Last year I built Recut[0], a native Mac app that helps speed up video editing by automating the rough-cut process. It finds silence, gaps, and pauses and removes them, creating a cut list that you can import into editors like ScreenFlow, Final Cut, Premiere and Resolve. Here’s the Show HN [1] from a couple months ago.
I built it because I was making screencasts and cutting out silence + mistakes was 90% of my editing time. This makes it a ton faster. There were some command-line scripts to do a similar thing but I wanted something visual with a fast feedback loop, where I could quickly preview how it would sound and tweak the parameters in real time.
I didn’t know anything about video and had never built anything with Swift before so it’s been a fun way to learn a bunch of new stuff.
That's an interesting idea! Right now it lets you preview either the original file, or with the silence cut out (and you can quickly toggle between those). I guess this could be a third state, to only play back the cuts.
For my own workflow I usually play back the recording with the silence cut out, and tweak as I go. (The new version I'm working on has the ability to manually cut/keep parts of the timeline). It's way faster than what I used to do, which was play it back while making the cuts as I went. I'm not sure I'd personally want to listen back to only the cuts because it'd be easy to lose my place, but I could see how someone could want to do that.
Genius. You need to find a way to market to the right audience and up your price to $79 or something. The current price seems too low for all the time it saves (if I'm a serious vlogger).
I'll definitely check it out (and maybe purchase it before your price increase, haha).
Great! I'd love to hear what you think, whether it fits your workflow or if there are missing pieces that you'd need. Contact info is in my profile if you're open to a chat!
I built it because I was making screencasts and cutting out silence + mistakes was 90% of my editing time. This makes it a ton faster. There were some command-line scripts to do a similar thing but I wanted something visual with a fast feedback loop, where I could quickly preview how it would sound and tweak the parameters in real time.
I didn’t know anything about video and had never built anything with Swift before so it’s been a fun way to learn a bunch of new stuff.
0: https://getrecut.com
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26317265