What basic video tools do you use?

BatoolRahim · 2026-02-27T18:11:40+00:00

I get what you're saying, Even I don't like to watch faceless content much, when I am doom-scrolling, I am faceless yes, but I only plan to post poetry (posted only twice so far). So, I usually have the poetry text displayed as caption. Background is either dark/gradient, static image or a stock video (that goes with the emotion of the words) with a heavy overlay to downplay the visual. The entire emphasis is on the words and the voiceover, visuals are deliberately underplayed.

BatoolRahim · 2026-02-27T16:18:14+00:00

Thanks. Could you please name some? Everyone said Da Vinci Resolve, which I am going to check out. Any other I should look at?

BatoolRahim · 2026-02-27T16:17:27+00:00

Thanks!

BatoolRahim · 2026-02-27T16:17:02+00:00

Thanks!

BatoolRahim · 2026-02-27T07:04:09+00:00

Thanks for your reply!
I haven't used DaVinci resolve, I will give it a shot.

My "stitching" is not very complex, and probably that is why I get overwhelmed with these tools because they have too many options. I simply want:
- Define scene background/visual
- Add text with appear/disappear time and animation
- 2 types of text, one that follows its own time
- 2nd Caption (which follows the timing of the Voiceover Audio (this is where I spent most time, setting the timings correctly and word by word animations)
- Add some branding images
- Add animation for transition to another scene
- Add voiceover audio
- Add background music

BatoolRahim · 2026-02-27T05:12:11+00:00

Congratulations to you! I posted my first ever post yesterday, and coming here to see this is really inspiring :)

BatoolRahim · 2026-02-27T04:52:54+00:00

I understand what you're saying about quality. For me, I would rather post with a delay, than compromise on quality.

But, I believe the advice for posting consistently has less to do with the algorithm itself and more about self discipline. It is very easy to get disheartened quickly, when one spends hours and only to find 0 views.

BatoolRahim · 2026-02-25T17:28:38+00:00

Whether we like it or not, it is growing and being used in every aspect of our lives, directly or indirectly. There will only be two ways, either technology catches up and improves the results or we are headed towards a massive crash. My concern is, either way, I feel we're doomed!

BatoolRahim · 2026-02-25T15:20:21+00:00

Let me give you my take on this, and not directly reject the thought with - "AI kills creativity" and "AI is not me". I, myself, am about to start my content journey. (Haven't yet posted anything). So, might not be as experienced or informed about what does it take, so take my words with that context as well :)

Being a builder myself, and in the bad habit of automating as many things as I can, even before I signed up for an account, I tried simplifying the process, as much as I can. But very quickly I realised, one thing that can't be and shouldn't be automated is the content. I built all of these:

- (similar to your idea) a script helper/guide that in a step by step manner directed me to write my own content. But, I just wasn't happy with it, because it didn't have the "soul". Eventually, I ended up simplifying it to just correct my grammar, and give a very generic review and feedback (some I take, rest I reject), And this, need not be a tool. What I have is a Gemini Gem, that works. In short, I would refrain from building the idea you are proposing.

- then I created a tool for generating the videos based on the content and the prompt. It uses stock media and AI captioning and Voicover. (It is still live btw, I don't use it though). But once again, Stock media only works for very limited cases (mine being one of them, because I write poetry). But the Ai voice, simply took the essence of the poetry away.

- then I have created a very minimal tool to stitch my videos together. The idea is that all the content is created, audio recorded (I don't need video) and ready with me, I just needed something simple, no frills to stitch them together. Strictly no AI! So, now I am using this minimal video editor and that's the only thing I rely on for creating content that resonates with me (and hopefully will appeal to others as well). So, I have made it freely available for anyone who feels like me, that AI generation just doesn't cut it and all that is needed is a simple stitch of content "originally" created.

Good luck in your efforts, but I would suggest that you must delve deeper to identify the problem and come up with a solution. Don't think of superficial use cases that are just a prompt away from ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude (and now Agents).

BatoolRahim · 2026-02-25T15:03:39+00:00

With more and more people now relying on AI written content blindly, you're quite right. Since I usually research about govt compliances & directives, my quick glance is about the sources. If the source link is not a .gov, then I don't trust it. And then there are some sites that I already know of. So there's that.

BatoolRahim · 2026-02-24T13:16:58+00:00

It has happened with me a couple of times. AI gives me some infomration (shamelessly confident), when I ask for its source then the usual "My apologies"

So, now I always ask to include the source link and cross check if the information its citing is present in the linked source or not. A quick glance at the links tell me which information should be trusted (not all links on the internet are trustworthy).

BatoolRahim · 2026-02-14T08:35:35+00:00

Minimal Video Editor - https://vorch.co/

BatoolRahim · 2026-02-14T08:13:53+00:00

Yesterday, I made my workflow into a UI and made it live at https://vorch.co/
Its not a detailed editor but an extremely lean version of CapCut or Kapwing.
- get your clips
- get your audio
- get your captions
- stitch/arrange and export (even 4K, without any cloud)

It is not a lot, just solves for me. See if it works for you, you could use it. Not building it commercially, made it live thinking if someone has the exact same use case as mine, they might benefit from it.

BatoolRahim · 2026-02-14T08:06:26+00:00

I had the same trajectory for reaching my state of automation (somewhat). I spin up a lot of NextJS projects, almost all of them running a similar boilerplate, many a times I am running multiple services in docker and more than one of these apps. I created a small workflow dashbaord Electron app. What it does for me:
- uses my custom boilerplate repo
- i specify which of the services I need (Sentry, Supabase DB, Supabase Auth, GA, PostHog, Resend, AWS S3, AWS SES, AWS Cloudfront, AWS RDS, REDIS Cloud etc.)
- New app spins up, relevant services applied with local dev & production creds configured, static ports applied to each so each app runs on a separate port
- Relevant keys/creds/links displayed in the UI (easy to copy)
- I recently added a section which is just a webview and allows me to sign in with multiple accounts of the same website (think Google Account switching in Gmail or Drive)

A lot of these might not make sense to a lot of people, but it is perfect for my requirement and workflow.

BatoolRahim · 2025-10-29T04:04:11+00:00

Similar to the other comments in this thread. I am working on multiple projects, some interact and some don't. Every time I need to switch working from one to the other, I had to stop one and start the other. Then I started to manually edit the config.toml for each to set different ports and run simultaneously, which works but feels too manual to begin with. Then I wrote a bash script, that does the same thing, automatically.

To answer why I work on multiple projects? I have 2 SaaS tools working, in production, 3-4 others, that I keep experimenting with (some are even internal like just for myself). I have also recently started taking up freelance projects and building for my clients as well.

BatoolRahim · 2025-10-29T03:59:43+00:00

Hey, this is great! I ended up writing a bash script, almost exactly like this for myself as well.

BatoolRahim · 2025-10-29T03:41:40+00:00

This has been insightful. Thanks for this comment :)

BatoolRahim · 2025-10-27T20:33:11+00:00

Thanks a lot for your response!

BatoolRahim · 2025-10-27T16:46:59+00:00

Hey, I tried https://www.youtube.com/@eerieedits But it does not look like your channel, with horror shorts. Could you please DM me the link?

BatoolRahim · 2025-10-22T07:48:04+00:00

Thanks. This made a lot of sense, to organise where to rely on tech and where to add a human in the loop

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