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website Save Point "Showreel" beta launch

Nate North

Nate North

You can try out a section of the Save Point technology at home for free!


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This is up and running!

Here's a quick video showing exactly how easy this is to use. It's optimized for 720p and 1080p footage So just a note that it probably won't work with 4K in the beta test state.


I'd certainly appreciate a few people testing it and providing some feedback here on their experience with the web interface, But try not to go crazy since this thing costs me per job and I have to pay for it out of pocket until the beta test is over.

You drag your video files into the video box (Beta test maximum 300mb), You drag a single Music track into the audio box, Anything with a strong beat is good to see the synchronization really work, Then toggle whatever options you want and hit Assemble video. Typically within five or 10 minutes the Assemble video button will turn into a download button and you can click that to download your video. That's it, you're done, you now how a fully edited video.
 
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Thanks I appreciate it. Being a web developer yourself you can probably understand the sheer scale of the nightmare that is deploying a functional live service website. This was really a lot of work. I don't know if this is automated or not, but it would be helpful if the edit button on the top post didn't get locked off for a while.

Quick update, I spent 12 hours yesterday fixing everything that was broken and the whole thing is streamlined and perfectly operational now. Every feature now works perfectly, not just the basics.

I'd love to see films from the community Using this. I've made it incredibly easy for anyone with some film clips to make a fun video. It's literally under one minute of work To toss in some shots and get a finished video back.

@Scoopicman @CelticRambler @sfoster @Vector_Monster @shofstetter27239 @JamesWEvans @Chris Tempel @MidnightRabbit @Feutus Lapdance @gdgross @BOBAH1

I'd love to see what some of you guys who have tons of shots archived could do with this. This particular end of the tech isn't for narrative projects but it's absolutely fantastic for dropping in a folder of old shots (Or new ones) And getting a finished video back in 10 minutes. One quick note is that this system, At least for the beta test or free demo, Geared towards already compressed footage. I tried tossing in one of my 4 year old folders when I was riffing on rendering different planet surfaces, And it immediately crashed because I had forgotten that those clips were six hundred megs per shot, lol. You could easily toss in 50 shots At 5MB a piece though. I'll raise the limit if too many people start having problems.

 
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I have taken note ... but will be otherwise occupied till at least some time next month to be able to go through any of my archives, let alone argue with my Win10 computer as to whether or not it has internet access for uploading anything of use. 😡
 
When it comes to scope creep I think I may literally be the worst person in the world. Sigh. I remember in the 2010 ERA I was working at a company and I wrote this guy an email titled "While We're At It", I was just thinking about new features and options we could add to the platform's entertainment rollout. The same email went back and forth for maybe 6 months and ended up with something like 75 replies.

So I am now 150 hours of work into this 20 hour quick spinoff project website. If you check the link at the top again you can see that it's now about eight times as large and growing daily. Unfortunately I had a really good idea today, And it's definitely going to add another 100 hours to this thing. Every back end service is growing in size and expense, But simultaneously I think I'm moving towards something that would be a lot more valuable to a larger number of people.

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When it comes to scope creep I think I may literally be the worst person in the world.
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I'll fight you for that title ! :D

Picked up an offcut of fabric in a charity shop last month and thought "that'll do for a quick low-budget proof-of-concept" sewing project. It should have been literally cut once, stitch twice, cut once more, stitch twice more, done. Four weeks later ...

Well, actually four weeks later it's finished, the buttons alone cost three times the price of the fabric, and the concept has not been proven because it turned into something else entirely. :rolleyes:

But I did get to wear it for two days straight last weekend, and even had someone ask me if I was a fashion designer. :blush:
 
Hey Nate - I have some clips that would work well for this, actually.
When I first started research as a director I made a massive folder of all the best Fight Scenes, Jumps/Falls, and Chase Scenes for Foot, Motorcycle, and Car.

Anyone have a request for a specific song and movie-clip category, I'll upload the combo.
 
I've fixed and broken and fixed, then broken again, the whole site about 8 times this week, it's currently broken, so give me a sec, I just wanted to revamp and expand the whole thing a lot, and it, errr, broke the whole system when I added an integrated library and stock system, and a lot of other things. I'm working on it maybe 12 hours a day 7 days a week though, as usual, so it will be patched up and running again very soon. It was running just fine 20 hours ago, but I installed email verification and security certificates and visa support and now I can't even log in until everything gets successfully rewired. I'll post again here as soon as I can get it up and running again. It's 90% functional right now, But because I've connected it to banking services It can't be active until the entire chain is 100 percent secure. It will be much easier to test after this next update's finished though, With literally thousands of built-in clips available on the site, Hundreds of curated music tracks, etc. The whole thing was built for people to be able to speedrun assembly of reels for different uses like voice over documentary backgrounds gaming videos music videos stuff like that, So the intent is for everyone to bring their own footage from home, But I'm thinking I can probably serve a wider audience and make a lot more money if I just expand this into an artificially intelligent shutterstock.

For me the most fun part is always throwing in a brand new batch of footage I just filmed or made in some way, But I can also totally see the value of just aggregating 2000 clips of every new major game release and having it available on tap, $5 Worth of site credits and your entire new Elden Ring 2 review Video is ready for voice over in 10 minutes, That kind of thing.
 

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