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Zen Video: Using AI to automate video editing

  • China
  • 4 min read
  • Jan 27, 2020
  • By Hua Nan

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Founded by a Carnegie Mellon roboticist, the Zen Video app reduces the time required to edit video clips to only a few minutes, meeting growing demand for short videos

Making a video clip used to require professional equipment and a skilled team for the shoot and post-production. It was a time-consuming process: to produce a one-minute video required anywhere from two to four hours of video editing. In recent years, the soaring demand for short videos has seen video producers seeking out more efficient video-making tools.
Hangzhou-based Zen Video has since filled the gap by shortening the video-making process to just a few minutes. Founded in December 2016, the startup developed a cloud-based AI platform that lets users enter text – whether several words...

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Edited by Celine Lim, Wang Xiao'e

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