Show HN: Vento, a screen recorder that lets you rewind and record over mistakes

[lefan]

Hey folks, we made this screen recording tool to fix one simple problem - fixing your mistakes easily when recording so you don’t have to constantly restart or stitch. I’m not particularly great at presenting and so mistakes will inevitably happen during a screen recording, and it’s worse when you’re already 5 minutes into your recording, forcing you to restart completely. Please check this out and let us know what you think!

[albert_e]

I use OBS as recording tool with YouTube Live Streaming as target.

Even though I don't intend to publish every screen recording I make.

I set videos to private so that I just save the recordings as is first.

Very few, after edits, get published to public. I can create much more public content in my field if there was an easy way (like OP) to correct mistakes and redact some content.

This saves a ton of local storage space for me. More importantly all important stuff is backed up to cloud and readily viewable by me on any device anywhere. I am loving this (will Google let me push this into TBs of free storage?)

I really wish there was either a capability that allows me to "pause" the recording on a live stream :) or otherwise easily edit, redact YouTube recordings after recording. The tools provided by YouTube (I am not a paying customer) are very rudimentary and barely useable performance-wise.

Good luck OP. Do you have any OBS plug-ins of similar kind in mind.

[alwayslikethis]

One important thing Youtube provides is the encoding. It is rather difficult to re-encode large volumes of videos efficiently unless you have a recent, multi-core desktop CPU.

[fernly]

The site says nothing about itself. Is it only a Chrome extension? In what platforms can it record the screen (win? mac? linux? only in a browser?). What other features does it have, eg select a portion of the screen, visual indication of mouse clicks, etc.

[layer8]

I agree. At least when visiting on mobile, there’s too little basic information on what this even runs on, etc., making me leave the site without bothering further.

[lefan]

Thanks for the feedback. Currently the tool works the best on Chrome (with or without extension) on Mac and Window, with minor support for Safari.

We'll be sure to make a FAQ section on which platform we support and plans for features in the future. Thanks yall

[dezzeus]

I'd like to highlight the wordplay around re-wind: Vento means wind (as moving air) in Italian, and ventoso (vento.so) translates to windy. :)

[jaclaz]

As an Italian I am failing to see the cleverness, even if they are written the same wind and wind (different pronounciation) have different roots and meanings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homograph

It would be like you had a site about planting seeds and had the site named por.ca.

Now, if it was something like riavvol.to, it would have made more sense.

[johny115]

Looks good, but since there is no transparency on pricing, it doesn't motivate me to sign up. Not sure if there is pricing visible after signing up, but I can't be bothered to find out. Id be clear what is offered for free and where does/will paid plan start, if there is even anything for free at all, or it's jut premium pricing.

[ckle]

free right now! but we do plan to add a paid tier at some point. But the hope is to always have some amount of the service free

[limitedsupply]

This is a really handy tool, and the demo video goes straight to the point!

One minor criticism: it's a bit of a turn off when a well-known logo (and even its position in the header/footer) is so brazenly copied.

[yasoob]

I didn't feel as if it was a ripoff. It didn't even register with me that you were referring to Vimeo until I read the comments. Slightly similar font with a different name altogether shouldn't count as ripoff in my opinion :)

[spencerchubb]

Whose logo is being copied? It's just the name of the service in italics

[ckle]

I know I'm just a random stranger on the internet - but I swear to God I didn't even use Vimeo as a reference for what it's worth! :)

[mrlinx]

Is there an alternative but that does it all locally? I'd love to avoid the cloud part. And I'd like it to be as easy as this, unlike OBS/Camtasia.

[danuker]

I use SimpleScreenRecorder. You can choose "Separate file per segment", and each time you pause you get a new file.

I then delete the mistaken takes, and concatenate everything with an FFMPEG script.

[brk]

On Mac: Quicktime + iMovie.

Quicktime has a very simple/flexible screen recorder built in. You can record a section of your screen, or full screen. If you make a mistake, pause for 5 seconds and then just do a re-take on the fly.

Import the QT recording into iMovie. Clip out of the unwanted sections and export your video.

[ckle]

We'll let you download the video after, and delete it too! Maybe all in one-button. I'm assuming you don't want cloud because of your data? Even better for us, we don't have to pay for hosting..

[boundlessdreamz]

1. Where are the videos stored?

2. Can they be exported? Formats supported for export

3. What resolutions are supported?

[lefan]

Stored on the cloud (google cloud storage). We don't support export yet, but it might be a feature for pro users (MP4/H264)!

Currently videos are recorded at 1080p.

[psychphysic]

I'm concerned about the business model.

So it's free, but presumably I will have to pay to export my video?

[yasoob]

I was curious about the same thing. But turns out you can download (export) the video without paying anything for now. Maybe it will become paid in the future?

[DavorDK]

Looks pretty easy and straight forward to use. I myself use my phone for filming videos (over OBS), so I probably won't use it. I will recommend it to some of my fellow videomakers that could benefit from it, though.

[chmod775]

I know this pain. What this tool purports to do can be accomplished with a video editing software, BUT that's super annoying and a time sink.

Kudos for trying to make this more ergonomic.

[jack_riminton]

Very nice idea and execution. Keeping it simple is the best way to go. Would love to see you turn it into a cheaper Loom competitor! (viewer counts for example)

[luxoramonrising]

Just enable windows game bar for your ide and browser. It allows you to export past 30 seconds of your screen capture.

[CharlieDigital]

What's the tech stack?

Looks really handy for those takes when the dog barks or the kids are yelling!

[lefan]

using NextJS, TsED and GCP!

[anon1094]

You can use Krisp.ai for that.

[ckle]

That's the idea :)

[retox]

Looks very useful and intuitive. Does it cost anything? Either way I think it would helpful if you called it out somewhere.

[ckle]

Yea we’ll have to charge probably like $5-10mo eventually. For now, just want to know if the rewind feature is useful!

[taubek]

This looks like a interesting tool. I usually use desktop app for cutting out the parts where I made a mistake.

[sanat]

Looks great and congrats on the HN launch!

I can see myself using this to make my next screen recording.

[ckle]

Thanks! Please give it a shot and let us know what you think!

[hasseo]

Does it record a chrome tab in the background?

[albert_e]

Minor nit:

Misquoting Mahatma Gandhi for humor is perfectly fine. Misspelling his name as Ghandi, not so much.

[lefan]

Incredibly sorry about that, will fix!

[quentinadam]

Looks awesome! You should submit it to ProductHunt!

[dang]

Please don't do this here.