Name: Evolve or Die: Steve Sowrey on AI in Video Production
Duration: 28 min 6 s
Channel: Talentless AI
Description: Steve Sowrey has been making video for thirty years, from VHS tape-to-tape editing to waiting overnight for five-second 3D renders. Now AI lets him create in seconds what used to take months and cost millions. He walks through the move from traditional production to AI filmmaking: making his first AI short film "Sync"

In this episode

Steve Sowrey has been making video for thirty years, from VHS tape-to-tape editing to waiting overnight for five-second 3D renders. Now AI lets him create in seconds what used to take months and cost millions. He walks through the move from traditional production to AI filmmaking: making his first AI short film "Sync" for a festival at two in the morning on ideas that arrived in dreams, and interviewing at HeyGen surrounded by a crew who were working out that they were all about to be replaced.

Guest

Steve Sowrey

Video producer, thirty years in the craft.

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What it covers

Thirty years of video production, from VHS tape-to-tape editing to waiting overnight for a five-second 3D render
Realizing he had to either evolve or his kind was going to die
Making the AI short film Sync for a festival, working at 2am on ideas that arrived in dreams
Interviewing at HeyGen surrounded by a crew realizing they were all about to be replaced
From twelve-hour renders to instant creation, and decades of craft compressed into prompts
Explaining to a room of camera operators and sound engineers how AI would replace them
Why the hard part is no longer making the content, it is getting noticed among everything else being made

AI video production · Post-production · Career transition · HeyGen

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