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Ask HN: How do you produce product/feature demo videos?
Sometimes I want to create a short 10 second video showcasing a feature to share social media and in the product (e.g. in-app release notes).
What is everyone using in 2021? :)
- JSONderulo 5y agoMotion Array is pretty great for templates for showcasing an app or website. I've made a couple using those templates and Adobe After Effects.
- austinkhale 5y agoNo affiliation with them whatsoever but I saw this on Twitter or HN a few weeks ago and have it bookmarked to trial: https://mockrocket.io/ https://mockrocket.io/
- dfeehrer 5y agoThanks for the mention! Happy to answer any questions when you end up trying it
- tmaly 5y agoIf you want to screen record, I would highly recommend Camtasia. It does not cost that much and it excels at screen recording. You can also use it for video editing. It takes 1-2 hours to learn. If you want to shoot something outside the screen, most of the mobile phones work fine. You can get a tripod mount. Make sure to use a lapel mic to improve the sound.
- teetertater 5y agoI take a screen recording with the built-in MacOS tool, then convert it to a gif and post to twitter iMovie for some quick cuts if necessary
- mahesh_rm 5y agoWhat do you use to convert the video to a gif?
- e9 5y agoYou can use ffmpeg: https://superuser.com/questions/556029/how-do-i-convert-a-video-to-gif-using-ffmpeg-with-reasonable-quality#556031 https://superuser.com/questions/556029/how-do-i-convert-a-vi...
- teetertater 5y agoGifski app has a nice UI and is free
- ScottyFillups 5y agoThanks for sharing! Yeah the MacOS workflow seems really smooth: I'm figuring out how to replicate that on Linux.
- phenkdo 5y agoloom.com
- rahimnathwani 5y agoI use the following on Linux to create things like this: https://vimeo.com/641668961 https://vimeo.com/641668961 - OBS Studio to record video - Google Sheets to keep track of different segments of the video - ffmpeg to split the original video into separate chunks (one per 'scene') - openshot to arrange the scenes into the full video (speeding up some scenes and maybe slowing down others) - (don't remember) for recording voiceovers - sox for normalizing volume of voiceovers - openshot for adding the voiceovers in the right spots (with the help of my Google Sheet) and background music
- f0e4c2f7 5y agoRecently I've been learning kdenlive to edit videos. I believe it uses ffmpeg on the backend. It's been great! The open source tooling around video recording and editing actually seems fairly good.
- ScottyFillups 5y agoThanks for sharing your workflow on Linux :) Love the video. How long did it take to make?
- rahimnathwani 5y agoOnce I had the raw video footage (single unedited file), it took me something like 5 hours to create the final video. Some of that time was recording/re-recording the voiceovers, writing some spreadsheet formulas to create ffmpeg command lines for splitting the video file, finding background music, and learning to use openshot (I'd never used it before). I think something similar would take me 1-2 hours today, and half that time would be rewatching the video to decide what to adjust.
- shishy 5y agoKeynote if I need to do custom graphics with voice-overs Otherwise just record with quicktime + audio