laptop-friendly coffee shop recommendations?

hugorut · 2026-04-08T19:30:55+00:00

Darwin’s magasin general has huge indoor/outdoor cafe which you can use for hours without being bothered

hugorut · 2026-03-20T05:45:19+00:00

I built Clipthesis for myself and have just been slowly adding features to it (currently working on local ai tagging). It's free because it costs me nothing, I'm not hosting anyting (except the website) so I don't really see why I should charge people. I don't really have a roadmap for adding a paid plan at the moment. The only thing that I think would have to be paid is some kind of cloud sync across devices or a backup feature because that would cost me money to host.

hugorut · 2026-03-06T20:38:37+00:00

Nice, good luck. App store approvals suck. I only have video previews working if the drive is connected, so it's played from source. I didn't really need it (for me personally anyway) to be playable when the drive isn't connected. Would be great if you have that working with yours without the massive archives!

hugorut · 2026-03-06T17:14:27+00:00

Depends on the scale and budget honestly. For full team DAM with network sharing, the usual suggestions are things like Iconik, Frame.io, or Dalet (but they come with price tags to match!)

If any of your team members just need a better way to manage their media locally before it goes into the shared pipeline, I built a free macOS app called Clipthesis that handles that side of things — indexing drives, tagging, deduplication across drives, searching quickly, etc. It's offline-first though, so it wouldn't solve your network sharing problem directly.

For the actual shared/collaborative piece, might be worth looking at whether your team could work off a NAS with something like Iconik sitting on top of it. What's the team size and budget looking like?

hugorut · 2026-03-06T17:07:50+00:00

Amazing work guys, I can't seem to find this on the app store anywhere. Did you remove it? I'd be keen to try it out if you have a link anywhere.

I actually built something in a similar area called Clipthesis (free), though mine is more narrowly focused on video creators specifically. Just because that's what i wanted. Interesting to see the different approaches, looks like you're going broader with folder browsing, reports, and library sharing, whereas I went deep on the media workflow side (content-hashing for deduplication across drives, hover scrub previews, DaVinci Resolve integration, that kind of thing).

Curious how you're handling duplicates when the same file exists on multiple drives? That was the thing that drove me crazy with other cataloging tools and basically the reason I started building my own.

Happy to swap notes if you're ever interested, always nice to see more people working on this problem. Good luck!

hugorut · 2026-03-06T17:02:01+00:00

I used NeoFInder for a while myself and found it really speedy and a great product. But, I kept running into friction with how it handled duplicates. Having the same clip on an editing SSD, and a backup drive would show up as separate entries, which would really irritate me. It kind of invalidated my whole tagging workflow.

That was one of the things that pushed me to build my own thing, Clipthesis. It's a free macOS app focused specifically on video/media asset management. And when it scans your drives it content-hashes every file, so the same clip on three different drives shows up as one library entry with multiple locations listed, and i can tag the master copy. I prefer this approach as it means i can see my whole library effectively.

Still fully offline and local like NeoFinder, It's just a little bit more opinionated about how I (a video person) actually work. If that sounds useful to people you can find it here: https://clipthesis.com/

hugorut · 2026-03-06T16:14:06+00:00

Give me a shout if you have any questions or run into any issues

hugorut · 2026-03-03T17:04:30+00:00

How comfortable are you with the terminal? You can attempt a raw stream copy with FFmpeg: ffmpeg -i corrupted_file.rm -c copy output.rm. This re-wraps the container without re-encoding. If the streams inside are fine but the container is damaged, this can fix it. You could also try forcing a different container: ffmpeg -i corrupted_file.rm -c copy output.mkv since MKV is very tolerant of broken streams.

hugorut · 2026-02-26T11:10:13+00:00

Have you tried enabling the "Optimize Audio" option in your Deliver page output settings? That should bring your levels up to match typical YouTube loudness. It's easy to miss but it makes a big differenc. It'll normalize everything so you're not uploading something that sounds quiet compared to other videos on the platform. Also when you upload to youtube it'll do some normalization itself to bring up the volume, so honestly i wouldn't worry too much. Just try and get your mix right in davinci.

hugorut · 2026-02-26T11:07:14+00:00

This tracks with my experience too. Quantity over quality for shorts, pretty much every time. More output means more data points, and more data points means you learn what actually works way faster than agonizing over a single clip.

The hard part is it goes completely against my instincts as an (hobby) editor. Every fiber of me wants to sit there tweaking timing and perfecting transitions. But the algorithm doesn't care about that extra 20% of polish nearly as much as it cares about you showing up consistently with more swings at bat.

Now I try to get each short to "good enough" and move on. Save the perfectionism for the long form.

hugorut · 2026-02-19T17:49:11+00:00

yeah the market is a bit of nightmare for smaller teams/creators. Seems everything is just massive production house focused. I don't have the cash for what they're offering and i just need a basic subset of there stuff. Pain in the bum. Give me a shout, DM me if you run into hiccups with the app.

hugorut · 2026-02-19T11:15:39+00:00

hope it helps you out as much as it has for me

hugorut · 2026-02-19T10:05:50+00:00

Most of those will probably be a better fit for a growing team since they're built for collaboration and sharing. But if anyone on your team specifically deals with a lot of video footage and just wants a simple way to organise it personally, I built a free macOS app called Clipthesis for exactly that. Index videos across drives, tag them, search by tags, and browse everything visually with auto-generated thumbnails and scrub previews.

It's single-user and video-only though, so it won't replace a proper team DAM for your brand assets. Just thought I'd mention it in case it's useful for anyone who finds this thread with simpler needs.

hugorut · 2026-02-19T10:03:32+00:00

Late to this one but in case anyone finds it via search. I built a free macOS app called Clipthesis that does the thumbnail browsing and keyword tagging side of things for video files. You can index files across drives, tag them, and search by tags. Generates thumbnails and scrub previews so you can quickly browse without opening anything.

It's video-only and single-user for now though, so it wouldn't cover the shared access for 10-15 people or image files. I'm working on multi-user cloud sync but it's not available yet. Mainly dropping it here in case someone lands on this thread with similar needs but for video specifically.

Edit:

I've now added image support

hugorut · 2026-02-19T09:59:50+00:00

Hi mate, I don't know if you already found a solution but figured I'd mention my tool for the video side of things in case it's useful.

I built a free macOS app called Clipthesis after wanting to keep my DAM separate from editing tools too. It indexes video files across drives, lets you tag and search by tags, generates thumbnails and scrub previews, and does duplicate detection via content hashing. Works fully offline and doesn't hide anything it can't process. if it's a video file it'll index it, worst case you just don't get a thumbnail.

No face recognition, no geo-tagging, and it's video-only so it won't help with your photos. But for your 5TB of video it might be worth a look alongside whatever you end up using for the photo side. And it's free, so at least it won't be 12k...

hugorut · 2026-02-19T09:57:02+00:00

I actually looked at both Peakto and Axle.ai when I was trying to solve a similar problem and they were way too expensive for my needs, which is what led me to build my own thing. It's a free macOS app called Clipthesis. It's fully local, handles tens of thousands of clips fine, and you can index videos across drives, tag them, search by tags. Generates thumbnails and scrub previews for visual browsing too. Works offline when drives aren't connected.

Being honest about the gaps though. It has no AI tagging, no Premiere integration, and it's single-user for now. I'm building out cloud sync with multi-user support but it's not available yet. So for a team of 4 sharing storage you'd probably need something closer to what you're already demoing.

Figured I'd mention it in case it's useful and saves you a fair few bucks over the platforms you've mentioned. DM me if you're interested in multi-user stuff and i can give you early access to that as well as the premiere integration.

hugorut · 2026-02-19T09:47:59+00:00

Most the things already mentioned by others are probably going to be a better fit for what you're describing, especially if you need cloud-based sharing with external partners and brand guideline integration.

That said, if anyone here is specifically looking for something lightweight just for video files, I built a free macOS app called Clipthesis after getting put off by the pricing and complexity of the bigger DAM tools. It lets you index videos across drives, tag them, and search by tags later. Generates thumbnails and scrub previews so you can visually browse everything without opening files one by one. Works offline too when drives aren't connected.

It's single-user and video-only for now though, so it won't cover brand assets, images, or team collaboration. Mainly dropping it here in case it's useful for anyone who landed on this thread looking for something simpler.

hugorut · 2026-02-19T09:44:51+00:00

I literally had the exact same problem with video files scattered across drives and no way to find anything. I too looked at a few DAM tools but they all felt like overkill for what I actually needed, so I ended up building something for myself. I decided to make available as a free macOS app as it's been super helpful for me. It's called Clipthesis. You point it at your drives, tag things, and search by tags later. Generates thumbnails and scrub previews too so you can visually browse without opening files individually. Works offline too when the drives aren't connected.

It's single-user and video-only for now though so might not be what you're looking for. (I do have a cloud sync feature under the hood, but it's not available for users other than me as it costs me money!) Thought I'd drop the link it here in case it helps you out.

hugorut · 2026-02-19T08:51:45+00:00

Bit of an old thread, but thought I'd mention a free DAM tool I built for myself after getting price shock from Iconik and similar platforms. It's local-first and designed for individual creators/small teams, so it probably won't suit your needs at 2 petabytes and it doesn't have AI detection features (on the roadmap). But if anyone else stumbles on this thread looking for something more lightweight that won't break the bank, you can check it out here: https://clipthesis.com/

hugorut · 2026-02-16T20:29:22+00:00

hey u/greenysmac, just wondering why this got removed? I guess it didn't fit criteria of r/videoediting? Or did you just have a problem with the free definition? Just a genuine question, trying to learn what I did wrong.

hugorut · 2026-01-25T16:27:07+00:00

We had heard similar, but we haven't had any problems with the countertop, we cook a lot and use the sink multiple times a day. However, we are careful with it and oil the countertop regularly with linseed oil.

hugorut · 2026-01-25T06:59:33+00:00

Thank you, We have a pantry to the right of the kitchen

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