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WeVideo Helps You Edit Your Videos Online (Video)
This video is WeVideo CEO Jostein Svendsen talking about his company's service, not a demo of it, although we surely should do a demo/review of WeVideo before long. If you are involved in casual video production, this is something you need to check out. And if you want to try editing a video or two but have no idea if you're going to be good enough that it will be worth spending money on video editing software, plus the time to learn how to use it, WeVideo's free version (which puts a watermark on your finished video) might be a good way to try your hand at this necessary but unheralded part of the videomaking process.
At least pretend to hide the slashvertisements?
the Slashvertisement out of this submission?
like for instance Dropbox they have a feature to automatically take all of your photos and videos from your cameras and push it up to the cloud.
I imagine that raw video footage is big enough that people will run out of the 2 GB that Dropbox provides without charge fairly quickly. More than that requires paying a recurring fee to Dropbox. What's the crossover point? How long does one have to use Dropbox before buying a copy of proprietary video editing software becomes cheaper?
Who reads Slashdot but can't install a video editor?
Pretty good is actually pretty bad.
And... still no support for machines without Flash player. HTML5 video is quite stable and drastically more performant. Why are you not using it?
Unless their capabilities are god's gift to amateur video editing or something, I don't get it. The pricing is (while probably necessarily so, to handle the bandwidth and compute) dangerously close to basic video-editing shovelware that doesn't require you to twiddle your thumbs while the source video gets uploaded, or put up with a 720p(extra per-export fee for 1080!) resolution cap. And the storage and export-length limits should be fairly easy to hit unless you are really just looking for something that is the video equivalent of the 'crop' tool.
Mac users, of course, have something out of the box that is dangerously likely to be competitive(and even more recent WMM, while a bit of a joke, is at least unhindered by bandwidth constraints and nickle-and-dime pricing).
Heck, if it simply must be 'cloud', let's see your 60-second elevator speech about why this isn't the sound of Google curb-stomping your company and spitting on its corpse. Surely you have one, right?
Why would you ever need to BUY anything? I have at least 3 or 4 decent video editors that are free I can install in 5 minutes that for the level of stuff you can do with an online suite are perfectly fine. The 'article' (aka slashvertisment) is putting up a false dichotomy between pay software and a free webapp when nobody in their right mind that doesn't have at least pretensions to serious video editing has PAID for their software in a while now.
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Tried it a few weeks ago while seeing what kind of cool apps are available from a chormebook. This isn't one of them. It takes forever to upload source files, so pretty much any cloud video editing is going to frustrate people. Add to that WeVideo's terrible interface, and you want your time back from even trying this. Your phone's video editing is more intuitive and has more features. Need more than what's on your phone? Lightworks (NLE) and Davinci Resolve (grading) are available for free.
The CEO claims problems with bandwidth have been overcome. I disagree.
Most broadband connections today still have severely limited upload speeds. Sure, they may be slightly faster. But since 1080p video has become a commodity, the amount of data per frame (bitrate) for amateur video has increased quite dramatically, compared to a few years ago when 480p was still common. So any increase in upload speed is negated by higher video resolutions.
I think this will only work when symmetrical fiber connections become normal.
Beside this being a blatant ad, this whole "cloud" thing is really getting retarded. All "cloud" is really is getting applications and your data off your own computer and on to some company's systems where you have to pay to use "premium" services. WeVideo watermarks the output of the free version of their service? Other than them having some pre-made templates, I don't see anything that this can do than the dozen other free options I can think of: OpenShot, Cinelerra, even Windows Movie Maker, and you don't get watermark bullshit.
Does it say "Showstealer Pro"?
Which has plenty of video editing options -- some of them even quite good, and some of them even quite easy. (Note the two don't always overlap.)
P.S. If you think my subject is sarcastic... well, yes.
Their only purchasing option is in the form of a monthly subscription, which seems like it misses most of their potential market.
For a monthly subscription pricing structure to make sense, the customer would need to be producing multiple videos per month, and as other posters have already mentioned, in that case most would install some more capable local video editing software that doesn't require uploading raw footage to a cloud system.
It seems like most of their target users would be people like me, who occasionally author a video, but only a few times per year and don't want the hassle of installing locally-running software.
But paying a monthly subscription for a service that I'd only use at most a handful of times per year would be stupid, so for me I don't care about how whiz-bang their video editor is, I didn't even look at their features, and don't plan to.
Offer me a pay-for-what-I-use model, and let me upgrade to a monthly subscription if I actually start using it a lot. Then it would at least be worth considering trying it out. That would at least get me to look at their feature list before writing them off.
Local editing, more features. Free.
Why? I don't get it. Yes, slashvertisements have always existed, but at least they've always been of the form "here is a neat thing I found." This is one very, *very* small step removed from just posting actual ad videos. Cut it out.
Upload video to edit? Are you shitting me?
At all.
So here's a video on the Internet of WeVideo editing videos you upload to the Internet, so you can edit your videos and upload your upload.
speaking of /vertisements, I've been thinking of adding this sort of thing to my Firefox extension. It's not too hard to do, but I haven't had many people express interest in it per se. And doesn't youtube already have a video editor?
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