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by transitivebs 2148 days ago
Looks really solid.

I built a similar product called Automagical awhile back (https://automagical.ai/) that we exited to a media agency.

A few notes from my experience:

1. Using gifs in this way as part of a composite video is unfortunately against giphy's ToS. We received a cease & desist from them after awhile, so just be aware of that up front.

2. If you want to support more variety in your transitions, check out my OSS project https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/ffmpeg-concat

Overall, the product looks really polished & I love where you're headed. Best of luck!

2 comments

Thanks for the feedback, very impressive that you exited Automagical.

1. Haha oh no, I'll have to look for alternatives to Giphy then.

2. Yes i've been eyeing this for a while as the GL-transitions are really smooth, I plan to add it once I release further support for multiple screens.

> Using gifs in this way as part of a composite video is unfortunately against giphy's ToS

That seems silly, as I don’t think they own/have a license to any of their GIFs.

But they do have a license to their API which you are using to access those GIFs.