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UX Roundup: AI Video Editing | AI Avatars Compared | NotebookLM Team Leaves

Jakob Nielsen on UX • 11 implied HN points • 05 Dec 24
🕹 Technology AI Tools Video Editing Product Development User Experience
  1. CapCut is an AI video editor that, while powerful, is not as easy to learn as people say. Users can edit videos by working with AI-generated transcripts, which can improve the final cut.
  2. Creating AI avatars can be done through different services like Humva, D-ID, and HeyGen. Humva is the easiest to use, while HeyGen offers the most features but is also the most complex.
  3. It's smarter to subscribe to AI services monthly rather than yearly. AI changes quickly, and you want to be flexible to switch to better tools as they become available.

Everything I've learned about YouTube in a 10 minute skim | #47

pole • 39 implied HN points • 11 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Content creation YouTube Video Editing SEO AI
  1. The idea is the most crucial aspect in making YouTube videos, setting the standard for their potential success.
  2. Creating interesting ideas involves asking questions, making them clickable, and presenting them in engaging ways.
  3. Titles, thumbnails, intros, bodies, and outros of YouTube videos each serve specific functions and should be strategically designed to keep viewers engaged.

What I have been so busy with

Basta’s Notes • 81 implied HN points • 08 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Coding Web Development Design Animation Video Editing
  1. The author built a website with a bold and animated design that may not please everyone, but aimed to excite their target audience of podcasters.
  2. The website underwent significant development, transitioning from a DOM-based approach to using Canvas for animations, like with a globe section featuring looping videos.
  3. Challenges were overcome by techniques such as using Perlin noise for wiggling animations and rendering inline SVG images via React for intricate visual elements.
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Behind the scene: This is a teenager

Big Charts • 2 HN points • 09 Apr 24
🎨 Art & Illustration Visual Design Video Editing
  1. Keeping a diary of daily work on a project can provide valuable insights into the process and help in understanding project timelines and challenges.
  2. Working with complex data can be intimidating, but once you grasp how to access and interpret data, it can offer a wealth of information for analysis and visualization.
  3. Confronting challenges in a project, such as dealing with 'The Desert' phase where doubts and uncertainties arise, is a normal part of the creative process, leading to eventual breakthroughs and refinements.

Slow down or fast-forward? Edit video speeds with your terminal

Cosmos • 0 implied HN points • 27 May 23
🕹 Technology Video Editing
  1. Editing video speeds is an easy way to add dramatic effects or create a montage look by changing playback speed with tools like FFmpeg.
  2. To slow down or speed up a video, you can calculate the new duration based on the desired change in speed and then use FFmpeg's commands to modify the video accordingly.
  3. By adjusting the setpts value in FFmpeg commands, you can either slow down or speed up a video to achieve the desired effect.

Sam Lavigne: Real Deepfakes and Fake Deepfakes

Do Not Research • 0 implied HN points • 16 Oct 22
🕹 Technology Deepfakes Video Editing Machine Learning Social media
  1. The fear of deepfakes eroding democracy is prominent, but the actual threat may be from established institutions.
  2. Detecting a real that appears fake is more challenging than identifying a fake that seems real.
  3. Creating a 'fake deepfake' involves technical steps that are simpler compared to making a real deepfake, which requires specific tools and hardware.

Generative A-Eye #6 - 23rd Sept,2024

Martin’s Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 23 Sep 24
🕹 Technology AI Image Synthesis Video Editing Machine Learning Deepfakes
  1. AI video generation is still struggling to create coherent narratives in movies, despite advances. People have been hopeful for improvements, but past technologies didn't deliver.
  2. Recent research from China offers a new method for portrait video editing, focusing on facial expressions and coherence in video frames. This could help make videos that look better and feel more natural.
  3. There's a new framework for detecting deepfake images that aims to protect facial identity. It cleverly alters facial features to keep manipulated images anonymous.