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Showbox - Create amazing videos right in your browser

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Showbox is a cloud-based solution that transforms video creation into a simple, scalable process that gives you beautiful results you couldn't achieve beforehand. It covers everything needed to create a video, so you can go from idea to a professional looking video in a matter of minutes, without requiring any fancy equipment or prior expertise.

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Guy Malachi
Maker
Hello Hunters, I'm Guy from Showbox (https://showbox.com) and I'm really excited to finally share with you what we've been working on. We developed Showbox to enable anybody to create studio-quality video content. Showbox is a cloud-based solution that transforms video creation into a simple, scalable process that gives you beautiful results you couldn't achieve beforehand. We tried to cover everything needed to create a video, in a way that allows you to go from idea to a professional looking video in a matter of minutes - and without requiring any fancy equipment or prior expertise. Check out this short intro video to get a better feeling of what Showbox is:
Some of the things that Showbox offers in order to make video creation accessible to all: - Show formats: our formats are the storytelling "blueprints", which guide you through specific steps for the video you want to create. For example a top 5 countdown, a video to showoff your apartment for AirBnb, or even just you talking about a subject for 60 seconds. - A library of graphic packages, all created by professional video artists, that give your video a professional look & feel - Background replacement (“keying”) without having to use a green screen! - Free-to-use licensed content libraries (from Getty images/videos, ShutterStock, and more) - Automatic audio mixing and recording a voice-over - Import your own content from Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox, etc. The platform is free of charge for individual creators, while we monetize it by creating personalized versions for brands and publishers. I'm so excited to see what the Product Hunt community thinks! If you have any questions that you want to send me privately, I'm guy AT showbox DOT com and @guy on Twitter
Manish Pahuja
@guy @showbox Sounds awesome! Can I create vidoes and monetize on yT?
Miriam Schwab
@guy @showbox Can videos be downloaded?
Paul Robert Cary
@guy @showbox congratulations! This has come a long way since I first saw your site 6 months ago. Have you thought about creating a publisher platform like Medium?
Guy Malachi
Maker
@sidtech yes definitely Manish. When you create a video on Showbox we have an uploader that lets you publish natively to Youtube and Facebook. From there it's just a regular video on your channels that you can monetize.
Guy Malachi
Maker
@prcary Thanks Paul! We are laser focused on turning high-quality video creation into something that everybody can do. It's not an easy task so at this point that's the only thing we are putting all our efforts towards.
Yair Kivaiko
I've been following this product for awhile now. This is going to change the video world. Good luck!
Guy Malachi
Maker
@kobaiko thanks! That's our plan :)
Kyle Duck
is it just me or is this potentially a really big deal? cool stuff guys
Guy Malachi
Maker
@thekyleduck yea, it's a HUGE deal :) Thanks Kyle!
Mikee Shattuck
What kind of render times?
Guy Malachi
Maker
@mikeeshattuck the rendering time is just a few minutes per video. Since we are based on Amazon servers we can scale our rendering servers automatically in order to keep rendering time down to a minimum.
Vinoth
Congratulations Guy and the team on the launch! I've been looking for something like this to create out tutorial. Looking forward to get our hands on showbox!
Guy Malachi
Maker
@vinothjohnpeter Thanks Vinoth! Send me any feedback that you have (my contact details are above in the first comment)
Matthew Spurr
This looks ridiculously good! :) Great work Showbox guys, good luck!
Guy Malachi
Maker
@matthewspurr Thanks Matthew!
Oded Junior Lavie
Congratulations on the launch, it seems like an amazing product!
Guy Malachi
Maker
@cosmic_rockstar thank you!
ali mirza
oh very cool.. whats the pricing model?
Guy Malachi
Maker
@alimirza2k thanks Ali! Showbox is a free service and you can create awesome content and publish it wherever you like. As we continue to develop the platform over the next few months, we'll also begin to offer additional premium features.
Bob
@guy @alimirza2k What might the premium features look like?
Kasper Villum Jensen
@guy Still kinda hard to find your prices for brands and publishers on the homepage?
Guy Malachi
Maker
@kaspervillum you're right, we're still a startup so have a million things to do :) If you're interested send me an email (my mail is above)
Miriam Schwab
This looks amazing! I'm going to test it now.
Guy Malachi
Maker
FLATHIVE
This is awesome! Video disruption!
Guy Malachi
Maker
@flathive thanks, I also think it's awesome :)
Anna Cates
Looks pretty cool, I think your on-boarding/tutorial isn't doing justice to the actual product though... If I'd just stumbled upon this and didn't see anything except the first part, I wouldn't try it again, and that's too bad because for a lot of people it can be a very useful thing :)
Guy Malachi
Maker
@_annacates thanks for the feedback Anna. I must say I totally agree, our tutorial is not even close to what we want it be, and definitely doesn't do us justice. We're actually working on improving it (already in development) but since we're a small startup we needed to move fast and get things out there. As you probably experienced, once you create a show after the tutorial you get to experience much more of the product and its capabilities. Thanks for helping out!
Ross Currie
@guy @_annacates +1 for the tutorial sucking big time. In fact, I didn't even realise it was a tutorial as I was going through it - I just thought this was the actual app and was so incredibly disappointed. It wasn't until the last screen that it says "click next to finish tutorial" (or somesuch)
Guy Malachi
Maker
@rossdcurrie @_annacates yea we know, that tutorial will be changed soon.
Jason Towns
This really feels like a game changer. Congrats Showbox team! What use cases are you most excited about and what premium features can we expect in the future?
Guy Malachi
Maker
@jhtdc thanks Jason! We're most excited about just seeing people create awesome looking videos for whatever their needs are (YouTube stars, businesses, brands). This is something that has always been way too hard to do without expensive production crews and it's about time that "regular" people are able to do it. So our main goal is to give creators everything they need so that they can come out with a professional quality video. Like I wrote in my first comment, brands and publishers are where we're seeing the biggest potential in terms of revenues so premium features will be aimed for them.
Gabriel Reynard
Pretty cool! Scalable videos for small companies is now always easy to make it, congrats for helping out!
Guy Malachi
Maker
@gabrielreynard thank YOU for trying it out Gabriel :)
Boris Pfeiffer
I totally love Showbox. We have created a few videos with them while the product was in Beta and I think its by far the easiest tool out there to create professional looking videos, even if you are not a pro.
Guy Malachi
Maker
@bopfger thanks Boris! We're glad to finally open our doors to everybody.
Eduardo Duran
This looks awesome!!
Guy Malachi
Maker
@duran_tech thanks Eduardo! We've been working very hard on it, would appreciate any feedback.
Sagee Ben-Zedeff
Looks awesome. With all the fuss about live video, I was wondering who will bring plain old video storytelling to the masses. Good luck!
Guy Malachi
Maker
@sageeb exactly that's the point! Video storytelling is an art form that should be accessible to all. That's what we want to do
Al Mackin
Love the idea - what plugin is needed to record from cam? In Chrome (64bit) I get a "Couldn't load plugin" message
Guy Malachi
Maker
@almackin you don't need to install anything to use Showbox. You may have a problem with Flash (ugh). Just try restarting your browser. The good news is that Chrome finally supports MediaRecorder API so we are in the midst of developing support for that.
IM
Awesome work @guy! This is definitely a move in the right direction for video content.
Guy Malachi
Maker
@itamarmula thanks!
Javi
Always wondered when someone would do something like this, looks awesome!
Guy Malachi
Maker
@ios_javi Right? It needed to happen. Thanks Javi!
Libor Vašíček
cool. I love the simplicity. Do you plan API for third party services?
Guy Malachi
Maker
@liborvasicek thanks Libor! We have an API for 3rd party integrations but it's not something that is publicly promoted yet. If you (or anybody else) is interested in working with our API, feel free to contact me (my contact details are at the top).