What 17 Minutes of AI Filmmaking Really Cost
Filmmaker Javi López released The Backrooms Nemoris: It Eats Light, a 17-minute AI-generated short film that took six months to produce, required roughly 12 hours of generated footage from approximate…
Filmmaker Javi López released The Backrooms Nemoris: It Eats Light, a 17-minute AI-generated short film that took six months to produce, required roughly 12 hours of generated footage from approximate…
A developer used Claude to edit his last three YouTube videos in DaVinci Resolve Studio after Blackmagic Design added an MCP connection in Resolve 21.1, cutting raw footage of 15:46, 15:40 and 28:42 d…
RushShift launched an offline AI desktop tool for Windows that indexes local video and photo archives and lets editors search them by natural-language prompt, matching on visual meaning rather than fi…
A developer built a 31,000-line post-production studio for YouTube that automates cutting, grading, thumbnails, shorts creation, and uploads, using Claude Code Max as a substitute for a human editor. …
SubtitleGenerator, a free browser-based AI subtitle generator, launched with a low-confidence review queue that flags uncertain words for manual correction, re-transcription, or editing, and offers 33…
A developer has created an MCP server that enables Claude Code to control DaVinci Resolve's free edition from inside the app, bypassing the sandbox restrictions that block external scripts. The server…
Klo, a native macOS AI video editor, claims to perform edits from plain-English commands, including cuts, captions, color grades, music composition, and voice fixes, with footage never uploading, and …
In 2026, artificial intelligence is transforming audiovisual post-production by automating scene detection, editing, color grading, and VFX, saving production companies 4 to 8 hours per project. Tools…
Jason Zhao launched Space on August 10th, a cloud filesystem for macOS that streams file data on demand into applications like Adobe Premiere and Photoshop, positioning it as 'what Dropbox was suppose…
FFmpeg 9.0 “Lei” shipped today, adding Vulkan GPU acceleration for 360-degree video and Samsung's APV codec, plus ONNX Runtime GPU execution for AI filters, while removing the CELT decoder and droppin…
Wondershare Filmora 15, an AI-first video editing software from Wondershare, offers a perpetual license for $79.99 and subscription plans starting at $49.99 per year, with new AI tools including AI Ex…
A solo filmmaker can now produce a complete short film in a weekend using AI tools including Claude for script and direction, GPT Image for concept art, Seedance for video generation, and ElevenLabs f…
HeyBraza launches Tachyon, an on-screen AI that points to exact buttons and walks users through tasks in apps like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Unity via voice commands, aiming to replace traditional …
OpenCut, an open-source CapCut alternative with 69,000 GitHub stars, is rewriting its video editor around a Rust core, plugin-first architecture, Editor API, headless batch rendering, and an MCP serve…
Runway and Seedance 2.0 enable solo creators to produce cinematic video intros and location transitions without a production crew. The workflow uses Runway's keyframe feature for controlled motion bet…
Adobe acquired Topaz Labs, an AI-powered image and video enhancement tool maker, to integrate its models into Adobe's Firefly app and Creative Cloud suite. The deal aims to strengthen Adobe's AI capab…
AI can assist Linux users with system management tasks such as creating bash scripts, parsing log files, understanding journalctl output, and generating iptables firewall rules, helping newcomers and …
Cutback launched Selects, an AI tool that automates long-form video editing prep, including sync, organization, and draft editing from a single prompt. The tool reduces prep time by 60% and integrates…
A developer indexed 669 GB of GoPro footage from a cycling journey using local machine learning models on an M1 Max computer, enabling search and direct timeline integration with DaVinci Resolve. The …
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video generation model, combined with GPT Image 2, ElevenLabs, and OpenAI's Codex, now enables creators to produce a 3-minute AI animated short film for under $20 in a single …