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The largest group, 22 people, posts short praise and recommends it to others by name; one credits two 100k videos they did not edit, another calls it an "absolute monster". Next come 19 people describing the same gap: an HDR clip pops, then titles and graphics on top look "flat and gray". They say the agent now builds type, effects and animation in HDR inside one project, with every layer left editable.

10 people value staying in control: directing in ChatGPT or Claude in plain English or from reference videos, then opening the result in Premiere or After Effects to polish the last part themselves. 10 come for grading — describe the look, curves, masks, shot matching — often on log footage they never got round to fixing. 5 are not won over: one found it less intuitive than expected and went back to ChatGPT.

This is a single voice, from a builder who says they are making a motion video product themselves, so it is the account of 1 tester rather than a pattern.

They ran the tool on four real After Effects projects. Importing into Tesseract lost text and whole scenes on three of four, and exporting back to After Effects gave an empty comp every time, all black; on three the exporter dropped the root group with everything inside. They offered logs and offered to test new builds, and were gracious about it being early.

Across 4 posts in the theme, they report movement: after an update the import is "way better", the scenes finally show up. The export back to After Effects still comes out empty on all four projects.

The biggest comparison is DaVinci Resolve, with 2 people. One describes shooting in log because a YouTuber said it looked cinematic, finding the footage "grey and dead", opening Resolve and closing it again, and now trying Tesseract to get an agent to grade the shots by describing the look. Another, replying, says DaVinci tutorials "just became a lot less necessary".

The other three are one person each, each weighing it differently. One recommends it alongside Palmier Pro as AI-first editing tools you can vibe direct with, working alongside agents. A French-speaking reply keeps a place for Illustrator and Photoshop: still useful, still necessary. One reply names it with Runway when asked which tools to use, pairing rather than replacing.

The largest set, 5 people, asks about capability: can I edit it for real, is it only for launch and motion graphic videos or any video, does it understand that not all silences are bad, can it cut with frame-by-frame accuracy, does type hold when comped as a tracked plate — and, seeing a good result, "sure this wasn't made using AE right?"

4 ask where to learn: step-by-step guides, a tutorial on using Tesseract, detailed breakdowns beyond the docs ("I need more than what your docs are"), and who has the best workflows for making many ads.

4 ask what else it takes to run it: whether Tesseract alone is enough, whether it works in Claude Code, where the Claude plugin is, and whether the plus or Astra is doing the work. 2 ask whether HDR survives once text and effects are added; 2 whether it replaces tools they already use.

The wish with more than one voice is reach into other agents: 3 people want it in more places — someone waiting for "the captions mcp", someone asking where "the claude plugin gang" is, someone asking for a Tesseract plugin in Grok bot.

The remaining wishes are each one person's. One asks for a public database of reusable VFX code and tool kits on GitHub, "not just skills", and later for mix-and-match so people can build things nobody has made yet — the theme's 2 posts are both theirs. One asks whether the converter flags effects it cannot preserve, wanting an import report before letting an agent edit an existing project. One asks about export support for 50fps and 59.94fps. One, praising the grading, asks for a way to pay for long-term use without automatic charges.