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DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by bensyverson »

strideashort wrote: post #15
bensyverson wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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."

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.

It's already possible, but in my opinion it will never be popular. In some ways this has already been proven through other media; ChatGPT can easily generate a novel, but how many people are reading pure-AI novels?

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by aizk »

embedding-shape wrote: post #2

Not even BMD is safe from the agent apocalypse: > DaVinci Resolve 21.1 now supports integration with AI assistants such as Claude, Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex, allowing customers to analyze projects, organize media, adjust settings and batch render using everyday conversational language. Customers can ask their AI assistant to create highlight edits from long form video, remove unwanted clips and render deliverable…

No no, if you've ever spent serious time editing, it's a big deal -- if they pull this off correctly, it will be a game changer. Editing has so much grunt work, where you just have to spending time organizing, collecting files, renaming things, finding missing files... Just tedious project management stuff that is excellent for an AI to do.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by bensyverson »

jameshart wrote: post #25
RankingMember wrote: post #7

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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 inf…

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 L…

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.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by pboulos »

As an anecdote, I recently needed to colour-grade some short footage for personal purposes. My workflow at the time was to essentially ask an LLM for guidance on how to use DaVinci Resolve to perform the task, step by step. I would make an adjustment, take a screenshot of the controls and the result, and repeat that process a handful of times, eventually ending up with a pretty nice result.

I can definitely see the utility of something like this for cases where a media budget just wouldn't have existed in the first place.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by xinayder »

embedding-shape wrote: post #2

Not even BMD is safe from the agent apocalypse: > DaVinci Resolve 21.1 now supports integration with AI assistants such as Claude, Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex, allowing customers to analyze projects, organize media, adjust settings and batch render using everyday conversational language. Customers can ask their AI assistant to create highlight edits from long form video, remove unwanted clips and render deliverable…

They'd rather add agentic AI support instead of adding proper codec support on the free Linux version (which is already supported on Windows).

smh

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by jameshart »

bensyverson wrote: post #33
jameshart wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 L…

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.

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.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by hbn »

xattt wrote: post #17
bensyverson wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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."

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 w…

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.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by rfgplk »

I don't see how companies like this can survive going forwards. DaVinci Resolve is effectively ~200 Astra/Fable prompts, maybe even fewer if you're willing to forgo polish.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

xattt wrote: post #17
bensyverson wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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."

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 w…

I just watched the entire cycle of Don Quixote films by/about Terry Gilliam. That is a master class in how to ensure that your magnum opus is the worst film you've ever made.
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