Smartrazor

AI editor for talking head style videos

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AI editor for talking head style videos

327 followers

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Smartrazor is a tool to help talking head style YouTubers edit their videos way faster.

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Launch tags:Artificial Intelligence•YouTube•Video

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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!

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2yr ago

@yukioyama 🎉 Congrats on the launch, Yuki! This looks amazing!

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2yr ago

Hunter

@sam_tan7 Thank you Samantha I appreciate that! You and Sev are amazing and watching your progress on Model Muse really kept me going!

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2yr ago

fynk

@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!

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2yr ago

Hunter

@fscholz Thank you Felix! Admittedly we're launching really early but wanted to force ourselves to launch while embarrased!

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2yr ago

Hunter

@fscholz Can't wait for the Fynk demo as well, please keep me posted.

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2yr ago

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=...

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2yr ago

Hunter

@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.

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2yr ago

Hunter

@john_sanders7 @ty_robb also, super cool to see how many founders you've gotten on this channel! What inspired you to start this?

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2yr ago

@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.

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2yr ago

@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.

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2yr ago

Hunter

@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

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2yr ago

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Congrats on the launch Yuki 🎉 I really love how you validated the problem by scraping Reddit. Can you explain a little about the AI component? Which model do you use? And what do you use it for? Can't wait to hear about future releases of Smartrazor!

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2yr ago

Hunter

@jgani Thanks Jonni! Currently using GPT-4 but looking to move to a fine tuned open source model long term, just don't have enough data at the moment for sufficient training. We use it for trimming down the raw footage transcript. Appreciate your support!

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2yr ago

Mouderly

Hi @yukioyama Congrats on the launch :) Product that already solve a problem you have personally experienced are the bests. Video editing or streaming large size videos requires a lot of resources to give a compelling user experience, i'm curious to know how you solve that from code to infra, and what tool do you use ? Best of luck

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2yr ago

Hunter

@abdellah_abbous Hey Abdellah, i really appreciate the thoughtful response. Yup, this was a personal problem that i experineced to a large degree and ultimately led to me burning out with youtube. we're doing a lot of the heavy lifting on the backend in AWS, however right now we do have some file size limitations, and getting rid of those altogether is next on our roadmap

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2yr ago

I needed a tool just like this to edit my YouTube videos! But you lost me as a customer 👎 First, I have to jump through hoops and provide my email just to try the app out. Why? This creates a barrier. Let people experiment with one video wothout having to sign up, and THEN have them choose whether it's right for them. Secondly, and more importantly, after getting my verification code and entering it into the placeholder box, both the VERIFY & SEND ANOTHER EMAIL buttons are frozen. Clicking them does nothing. Makers, ensure that your products actually WORK before raving about them online.

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2yr ago

Hunter

@phyllis_ackerman Hey Phyllis, thanks for the feedback we appreciate it. Super sorry about this error, and it should be patched up. We've been working tirelessly over the past couple months but we apologize if things slip through the cracks. Would love to have you still, and get your feedback to make this a more valuable tool for you!

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2yr ago

hoggo

This is amazing! I've been wanting to start a channel for a while now but lack the editing skills so I had to spend a lot of money on it. How was your experience building it with Bubble? Is it just for the MVP or do you think you could scale on it?

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2yr ago

Hunter

@noa_kahalon Hey Noa! This is such an awesome question, that I'm still personally trying to work through myself so I'm glad you asked. For us, building in bubble had pros and cons. On one hand, we're able to work through things like user login / backend database / pricing super quickly. On the other hand, it was extremely difficult to get the custom video editor to where we were hoping to get it - hence why we didn't include the video visualizer which was difficult to add in Bubble.

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2yr ago

Hunter

@noa_kahalon Wish I could give you a better answer 😅. I do think eventually we would try to switch to custom code to add in more powerful features.

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2yr ago

hoggo

@yukioyama Thanks for the answer! And congrats on your launch ;)

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2yr ago

Hunter

@noa_kahalon Appreciate it Noa :)

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2yr ago

Hey Yuki, you have a great story and I appreciate that you are launching early even while "embarassed" about the tech, but I can see where you want to head with this sort of tool. I have seen other such tools, which use text editing to edit video and am curious if you have also sought out these tools and what you learned from them, if anything?

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2yr ago

Hunter

@joseph_natoli Thanks Joseph! Yes, as part of our validation process we looked into g2 reviews of simialr products. Descript is a big one - people just hate the descript editor, what they like is the transcript editor. Our "editor" builds on top of descript by using AI to auto edit for you, and lets you transcript edit (IF need be) and export to your preferred editor

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2yr ago

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