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I think this is a great endeavor. I was thinking about a channel that I like watching on YouTube. They travel to exotic places by boat and film themselves, nature documentary style. To make good videos requires going to these places, a ton of filming, AND a ton of editing. They put out a video every 2 weeks or so on their trips. I imagine the editing is the hard part.

This is a long winded way of saying that I think creators need what you're making! People who have hours of awesome footage but have to spend dozens of hours cutting it down need this. Then also people who have awesome footage but aren't good at editing or hiring an editor, same thing. I'd love to see someone solve this so that 90th percentile editing is available to all, and then it can be more about who has the interesting content, rather than who has the interesting content and editing skills.



thanks! Mosaic can already do the rough cuts for you — so you can upload all your footage from your travel, and prompt it to "make a 2 minute highlight reel of your trip to Japan", for instance.

soon, we also plan to incorporate style transfer, so you could even give it a video from the channel you enjoy watching + your raw footage, and have the agent edit your footage in the same style of the reference video.


> you can upload all your footage from your travel, and prompt it to "make a 2 minute highlight reel of your trip to Japan"

In relation to the demo requests below, I think this would be a good example of how an average person might use your platform.


for a demo, check out this one that I put together using 81 clips from a skydiving trip we took in Monterey, CA:

https://edit.mosaic.so/links/c51c0555-3114-45f4-ab8f-c25f172...


this seems rather basic. From watching a bit, it just seems to cut/combine the videos? No transitions, no bg music which would fit nicely with the cut timing etc.

I am waiting for a tool that does stuff along those lines for a long time. Apps like dji kinda do it but they have generic music and the cuts do not fit the tune at all, and are rather random. Doing it myself with little effort using davinci or premiere takes ~30 minutes but the results are 5 times better.

Was hoping that this app would do it for me. And even if it would, if it would cost >X$ to create a video like that, then probably I'd still do it myself.


Hey there, this is just the output from the Rough Cut tile. Right now each tile in Mosaic represents a modular and functional edit to the video. So after you've got your Rough Cut, given all your footage, there are other tiles which you can then use to add transitions, motion graphics, background music, etc.

That being said, the coolest part with this Rough Cut was that it decided to stand in the footage of the kite to creatively imply the freefall portion of the skydive (because we aren't able to record while we're jumping out of a plane). This ability for it to creatively decided to imply the jump because of the limited footage is what I wanted to get across here.




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