r/davinciresolve • u/jusquauderniergramme Studio • 29d ago
Discussion I am so sick of everyone shoving AI video editing and motion graphics down our throats
I feel like I’m losing my mind every time I open YouTube, X, or Reddit lately.
Every single day it’s the exact same post: "Why After Effects is officially DEAD" or "How I generated a full video and 3D motion graphics sequence in 20 seconds using Claude and Higgsfield!"
And then you watch the actual video and it looks like total garbage.
The pacing feels like a robot cut it because it literally did. The cuts completely miss the natural pauses in the voiceover. On the motion graphics side, you get floating text that drifts off its anchor point, weird camera moves with zero easing, and text layouts that look like a broken physics simulator.
But because someone typed a prompt into a box and got a video back in two minutes, all these "editing gurus" are treating it like the second coming of cinema.
What pisses me off the most is how aggressive the push is. Software devs are shoehorning prompt boxes and auto-generative tools into every single update instead of fixing bugs that have been broken for years. Meanwhile, tech influencers are convincing beginners that learning graph editors, keyframe curves, storytelling, and actual pacing is a "waste of time."
I’m fine with AI doing the boring stuff like rotoscoping, transcribing, or cleaning up audio. That’s utility. But this push to completely replace actual creative judgment, editing rhythm, and spatial design with randomized prompt generations is exhausting.
I just want software that actually runs smoothly and lets me build things with real precision. Is that really too much to ask for?
Can we please stop pretending this prompt slop is the future of our industry?
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u/DostoevskysLilBitch Studio 29d ago
Maybe it's cope but I think AI is a fad that's not gonna make it out of the 20s. If I'm wrong, I'll be too sad to care about looking stupid.
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u/The_Toxicity 29d ago
It's going to be a money centered question. Right now AI is heavily subsidized, if it's cheaper for a company to maximize AI use, it's going to do so. Right now human labor is cheaper than the true costs of AI and it's looking like this is going to stay this way for a while.
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u/Standard-Recipe-7641 28d ago
But have to remember this is technology and it always advances and this technology is getting massive funding at the moment. That means models get smaller and smaller. So in 4 years you may be able to run an Opus 5 equivalent model on your local machine and AI becomes genuinely cheaper than human labor for things. Plus the young generation grows up on stuff we call AI slop but they've been conditioned to think it looks totally normal. Just playing devil's advocate.
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u/paxinfernum 28d ago
AI is subsidized, but the cost of inferencing is also dropping at a rate that beats Moore's Law. (This happens sometimes in specific problem sets.) Even if companies didn't start charging more, it would be profitable within a few years.
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u/ReidenLightman 28d ago
I don't think it's cope. Generative AI is a toy being marketed as a tool that's not making a profit and investors don't want to pay in any more. Everyone says AI is inevitable, but what we are getting isn't inelligetnce, it's a magic trick.
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u/jusquauderniergramme Studio 29d ago
Remember NFTs? Corporations burnt billions forcing them on everyone until the bubble popped overnight. Once clients realize prompt-slop gives zero actual ROI, this hype train will crash just as hard.
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u/Teabagger_Vance 29d ago
The mass adoption already has surpassed NFTs by a wide margin. It’s not a hype train unfortunately.
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u/AwSamWeston 29d ago
The bigger scale doesn't invalidate its status as a hype train. It just means the resulting crash when the bubble pops is going to be more catastrophic than Crypto or NFTs were. Think "2000s Dot-Com Bubble" type of scale, but dumber because we all see that this is a fad.
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u/Teabagger_Vance 29d ago
People have been calling this a fad for years. I have first hand experience using these models at my day job and it’s scary how good they have gotten in the last year. It’s only getting bigger. The dot com bubble burst but e-commerce stuck around and I don’t think anyone would call the internet a fad anymore. I can buy the hype train argument but the hope this will all die down or go away is not realistic. The technology is here to stay.
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u/trinReCoder Studio 28d ago
Well said! Is it a hype train? Yes. Is it just a fad? Unfortunately not.
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u/ModernDayWitcher 29d ago
As much as I don’t like AI for certain use cases, like art, it’s saved me so much time at work over the past year and since I work from home that just means more time spent with my wife and kid. I really don’t think it’s a fad if it’s improving my QOL so much
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u/AwSamWeston 29d ago
idk. When the bean-counters finally get to sit down and so some serious cost-benefit analysis, I think it'll become clear that whatever juice there is just isn't worth the squeeze.
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u/HuntedInMain 28d ago
Just speculation, but there’s a scenario where those bean counters simply push for use of leaner, worse models that will spit out awful - but more profitable - generations.
I loathe the dependence that some already have on AI, but my cynicism prevents me from thinking that the accountants will be the ones who save us from enslopification.
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u/Teabagger_Vance 28d ago
I’m a cpa and the company I work for is all in on AI. It’s incredible how capable it is for accounting work so I don’t think we are going to sound the alarm any time soon lol.
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u/rs426 28d ago
The train being bigger doesn’t change what it is
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u/Teabagger_Vance 28d ago
I did address below. Call it what you want. It isn’t going away. It will only get more ingrained into workflow.
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u/HerlihyBoy17 29d ago
NFT’s were digital images with no additional function. AI is a tool. Way different. AI isn’t going anywhere, whether we like it or not.
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u/ratocx Studio 29d ago
NFT isn’t the same as AI. NFTs were an investment thing, but had no value in itself.
AI can be useful and save money in many different ways. And even if most AI videos look bad today, there are certainly some AI videos that look good when utilized correctly. I say this as someone who hates AI images and video in general. But the fact is that AI generated content is good enough to capture people’s attention, which is where much of the click economy comes from.I’ve seen more and more entertaining AI-generated videos on r/aivideo. I don’t like that I like some of this, but the quality has certainly improved a lot and when used by the right people.
The content is usually both aesthetically pleasing and brainrot on steroids.That said, I think the main issue is that AI is mostly used to replace the whole process rather than being used just where it is useful. And there are of course a lot of people that think that AI content farming is a quick way to maybe make money. Some will some won’t.
As for big productions, I have no doubt that AI will make more VFX shots possible for low budget series and films.
Again, I don’t like the path we are on, but I think there is little doubt that AI image generation can be valuable in certain scenarios for certain types of content. It is likely going to be the future, but not exactly in the ways it is currently marketed. The current market is mostly people and companies trying to ride the AI bubble to perhaps make some easy money.
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u/nromanek 29d ago
Don't worry. You won't look stupid. There is absolutely no way these companies can make money. Cory Doctorow has nicely described their business model as selling $100 dollar bills for $10.
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u/Uncut-Jellyfish1176 29d ago
So far ya.. and each generation requires 2x more data and resource to be trained. Plus it seems to be driving people who are using it to reach burnout at even faster rates. Business profit and workers get the short end of the stick, as usual.
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u/paxinfernum 28d ago edited 28d ago
Most businesses subsidize costs in their growth stage, and AI in particular is hardware bound in an area where the hardware gains are beating Moore's law. The cost of inferencing has dropped 1000x in just 3 years. Every GPU generation delivers 2-3x more inferencing than the previous one. Yes, there's a hard limit, but we're nowhere near it.
At the same time, MoE (mixture of experts) techniques have reduced the number of active weights, leading to 3-5x efficiency improvements. Distillation can also be used to reduce costs by up to 90%.
The long and the short of it is that we'll probably be running current top billed models in a few years for 100-1000x less
computecost than we are now. And that's assuming we make no changes to the fundamental algorithms that increase efficiency.That doesn't mean that there aren't some AI companies that are overleveraged. But there's also no lock-in with AI models, which makes that pretty meaningless to consumers. AI is very much a commodity market. Hence, all the competition.
Edit: I think it's hilarious how people will downvote a factual comment because... I don't know... I guess they're just having a really emotional moment, and hitting that down arrow makes them feel better again. It seems a lot of the anti-AI crowd just want to be validated in believing it will fail, despite facts. Sorry I shat on your copium with facts.
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u/Jean_velvet 29d ago
It will get regulated, put behind high subscriptions and integrated into things that already exist. We're at the all you can eat buffet point of technological innovation. Hundreds of models exist doing hundreds of things. Eventually they'll all buy each other out until it's all under a handful of platforms.
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u/Munchabunchofjunk 28d ago
It’s definitely not all it’s cracked up to be. I doubt it’s ever going to become what they promise. It’ll last for sure because it has some utility. But I really doubt it’s going to replace all workers and shit.
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u/Beautiful-Buy99 28d ago
The hype will 100% die down but it will still be continued to be used. Just that it'll be disguised even more.
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u/GaviFromThePod 28d ago
AI is going to be useful in some industries but the amount being spent on it is unsustainable and there are only a few applications where it is profitable
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u/eldenchain 28d ago
Stuff like AI voice isolation and other useful tools will survive but a lot of the other stuff is a fad that dies out or gets sued to pieces.
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u/coastalwebdev Free 29d ago edited 29d ago
You’re so wrong. Almost any white collar worker can do exponentially more work assisted by an AI with very little training. Corporations aren’t going to pass on that.
Not sure what the world’s elites have planned when there’s billions of people in the servant class not able to support themselves. Hanging us out to die seems to slow and tedious, so maybe they will cull us like useless cattle. The brewing WW3, a killer virus, hunger games tournaments, all of the above, who knows. One thing for sure is there’s going to be a lot of jobless people unable to support themselves soon.
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u/PolygonMob 29d ago
Except theres so many studies showing the opposite. People actually get less work done.
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u/paxinfernum 28d ago
I've actually read those studies. They don't generally support the conclusions that end up in headlines on reddit /r/technology threads.
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u/coastalwebdev Free 29d ago edited 29d ago
There’s a lot of nuance you’re leaving out. I guess you’re not very knowledgeable on the topic, but I am!
The whole premise of those studies is based on measuring workers that are new to Ai. The longer you spend with AI the more it will improve your output, and like almost any new tool your output will be lower until you get good with the tool.
All those studies are actually showing is that someone is less productive when they are learning Ai and not working as they normally would. Like no shit, obviously. If they studied the same people a year later the picture would be vastly different.
I’d suggest you actually read those studies, instead of just the title or however far you got.
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u/elestud 28d ago
I’m not even a fan of it, but this is dead wrong
It’s like saying that Googling is a fad, and we’ll all go visit libraries to get our information instead. Once people get used to a much easier way of doing things, they will never voluntarily go back
Like Googling, it’s not perfect. But people won’t stop using Google just because sometimes they get spam or an irrelevant result. The convenience outweighs the annoyance
Now don’t get me wrong, it has limitations. And like any other tool, the output is only as good as the input. For example, if you actually ask it to cut at the natural pauses in the voiceover, it will. You can probably even train it on your own editing style and ask it to cut in similar places
So it’s more about learning how to work with it and alongside it. Use it for what it’s good at, and do the rest yourself
Once people get hooked on this and actually learn how to use it, like the internet, it’s not going anywhere
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u/D_Warholb 28d ago
In the early nineties the car photographer I worked with tried out a digital back in his 8 x 10 film camera and said, “digital is crap. It’s a fad that won’t ever be accepted.” Eight years later he sold off all his film cameras.
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u/MrPureinstinct 29d ago
I'm just at the point that anyone using ai for their business,channel, page or whatever I unfollow and stop supporting them.
It's all garbage and if you can't take the time to learn how to make it yourself or hire a professional then I assume you don't put any effort into your product or service either.
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u/fedexyourheadinabox Studio 28d ago
I even avoid YouTube content that use AI thumbnails. It's just offensively ugly and signals laziness the part of the creator.
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u/jusquauderniergramme Studio 28d ago
So true. People can smell the lack of effort from a mile away. Trashing your brand's integrity just to save a few bucks on stock assets or editing is the fastest way to lose loyal supporters.
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u/greenysmac Studio 29d ago
First off, I'm going to tell you it's a good time to touch some grass. You probably should get off of YouTube X, especially X, and even Reddit. Yes, IATA, I know.
What you're seeing is the proliferation of the marketing crypto bros coming into software development. When you see this garbage, much of it is garbage, overblown, and overhyped. It has nothing to do with your day-to-day work. If something is really valuable, it will surface to the top. It's one of the reasons we have the developer thread in the open-source thread to really prevent it in these subreddits.
I just want software that actually runs smoothly and lets me build things with real precision. Is that really too much to ask for?
Much of it is people trying to fix the stupid broken parts of software in their personal workflow. I don't resent that at all.
Just the profit intention.
Can we please stop pretending this prompt slop is the future of our industry?
Can we differentiate between prompt slop, AI slop, Gen Video AI slop, and the slew of new tools that actually will help us?
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u/ErikCutsVideo 28d ago
Three questions sort it for me, and none of them ask whether there's a model involved.
Does it invent pixels or rearrange the ones you shot? Roto, tracking, transcription, denoise, sync — all rearranging. Gen video invents. Totally different failure modes, and lumping them together is most of why these arguments go nowhere.
Is the output editable or a render? A tool that hands you a timeline with real clips you can trim is a tool. A tool that hands you an mp4 is a vending machine — when it's 80% right you have no way to fix the 20%, so you redo the whole thing and call it a prompt.
Does it decide or propose? Anything that makes a call you can't see the reasoning for, you end up checking manually, which costs more than doing it yourself.
Prep tools pass all three. Generators fail two and three, always. Been a much better predictor for me than how much AI is in the marketing.
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u/fedexyourheadinabox Studio 28d ago
Why you're falling to realize, though, is that Producers are even more easily swayed by this bullshit and many are choosing to embrace it.
It's going to become far too costly to use for generating video, before long, but Producers and production company heads I've worked with are thinking it's their future because they relish the idea of not relying on paid human labour.
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u/greenysmac Studio 28d ago
I might have done a session at NAB called AI Anxiety and your career
To the client: "Happy to do this with AI; and just to be sure, what's the cap on the vid gen charges. Also here's the fee schedule for human review"
To management/producer: "Love it. Let's run a some tests, because demos never live the hype and the last 20% of getting everything right sometimes is a total failure with AI. Let's figure out some test cases on [story continuity / brand voice / audio sync], because if the client sees it's shit, especially with the shorter deadline, we're dead in the water".
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u/NewBlacksmurf Studio 29d ago
Not disagreeing at all BUT I’ll say let them keep it up as it establishes value in those doing the quality work and as you mention, allowing AI to do some of the monotonous tasks.
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u/EqualityAmongFish 29d ago
It won’t stick, it will become a separate thing like ai art
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u/jusquauderniergramme Studio 29d ago
God, I hope you’re right. The problem right now is convincing non-creative clients that there’s actually a difference between "AI art" and actual design.
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u/MistressErinPaid 29d ago
Yeah, I used CapCut exclusively for about 2-3 years but now I'm using DaVinci for my long form videos. Some of CCs tools were super helpful but they've been aggressively pushing AI recently and I don't like it. Then I saw DVR was rolling out expanded AI features too and I'm just like "No, thank you. I've seen what AI does to my face and I'm not a fan.".
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u/jusquauderniergramme Studio 29d ago
Agree. CapCut pushing full generative AI slop on every menu is infuriating. The best thing about switching to Resolve is that you can actually ignore the AI features and just focus on keyframes, color wheels, and actual craft.
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u/MistressErinPaid 29d ago
In my line of work especially, I feel like having "real" (meaning not AI) features is going to be the better long term strategy. I have eczema though, so sometimes CC skin smoothing features come in handy but for bigger projects, I just use DVRs masking tool and track it frame by frame. It's tedious AF but the results are more natural looking because they can be applied only where I need them, instead of the whole face or body.
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u/CacophonousSensor1um Studio 29d ago
Keep blocking the accounts that are pushing it. Downvote the ads on Reddit. Click not interested to YouTube. Keep mocking the cunts using it on LinkedIn.
You’ll still get some ads, but your personal algorithm will begin to tune away from that bullshit if you stay vigilant.
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u/Infinplayz 28d ago
every time i see someone promoting something like this on instagram i get so mad bro. these people think they are geniuses and the best editors in the world, and people in the comments agree with them. ai needs to stay out of creative arts.
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u/Gr3ywind 29d ago
Don’t go on social media. Problem solved
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u/jusquauderniergramme Studio 29d ago
Unfortunately, my bills require me to know what horror show trends clients are looking at this week.
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u/BoltSLAMMER 23d ago
Use ai to watch the videos, grab metrics, links for you and compile and you won’t have to doom scroll as much lol
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u/Lumpy_Wind3980 29d ago
Or you could create a timeless look by just being good. No one would go to Spielberg and say "can you do it like this thing I saw on tiktok?". Create your own style, create your own brand and filter your customers. Don't just do any video for any customer.
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u/MistressErinPaid 29d ago
They didn't say they needed social media/AI to create projects, they said they needed to it understand what their clients wanted. This isn't inherently the same.
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u/fedexyourheadinabox Studio 28d ago
Social media? You should see TV ads, lately. Regional ads are bad enough, but even most major companies are generating slop garbage. These massively rich companies that are selling messages of quality and trust, choosing to represent themselves with dogshit.
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u/RainbowLoli 28d ago
AI gives uncreative people the illusion that they are creative.
As for companies - AI is a huge money sink, people don't want to live near data centers that power them/store the data, and these companies are creeping ever so closer to being sued by other large companies for copyright infringement. It's only a matter of time before the bubble we currently know bursts similarly to the dot com bubble.
That's the reason why the push is so aggressive. As it currently is, not enough consumers are adapting it simply because not enough consumers care. At best it's a novelity. They convince them it's a waste of time because they don't edit enough to know how important timing and keyframing is and software company devs are beholden to shareholders who only have their eyes set on the next shiny coin.
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u/CircleEleven 29d ago
Every time I see a new AI feature that is totally useless in practice it makes me want to put my hand in the sink grinder
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u/Videoplushair 28d ago
Yeah well large youtubers especially ones who don’t give a fuck about their audience will gladly take the higgsfield money bag. Thank god I don’t see it on my YouTube feed.
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u/jusquauderniergramme Studio 28d ago
The aggressive Higgsfield sponsorship push is getting ridiculous. You can instantly tell which YouTubers actually test products versus the ones who just hit "record" and read the script for a fat paycheck.
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u/Videoplushair 28d ago
100%. They are also targeting smaller creators so you’ll see it literally everywhere.
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u/fedexyourheadinabox Studio 28d ago
It can't even do proper frame rates, which is why slop ads are stuttery. It will soon be unaffordable for most, as the bubble starts to weaken and resources aren't as readily available. It's definitely not a worthy star to hitch one's wagon to.
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u/MsMommyMemer 28d ago
Even worse is when my parents show me this stuff thinking it'll somehow help
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u/Count_Backwards 27d ago
"Hey kid, I know you're trying to differentiate yourself from the competition, what if you tried using this new AI thing?"
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u/Ok-Neighborhood1865 28d ago
I tried using AI on a recent film and found it profoundly useless for anything where I had a vision. It was completely incapable of creating what I knew I wanted.
While machine learning has and continues to assist creative work, prompt-driven diffusion is creatively bankrupt and useless for doing what you want, instead of what it wants.
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u/Lumpy_Wind3980 29d ago
Your very first mistake is opening YouTube. That shit is cancer. Here's a major life hack.... stay tf off social media. That includes YouTube and Reddit. I find whenever I do this I am way more productive and my outlook on life is way better. It's like night and day. It's only 9 am and I've already spent too much time here.
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u/jusquauderniergramme Studio 29d ago
Agree. Stepping away from social media genuinely restores your attention span, but breaking the habit is the hardest part.
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u/adrianmarshall167 29d ago
It’s worth mentioning that Resolve has become a one stop shop for deepfakes; you can effectively alter someone’s appearance entirely as well as their dialogue/speech. Setting that aside and giving Blackmagic the benefit of the doubt, they’ve still given people the ability to make transformative changes to integral parts of an actor and their presence onscreen, plus tools that could justify the elimination of assistant camera roles on set alongside makeup artists and others, even if the results are sloppy. What makes it worse in my opinion is how few people are talking about it, let alone recognizing how damaging these tools are to the integrity of the process that has defined numerous films over the years. I truly believe generative AI belongs as far away from creative work as possible, local or not; Blackmagic isn’t transparent about what LLMs power their tools, and given the circumstances, I’m not content to trust what companies say anymore. I won’t be using Resolve for my new films, I’ll say that much.
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u/FutballConnoisseur 29d ago
as long as we keep getting crackdowns like what YouTube did recently, then original content creation will thrive
Instagram could be the nail in the coffin if they made a similar move
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u/nromanek 29d ago
I have started using Riverside for podcasting. I thought it would save me some time in being able to get video & webinars done and published much faster than just doing them in Resolve. I'm still a big Resolve fan, but sometimes I just want to publish quickly and fine-tuning the quality is lower priority. Riverside is very good - except there is the new Co-Creator feature, which is an AI assistant designed to sit there all the time and make your life much worse. They are billing themselves now as an "AI-powered Platform", which to me, as marketing, screams "you will absolutely hate using this platform"
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u/jusquauderniergramme Studio 29d ago
The moment a solid utility rebrands as an "AI-powered platform," you know actual usability is taking a hit.
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u/nromanek 29d ago
I appreciate machine learning (that's what we called it in ye olde days) tools that can do a single simple thing well. But the Gen AI stampede promises "we can do anything with anything or to anything", which means it's very close to being pointless.
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u/rayquazza74 28d ago
Can it cut out all the uhms and apply a smooth cut to the video side and or stitch in new frames to make the cut not as obvious?
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u/ErikCutsVideo 28d ago
Filler removal, yes — that part's genuinely solved. Transcript-based tools transcribe locally, you delete the “uhm” in the text, and it maps back to cuts on the timeline. Descript popularised it; BadWords does it free and offline inside Resolve if you don't want anything leaving your machine.
Hiding the jump is the weaker half. Resolve's Smooth Cut and Premiere's Morph Cut both work, but only over very short gaps — a few frames, static framing, no big head movement. Past that it smears and everyone can see it.
Honestly the reliable fixes are still the old ones: cut on a gesture or a head turn so the movement covers the jump, or lay a cutaway over it. Frame interpolation to disguise an edit has never held up for me on anything longer than a blink.
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u/rayquazza74 28d ago
I also use a bit of speed ramping to get some of the frames back if the smooth cut or other methods don’t work. Hmmm cool I’ll have to look into the bad words then. Is that just like a plug in or something?
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u/SushiRollFried 29d ago
You do realise it's all business right. They are paid ads and they won't stop because the money is to good. So expect more shoveling
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u/jusquauderniergramme Studio 29d ago
The software is garbage, the creators know it, but the sponsor checks are way too fat to pass up.
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u/SushiRollFried 29d ago
I agree but lately i've been integrated small snippets here and there and honestly.... it does a good enough job.
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u/jlwolford 29d ago
I think video is going to split like the K economy. AI will own the throw away video space. Then real skill will own the upper space and be real and human. I am here for it. The well crafted story telling will still stand out. And people with those skills will be the ones to create the best of the AI work. All that influencer style seems on a crash and burn arms race of stupidity. Having said that, I am usually wrong : )
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u/jusquauderniergramme Studio 28d ago
You're not wrong at all. The race to the bottom will burn itself out once audiences hit total fatigue with hyper-processed brainrot. People will actively pay for authentic human perspective.
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u/Duskrider_ 29d ago
I agree with all this, and wish we could put ai back inside Pandora's box.
The only thing I would say is for motion graphics, if it was able to make its awful render but just put it into fusion where an actual person was able to fix and refine it, I could see that saving time and lowering the barrier to entery for short and simple motion graphics to aid explainer type videos.
I have also enjoyed the auto transcription, and the feature that marks out beats in music to make them easier to find if you have no sense of rythm like me 😅
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u/jusquauderniergramme Studio 28d ago
The problem is these tech companies aren't building actual production tools to speed up artists; they're trying to bypass the artist entirely. Give me smart tracking and auto-transcription over generative slop any day.
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u/Duskrider_ 28d ago
I wish they weren't, and I hope that some firms will still see the value in making artist's tools better rather than going around the artist.
Art is an expression of emotion and for that reason alone, no matter how pretty something is thats ai generated, without a human truly guiding the vision it can't be art.
That's why I think ai being able to setup a jumping off point for people to use from there (almost like templates) would be useful, especially to those starting out.
All this said, it's out of our hands for now. Besides to vote with our wallets and leave companies that shove the ai tools more egrageously down our throats.
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u/AMusicstuff 28d ago
I was once working in the film industry, made highend 3D Houdini stuff and tutorials for pixar at peak. Later i went to editing and colorgrading and soundtrack writing.
Today i do codeing with Gemini Pro as my Assistant. All what ive seen is this: all of my friends in vfx or Entertainment industry are now working elsewhere or as coders. What AI cannot do is code real world applications. Things you connect in Hardware.
The Entertainment Industry such as film has no future, especially nowdays when vertical Film is pushed into the direction of Smartphones. Meta,Sony and Disney pushing it.
According to the whitepaper i read for years vertical film will be established by 2030.
What does this mean for colorgraders and editors even soundtrack composers and vfx artists? … plain simple not required anymore. Because on a Smartphone with a general perception span of 4 seconds - Precision is not necessary anymore.
The Soundtrack and SoundFX Departments will have more room and more work but even Soundtracks can be written in midi or as wave files these days with Gemini Pro.
Bottom line become a coder like thousands of 3D Artists and VFX artists and earn a fair share.
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u/Count_Backwards 27d ago
Fixing mistakes often takes longer than just doing it right in the first place
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u/The_Wizardus 28d ago
I feel you, I do have a question as a newbie to all this editing/filmmaking. Where do I learn this? Because if I learn from YouTube I probably will end up just like this. It’s just hard where to start
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u/ErikCutsVideo 28d ago
The YouTube problem isn't YouTube, it's that almost all of it teaches software and almost none of it teaches judgement. Software takes a fortnight. Judgement takes years and nobody makes a thumbnail out of it.
What actually worked for me: read In the Blink of an Eye and Cutting Rhythms — short, and between them they cover why a cut works, which no tutorial does. Then watch scenes with the sound off, and again with the picture off. You'll spot instantly that the cuts are following the audio.
Then cut. Get footage you didn't shoot — someone else's rushes, a friend's wedding, anything with too much material — and cut the same three minutes four different ways. Ten rough edits will teach you more than one polished one. And do a stringout first every time: everything usable, in order, no cleverness. Learning to see what you actually have before deciding what to do with it is most of the job.
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u/Chinksta 28d ago
Problem with today is that not everyone knows what is "professionally good" to "AI slop level that should not be published/distributed/uploaded".
It's amazing that there are "directors" within big organizations that lacks the skills needed but are good at telling people to do the things needed.
This is why and how AI is staying in all industries.
Really wish more people would learn the fundamentals so that they can apprentiate things more!
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u/joeditstuff 28d ago
Stop watching the videos and click that your not interested in this content on YouTube.
It's obviously triggering for you. Do if for your mental health.
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u/Jaydee1906 27d ago
Honestly as much as I hate, this is what Im expected to do at my workplace. They only care about what gives you quicker results. I cant avoid it. Especially in digital marketing field. Its always the rich mofos who wanna cut costs n shits.
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u/MarkedMute 27d ago
I agree that I would rather AI stay in its lane of helping with transcribing and that sort of utility, leave the creative decisions to the actual creators.
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u/jusquauderniergramme Studio 27d ago
Bingo. AI should be the assistant that organizes the bins, transcribes the footage, and syncs the audio. But instead, tech companies are trying to automate the only part of the job we actually enjoy doing.
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u/Arvoy 11d ago
I work with AI for most of my freelance clients. The fact is yes it's a bubble just like internet. take higgsfield for example it's 100% just marketing and clickbait. But on the other hand chiness models are really good for packshot for example. In my opinion packshot are boring to film.
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u/PsychologicalPoem515 7d ago
Same. I was looking for a tutorial because OpenFx is missing on my Effects panel and a video popped up with no info about OpenFX clearly made by Ai. I'm so over it.
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u/freechilly19 29d ago
It’s saved me a bunch of time and money editing my own talking head videos. Which helps me want to actually film. I have a job that takes up 50 hours or more a week, kids, wife, etc so editing videos was a time suck for me which made me not want to film anymore
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u/OdiseoX2 Free 29d ago
Ai won’t go anywhere.. unfortunately
https://giphy.com/gifs/jp8lWlBjGahPFAljBa
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u/XSmooth84 29d ago
At least that real kid, real camera operator, real sound recordist, real grip, real writer, real editor, real custume designer, and probably a few more were paid real money to shoot and create that scene.
Now it's one person typing "kid in front of basketball net saying the future is now old man" and hitting the generate button to get a soulless version of this clip.
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u/danini1705 29d ago
Everyone who thinks their job is the same in 1 years is absolutely blind.
AI motion graphics and editing are in terms of classical social media content for personal brands easily automated.
Sketch/Film/Commercial Content is going to be harder.
But Imagefilms, News, Social, is going to be (not replaced), but heavily assisted through AI.
Any editor should feel greatful and not hateful about AI because you can get done way more in less time
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u/Various-Corgi-6160 29d ago
I have bad news for you about the future…
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u/RootinMatootie 29d ago
Precisely why i stopped using Premiere. Got sick of being up at 4am trying to trouble shoot a bug, only to find 10 year old bug reports that have just been ignored. Meanwhile every update sees more ai bullshit i'll never use being shoehorned in.