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Hey, Mike! Thanks very much 😁😁😁

Heyyyy! Thanks very much :-) glad to be of service :-)

Thanks very much. It got my curiosity going, so I hoped there’d be others out there wondering the same things as me :-)

Remember these vidoes used for runway gen-3 is the best ones cherrypicked by runway themselves.

I agree. At this stage, if you want to create a narrative with AI tools, you need to work around them and within the existing scope.

@@HaydnRushworth-Filmmaker Word. I think we will have full movie with SORA within the year. Thanks for the vid.

Thanks very much, great to have you on board for the journey :-)

Absolutely. Have you seen this video yet? I've started using Domo.ai for video to video because the results are really impressive (at least, as impressive as anything AI ever is at this point). th-cam.com/video/mWimvugAmNg/w-d-xo.html

@@HaydnRushworth-Filmmaker yeah i mean its clearly unusable still. but as soon as the nvidia blackwell cards are in everyones hands 8x the compute from those for AI. Then video will be feasible.

That's a really great question, and I'm embarrassed I didn't include a link... I'll go fix that now, but here it is... nim.video

@@HaydnRushworth-Filmmaker appreciate ya

Thanks. Do you have any links to anything you've created with Runway?

I agree entirely that this is largely the state of AI at the moment. As a solo screenwriter living in Yorkshire, England, I'm such a long way from the production possibilities of Hollywood that I'm facing two options: a) Give up on ever seeing my screenplay turned into something watchable. b) Cling on the the faintest hope of any tool that finally allows me to create a visual version of my Screenplay. I turned it into a eBook to make it more digestible for a non-screenwriter audience, but I didn't write the story to be written, I wrote it to be watched. It's true, though, I really am an absolute dreamer, living in my own little dreamworld, naively, optimistically following a dream :-)

If nobody tried out new things then no progress would be made. For a vanity project (no disrespect meant - I've done plenty of vanity/self-published work of my own), why not try going a non-traditional route? No-one is risking huge sums of money and we all get to learn something. There's nothing wrong with your opinion, but it really doesn't match up with the author's stated objective of using *AI* to turn his script into a film.

The interesting thing is that I loved the entire creative process of writing that Screenplay. It really is such an enjoyable story that it was incredibly satisfying and rewarding to not just see it come together but to feel it coming together as well. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I regularly laughed and cried whilst I wrote the screenplay, and the process of turning it into a visual version is also incredibly enjoyable. Giving it up because it hasn't "succeeded" yet would be like giving up golf because you haven't won the US open yet.

Thanks very much, that sums it up really well for me. The costs and risks of trying AI are so low that we have little to lose but an awful lot to learn.

@@HaydnRushworth-Filmmaker I realise I may come across as cruel but it's a tough business we are in. My first novel was 250,000 words and I thought it was brilliant. It took me eight years to realise that the agents were right. It was crap. I suppose you've heard of a film called, Tangerine made in 2015? The film was shot with three iPhone 5S smartphones. It made its world premiere, at the Sundance Film Festival. It won a host of accolades and no AI at all. One really cannot better reality. The director is now highly regarded. He got his big break. I can only wish the same for you.

Thanks very much. It's a constant effort to stay focused, but a deliberate choice to NOT just make videos about the hottest AI topic of the moment.

Thanks very much re the music and Domo clip. The first time I watched it back with music added I got goosebumps and realised video-to-video really is the most likely way (at this stage) to tell the most human stories. In terms of the visual audio book, that's the next thing I'm going to work on. I'll start with the opening scene and try to versions... a narrated one, like an audiobook reading, and a dramatised one without the narration. Although, having said that, the movie itself opens with a voiceover.

@@HaydnRushworth-Filmmaker I'm wanting to do better lip-syncing for my vids. Runway is OK for talking, but not so much for singing. I'm ready to try video to video. There seem to be a couple possibilities I'm now investigating. This is probably something you will crack.

I've heard good things about Kling, but I hear the wait list is still a challenge. I agree entirely about the cost of credits, it really is a major consideration, especially since the cost of "failed" results are entirely shouldered by the creator.

Thanks very much, I really appreciate the feedback (genuinely). It's a risky thing to "build" a channel without completely trend-jacking, but it means I get to connect with an audience where we have things in common :-)

Thanks very much. It occurred to me yesterday that we really need storytellers and AI filmmakers to collaborate over great, short stories just to push the envelope with AI video. I suspect animation and claymation effects are the lowest hanging fruit, but at least it will get filmmakers and storytellers exercising their AI muscles. In terms of the social media idea, I haven't seen anybody else doing it yet, but in theory, it has great potential for building buzz with a target audience. :-)

5 Years certainly sounds plausible. :-)

Thanks, Tasha, I'd be really interested to see what you do with it. Do you have connections with any willing actors that you could collaborate with for scene tests?

@@HaydnRushworth-Filmmaker I'm sure I could find *somebody* but I have altogether different types of scenes in mind of stuff that's already been shot... You might see what I'm talking about in my next piece depending on which route I go with it 😊

Thanks very much :-)

I did try one example with the green screen, but I need to run more tests to get it to work effectively. Really interested in your take on using 3D models. I'm entirely Mac-based these days, so whenever I come across an approach that requires a PC I tend to tap out at that point. That said, I think you're on to a really important angle. I've been increasingly thinking that the most controllable future for AI Filmmaking would actually be some kind of AI-enhanced blend of game engine technology and AI creativity. Ultimately, I'm hoping for a tool that is simple enough for a screenwriter to learn to use.

Hey, thanks very much, I really appreciate the encouragement. For what it's worth, you'll still feel like you're in your 20's when you're in your 50's... trust me, it gets really frustrating. :-) :-)

Fantastic! Thanks so much. You and @RenatoFlorencia had the same thought... embarrassingly, it didn't occur to me, but I'll be trying that next :-)

Thanks very much, that makes so much sense now you've mentioned it. I'll try that out next :-)

@@HaydnRushworth-FilmmakerSet upon your shotlist, create your storyboard with precise generated finalized stills (these become your final shots), animate. Then you’re ready for a rough cut. It’s golden. Just don’t rely on the prompts alone for the animation step. Give it exactly what you want visually and then it can handle the rest.

@@HaydnRushworth-FilmmakerAnd one final note, it will infer the action from the still. If you have a character holding an axe, it will chop, and if it’s holding a laser rifle, it will fire lasers. If you have someone with a shocked expression they will gasp, and if you have their eyes closed, it will open them. Give the stills the “momentum” you expect in the shot, and it will infer the context. It’s not perfect, but it’s genuinely good once you give it that baseline.

Hey, mate, thanks very much. I love the global TH-cam community. I'm a long way from Hollywood here in Yorkshire, England, so it makes my chances of getting my movie made even slimmer if I rely on the traditional Hollywood route. AI is my best hope for filmmakers like you and I :-)

That seems to be a growing trend. I keep seeing really impressive results from LUMA

I shot this video before Gen3 was released, so I wasn’t able to do anything actually within Runway at that point, which is why the only comparison I could do was using the existing prompts in other tools. It would be a really interesting test now to see if the same prompts returned similar results.

I uploaded this video days before Gen3 was released to the public and only had the sample prompts to work from. I’ve realised I’m going to need to start dating videos so people have an idea about whether the information is out of date or not. It’s one of the challenges of an industry that is changing on almost a weekly basis.

@@HaydnRushworth-Filmmaker Alright, apologies.

Thanks very much for the morale-boosting vote of support 😁😁 I agree entirely, we’re far from “there” yet, but raging against AI would feel like going back to the early days of CGI and raging against that too.

In fairness, it really does look cool, overall. Of course, I was right, since I uploaded this video, days later it was released to the rest of us and even through the results are mixed, in balance, they’re still impressive.

@@HaydnRushworth-Filmmaker I enjoyed using Mid-Journey and Night Cafe for image generation. I will definitely try out Luma and Runway

Exactly!! I’ve been editing my next video and saying exactly the same thing.

Yeah, I just discovered that the other day. From my perspective, that moves it further away from a helpful narrative filmmaking workflow, rather than towards it.

Heyyyy, thanks very much indeed 😁😁😁

Thanks, I’ll add them to the list 😁

Funny you should ask. I was starting to look at Morph studio yesterday and figured it’s time I looked at a comparison of two or three story flow type products.

@@HaydnRushworth-Filmmaker morph studio really has potential

Heyyyyy! Thanks :-) With your Tai Chi channel you should REALLY check out video to AI video tools, I think you'd have some fun with those ;-) If you're up for the experiment, have a play with: - Kaiber.ai - Domoai.app - Haiper.ai - LensGo.ai

Yeah, they definitely still have their upsides and downsides. The real risk of amazing marketing shots is that our expectations are so sky-high that when the tool finally arrives for general release, we're all left deflated and disappointed.

When I finished editing this video I could feel it in my bones that we'd end up with access to Gen-3 sooner rather than later. Have you used it? So far it seems to have some incredible upsides, coupled with some costly stings in the tail.

Couldn't agree more. If you use it carefully and imaginatively, you could really bring a whole new level of dazzle to a music video!

Hey, Tasha, thanks very much indeed :-)

Well done! I think music videos give artists more control over their visual presentations, it's a great use of AI tools. No music producer can afford to hire filmmakers to create videos for every song they produce, and visualisers have become the default alternative to a traditional "music video".

Oh, i agree entirely. There's a massive rabbit hole of open source material. From my perspective, I'm focusing on tools that have half a chance of being usable by writers who aren't tech-savvy, so I'm looking at anything that, in my mind, fits the category of "video game". I know that limits the potential of what I can do at the moment, but I'm hoping that eventually a "Filmmaking Video Game" will emerge that won't require "big vision" writers to get too technical to bring their imaginations to life.

1000% Agree entirely!! :-)