Hey Product Hunt, my name is Yuki!
Antioch (one of my best friends from HS) and I built Smartrazor, to help YouTubers edit their talking head style videos way faster.
We built this tool so YouTubers can spend time telling great stories & making awesome content instead of doing repetitive & tedious video editing tasks.
Since I was in 4th grade, I’ve been obsessed with YouTube.
In 6th grade I made my first video. In college, I started to upload relatively consistently.
But what I always found frustrating was the time it took to edit videos.
There were many Friday nights where I was hunched over Final Cut Pro in my dorm while my friends were out having fun.
By senior year, I lost my passion for making YouTube videos, but it introduced me to a problem I could solve.
To further validate this was a problem worth tackling, I web scraped ~1000 complaints on YouTube reddit subs. And I found that about 20% of the comments were related to the hassle of editing (the #2 most cited complaint, right after burnout).
So, we made Smartrazor to solve it.
Upload your raw A-roll & (in the future) B-roll, and Smartrazor outputs a cohesive, first pass edited video.
You can then make final touches of this first pass edit in your preferred video editor (e.g. adding text, animations, key frames, etc.).
In spirit of launching early (and while embarrassed), we are launching our MVP today, which only accommodates the A-roll editor.
Would love to get your feedback!
@yukioyama congrats on your launch, Yuki! Smart razor a super helpful tool for new video creators 🥳 it's even better you launch early than doing it too late!
Hey Yuki! Congratulations on your launch! I enjoyed reading your story; thanks for sharing it in the first comment! Also, what a great idea to validate the problem through scraping Reddit! Did you use any AI tool for that?
Congrats on the launch @yukioyama@john_sanders7.
We recently started a video podcast about founders who launched and achieved Top 5 on PH. The editing process is tedious, Smartrazor looks cool, we'll check it out for our next video edit. Here is our latest video, how would we use it? https://youtu.be/X6fRS000L1s?si=...
@john_sanders7@ty_robb Hey Tyrone! I appreciate the feedback. Man it feels like forever ago we were talking about your LinkedIn reddit meme boy does time fly! To be honest, I don't think this is a tool for podcasts because the conversations flow naturally so not much needs to be cut out. This is more made for the type of video where you talk at a camera, make mistakes, and want those cut out.
@john_sanders7@yukioyama Everyone's journey is different, a lot of times people advise what worked for them, but that does not always apply to someone else. So I thought it would be beneficial to the PH community to find people whose situation is more like theirs. Also, the founders tend to have such great stories from before PH and its always interesting to learn from someone else's experience.
@john_sanders7@yukioyama you are welcome. I am due to start some talking heads but have not got around to it yet, so we will have a look at using Smartrazor for them.
Also your buttons with the green and white hurt my eye a little, I'm a bit colour blind on two fronts so it may just be me.
@john_sanders7@ty_robb Thanks Tyrone! Would love to have you! Also, please throw any questions over DM to me, happy to answer if problems arise. And i think you're completely right, thank you for pointing that out. Don't think it's you, we should change the color to something easier to look at especially on the dark background
This is an awesome app for Video Editors that needed to compress time for editing ! this is remarkably a standout all in one website for beginner to expert!
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