Comment by piskov
17 hours ago
> Reel does exactly what I wanted Loom to do: I can record my camera, I can move it around, and I get to trim the video after it’s done (I don’t remember being able to do that with Loom).
But that’s not what Loom is about.
It’s about streaming the video.
Before:
Capture something with likes of quicktime.
Transcode it so that it doesn’t take a few gigabytes. This takes considerable time and resources (though OBS can do it while recording, not after).
Upload somewhere to share. Wait while it is uploading.
Loom takes care of all those steps so when you press stop you can immediately share the link with someone.
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Hope other use-cases in the article are not as misrepresented as this one
I think author has a point when he didn’t needed all those extra features.
But then they did made a bad choice for paying for loom. They could have just learned (or used llm) to make a bash script to use ffmpeg for capturing screen to a file. Or OBS is a pretty good solution as well. And a ton others
Loom does also have a trim and edit after recording feature, I use it all the time
As well as auto closed captioning, and commenting, and automatically cutting out filler words and empty silent portions, and auto summarization of the contents, and many other features that I use all the time and find useful. But that’s fine, OP probably just doesn’t use that stuff.
The also have a nice trimming feature where you can trim the video by editing the transcript