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I have videographer friends, and this is exactly what they've been asking for. Their dream is to be able to say "sync the A and B camera footage, chunk the whol

I have videographer friends, and this is exactly what they've been asking for. Their dream is to be able to say "sync the A and B camera footage, chunk the whole interview down into segments, and then pull together the highlights based on this outline." Not every application of AI is "do the creativity for me."

telesilla 26d ago
That's why there are no assistant editor jobs anymore.
embedding-shape 26d ago
I'm not complaining either, I wouldn't call myself a video editor, but I do end up spending some of my time in Resolve, and anything to remove the dreadful monotonous tasks of editing interviews is welcome. Although Resolve already makes it pretty easy, with the "edit by moving the transcript around" feature which is amazing. Anyway, I'm happy about being able to sick Codex at Resolve now :)
RankingMember 26d ago
If we can get the environmental impact of this stuff ameliorated (a big if), this is the real benefit of this kind of AI assistance imo- it transforms everyone into a director and frees them from being a surrogate for a director. See also: 3D modeling. Autodesk Fusion's interface is truly awful and people put years into learning it to do complex things. The MCP server functionality they added, though still in its infancy with Claude and what it can do, vastly lowers the barrier to entry for people just looking to get into making basic things. They can focus on the actual creative process rather than fumbling with the awkward tooling.
- jameshart 26d ago
  A lot of professional skill nowadays is misdirected from ‘knowing how to do the thing’ into ‘learning how to use a computer to do the thing’. The role of music producer includes a large chunk of ‘knowing how to program synths and samples and drums and effects’. The role of industrial designer includes a lot of ‘knowing how to model things in CAD’. Even roles like academic researchers require skills like ‘formatting LaTeX’. I’m genuinely quite excited for a shift in human computer interaction which reduces that ‘knowing how to do things on the computer’ tax. But there are a whole swathe of jobs where a lot of what people do is ‘know how to do the thing on a computer’. Some of that is really because the bureaucracy has been embodied in a computer system so for example the job of handling an insurance claim seems to involve a lot of ‘knowing how to operate the claims computer system’ - actually that person’s skill is ‘knowing how to navigate the claims bureaucracy’.
  - bensyverson 26d ago
    Completely agree. How many people over the past 20 years have been musically gifted, but found ProTools or Logic impenetrable? The AI unlock is about enabling that creativity, not replacing it.
    - jameshart 26d ago
      Joe said it right in Halt and Catch Fire: > Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing. That was that character’s take on Jobs’s ‘bicycle for the mind’ concept.
      - ctippett 26d ago
        Just finished watching the series. What a great show.
    - Gigachad 26d ago
      And now those people are crushed by a wave of AI slop music
- rock_artist 26d ago
  AI is elevating one’s capability but not replacing it. Then you have experience and skills. Someone with zero skills in music will be able to make a 'song' but a savvy producer would use tools differently and could leverage them to actually make something creative. Anyone can make an app those days (or a website or whatever) but mileage varies based on one's nature, also the gotchas of someone with zero knowledge of a field could result issues that someone with experience would've noticed and resolved much earlier or avoided completely. Me with zero knowledge in architecture can "design" my house but I wouldn't trust my plan without someone looking at it. AI and AGI provides great lengths in empowering but it might also introduce the false feeling of being capable. Creativity, capability and motivation still takes important place even with AI.
- rescbr 26d ago
  Exactly. Sometimes I just need a 3D printed part to finish a DIY project, I don't want to waste hours designing it. I had my fair share of time playing around with SketchUp when I was a teenager, but that's it.
- tigershark 26d ago
  Blender with fable and Astra is doing pretty amazing things it seems..
Joel_Mckay 26d ago
Resolve has had de-aging filters, and TTS voice synthesis for awhile. If the chat-bot/spy-ware aren't integrated, than I don't see a problem with LLM plug-in opt-in support. =3
coldtea 26d ago
>Not every application of AI is "do the creativity for me." However it can lead to AI "doing the creative for them" and them out of a job in the near future.
- Joel_Mckay 26d ago
  Sure, in the future everything will have a healthy piss-tint yellow shine. =3
strideashort 26d ago
Pretty soon there will be no need for recording and editing . IIRC House MD was one of the first shows to use digital (5D mkII). Soon there will be AI generated shows. Perhaps entirely personalized. Youtube, generate me a TNG episode.
- _superposition_ 26d ago
  And full of product placements...
- xattt 26d ago
  … but set it in the Star Wars universe.
- dmix 26d ago
  > Youtube, generate me a TNG episode. It will never be that simple. For example: the guys on youtube using AI to make new Star Wars movies [1] still did tons of work putting it all together, including the 3d renderings and editing, and they are leaning on old scriptwriting/dialogue from a 1991 Star Wars book. AI is just helping them automate the process and generate some visuals/voice acting, but it still takes a skilled artist with lots of technical knowledge to guide it in the right direction and properly utilize their existing tools/workflows... and most importantly good taste. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4gZR1BDzOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4gZR1BDzOw
  - d0100 26d ago
    We can always streamline creativity by allowing agents to post jobs on mechanical Turk
    - bensyverson 26d ago
      Not anymore! [0] [0]: https://www.mturk.com https://www.mturk.com
    - plastic3169 26d ago
      > We can always streamline creativity by allowing agents to post jobs on mechanical Turk Which is maybe why Mechanical Turk will be shutdown in 3 weeks. No more people laundering AI.
xattt 26d ago
I would not be surprised if engineers who laid the groundwork for this back then would be happy with this workflow. I am reminded of an interview I saw about the Stranger Things intro (before mainstream audiences got weird about the show). The producers wanted a practical effects intro, and consulted with people who actually made 1980s intros the show was trying to replicate. The old guard said the show’s producers were crazy to do it with practical effects and should just use CGI since this was what they would have done, if they had the technology. Edit: oh god, there is a nearly identical HN post from 2024 from me that I do not remember making. I swear I am not an LLM. I am also hoping that I am not an old man telling his stories over and over either: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40453073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40453073
- UltraSane 26d ago
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- hbn 26d ago
  Is it that surprising that a bunch of old guys don't have the same energy and excitement as the new ambitious up-and-comers? George Lucas seemed pretty satisfied when filming the Star Wars prequels to plop himself down in a chair in a room with a giant bluescreen set where he didn't have to walk around and direct in a hot, sandy desert for hours like in the original films. But the movies looked a lot worse for it.
  - brailsafe 26d ago
    "guy with bad knees recommends we all take the gondola down"
  - 72deluxe 26d ago
    And yet, the prequels are still miles better than the sequels! Episode III was pretty good despite filming in 2K.
    - hbn 23d ago
      "Better than the sequels" is not saying much. I think Episode 7 is a more competent film than any of the prequels. Though these days I don't want to watch it cause I know it's setting up a story that goes nowhere.
mitchitized 26d ago
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michelb 26d ago
Yeah, exactly. I cannot wait to use this to take care of the boring stuff.
tyffanypastecf 26d ago
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telesilla 26d ago

That's why there are no assistant editor jobs anymore.

embedding-shape 26d ago

I'm not complaining either, I wouldn't call myself a video editor, but I do end up spending some of my time in Resolve, and anything to remove the dreadful monotonous tasks of editing interviews is welcome. Although Resolve already makes it pretty easy, with the "edit by moving the transcript around" feature which is amazing. Anyway, I'm happy about being able to sick Codex at Resolve now :)

RankingMember 26d ago

If we can get the environmental impact of this stuff ameliorated (a big if), this is the real benefit of this kind of AI assistance imo- it transforms everyone into a director and frees them from being a surrogate for a director. See also: 3D modeling. Autodesk Fusion's interface is truly awful and people put years into learning it to do complex things. The MCP server functionality they added, though still in its infancy with Claude and what it can do, vastly lowers the barrier to entry for people just looking to get into making basic things. They can focus on the actual creative process rather than fumbling with the awkward tooling.

jameshart 26d ago
A lot of professional skill nowadays is misdirected from ‘knowing how to do the thing’ into ‘learning how to use a computer to do the thing’. The role of music producer includes a large chunk of ‘knowing how to program synths and samples and drums and effects’. The role of industrial designer includes a lot of ‘knowing how to model things in CAD’. Even roles like academic researchers require skills like ‘formatting LaTeX’. I’m genuinely quite excited for a shift in human computer interaction which reduces that ‘knowing how to do things on the computer’ tax. But there are a whole swathe of jobs where a lot of what people do is ‘know how to do the thing on a computer’. Some of that is really because the bureaucracy has been embodied in a computer system so for example the job of handling an insurance claim seems to involve a lot of ‘knowing how to operate the claims computer system’ - actually that person’s skill is ‘knowing how to navigate the claims bureaucracy’.
- bensyverson 26d ago
  Completely agree. How many people over the past 20 years have been musically gifted, but found ProTools or Logic impenetrable? The AI unlock is about enabling that creativity, not replacing it.
  - jameshart 26d ago
    Joe said it right in Halt and Catch Fire: > Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing. That was that character’s take on Jobs’s ‘bicycle for the mind’ concept.
    - ctippett 26d ago
      Just finished watching the series. What a great show.
  - Gigachad 26d ago
    And now those people are crushed by a wave of AI slop music
rock_artist 26d ago
AI is elevating one’s capability but not replacing it. Then you have experience and skills. Someone with zero skills in music will be able to make a 'song' but a savvy producer would use tools differently and could leverage them to actually make something creative. Anyone can make an app those days (or a website or whatever) but mileage varies based on one's nature, also the gotchas of someone with zero knowledge of a field could result issues that someone with experience would've noticed and resolved much earlier or avoided completely. Me with zero knowledge in architecture can "design" my house but I wouldn't trust my plan without someone looking at it. AI and AGI provides great lengths in empowering but it might also introduce the false feeling of being capable. Creativity, capability and motivation still takes important place even with AI.
rescbr 26d ago
Exactly. Sometimes I just need a 3D printed part to finish a DIY project, I don't want to waste hours designing it. I had my fair share of time playing around with SketchUp when I was a teenager, but that's it.
tigershark 26d ago
Blender with fable and Astra is doing pretty amazing things it seems..

Joel_Mckay 26d ago

Resolve has had de-aging filters, and TTS voice synthesis for awhile. If the chat-bot/spy-ware aren't integrated, than I don't see a problem with LLM plug-in opt-in support. =3

coldtea 26d ago

>Not every application of AI is "do the creativity for me." However it can lead to AI "doing the creative for them" and them out of a job in the near future.

Joel_Mckay 26d ago
Sure, in the future everything will have a healthy piss-tint yellow shine. =3

strideashort 26d ago

Pretty soon there will be no need for recording and editing . IIRC House MD was one of the first shows to use digital (5D mkII). Soon there will be AI generated shows. Perhaps entirely personalized. Youtube, generate me a TNG episode.

_superposition_ 26d ago
And full of product placements...
xattt 26d ago
… but set it in the Star Wars universe.
dmix 26d ago
> Youtube, generate me a TNG episode. It will never be that simple. For example: the guys on youtube using AI to make new Star Wars movies [1] still did tons of work putting it all together, including the 3d renderings and editing, and they are leaning on old scriptwriting/dialogue from a 1991 Star Wars book. AI is just helping them automate the process and generate some visuals/voice acting, but it still takes a skilled artist with lots of technical knowledge to guide it in the right direction and properly utilize their existing tools/workflows... and most importantly good taste. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4gZR1BDzOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4gZR1BDzOw
- d0100 26d ago
  We can always streamline creativity by allowing agents to post jobs on mechanical Turk
  - bensyverson 26d ago
    Not anymore! [0] [0]: https://www.mturk.com https://www.mturk.com
  - plastic3169 26d ago
    > We can always streamline creativity by allowing agents to post jobs on mechanical Turk Which is maybe why Mechanical Turk will be shutdown in 3 weeks. No more people laundering AI.

xattt 26d ago

I would not be surprised if engineers who laid the groundwork for this back then would be happy with this workflow. I am reminded of an interview I saw about the Stranger Things intro (before mainstream audiences got weird about the show). The producers wanted a practical effects intro, and consulted with people who actually made 1980s intros the show was trying to replicate. The old guard said the show’s producers were crazy to do it with practical effects and should just use CGI since this was what they would have done, if they had the technology. Edit: oh god, there is a nearly identical HN post from 2024 from me that I do not remember making. I swear I am not an LLM. I am also hoping that I am not an old man telling his stories over and over either: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40453073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40453073

UltraSane 26d ago
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hbn 26d ago
Is it that surprising that a bunch of old guys don't have the same energy and excitement as the new ambitious up-and-comers? George Lucas seemed pretty satisfied when filming the Star Wars prequels to plop himself down in a chair in a room with a giant bluescreen set where he didn't have to walk around and direct in a hot, sandy desert for hours like in the original films. But the movies looked a lot worse for it.
- brailsafe 26d ago
  "guy with bad knees recommends we all take the gondola down"
- 72deluxe 26d ago
  And yet, the prequels are still miles better than the sequels! Episode III was pretty good despite filming in 2K.
  - hbn 23d ago
    "Better than the sequels" is not saying much. I think Episode 7 is a more competent film than any of the prequels. Though these days I don't want to watch it cause I know it's setting up a story that goes nowhere.

mitchitized 26d ago

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michelb 26d ago

Yeah, exactly. I cannot wait to use this to take care of the boring stuff.

tyffanypastecf 26d ago

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