[HN Gopher] Designing a Timeline for Mobile Video Editing
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       Designing a Timeline for Mobile Video Editing
        
       Author : buss_jan
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2024-08-28 11:19 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | sippndipp wrote:
       | Great insight for everyone who wants to design more complex UIs.
        
       | sippndipp wrote:
       | Quick Questions out of curiosity: What ideas have been rejected
       | during the design process?
        
       | mariuswies wrote:
       | Wish I knew some of these takeaways before I had to come up with
       | a mobile timeline concept myself -- nice article!
        
       | pavlov wrote:
       | I'm curious why they chose SwiftUI. In my experience, this kind
       | of highly responsive editor UIs are best implemented using
       | immediate mode GUI techniques. A declarative layer like SwiftUI
       | or React is often a hindrance.
       | 
       | The article alludes to these issues:
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       |  _"All these gestures must behave as expected and not interfere
       | with each other. We found it unexpectedly difficult to fine-tune
       | and harmonize these interactions with pure SwiftUI, so we used
       | some proven legacy iOS techniques to get it right."_
       | 
       | The use of the word "legacy" kind of sounds like they went with
       | SwiftUI simply because it's the newest thing rather than through
       | an evaluation of implementation strategies...
        
         | worstspotgain wrote:
         | > they went with SwiftUI simply because it's the newest thing
         | rather than through an evaluation of implementation strategies
         | 
         | Not that it applies to this project, but in my experience, this
         | is one of the plagues of the lower-paid engineering team.
         | 
         | On the books it looks like the company is saving money by
         | hiring on the low end of the salary scale. In practice the
         | budget is spent inching away at minor upgrades, while
         | enthusiastically adopting new techs for experimentation and
         | resume-padding purposes.
        
       | xnx wrote:
       | I have not used this video editor. Are there specific UI
       | innovations over other mobile videos editors like CapCut?
        
       | djfobbz wrote:
       | Overall, I love it! I tried to import an MP3 from OneDrive into
       | the video editor; it showed that it imported, but on playback,
       | there was no sound. However, I could clearly hear the sound in
       | the import preview window. Then, I tried replacing it with a
       | sound already included, and then replacing it back with my MP3 to
       | see if that would work, but the app crashed.
        
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