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Stanley Studio
The AI video editor you hire that edits like a human
159 followers
The AI video editor you hire that edits like a human
159 followers
Stanley is built for anyone who films great videos and then lets them die in their camera roll. Send Stanley raw footage and get back a finished, captioned video. No timelines, no manually tweaking captions, no spending hours hunting for the perfect song. Just tell Stanley what you want and it edits end-to-end: talking heads, vlogs, podcast cuts, UGC, whatever your niche needs. And it's free. Upload footage, get a video.
Hey product hunt! 👋
I'm Daniel. After 12 years of editing all sorts of different videos and generating 100M+ views, I've recently come to realize that I waste so much of my life in timelines.
A few things I've done, voluntarily:
- Manually trimming pauses
- Painfully adjusting captions
- Spending hours looking for the perfect BGM
And I one day decided that enough was enough. So, @oliver_chen2, @justinbaduaa and I created Stanley Studio.
Stanley Studio edits for you. send it raw footage, tell it what you want, and it cuts the video to your liking. Stanley can edit talking head clips, vlogs, product demos, podcast cuts, day-in-the-life, ugc style, whatever your niche needs.
It edits like someone who actually understands short form, not a template machine. It's an expert on captions, pacing, hooks, and storytelling.
And it's free. I'm not gonna take your credit card or give you a BS free trial. All I ask is you upload footage + get a finished video.
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We're the team behind Stan, we've helped creators make $600M+ selling digital products. Stanley Studio is us giving creators their time back.
I'm in the comments all day. What video do you hate editing most? I'll show you what Stanley does with it.
This is painfully relatable. I have so many clips sitting in my camera roll because recording is easy, but turning them into something actually postable is where the energy disappears. captions, pacing, cuts, music... suddenly a 30-second idea becomes a two-hour task.
The “not a template machine” part is what I'd want to test most. short-form editing is very taste-driven, and bad pacing can make even good footage feel boring. Curious how much direction Stanley needs to get close to the right style. can I just say "make this feel like a founder launch update" or does it work better with more specific editing instructions?
The send-raw-footage, get-a-finished-cut pitch lives or dies on how much I can fix afterward — auto-trimmed pauses and an auto-picked BGM are great until Stanley cuts a beat I wanted to keep. After it edits, do I get an editable timeline/project to nudge specific cuts and captions, or is it a one-shot rendered export I'd have to redo? And which aspect ratios/resolutions does the export cover for vertical vs 16:9?
Sent over a messy 20 minute talking head clip and got back a tight cut with clean captions in like 10 minutes. Wish the music choices were a bit more on the nose but the overall speed and quality genuinely surprised me.
The camera-roll graveyard is real. I've got launch footage sitting untouched right now purely because editing it feels like a second job. Free + "just upload and get a cut" is a genuinely great pitch. Curious how it does with product-demo and screen-recording footage, that's my actual use case this week.
@justinbaduaa @oliver_chen2 @therealdanielpark @Stanley Studio - Great work!
Me trying this would depend on action accuracy. do captions stay reliable with different accents. A few real user samples could clear up that question quickly.
I had a long (rambling) product update that I created a while ago and have been looking to cut down to be something far more punchy. Stanley did a really good job and I love the thought process that is shared. There is still work to be done in editing my video as some of the sentences no longer make sense. I also asked for a lighting improvement and I don't think it quite got that right. However, my gut feel is that it is closer to the finished article than when I started so there is clearly an opportunity for significant time saving here.