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v1.22.0
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On a podcast or interview with two people in the shot, ClipMint now frames
whoever is talking.

A vertical Short only fits one of two people sitting side by side. ClipMint
used to pick the biggest face, which is whoever sits nearer the camera, and
stay on them. So the other person's best line went out over a shot of someone
listening.

It follows the conversation

  • It watches mouths, not sizes. Each person's mouth is compared frame to
    frame, with head movement taken out first, so a nod or a laugh isn't
    mistaken for talking.
  • It cuts like an editor. When the other person takes over, the frame
    cuts to them rather than panning across the table. It cuts as they start
    talking, not a second late, because the whole clip is planned before it's
    rendered. No shot is shorter than two seconds.
  • Tested on real episodes. On two episodes of a two-person podcast, cut
    into 30-second clips the way ClipMint cuts them, it framed the speaker 86%
    and 96% of the time. Following the biggest face managed 73% and 10%, and
    caught none of the second person's lines.

What doesn't change

  • One person on camera: framed exactly as before.
  • Shows that cut between a camera per person: already show the speaker,
    and are left alone.
  • Webcam-over-gameplay streams: use their own layout and aren't affected.
  • A face in a video playing on stream, or a poster behind you: too small
    to take the shot away from you.

It adds about a third of a second to each 30-second clip.

ClipMint.exe: about 224 MB, Windows, self-contained. Unsigned, so
SmartScreen will warn: More info → Run anyway.

ClipMint-linux-x86_64: about 280 MB, x86-64, self-contained, glibc 2.35 or
newer. chmod +x it and run it. Still untested on a desktop distribution.
Every published build is started by the release workflow and asked for its
interface before the release exists, but nobody has yet made a Short with it
on Fedora or Ubuntu. Take ClipMint-linux-README.txt too.

ClipMint-macOS-arm64.zip: about 167 MB, Apple Silicon only. Still a beta,
and still has never been run on a Mac. I don't own one, so it is built and
checked by GitHub's macOS runners and published without a person opening it.
Uploading to YouTube has only been tested on Windows. If it doesn't start, or
signing in doesn't behave as described, that is a bug here:
~/Movies/ClipMint/app.log and
an issue are how it gets
fixed.

Also published, for installs from before the rename only: StreamToShorts.exe,
StreamToShorts-linux-x86_64 and StreamToShorts-macOS-arm64.zip, the same
three files under their old names. A fresh download wants the ClipMint ones.

On v1.5.0 or later on Windows, or on any Linux build? The app will offer this
to you.

MIT licensed. Fork it, ship it, build on it. The licence asks one thing: keep
the copyright notice.

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