Since this app is designed to help with home movies, many of the videos our users have may be quite long (e.g. one hour or 90 minutes). If we open them in the 6-panel window to the start point every time, the user will only be seeing the first few minutes of the video and won't be inspired to create a clip. So...
When a new video is being selected to display in the panel (either because the last one timed out or the user swiped left or right), then...
If the video length is less than 180 seconds, start at time 0:00, but...
If the video is longer than 180 seconds, start at any random point between 0:00 and the end of the video.
Since this app is designed to help with home movies, many of the videos our users have may be quite long (e.g. one hour or 90 minutes). If we open them in the 6-panel window to the start point every time, the user will only be seeing the first few minutes of the video and won't be inspired to create a clip. So...
When a new video is being selected to display in the panel (either because the last one timed out or the user swiped left or right), then... If the video length is less than 180 seconds, start at time 0:00, but... If the video is longer than 180 seconds, start at any random point between 0:00 and the end of the video.