Overheard a guy at a coffee shop say he edits his videos with just his phone and gets 500k views

I was grabbing a latte near my place in Austin last Tuesday and this guy next to me was talking to his friend about his content workflow. He said he shoots everything on an iPhone, edits in CapCut, and never touches a laptop. Claims he hit 500k views on a video about fixing a squeaky door. Made me rethink all the gear I've been buying. Anyone else find that simpler setups actually perform better than the expensive rigs?

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ruby_patel2718d ago

Austin huh? I bet that squeaky door video had more to do with the algorithm gods smiling on him than his phone editing skills. Look, I get that gear doesn't make the creator, but acting like a laptop is useless is pretty naive. Try color grading a complex scene or doing multi-track audio mixing on a phone screen without losing your mind. It's fine for basic talking head stuff, but once you want to do real effects or proper sound design, that tiny screen becomes a massive headache. He probably got lucky with timing and a catchy topic, not because CapCut on a phone is some secret weapon.

emmaj3318d ago

Oh yeah, 'real effects or proper sound design' on a phone is basically a joke. I had a buddy who thought he could do his whole wedding video on a tablet because he saw some influencer do it. Took him three days just to figure out how to fix the audio from the ceremony where the mic kept cutting out. He finally came over crying and I let him use my desktop. The project finished in like two hours with actual multitrack editing and transitions. He said his thumbs hurt for a week, lol. Some stuff is just way easier when you got a real keyboard and a big screen.