brarcher
commented
6 years ago Thanks for your interest in the app, and for the well though out request.
I recognize that the app is a bit of a sharp tool; if one knows how to use it it will work OK but it is easy to enter options that will not work.
The motivation for creating the app was to allow encoding media files on a phone instead of moving files to a PC. The main use cases were to support reducing file size and trim. A few other use cases came out of this, and I think that a few of your requests currently can be done in the app. Namely:
Video to gif
The video container can be set to 'gif', resulting in a gif file.
Mute mp3
The audio codec can be set to 'none', which will encode only the video and ignore the audio
External mp3
The container can be set to 'mp3', which results in saving only the audio and ignoring the video.
It may be that it is not obvious the app can do those things. This is certainly an area where someone from the open source community can propose some suggestions. (:
These features are reasonable for a tool that transcodes media files, in my opinion. Merging files may also be OK, as would allowing one to select a separate video and audio file to combine. The latter two, namely "Fast motion and slow motion" and "Reverse" sound more like features which would be in a normal video editing program rather than a transcoding app. There is certainly use for something like that. However, I'm not sure that the intended use cases of this app align with those features. I've received a request thus far to change the purpose of the app to be a non-linear video editor. That is a lot to take on, and I'm probably not the person to work on it.
So let me ask this: is there an open source Android application available which will do the fast/slow motion or reverse effects on a video? If there is not, and the feature would really be useful, maybe there is a place for it in the app. It may not be me who works on it, though, so I would be looking for assistance from the open source community. My motivation was to create something which helps me with my video transcoding needs.
These suggested features will improve the application and improve the usability of the app, as more useful features will increase the download of the application.
Having more users download the app would be nice, though it is an end in itself instead of a means to an end. As the app does not make any money and is given away freely, there is no direct benefit to having more downloads besides knowing that I helped create something that others find helpful. (:
Out of curiosity, what did you use to create the mockup?
PanderMusubi
Components
Video transcoder is an app used in encoding video, extracting video mp3, and trimming videos. The features i will be making suggestions on are to be implemented in the editing section of the application, after selecting the video to be edited.
Proposal Description
I suggest that the video editing section of video transcoder should be made easier for users to understand, and include additional features such as video to gif, add external mp3, merge videos, mute mp3, fast motion, slow motion, and reverse.
Mockups / Examples
Here is a gif video of how the features should be implemented on the application.