Meta Announces a New CapCut Rival Called Edits (techcrunch.com) 16
Meta announced a new video editing app called Edits to fill the gap left by ByteDance's CapCut editor, which was temporarily removed from the App Store and Google Play Store as part of the TikTok ban. While the ban was lifted, the new app serves to capitalize on the uncertainty of TikTok's future. TechCrunch reports: Instagram head Adam Mosseri (pictured above) said on Threads that the app will launch next month on iOS, with an Android version following later. He added that the company is working with select creators to gather feedback about the app. "Today we're announcing a new app called 'Edits,' for those of you who are passionate about making videos on your phone. There's a lot going on right now, but no matter what happens, it's our job to provide the best possible tools for creators," he wrote.
Mosseri said the app will have a suite of creative tools, including a dedicated tab for inspiration, a tab for keeping track of ideas, and a high-quality camera. Plus, it will have the ability to share draft versions of creations with friends or collaborators. He added that creators would be able to see insights on how videos made through Edits are performing on Instagram after publishing. In a separate post, he emphasized that the app is "more for creators than casual video makers," which is hard to quantify in measurable terms.
Mosseri said the app will have a suite of creative tools, including a dedicated tab for inspiration, a tab for keeping track of ideas, and a high-quality camera. Plus, it will have the ability to share draft versions of creations with friends or collaborators. He added that creators would be able to see insights on how videos made through Edits are performing on Instagram after publishing. In a separate post, he emphasized that the app is "more for creators than casual video makers," which is hard to quantify in measurable terms.
Fuck social media (Score:2)
It's all evil garbage burning the mind. Sell shit on Craigslist instead. The people there equally just as bad, but Zuckerlizard won't show you a video of a little girl dancing in a crop top.
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I remember my friends saying, "Come on Twitter. It's great!" No. It wasn't. Now it's even worse. Facebook? It was how to find that you don't like people from your past. Now it's just a bunch of memes in a stream. TikTok? Teen girls dancing and videos of dead Arabs. YouTube? A bunch of crabs trying to crawl out of the pot, dragging each other down. It's all shit.
Yikes. (Score:4, Insightful)
"Today we're announcing a new app called 'Edits,' for those of you who are passionate about making videos on your phone. There's a lot going on right now, but no matter what happens, it's our job to provide the best possible tools for creators," he wrote.
This is what creators are now? Not people that learn a musical instrument, or how to paint well, or how to draw well, or how to sing well, or any skill. Just people that like to point their phones at things? I feel like something is getting lost in his message here, but the idea of being passionate about making videos on your phone strikes me as the height of trying to appeal to the lowest of the low hanging fruit.
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People can make any kind of videos on their phone, including playing their musical instrument, painting, singing, or any skill... it's not just for pointing at things other people do.
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People can make any kind of videos on their phone, including playing their musical instrument, painting, singing, or any skill... it's not just for pointing at things other people do.
Yet the vast majority of "Pointing phone at things" videos is either kids doing silly things, or people ranting to themselves about how shit the world is. Why make a video of that when you could post it on Slashdot and save the bandwidth?
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Social Media is the threat to free speech. (Score:4, Interesting)
While over decade ago, Social Media was supposed to be a free speech platform. Which helped spark a lot of movements and changes from sharing different viewpoints and showing global similarities. Then they needed to become more profitable (which is understandable in that early Social Media was bleeding money).
However to gain profit, they have the algorithm configured, to get us in social bubbles, and reward topics that get the most response and movement (to provide a higher ad rate). However this also demotes communication that may be a little bit longer, and possibly better researched, and nuanced. As new post on an Old Topic will not get much views, while a reactionary early post will get much more viewing.
While not outwardly restricting free speech, it is subverting the point of free speech as a way to explain ideas and opinion openly as an attempt to gain a better understanding, and insight.
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While over decade ago, Social Media was supposed to be a free speech platform. Which helped spark a lot of movements and changes from sharing different viewpoints and showing global similarities. Then they needed to become more profitable (which is understandable in that early Social Media was bleeding money). However to gain profit, they have the algorithm configured, to get us in social bubbles, and reward topics that get the most response and movement (to provide a higher ad rate). However this also demotes communication that may be a little bit longer, and possibly better researched, and nuanced. As new post on an Old Topic will not get much views, while a reactionary early post will get much more viewing.
While not outwardly restricting free speech, it is subverting the point of free speech as a way to explain ideas and opinion openly as an attempt to gain a better understanding, and insight.
There's an argument to be made that the algorithm has led us to elect someone like Donald Trump twice. He's great for clickthrough, great for creating more content whether through outrage or sycophantic support, and great for keeping social media moving as fast as possible. When this era is studied by historians far in the future, I wonder how much of it will be deemed to have been shaped by the social media companies and their precious monetization of the public square?
Lets ban TikTok so Facebook can do exactly the (Score:1)
Is DaVinci Studio not an option? (Score:3)
I know I am showing my age, but what is the advantage of Web apps like this, other than being able to use them on a phone?
DaVinci Resolve isn't bad, and the paid edition isn't too pricy. If one is a college student, Final Cut Pro can be bought for a decent price and is a one time purchase, or Adobe Premiere can be used. KDEnlive is also good, but for Linux, DaVinci Resolve is excellent, and is probably best of breed.
For photo editing, plenty of apps available. I like the Affinity line of products, because you own the license, not a subscription.
For sound/music, Reaper, Logic, and others.
Other than being able to use stuff on a phone, isn't it wise to just have things stored locally and not depend on the cloud^w^wsomeone else's server, just for privacy reasons?
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I know I am showing my age, but what is the advantage of Web apps like this, other than being able to use them on a phone?
DaVinci Resolve isn't bad, and the paid edition isn't too pricy. If one is a college student, Final Cut Pro can be bought for a decent price and is a one time purchase, or Adobe Premiere can be used. KDEnlive is also good, but for Linux, DaVinci Resolve is excellent, and is probably best of breed.
For photo editing, plenty of apps available. I like the Affinity line of products, because you own the license, not a subscription.
For sound/music, Reaper, Logic, and others.
Other than being able to use stuff on a phone, isn't it wise to just have things stored locally and not depend on the cloud^w^wsomeone else's server, just for privacy reasons?
People let themselves fall into the "do it on the web" trap for a lot of reasons, and companies have a *LOT* of incentive to push people into doing everything via the web because they have a fundamental *NEED* for data, data, ALL THE DATA. Whether they are using it to monetize, advertise, or just feeding it all into their LLM / AI training datasets, they want your data. What incentive people have to use it I won't pretend to understand. I never much cared for social media outside of following a band to know
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Overall, it is a slope people have fallen into. First it was disgorging all their life's details on social media to the public (and then wondering why they have stalker issues or are not hired due to a post they did), then it came to slapping videos up when BeReal or whatever app demanded it, even if it is in a confidential/classified/secret workplace, and now, it is just making videos.
The rewards are not just being an "influencer", but even money. One can say that Tik-Tok is as close to a UBI as any Amer