Eddie AI automatically cuts rough cuts from interview footage
[18:14 Wed,9.October 2024 by blip]
A newly introduced AI service offers its services as an editing assistant - with Eddie AI, various rough cuts can be generated from interview footage within a few seconds, which can then be played out as MP4 or exported for further processing in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or FCP. This is made possible by the use of Open AI's GPT-4 - in the usual dialog, the language model offers possible content focal points for the uploaded video material (or accepts specifications via prompt) and then creates any variants of the editing sequences.
Eddie AI, chat GPT for video editing
Is this a kind of natural evolution of video editing tools? The automatic transcription of videos - algorithms convert the speech they contain into text - was followed by text-based editing, in which the video images are linked to the created script. Any changes to the text, i.e. rearranging sentences or deleting certain passages, are transferred to the video material accordingly. If you add ChatGPT functionality, as here, you no longer even have to search for soundbites in the teletext yourself in order to use them, but can even have the content “analysis” and the appropriate arrangement of the snippets identified in this way done automatically.
Of course, this is much faster than searching for interesting passages in possibly hundreds of hours of interview material, so it has the potential to speed up the production of talking head clips enormously. At the same time, of course, you leave the helm to a machine and have to rely on the fact that relevant original sound bites are selected and compiled in a meaningful way. If you don't do your own viewing for reasons of convenience or time pressure, you may end up with a clip that might work, but not necessarily the best possible one.
Also, Eddie AI currently only works with transcribable interview material, which is automatically edited strictly according to the statements it contains - of course, this does not result in a visually interesting video clip, but rather a sequence of original sound snippets with jump cuts. Unfortunately, this is exactly what the typical YouTuber clip looks like today.
Eddie AI was developed by Shamir Allibhai, who founded the transcription service SimonSaysAI and launched another AI editing tool called Storylines in the summer. This allows short clips for social media to be extracted from longer videos prompt-based and fully automatically.
Eddie AI is currently free to use, but a Google account is required for registration; how to work with Eddie AI is explained in a help section.
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