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  • Your “Fit to frame” in Preferences may be checked off.

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  • Santanu Bhattacharjee

    January 2, 2025 at 4:09 pm in reply to: MP4 Exports and Transcodes Out of Sync

    You could completely delete all the cache folder and try re-encoding. 5.1 does gets me into problem sometimes. Try changing the audio codec for mp4 encoder.

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  • AI will remain a tool. AI wont replace humans. But cheap labor will replace expensive or good labor, because cost cutting is in the highest interest of the top managers , clients.

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  • THIS IS SCARY. I have been dabbling into many artforms in my career of 30 years. I have seen many artforms and hard work of people vanish in my lifetime. In the late 80s, when music synthesizers, octa-pads became popular, live musicians like brass, strings, wind, large studios lost out to them.

    With the advent of cheap DSLRs, film crew shrunk. Smartphone cameras killed the photography business because many client couldn’t perceive the difference. Free YouTube and COVID made every other guy a filmmaker. Cinema is dead because of the OTT. Video businesses shrunk.

    ChatGPT, shrunk the writers community. Voice artists are losing business to AI. There is an AI for every artform. AI though in its juvenile stage, it will soon be the last nail in the coffin.

    Its nice to console that AI is only a tool. AI will not be the problem, but the democracy of every Tom, Dick owning it will. Art will then belong to loudest mouth on the highest cliff = democracy of art.

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  • Hey Mads,

    Thanks for your detailed reply. And another bigger thanks for taking out time to go through my website. I am already pondering about your suggestions to introduce AI offerings and benefits to clients will surely help.

    I agree that just like the dotcom bubble, today’s AI is half-baked and another big bubble. Our offerings is going to be that “novelty” the CHATGPTs and SORAs can not bring to table. You are right, they will only cut the mundane retainer stuff we do. However, it will take a while before our clients reorient in these global recession times.

    Also thanks for your positive motivation. Makes me feel not-alone in this new disruption, recession era.

    Another big problem is that with the advent of newer tech, the design industry is getting more and more under-valued. The social media is bombarded with novelty. Every other guy is a content creator. However our efforts aren’t getting any easy, except for a few rendering times and automation here and there.

    You mentioned Adobe contemplating to close the cloud shop. The other day, I was listening to a post of some Pixar guys ridiculing After Effects comparing with to Unreal. While the new Unreal release can render 144 FPS of realistic, procedural landscape, The latest After Effects struggles to render Realtime at 0.25 fps a simple footage with a simple effect. Similarly Autodesk has been sleeping over their laurels for way too long. The future of AI is novelty not re-creation. AI has to create newer worlds never imagined before by creating 3D models. Re-using existing art for generative content will hit the wall soon.

  • No. What you mentioned is normal trimming in a sequence. That’s not what I am looking for. You can now drag and drop video clips into the essential graphics panel and stack them along with text and shape layers. These layers are great way to be used as mask. However, I cannot trim the start and end points of the clip. The only option I have is to trim the entire essential graphics layer. That cuts off the intro and outro of the EG layer

  • Coming back to this post after 2 years, I would say, YES, AI has slowly started eating into some of the video guys jobs. My clients now use AI inhouse for all their small content needs like script, talking heads, removing unwanted stuff from photographs, generative images which they were earlier out sourcing to us.

  • Besides a filmmaker, I am also a computer engineer working on AI and various other software. Since ChatGPT and midjourney every other person is offering half baked AI products. In the near future, we will see many small plugins and tools like generative AI, predictive AI, Search AI for mundane tasks. They will get better by day.

    However, for exact design to be created, as in the creators mind, AI has to start with 3D geometries. This is already happening, but very rudimentary yet. It would need quantum computing and large convolutional networks for that size of number crunching. And quantum is still in its early prototype phase. Another 10 years…

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  • Santanu Bhattacharjee

    September 17, 2023 at 10:32 am in reply to: Adding subtitles to raw footage before editing

    Ppro can transcript footages in many languages. Pull all the footage on a sequence. You need not do a close caption yet. Directly do a text based video editing on the transcript tab. It is is a good practice for editing long format raw footage. This eliminates the donkey work of repeated listening to the bad takes. Text Search for repeated text and straight away delete them. If Ppro can transcript to your language go ahead and do that. It saves a lot of time.

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  • Santanu Bhattacharjee

    September 17, 2023 at 10:27 am in reply to: Premiere Pro distorts voiceover

    Check the clip property in Interpret footage. A sample rate change or misinterpretation may be creating the pitch change.

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