# Building Video Editing Software with Andrew Lisowski

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Published: 2024-12-16T02:32:07+00:00
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## Resource

Richard talks with Andrew Lisowski, a Senior Engineer at Descript - which makes audio and video editing software that has been used to edit this very podcast! They talk about some of the surprising challenges of dealing with video editing compared to audio alone, the economics of niche podcasts and programming conferences, and the evolution of Web browsers! Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoftwareUnscripted Descript: https://www.descript.com Andrew Lisowski: https://www.hipstersmoothie.com devtools.fm episode that was on HN frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41301639 Zencastr: https://zencastr.com/?via=richard-feldman Forced Aligners: https://github.com/MahmoudAshraf97/ctc-forced-aligner Gentle Aligner: https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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