Good morning,

I put 3 tacos and it's still full of hope.
Hipclip is a good tool and its weaknesses are also its strengths.
The idea is great and useful.

Inconvenience:
- It bugs a lot. When you select text, the video does not reposition itself. the video remains frozen. I think it's the servers that can't deliver the video as fast as the text scrolls. It's a shame, we only really see the results of the modifications on export.
- The uploaded video must be 2GB Max. My videos are 6GB. I have to manually cut the videos only for uploading. It's a real hassle and it's very long. Solely to respect this limitation of HipClip. This is a real, unnecessary and frustrating waste of time. Please increase upload size.
- It does not detect covers/repetitions. It detects hum and silence, but in rushes, I have to take a lot of shots several times to get the right one. I would really have liked it to recite the same text and repeat it several times to keep only the good version.
This doesn't really seem feasible and would save me a lot of time.
- The exported videos have a bit rate of 2M/s which is lower than the minimum recommended by Google for Youtube. Not great!
- The assembly of quality shorts adding Broll etc. is laborious. I don't recommend this.

Advantage:
- Hipclip is arguably the most basic AI shortcut tool.
It is much less sophisticated than its competitors but that's also why I like it.
The other tools carry out the editing entirely by AI and we took a lot of effort to adjust the edits. The result being not perfect, I was not able to exploit anything from the competitors. with Hipclip, we have complete control over the editing, so we do it manually but it's much better this way!
- What is good about Hipclip is that no automatic editing is required.
We have complete control over cutting the sequences ourselves and keeping only what we want. With transcription it’s very simple and it saves me a lot of time.

Balance sheet:
- HipClip saves me a lot of time for my long video processing.
It allows me to completely erase silences/misses in my takes. I regret that it doesn't detect redone scenes because that would save me even more time. After cleaning it in 5 minutes, I export my long video and I rework it on Davinci to edit it and add effects. For that alone, it justifies its purchase.
- I'm going to try making shorts on it but I'm not very convinced, it seems to lack a lot of functionality for that.
- Lots of limitations: 2GB upload, 2M/ bitrate.
- Still a lot of bugs: The video cannot follow the modifications in editing mode.

So good product, but is still very young. It is the least powerful of all the products I have tested, but it has potential.
The roadmap choices will be crucial to determine if this product is worth it. Will they respond as closely as possible to user needs, or will they prefer to ride the wave of AI and attractive features while forgetting about usage and bug resolution.