To become more roundly understood, accepted and, above all, trusted, generative video will need to scale models and the data behind them to better understand the physics of the world. Some might find the prospect scary, but what we’re talking about is “a form of artificial general intelligence (AGI); AI capable of internalising and reflecting […]
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LTX Studio can generate an entire production from a single prompt
LTX Studio from Lightricks, the team behind the Facetune and Photoleap apps, is yet another new video platform that uses generative AI, in this case to create an entire production from a single prompt. During a recent demo, Ryan Morrison of Tom’s Guide writes that he saw a full production appear in seconds with clips, […]
BBC Maestro offers £79 27-part Edgar Wright filmmaking course
The reviews on the web page for this BBC Maestro course on filmmaking featuring 27 video tutorials and 20 exercises delivered over 4 hours by Edgar Wright suggest it’s worth sharing here. What does the course cover? Write your screenplay Get your film funded and work with low budgets Choose the perfect soundtrack Learn to […]
OpenUSD wins 2024 Scientific & Technical Academy Award
For its contribution to shaping today’s filmmaking industry, Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) has been honoured by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a prestigious Academy Scientific and Engineering Award. OpenUSD’s developers are F. Sebastian Grassia, Alex Mohr, Sunya Boonyatera, Brett Levin, and Jeremy Cowles. The Academy Awards for Scientific and Technical Achievements […]
‘A little more pzazz’: a behind-the-scenes look at how TV graphics pioneers Quantel prepared for NAB 1979 (video)
One for the teenagers and anybody interested in how and where television graphics as we know it today began In the mid to late 1970s, three companies were fighting for dominance in the market to sell ever more sophisticated graphics generation and manipulation systems to broadcasters around the world. The US was a big focus […]
Sora puts the generative cat amongst the video pigeons
OpenAI describes its new tool as “an AI model that can generate realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions” We’re teaching AI to understand and simulate the physical world in motion, with the goal of training models that help people solve problems that require real-world interaction. Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model. Sora can generate videos […]