Hybrid Film Director/Visual Artist • Founder @NAKIDPictures + @STAGES_ai • Exec @ESCAPEaimedia • @CapCut Partner + 50 more 😉🔥
Cincinnati, OH
Joined December 2008
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Just got out of a meeting on production approval for THE LAST ARTIST 🔥🎥❤️ Dream 2, accomplished. 😍😍😍 we’re making a feature length movie!
Years of hard work is paying off all at once..
The last few days I’ve gotten several incredible offers from a $300k/yr job to one of the worlds largest companies specifically wanting me on another project as a repeat hire doing 100% of all the AI-pipeline (img/vid/audio/final polish), and now this production being picked up to be produced as a full length feature film. 🔥🎥
Don’t give up on your dreams, no matter how hard life gets or what gets thrown at you. Only you can keep yourself from reaching them..
And just so it’s clear, social media has helped me do NONE of this. So take that for what it’s worth.
some new stuff I was making for fun to put in @stages_ai inspire me page. :)
I kinda feel like @stages_ai is in itself its own work of art. You can tell an artist designed it, just compare this against othe platforms.. personally, I like my tools to look good & feel good to use, not look like the company is doing the bare minimum to get my money. 🤣 which is nearly everyone else lol
👉 next week pro.stages-ai.io
You can also do this in @stages_ai and you can use our STAGES CLEAN tool to run audio isolation cleanup so it’s crisp.
You can use this in our RESOLVE AUDIO STUDIO too for cleaning up audio for all kinds of reasons, including all your generated content. 👍
This is our new STAGES PRO design coming next week :) finally lol
In @stages_ai you can simply ask CUE to split your audio into stems. It’ll do it automatically, lay them out in the internal editor, sync them, cut out what’s not needed, then repackage and export the video and deliver it in chat.
That’s how I cut out audio of music from dialogue for one of my clients yesterday. 💪🔥
Before you say “oh Claude can do this..” sure, and cost an arm and a leg in compute too. You don’t need Opus you need infrastructure and then the cost drops. I prefer to not pay more than I need to in compute, I don’t have a proclivity to set money on fire for no reason. 🤣
Our agent will literally do audio production and creative mixing AND creative editing on its own based on your instruction. I’ve taught ours to be badass and have taste, Claude has no taste. 🤣 It’s how I did this..
Two minutes of commercial pre-vis completed concepts, twice a day. Most days, it’s me and one damn good editor.
For the past year, my studio @NAKIDpictures has worked with one of the world’s biggest ad agencies, turning concept decks for major brands, one in particular we all know well, into films they can watch before they shoot the real thing.
We have assistants, but the core process is the two of us. We break down the deck and start with the shot we’re least sure we can pull off (which is none 🤣). While I build the visuals and motion, my editor starts cutting. The cut tells me what to make next.”
And how we want to adjust as we move through it.
Two completed concepts a day is the usual ask. Four is about our limit, last project I was doing 4x in a day and edits to all of them, was freaking insane I was able to keep up and turn in by 6pm daily lol. We’re getting cuts to clients ahead of deadlines now though, so the process has proven itself.
That’s why I think studios will get leaner not bigger. I’ve seen how much more ground two people can cover with AI + real footage when both know their craft. Learning what you can do with it is on you.
And honestly, I think you find out how much you love this stuff and filmmaking on the shots nobody pays you for and nobody ever sees. If you only love it when people are watching, maybe what you love is the attention all this brings and not the actual work.
In @stages_ai you can simply ask CUE to split your audio into stems. It’ll do it automatically, lay them out in the internal editor, sync them, cut out what’s not needed, then repackage and export the video and deliver it in chat.
That’s how I cut out audio of music from dialogue for one of my clients yesterday. 💪🔥
Before you say “oh Claude can do this..” sure, and cost an arm and a leg in compute too. You don’t need Opus you need infrastructure and then the cost drops. I prefer to not pay more than I need to in compute, I don’t have a proclivity to set money on fire for no reason. 🤣
Our agent will literally do audio production and creative mixing AND creative editing on its own based on your instruction. I’ve taught ours to be badass and have taste, Claude has no taste. 🤣 It’s how I did this..
Today I invented a workflow that will kill any sound in a video.. music.. a voice.. sfx.. I can remove any of it now in minutes. We needed the music extracted but the video and dialogue and SFX to remain. Was hard at first but I created a cool process to do it, and it’s hella faster and cheaper than re-generating. Kinda stuff you don’t think about or care about unless presented the problem and deadline to get past it in.
One thing I like about really hard projects is most of the time you’re having to figure things out and problem solve. I really like that part, nothing is unsolvable.
lol my client left something nice in the feedback, when I checked in for production today they had left a note in with the revisions that was this gif on the whole first page 🤣💪🔥 needless to say they are liking the hustle and edits haha ❤️ considering who my client is, this is the biggest compliment ever.
Since im getting hit up a lot for this.. I’ll turn it into a tool in @stages_ai 👌 I should be able to get it done by launch.
Today I invented a workflow that will kill any sound in a video.. music.. a voice.. sfx.. I can remove any of it now in minutes. We needed the music extracted but the video and dialogue and SFX to remain. Was hard at first but I created a cool process to do it, and it’s hella faster and cheaper than re-generating. Kinda stuff you don’t think about or care about unless presented the problem and deadline to get past it in.
One thing I like about really hard projects is most of the time you’re having to figure things out and problem solve. I really like that part, nothing is unsolvable.
If you wanna make your duo screen last longer, stop folding it when you don’t need to. Leave it open like an iPad. Unless you’re physically carrying it and it’s going in your pocket there isn’t really a solid reason to keep it closed, you’re just degrading your screen surface faster. The battery is insanely good, maybe take a break from your phone if it’s dead in less than a day 🤣
13 plugins that will change your entire creative workflow. 😉🔥 @stages_ai nearly time..
