picking a different theme. Yes, you can let VIX automatically edit the video, but you can also change any edit down to the frame. As I said before, you're not going to make a movie with this. You're not going to edit a TV show with this. But there are broad categories of other types of editing where VIX is perfectly suited. So in summary, I made it because I needed it, I put it out there because I hoped others would find it useful. If they don't, it's no real skin off my back, but I know that's not the case. Will it make me a million dollars? No, not when I'm putting it out there for free. I make the millions with the magazine and publishing platform I built VIX to help me build. As for the posted video being unwatchable, it's a matter of demographics and taste, I suppose. It's been tested with our target demo for Em Oi, Vietnamese women ages 18-24, and it tested pretty well against slower/less edits. It also "been blessed" by the people involved, including the photographer who shot it, who himself shoots for every top fashion mag here in Vietnam (http://bobbynguyen.vn http://bobbynguyen.vn). Could it be better? Of course it could! I don't mean to sound defensive, I appreciate that you took the time to offer your advice, but I think you are under the false impression that I'm building a startup around VIX or something, when it's clear in the blog post what startup I'm actually trying to build. If you're interested in that: https://vimeo.com/68565914 https://vimeo.com/68565914 (demo of the magazine app) pw: finalaspektdemo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXlHFhbqzHU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXlHFhbqzHU (building aspekt experiences)