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.

Building a little space at /thenextwave and watching everything on /videolab.

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I have not checked in for a while on CapCut, if a video editor's policy could disturb then its bad

For the captions.ai is it on both phone and PC, would love it to work on the go and also in full screen

Canva what is that one feature that make it convinent for you.

I am currently exploring several different apps. My favorite ones to use so far are Captions.ai (which I used here) and Canva (which is more general purpose design but can handle videos). There is also CapCut of course (most popular it seems) but their user policies are too concerning for me.