Video Professional Reviews AI (Runway)

[@tactusmediacompany]

Nice work! Cool exploration series into the world of AI!

[@JKCvideo]

Thank you 🙏 We're going to dive deeper in the coming months, let me know if there's anything you're specifically interested in!

[@AlbertoCadeddu]

Crucial question: Should we (new editors out there) wait for a reliable and user-friendly AI video editing software before going all in and purchasing DaVinci Studio, which we know is a crazy overwhelming software?

[@JKCvideo]

There are multiple questions/answers all wrapped up in this topic. 1. I don't think AI will completely replace manual editing EVER. Yes, it will help us a lot but we are far from AI doing even 50% of the work and there will always be a need for being able to fine tune work manually which AI really doesn't offer right now. 2. I also teach video production at the University of Washington and I teach on Premiere Pro because it's the industry standard. Of the hundreds of clients my team has created content for over the past 14+ years I have never once been asked to edit in DaVinci. Our agency and corporate partners always want things done in Premiere Pro because it's part of the Adobe ecosystem. An agency has video editors, graphic designers, audio engineers, website developers, etc and they all lean heavily into the Adobe suite. So if you're starting out, I'd learn Premiere Pro! DaVinci is very powerful, I'm not denying that, but it's not what clients pay you money to use!

[@jesspillaymusic]

So interesting!! I'm curious what your thoughts are on the ethics of these platforms. I've read a number of articles that talked about how several AI platforms have been developed and trained using stolen work/art styles from real artists and creators. (As a writer, I have the same concerns around writing AI like ChatGPT.)

[@JKCvideo]

I hear you loud and clear! Functions like masking out backgrounds or making clips slow motion don't concern me at all but you bring up a great point that some of the more art-inspired tools could have sketchy ways of acquiring those visuals in the first place. I'd like to think Runway isn't blatantly stealing from creatives but we all know that companies will do terrible things to deliver quality products. I think the BIG PROBLEM is... how do we know? We can ask but do we take them at their word? 🤔