The Challenge of Ai Image Coherence
Last year, Ai rocked the world by being able to produce artificial images that were, by the standards of those days, incredibly realistic. That is of course provided we weren’t too fussed about how many fingers there were on each persons hand, or the reality of other details in the image! Then the later release […]
Does Ai Stunt Creativity?
My article last month highlighted not only the increasing quality but also the increasing cost of the latest video making Ai, and it painted a somewhat bleak future for the amateur Ai video maker. On the face of it, it would seem that amateur enthusiasts will not be able to access the superiority of software […]
The Latest Ai for Film Making
by Jim Reed. Last year my videos ‘An Editors Struggle’ and ‘Not Real’ used a lot of Ai, with images from Flux, lip synced Avatars from Heygen, and audio from Google Notebook LM, Eleven Labs and Suno. The result was very impressive at the time, but a great deal has changed since then. https://youtu.be/-gm3upgm6Q4 Jim […]
Say hello to FlowFrames Video Interpolator!
A major problem for serious video makers is that of intermixed frame rates. Any set of videos made with a multiple of 25 frames per second (the UK Standard) will happily mix together. Typically they are 25 – 50 – 100 FPS. Or, alternatively, any set of videos made with a multiple of 30 frames […]
Crossing the Uncanny Valley of Ai Voice
About 6 months ago, I created a video that won the September Club Documentary Competition (Move 37: Dreaming of Electric Sheep). Although it sounded like me narrating the story, it was actually an 11Labs clone of my voice. I simply typed the words for my script into a text document, and got 11labs to generate […]
Easy Access to Ai for Film Makers
Access some quality Ai programs and utilities on a pay as-you-go basis, without committing to a regular monthly subscription. Just under a year ago I made a presentation to the club about the ability of Artificial Intelligence to generate images from text prompts. Back in those yearly days, only a hand full of programs were […]
Google Veo2 Video Generator
Open Ai’s SORA Video Generator was a bit of a let down. Partially because some felt disappointed that the SORA that has just been released was ‘SORA Turbo,’ not the ‘big daddy’ SORA that had been previewed earlier. But the main reason was that the competition had now caught up with products that were just […]
SORA finally breaks cover…
Only hours ago OpenAi finally released SORA to an impatient US market. Unsurprisingly, their servers were slow and ‘failed renders’ common. Although with time these problems should be sorted. SORA has been much anticipated since March this year, when OpenAi teased the market with a preview of demos made by a few select users. Difficult […]
Runway – ACT One
This link and video from Runway shows the rapid and amazing development that Ai is taking and helping both enhance and extend our video making. Act-One appears to be part of Runway Gen 3 Alpha (image and video to video) guide here. At time of writing (December 2024) the credit cost for each generated second […]
Google Notebook LM
https://youtu.be/E2ILN71iikY Not Real… by Jim Reed (Awarded Penny Johnson Trophy for Best Editing – 2024) It’s a fun video, but contains deeper messages about Ai and reality. I called it ‘Not Real…’ but it’s possibly easier to say what is real in the video: The opening words were written by me. Google really do have […]