[Robbie Janney]

Hey Mads!

Excellent questions, thanks for the response.

So, when Storylines says “Trained on your edits”, that means that the AI that we can create for certain workflows is trained on a specific person’s workflow – but that information is not used to feed the general AI.

Think of it like this: we’ve got general AI tools that are available to the public on our site. That AI was trained by us on our edits and they complete a certain type of task that can be widely used by just about anyone – social media highlights and soundbites, specifically.

BUT, say there’s a company that has a certain type of video that it creates in bulk. For example, product information videos that they use for their website. We can train an AI on that specific problem – (the bin structure the editors use, a basic rough cut creator, lower third generator according to the transcript, etc.) all curated for those specific tasks that the editing team wants to speed up. So, a separate pipeline is created that is trained for that specific system, and not the general AI.

Since video creation varies so widely and the general knowledge that there isn’t a “edit my video” button that works for everyone, we have a general AI that we train on our own information and bespoke AI that uses the general model, but is modded for specific workflows of editors/companies that have asked us to train on their videos (for their use only, of course).

I think that’s the best use of AI – those specific pockets of tedious tasks that come with an editors workflow that can be offloaded to an AI, trained on that specific editor’s instructions so they can get to the more creative, intuitive stuff faster.

[Robbie Janney]

I believe AI is going to assist creatives, and unfortunately for many MBAs that are looking to “cut costs wherever possible (usually in the creative department)”, AI will not be replacing people anytime soon.

How do I know? Well, one, i’ve been an editor for 10 years, and two, I work for a startup who’s primary goal is to create AI tools for video editors.

I’m headfirst in the AI video editing sphere every weekday, and most every weekend.

So it surprises me when some video editing AI companies claim that “you won’t need a video editor anymore” – most of the final products that they produce look like every other one that comes out – it’s a script that is followed and doesn’t have any of the real branding or visual look of videos edited by pros.

Like, i’ve seen the current limits of AI – I talk to our AI scientists every day about the subject.

We’re very, very far from a “God Button” of any sort that can spit out an edit exactly how you want it.

BUT, AI has advanced enough that it’s super helpful in some cases.

For example, we’ve got an automatic social media highlight selector (Reels Finder) that finds the best 1 minute sections of your long form video. You can prompt the AI with a specific topic, and it’ll find the best reels according to your instructions.

The cool part is that you can edit the reels with transcript editing, add captions, and then export the reels to Resolve/FCP/Premiere for polishing and mo-graph support.

We also have a soundbite selector, which grabs all of the best takes from raw interview footage that you can export as a timeline to Resolve/FCP/Premiere.

We’re also working on some cool stuff like auto-logging and bin creation using computer vision, and rough cut creation using prompts.

It’s all in service of making life faster and easier for editors, since at the end of the day, the human decisions that go into the final cut is what makes a video stand out.

We’re free at the moment, so try it out if any of this sounds interesting. (Storylines.video)