A browser-based drone video editor that lets users draw property lines, automatically track boundaries using GPU-powered CoTracker, correct tracking with editable keyframes, and export styled videos with animated labels—keeping all processing local except for the tracking computation.
TrailVid is an iPhone app that turns travel trips into cinematic animated map videos by importing locations, photos, or GPX tracks, then customizing camera movement, titles, and captions before exporting for social media platforms.
A creator tool offers video script writing services with two pricing tiers: a monthly plan at $29.99 and an annual plan at $19/month with a 34% discount, both including unlimited campaigns and multiple voice options.
Hacker News' inaugural frontpage from February 19, 2007 featured discussions on startup culture, entrepreneurship lessons, and emerging web technologies including video platforms, web-based databases, and social networking. Posts covered founder advice, European startup ecosystems, and tech industry developments like Google acquisitions and Flash video innovations.
Sigma's new 20-60mm f/2.8-4 DG Contemporary lens offers a compact, lightweight alternative for Sony and Panasonic users seeking versatility without carrying multiple lenses. It delivers fast aperture performance, good sharpness, and excellent flare resistance, though it suffers from harsh bokeh and lacks autofocus/manual focus switching controls.
Rendly is an open-source, code-first video creation tool that uses a simple Domain Specific Language to generate professional demo videos with real-time preview and WebM export. Users write DSL code to define scenes with customizable text, fonts, colors, animations, and shapes, then export finished videos instantly.
TubeMerger is a free, open-source desktop application that downloads YouTube playlists and merges them into single videos with chapter markers, running entirely locally using yt-dlp and FFmpeg. It offers granular per-video control, real-time progress metrics, multiple output formats, and supports resolutions up to 4K with automatic audio normalization.
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max offer targeted upgrades over the iPhone 17 Pro models, featuring the faster A20 Pro chip with improved AI performance, a variable-aperture Main camera with 50% better low-light performance, and enhanced video capabilities including 4K Dolby Vision at 60 fps. Battery life increases to 36 hours (Pro) and 45 hours (Pro Max), with faster wired charging and a higher $1,199 starting price.
A visualization tool that reimagines video playback by treating stacked frames as a 3D crystal, allowing users to explore footage along different axes (time, X, Y) rather than traditional linear playback, with interactive controls to slice through and manipulate the temporal structure.
A React web app that streams Product Hunt product launch trailers as a continuous video playlist, allowing passive discovery without scrolling. Users can filter by category and sort by popularity, addressing the challenge of discovering novel apps in a noisy digital landscape.
A presenter recommends including audio and video test slides at the start of presentations to catch technical issues early. Drawing from personal experience with failed demo videos, the author outlines common AV problems at events and suggests mitigations like subtitles and sign-language interpreters.
Apple unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max with a major camera upgrade featuring a new 48-megapixel main camera with variable aperture (f/1.48 to f/4) that enables creative control and improved low-light performance. The phones also include enhanced Pro controls in the Camera app, new computational imaging features, video improvements up to 4K with Dolby Vision, and Apple Intelligence integration with an updated Siri AI assistant.
Piracy sites disguise MPEG-TS video segments as .woff2 font files to exploit Cloudflare's extension-based caching rules, which cache fonts by default while the HLS.js player recognizes video by byte signatures regardless of filename, enabling abuse of CDN bandwidth.
A benchmark comparing Seedance 2.5, an AI video generation model that produces up to 30-second cinematic videos with precise texture control and visual continuity, against three baseline models using the same old-book store scene. Seedance 2.5 demonstrates superior detail in wood grain, paper fibers, and lighting, supports multimodal references, and enables targeted editing without full scene recreation.
Leaked images and specifications for the Canon EOS R8 Mark II have surfaced online, revealing a 24MP full-frame camera with advanced autofocus, 4K/6K video capabilities, and a new design. The camera is expected to be announced on September 15, 2026, with a price of $1,799 and shipping in October 2026.