finalcutgod

When it comes to the AI Video Editing conversation with Claude taking over Adobe and DaVinci I think it’s actually very simple for people to just tell the truth and stop hiding behind emotional and moral arguments… That ultimately are a costume for job security or artistic preference. 80% of formats can be handled by this workflow and should be. There are plenty of genres of content there the “human” part or craft part has almost NOTHING to do with the edit are all done in camera and in front of the camera and are either personality driven or fully driven by the content itself. News videos are mechanical, not necessarily the most fun thing in the world to edit and don’t have novelty if you’re actually delivering news. They are driven by tight deadlines and non artistic edits and are more listened to than watch. The same for podcast interviews and podcasts clips. This work is basically just a slog and not something people wake up passionate r edit. If anything they are passionate to film it instead and the editing just gets in the way. I think most people would agree to that. Yes, someone could make it artsy but that’s not really the point. I think everyone can also concede that for smaller channels doing personal content that hiring an editor and also working on the edits yourself is not necessarily in the budget for MOST small channels that barely make money or can be monetized. If people can’t look at the current economy and admit that, I think we are talking past each other and have to go back to what “objectively means” when it concerns the majority. For most of those folks this will not only edit faster than them, but better and their time is better spent being good on camera, scriptwriting and putting the energy into their ideas, and any money they make back into their bills or the content itself in terms of any materials or production. The best example of this is DIY content, makeup tutorials and get ready with me content and unboxing or haul videos. Those videos are not driven by the edit or by editing based storytelling. It’s driven by personality, product and the process being shown. The marker for those videos isn’t looking to the edit as the substance. And for the creators in those niches you have to concede the budget is in the materials. Here are the genres AI Video Editing can’t touch and shouldn’t touch unless you just want the rough cut out of the way… (pauses and silences and multicam): - Pure Scripted Entertainment Content - Video Essays and Narrative Content - Cinematic Vlogs and Storytelling - Comedy and Sketches - Science Communicator Videos - Social Experiments and Pranks - Gaming Content - Storytelling and Spectacle Videos - Music Videos and Parody And here is the truth, for those of you who are video editors, that’s the content you enjoy editing anyway. You didn’t get into editing to edit B2B talking head content or Get Ready with Me Videos. You didn’t get into video editing excited to edit another political pundit interview where you have to sit there and do multi-can and audio clean up. You don’t get excited and feel the need to stamp your “craft” on a top 10 listicle video about free software… The “cool” and “fun” stuff you want to edit by hand is exactly the thing that should be edited by hand by a human. And AI doesn’t do a good job with it as things stand and in the near future of the next 5 years I don’t think it will be able to do more than help tweak with some of these genres or do the mechanical parts of them. Nobody is saying you can’t feel threatened, but the way to react to a threat to your job is to show up to your job as a professional… not crash out like a child… and concede the facts as the y are even if they point to truths you don’t particularly care for. There are niches of content where video editing is part of the value proposition. And the reality is also that MOST content creators are not your customer. Focus on the ones that are…