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Video editors
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 10 threads.
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No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Video editors lack simple frame-accurate selection and copy-pasteUnreviewed
20102026- Most serious video editors are expensive, unusable or bloated2024-02-08
- Most video editors are unintuitive unless you already know the timeline and separate frame windows2024-01-17
- Video editors lack simple, frame-accurate selection and copy-paste like text editing2020-08-29
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- Installing one app silently changes unrelated system settings like default player and keyboard layout2026-09-07
- Commenter could not get used to the interfaces of several video editors2026-06-04
- Editing software isn't intuitive to newcomers and must be learned without context2024-05-03
- Most serious video editors are expensive, unusable or bloated2024-02-08
- Most video editors are unintuitive unless you already know the timeline and separate frame windows2024-01-17
- Steep learning curve to understand audio basics, which beginners often skip2020-12-25
- Comparing two images side by side is terribly painful; pixel colors require a debugger2020-12-24
- Video editors lack simple, frame-accurate selection and copy-paste like text editing2020-08-29
- Mobile video editing interface is rudimentary and imprecise with fingers2018-02-11
- Video editing has a steep learning curve and a foreign UI and workflow2014-02-08
- Clicking the inspector's X button closes the video instead of just the inspector window2010-11-20