{"id":165018,"date":"2023-06-02T20:28:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T01:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/dummes-ai-video-editor-creates-youtube-shorts-in-minutes"},"modified":"2023-06-02T20:28:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T01:28:25","slug":"dummes-ai-video-editor-creates-youtube-shorts-in-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/dummes-ai-video-editor-creates-youtube-shorts-in-minutes","title":{"rendered":"Dumme\u2019s AI video editor creates YouTube Shorts in minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dummes-ai-video-editor-creates-youtube-shorts-in-minutes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dumme.com\/\">Dumme<\/a>, a startup putting AI to practical use in video editing, is already generating demand before opening up to the public. The Y Combinator-backed company has hundreds of video creators testing its product, which leverages AI to create short-form videos from YouTube content, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/studio.dumme.com\/register?invite=TECHCRUNCH\">waitlist<\/a> of over 20,000 pre-launch, it says. Using a combination of both proprietary and existing AI models, Dumme\u2019s promise is that it can not only save on editing time but also \u2014 and here\u2019s its big claim \u2014 do a better job than the contracted (human) workforce who is often tasked with more menial video editing jobs, like cutting down long-form content for publication on short-form platforms like YouTube Shorts, TikTok or Instagram Reels.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in January 2022 and a participant in startup accelerator Y Combinator\u2019s Winter 2022 program, Dumme co-founder and CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/merwane\/\">Merwane Drai<\/a> said he was originally focused on building a search engine for video. But around six months ago, the team realized that a better product might be to repurpose the same AI models they were developing to edit video clips instead.<\/p>\n<p>Joined by co-founders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cwmdo\/\">Will Dahlstrom<\/a> (CPO) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jordan-brannan\/\">Jordan Brannan<\/a> (CTO), all with AI backgrounds, Drai realized Dumme may have landed on the right product-market fit after their app went viral, crashing their servers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dumme, a startup putting AI to practical use in video editing, is already generating demand before opening up to the public. The Y Combinator-backed company has hundreds of video creators testing its product, which leverages AI to create short-form videos from YouTube content, and a waitlist of over 20,000 pre-launch, it says. Using a combination [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}