I got to see a demo of this tech a few months ago and it's probably one of the most impressive things I've seen in years. In one minute, it made a movie that would have taken me hours to put together in Final Cut Pro. Shred helps you spend more time capturing moments and less time in the editing room. Try it for yourself for free in the Mac App Store.
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!
@michaeldouble This is amazing. I've been clamoring to build something like this. Even for myself. Can't wait to use this after my next trip. How do you gauge what makes a good video/clip?
Hi @pj_mukh thanks! Mostly we're looking for significant changes in speed and smoothness in the video. So when you go from rest to speed smoothly, there's a good chance that's an interesting action moment. Think dropping into a wave (surfing), bombing a bowl or half pipe (snowboarding), or descending a hill on your bike. When things get chattery or unstable, we try to cut those moments out.
@michaeldouble any thoughts on repurposing for other vid types? I know one that took all the random footage of my kids and did the same would be interesting. Good work.
WOW! this is AWESOME! I just tried it. Great job @michaeldouble. Is there a reason why you only picked 1 minute? can that be made longer/shorter? how about multiple songs? I have 40 videos I wanted to compile, whats the limit? any way to increase it? Keep up the great work!
thanks @bhavesh glad you had fun with it!
We remix the songs to be between 1 and 2 minutes long. In our user testing we found meaningful thresholds at 1, 1.5, and 2min -- users would start losing attention at 1min, and generally fully lost it by 2mins. GoPro's daily movies are all right under 2min long, so it seems like that's a meaningful threshold.
That said, longer movies and the ability to add multiple songs are two of our most common feature requests. It seems like the best thing to do would be to keep the remixes short (4min of the same song drags unless your footage is REALLY good), and have adding multiple songs be a way to make your movie longer.
Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming! Get at me mike@shredvideo.com anytime you have an idea or feature request.
Oh and @bhavesh there's no specific limit to how much footage you can upload! You can probably break Shred Video if you upload like 1TB worth of stuff, in testing it's handled 100GB+ successfully (tho sometimes can crash). With that much footage you're sure to get some pretty random cuts, which can sometimes be super weird and awesome.
We're working on ways to optimize your edits based on the amount of footage you import, look for updates coming about every 2 weeks!
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