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Video creators lose time on repetitive editing tasks

Marketers and video creators run into tedious jobs such as assembling clips in a set pattern, splitting footage into scenes, or stitching captured frames into a shareable image. Some jobs are handled by hand or improvised automation, while people asking for dedicated tools say they lack a suitable option. AI image-to-video creators also report that generation can change the source image too much, though that is a distinct and harder part of the workflow.

For video editors, marketers, and AI video creators. Mentioned from Apr 2025 to Feb 2026 on Bluesky and Hacker News.

4 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.

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  1. A work colleague had a tedious operation involving manually joining a bunch of video segments together in a predictable pattern. Took them a full working day. They used "just" ChatGPT on the web to write an automation
    theshrike79 on Hacker NewsJan 2026Has a workaround
  2. Is there a tool to losslessly split this video into individual scenes?
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