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Hi everyone! I'm one of Shred Video's founders. We endeavored to make Shred Video after suffering too many hours trying to edit surf trip footage into movies th

Hi everyone! I'm one of Shred Video's founders. We endeavored to make Shred Video after suffering too many hours trying to edit surf trip footage into movies that were any good. We hope to make editing GoPro and adventure travel footage fun and painless, so we can all spend less time editing and more time living. Happy to answer any questions about Shred Video, or just talk shop about movie-making!

caio1982 11y ago
Hey! First things first: awesome idea! I'm not sure how successful you guys can be in the long term but IMHO this is something that has been lacking for the target customers (me!). So: 1. The app UI and UX are terrible, just terrible; find someone who knows these to work on the app with you please. It feels "cheap". Also, the app icon on Launchpad. 2. I can make the app crash on OSX 10.9.4 whenever I want, all I have to do is to drop a few random .mov from my iPhone 4S in there and boom! Or even some random .jpg, boom again. Seems some basic QA was missed before the last release. If you're confident about the app stability we could then talk about sharing my files with you to reproduce it. 3. That "buy movie" button triggered a WTF in my mind. Those are my stuff, my movies! Maybe make it more specific, I don't know, like "buy this edited movie" or something like that. 4. Tried some shred videos and they all looked nice with the soundtrack I selected, but every time I dropped some pictures togethers with the other movies the final cut always had duplicated pictures showing up all the time. Like boringly all the time. Maybe tune this down for pictures? 5. Why would I pay that much for the edited movie if I a) can't edit it anymore once it's finished (unless I redo the whole thing and buy it AGAIN) and b) I won't probably be allowed to upload it to YouTube without being flagged? Maybe if the edited videos kept part of the original audio tracks it would help with this? No idea, just wondering if it's worth the money given this legal issue... Usually I'm the guy my friends ask for help to edit their Go Kart races or whatever or any GoPro movies or vacations stuff because I took the time to learn how to use GoPro's software and Apple's, but although I'd just love to leave them behind to use Shred I'm still not convinced of the price versus benefits here... Congrats again and keep up the good work, I'll keep trying the next releases, specially after my vacations at the Kilimanjaro next month :-)
- mikeshreds 11y ago
  thanks for the feedback! 1. haha yes Kevin OP working with us on this. we've spent a lot more time on the backend tech than the front-end. 2. yes would love if you'd send the bad files! mike@shredvideo.com super helpful thx 3. yeah we could have more clear messaging here. we wanted to align our interests with the user's (as in: you only pay once we help you make a movie you feel is worth paying for), will continue to work this. 4. sounds like we need to make the app smarter when just a few pics are added. we first optimized for the case where user has lots of footage/photos. 5. this the reason for the unlimited SKU - save as many movies as you want! on content, we've found more and more artists are choosing to pre-roll an add when users upload their content, instead of blocking them outright. thx again for the feedback! would love to hear more of your ideas for how we can make the app better, send any ideas or feature requests right to me mike@shredvideo.com thanks!

caio1982 11y ago

Hey! First things first: awesome idea! I'm not sure how successful you guys can be in the long term but IMHO this is something that has been lacking for the target customers (me!). So: 1. The app UI and UX are terrible, just terrible; find someone who knows these to work on the app with you please. It feels "cheap". Also, the app icon on Launchpad. 2. I can make the app crash on OSX 10.9.4 whenever I want, all I have to do is to drop a few random .mov from my iPhone 4S in there and boom! Or even some random .jpg, boom again. Seems some basic QA was missed before the last release. If you're confident about the app stability we could then talk about sharing my files with you to reproduce it. 3. That "buy movie" button triggered a WTF in my mind. Those are my stuff, my movies! Maybe make it more specific, I don't know, like "buy this edited movie" or something like that. 4. Tried some shred videos and they all looked nice with the soundtrack I selected, but every time I dropped some pictures togethers with the other movies the final cut always had duplicated pictures showing up all the time. Like boringly all the time. Maybe tune this down for pictures? 5. Why would I pay that much for the edited movie if I a) can't edit it anymore once it's finished (unless I redo the whole thing and buy it AGAIN) and b) I won't probably be allowed to upload it to YouTube without being flagged? Maybe if the edited videos kept part of the original audio tracks it would help with this? No idea, just wondering if it's worth the money given this legal issue... Usually I'm the guy my friends ask for help to edit their Go Kart races or whatever or any GoPro movies or vacations stuff because I took the time to learn how to use GoPro's software and Apple's, but although I'd just love to leave them behind to use Shred I'm still not convinced of the price versus benefits here... Congrats again and keep up the good work, I'll keep trying the next releases, specially after my vacations at the Kilimanjaro next month :-)

mikeshreds 11y ago
thanks for the feedback! 1. haha yes Kevin OP working with us on this. we've spent a lot more time on the backend tech than the front-end. 2. yes would love if you'd send the bad files! mike@shredvideo.com super helpful thx 3. yeah we could have more clear messaging here. we wanted to align our interests with the user's (as in: you only pay once we help you make a movie you feel is worth paying for), will continue to work this. 4. sounds like we need to make the app smarter when just a few pics are added. we first optimized for the case where user has lots of footage/photos. 5. this the reason for the unlimited SKU - save as many movies as you want! on content, we've found more and more artists are choosing to pre-roll an add when users upload their content, instead of blocking them outright. thx again for the feedback! would love to hear more of your ideas for how we can make the app better, send any ideas or feature requests right to me mike@shredvideo.com thanks!