Launched this week
Cardboard
Cursor for video editing
667 followers
Cursor for video editing
667 followers
Cardboard is an agentic video editor that gets you from raw footage to final cut in minutes. Think of it like an intelligent collaborator, one that understands what's in your clips, has the taste to know what a good edit looks like, and executes your vision.
Congratulations on the launch! I'd love to know if Cardboard can help me speed up my flow for fetching, cropping/editing videos from multiple sources (usually Youtube/Reddit/Instagram etc. ) to be then exported and sent out via Whatsapp etc.
I love cropping + making edits to videos to fit a certain hyperspecific context (think memes tailored to a group of < 15 people) and my current flow is a bit tedious: I have to download the video from its original source using third party applications, then edit it manually using either the Photos app or other third party applications if I have to make more complicated changes like adding text etc. Would love to know if Cardboard has any features in the pipeline that can help accelerate this end-to-end flow!
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@ameya_deshmukh3 Thanks for the kind words!
Fetching footage directly from YouTube/Reddit/Instagram isn't something we support right now. You'd still need to bring in the raw footage yourself.
That said, we've heard this from quite a few users and have a couple of ideas in the works, either generating assets for you directly, or pulling relevant ones from the web.
For everything after that though, if you bring in the footage, the agent can handle the reframing, cropping, and fitting it to whatever hyper-specific context you have in mind. Adding text, adjusting for format, that's exactly the kind of thing it's built for.
We update our changelog pretty much every week if you want to follow along: usecardboard.com/changelog. Would love to have you try it! : )
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@saksham_aggarwal7 Let's Go! This looks super disruptive, congratulations on the launch! All the best!
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@porush_puri thanks porush, would love to hear your feedback!
@saksham_aggarwal7 This sounds exciting. I've been struggling to pace up the post production of our videos, it usually takes 2-3 days a video with the current setup.
Will definitely give it a shot rn!
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@aaina_narang really appreciate it :)
@saksham_aggarwal7 Been struggling to get my vision down in the edit. Definitely gotta try this out. Let’s go, Ishan!
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Let's go! Thank you, @yashank_jhamb ! Would love to hear what you think after you try it : )
@saksham_aggarwal7 The fact that it exports to Premiere and DaVinci shows you're not trying to replace pro tools, just eliminate the grind before the final polish. Congrats on the YC launch!
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@martingebara
Today's editors are juggling five roles at once. They should only have to do one -- edit. We take care of the rest.
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@curiouskitty
Here are the following breaking points:
Scale. "20 ads by Thursday" or "1000 product videos this month" - traditional editors make human the bottleneck on every cut, resize, and caption. Cardboard acts as their force multiplier.
Skill. A founder / marketer knows what they want but doesn't want to spend months to learn intricacies of timeline in Premier / DaVinci. To have more control, Cardboard has a very simple and easy-to-use timeline.
Visual Understanding: Descript simplified transcript based editing but does not posses good visual understanding. Cardboard's Director agent actually has visual understanding of your footage, understands it deeply and is able to make creative decisions, not just template fills.
What we don't compete on: Long-form narrative films, advanced professional tools for color grading, VFX, frame-by-frame broadcast work. That's Premiere's job.
We're not building a better cockpit - we're building autopilot :)
Farmstead
Huge fan of the product and team! What’s the most non obvious usecase of cardboard you’ve seen in the wild?
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@liveink Thanks Kevin!
Honestly, we started doing this ourselves. Saksham and I throw our long meeting recordings into Cardboard and ask it to create highlight reels we can share with customers.
But the one that really surprised me was that one of our users edited his wedding video with it.
This looks really exciting! I’ve been waiting years for a product like this, but with pricing starting at $60 a month, obviously this is aimed at businesses and not at individuals. I hope you are successful and there is some path towards launching a consumer product with a much lower price point. It would also be exciting if there was a local client, something that didn’t force customers to upload gigabytes of video footage. Not everyone has a fast pipe so this could be limiting in some scenarios.
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@jasonrdunn
I hear you Jason, we don't have to upload the entire footage to get started with editing, we only upload that for collab/cloud sync so that it is accessible on all of your devices.
For our ingestion pipelines we just upload small byte sized chunks of the footage.
the "describe the edit, it executes" framing is sharp. curious how the agent handles first-time users with no editing history - does it lean on the clarifying questions a lot early on? the cold start problem for understanding someone's aesthetic is one of the harder ones. congrats on the launch @saksham_aggarwal7
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@ivo_gospodinov
The agent asks more and more questions if user says "can you make it into a cool vlog?"
We're also planning a feature where users can upload a video/image they like and they'll be able to get closer to that using Cardboard's agent :)
Trufflow
One of my biggest challenges with AI editing software is that the clips end up feeling disjointed and lacks the "smooth" narrative that I'm going for. Are there ways to enter into a "plan" mode so that I can specify the style of video that I'm editing for?
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@lienchueh Great question! We don't have a dedicated plan mode right now, but the way we built the agent kind of addresses this. Wherever it's uncertain about something, instead of self-guessing, it just asks you. So the narrative stays in your control throughout.
You can also just ask it to draft a rough script or outline before you start cutting.
Curious, would a plan mode be more about setting a style upfront, or is a storyboarding experience closer to what you have in mind?