Automatic on-the-fly video editing tool!
Why Hacker News recommends it
Referenced as the origin of automatic silence-skipping video editing and as a comparison for similar tools.
What it is
carykh demonstrates a script that speeds up the silent parts of a video while leaving speech at normal speed, to condense lectures and similar footage. It later became the Jumpcutter tool.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2019 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Cites ryzvonusef · 2019-04 · on “Automatically Editing Videos with JumpCutter”
Time code to the cliffnotes: [this video] Basically instead of speeding up the entire video by 2x for a speed review, he created a script with variable speeding, where the silent bits are speeded up much faster than the talking bits, which means that the end result is much shorter.
Cites randylahey · 2020-04 · on “With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube”
A YouTuber (carykh) made a video where he explains an algorithm he made to automatically process lecture videos by speeding up, condensing and removing parts of the video. [this video]
Cites mimimi31 · 2022-02 · on “Show HN: Edit videos faster by automatically removing silences”
Reminds me of the tool presented in [1], which also shows some interesting applications. Apparently an improved version is now being sold on its own platform [2], but the original Python script is still available on Github [3]. [1] [this video] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK]