So I appreciate the aim here, but for me to trust any video editor, I need to see an example timeline that’s like, 30 minutes long with clips from at least 10 1080p video files and at least one effect on each track.
And for the record I wouldn’t consider that a stress test (a stress test would be more like 3 hours, 100 tracks, 4K and like a dozen precomps that are being reversed or something). That’s just to make sure this thing won’t fall over during casual usage.
You may be inclined to respond that your editor is targeting beginner editors, to which I’d note that beginner editors are MUCH less disciplined than experts when it comes to trimming footage, splitting things up into comps, pre-rendering chunks, using proxies, etc. Beginner editors (I’d know, I used to be one) will dump a 1 hour 4K-HDR iPhone video of a presenter speaking, and a screen recording of presentation slides they accidentally took in 4K60 into your timeline. Being able to demonstrate that you’ve got that level of memory management handled is what separates video editors people can use from mere “good ideas”.
Edit: Another thought, you call your product “Cursor for video editing”, and that’s a valid goal. But bear in mind that a LARGE part of why Cursor is successful is because they didn’t try to build an IDE from scratch. They got to absorb all of the nice UX (not to mention the extensive plugin ecosystem) of VS Code, and then spend their time on AI features. If that’s how you want to spend your time, you definitely don’t want to be building an editor from scratch.
I dont get this attitude. If there is some specific test you need before you'll trust it, what's stopping you doing that? I can understand your response if it was a paid product, but this doesn't even require you to install anything. Instead of appreciating the work that they've put in, you come right in with a negative comment that's not even based on trying it or knowing anything about it.
I’m on my phone at the moment, and didn’t want to judge this product on its iOS Safari performance, as that wouldn’t be fair.
With regard to my attitude: I’ve run into a lot of people who are trying to build “AI video editors”, and many of them don’t realize how intense a basic video editor actually is. It’s the kind of area where, the faster someone gets to the brick wall, the sooner they can start working on getting through it.
Furthermore I think it’s good for them to know that if achieving what I described seems daunting and they want to focus on the AI angle, it’s totally fine to fork an existing mature OSS video editor and just build the AI features on top. That’s what Cursor did for IDEs, and they’re finding a lot of success.
It's ok to wait til you've had a chance to try it before commenting.
They don't seem to me to be focusing on the AI angle at all. They mention one AI feature as coming soon.
Weird critique. Someone builds a quality pair of lightweight scissors, and you critique it like a boastful 5-axis CNC operator.
Like the rest of us needing to edit many couple of minutes long videos, there is massive gap in the market for something lighter weight. Look at Capcuts success over Adobe: 200+ million active user per month for Capcut.