videolab

I originally intended to read the spontaneous human combustion story aloud in a video. But - as you’ll see - I got exasperated by how long speaking takes. Text is a much more efficient way to deliver dense information.

To make my initial footage useful, I thought I’d show you a feature in Captions.ai (one of the alternatives to CapCut I’m still exploring). They have AI-generated templates to make videos dynamic. I applied one here, without further alteration.

Personally, I don’t like it at all for my video. There’s too much whooshing and colorful distraction. It gives me oversaturated YouTube tutorial vibes. But I can see how a template like this could be useful and convenient for a different type of video.

In the comments, I’ll also share the plain video with simple captions only for comparison. Let me know if you want to see more of these feature explorations in apps.

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this is a lot of whooshing 😂 😂 😂  thx for trying it and saving me time!!

so wait in the end which app do u recommend for shortform video??

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It was very amusing to see the images the app auto generated based on my speech - like the rows of candles for “spontaneous human combustion” lol.🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️