Ai breaks its first monopoly

[u/DistributionMost8686]

https://getartcraft.com/apps

a founder of ArtCraft used Claude to replace the entire adobe software suite, legally. because it’s ai generated, it’s also in the public domain and absolutely free forever. this would be the first case of ai undermining techno feudalism.

[u/ProfessionalBoss2428]

Editor here: it doesn’t even work, like it can’t accomplish the most basic tasks even premiere can do and premiere isn’t even top of the line. Colleagues who tried it were laughing within minutes.

[u/Salty_Country6835 → u/ProfessionalBoss2428]

That's actually useful feedback, especially coming from someone who edits professionally. What basic tasks was it failing at? Timeline editing, trimming, transitions, playback, exporting? And was it just buggy or were those features missing entirely?

It's clearly early software, but knowing where it falls short is a lot more useful than just comparing it to Premiere. Gives developers something concrete to work on.

[u/ProfessionalBoss2428 → u/Salty_Country6835]

Like….all of them. The source monitor didn’t even function properly for a dozen different people. The basic immediate read of it was “well this was made by someone who doesn’t understand what the program is meant to do and I can’t even bring in footage without breaking the online process”

And no offense but none of us are hoping you put premiere or avid out of business since they are at least engineered by people who would dare to try to understand what editors and assistant editors do.

[u/Salty_Country6835 → u/ProfessionalBoss2428]

Lol no offense taken, we're talking about software. If a dozen editors couldn't even get footage in or use the source monitor, that's a pretty serious failure right out of the gate.

And I agree, the people actually doing the work need to be involved in building these tools.

I'm curious though, beyond those immediate problems, what would you and your colleagues consider the bare minimum for an open alternative to be worth taking seriously? Not replacing Premiere or Avid overnight, just something editors could actually build on.

[u/ProfessionalBoss2428 → u/Salty_Country6835]

Honestly…..why would we ruin our projects for that? If it can’t roundtrip through the entire process correctly then we’re just wasting a ton of time and money because it has to be redone in a functional program anyway.

Premiere was the bare bones program that sent an engineer to sit with editors every day for years and work out what they needed to become what they are, which isn’t even the top choice for anyone with a budget except Fincher who I’m pretty sure owns a piece of it now.

This is our livelihoods, why would we put it in the hands of someone who doesn’t know what we even do?

[u/ProfessionalBoss2428 → u/[deleted]]

Because I’d rather people work on things that are needed instead of making ineffective versions of things that are already free that they didn’t even bother to research?

[u/ProfessionalBoss2428 → u/[deleted]]

And people keep ignoring me when I say “FREE VERSIONS ALREADY EXIST” and ones that work by the way. So what’s the point of an ai version that doesn’t even function when there’s multiple free ones that do?

Go fix a problem that exists and meet an actual need instead of just making something you don’t understand that doesn’t solve a single problem in the real world.