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>A cute AI agent (coming soon!)

Why??? You don't need this just because "AI" is popular right now, it will distract you from the goal of developing "video editor built for the web". It's really not going to improve the video editing experience.

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our goal is to make a solid web video editor first and foremost. Then we'll try to make it super accessible.

I'm thinking of including AI features like captions, auto color grading etc. I get your point of forcing AI, we won't do that.

No AI for AI, but AI for making it more accessible and helping novice users to also make cinematic videos.

Captions would be a very useful feature and one of the top feature that paid platforms use as a hook for payment. There are enough models that can run client-side to make this good enough for social media captions, for example.

yeah. im working on a PR for it rn. If you like our work, join discord :)

So you are spending time shoe-horning "AI" into a web-based video editor, when you could have been creating PRs for actual video-editing functionality.

IMHO captions is not "shoe-horning AI" for video -- it's a critical requirement to be competitive with closed source editors and a great use case for local models.

IMHO you don't know what a video editor does. This thing doesn't need to compete with closed-source editors. Nobody is dropping Premiere for this thing. The goal shoud be web-based video editing, not AI captions. There are plenty of video editing functions not implemented yet, so if this were a serious project about video editing, spending time on "AI" captions seems a bit like a distraction for them. It sounds like there is no project manager, not a lot of focus, and the devs are following a bandwagon.

Hi, we are adding the top features our users are requesting. The roadmap is built for the needs of the community. We'll eventually add all the features to match a video editor once the core needs are met.

Most of the community wants auto captions and color grading, so that goes first.

So you aren't building a video editor, you're building something else. Got it. Then I'll request that you add a Salesforce replacement to the project. Should I put that demand in /issues?

I think you misunderstood me :)

There is a finite set of features you need to add to make this an "excellent" video editor. It will take time & most people who'll eventually use this project may not use them at all.

The best way to guarantee ROI is to do things that users need immediately, like captions. Salesforce isn't in the finite set of things a video editor needs, so that request will be rejected.

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