Omniclip
Creative
video editor
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How HN took it
13 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 6 critical, out of 43 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Idea: 6 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive work and useful open-source browser video editor
From 4 comments
Bravo - impressive work
hasante on HNgreat job!
armen99 on HNNice!
hhsectech on HNWelcome to Hacker News. And what a post for your first post, too :) Omniclip is already at the level where I could have used this for a recent project, for which I had to inset a…
seabass-labrax on HN
Rotation feature is useful
From 1 comment
Rotating is great! IIRC this is not possible in iMovie, and I've had to resort to importing/exporting via Keynote to accomplish. Would love to be able to do this in a…
gnicholas on HN
Objections
Does not work on Firefox because WebCodecs is unsupported
From 2 comments
Firefox is not supported apparently.
skykooler on HNyep webcodecs api is not supported in firefox .. any non based chromium browsers
zenkyu on HN
Black screen while the roughly 50-80MB ffmpeg load finishes
From 2 comments
Nice, seems like a good learning project. Black screen on mobile was disappointing, but oh well. I've thought about video editing in the browser before. I understand there's a…
wonger_ on HNhmm yeah you will probably get black screen when its still loading, it is pretty big because of ffmpeg, probably about 50-80mb to load, ive noticed it myself but its usually…
zenkyu on HN
Low-contrast UI is hard to read and discover controls in
From 1 comment
Sorry for responding to relatively unimportant usability details rather than to the core of what must be a tremendously difficult project. But as one purpose of this app is to…
fauigerzigerk on HN
Does not work on phones due to drag and drop problems
From 1 comment
Requests
Add a confirmation or automatic saving on tab close
From 2 comments
I often close tabs by mistake, and there doesn't seem to be a confirmation dialog when closing the tab (or otherwise navigating away from it) while I'm actively working on an…
g4zj on HNAutomatic saving seems like the best option. Then you can always just re-open the tab. Undo is better than confirmation.
kevincox on HN
Support drag and drop import of files
From 1 comment
I love that it's 100% client side. I tried to drag and drop a .PNG but it didn't work.
steren on HN
Add a tutorial or demo video on landing
From 2 comments
I struggled to use it but it seems like it has potential and I starred it. I love how you land us right into the editing experience. Maybe there's a way to add some kind of short…
breck on HNHi, nice but I don't really understand how it works. insert a landing page and a video to explain how to edit.
8mobile on HN
Add screen recording feature
From 1 comment
I've noticed that having a screen recording or tab recording feature is very useful. I wanted to do a demo of my web app and looked for a while for a tool to be simple, I ended…
chreniuc on HN
Questions
Does it support AVI files
From 1 comment
hi, does it support avi? it doesn't seem so?
l3x4ur1n on HN
How the memory limit is handled
From 2 comments
Nice, seems like a good learning project. Black screen on mobile was disappointing, but oh well. I've thought about video editing in the browser before. I understand there's a…
wonger_ on HNHow did you get around the Chrome tab max memory 4GB ("32 bit optimisation") limit?
SillyUsername on HN
Whether the stack works on mobile
From 1 comment
do you have any insight if your tech stack works well on mobile, demuxer,ffmpeg....
boraturan on HN
Alternatives named
Kden Live
From 1 comment
Kden Live.
adhamsalama on HN
clipchamp.com
From 1 comment
I've noticed that having a screen recording or tab recording feature is very useful. I wanted to do a demo of my web app and looked for a while for a tool to be simple, I ended…
chreniuc on HN