In recent years, when browsing social media, we have come across more and more videos that seem like they were made by someone alone.
Despite the lack of special equipment or professional editing skills, videos that look like they belong in a movie keep popping up one after the other.
I was curious and decided to try out a few AI tools.
What I noticed in the process was that the "distance to creation" is getting shorter and shorter .
The world that was once so far away from the pros is slowly coming back into my hands
Until now, when it comes to visual expression, many elements such as
lighting, lenses, editing software, color adjustment, and motion graphics have been in the professional realm.
But when AI is added, the situation changes.
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Swap faces naturally
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Replace only the person in the video with another character
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Converting original footage to a different style
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Replace the entire background
What previously took skilled technicians dozens of hours to do can now be done with just a few clicks.
Of course, it's not "magically perfect." You
won't necessarily get the ideal result in one shot, and each model has its strengths and weaknesses.
However, by lowering the hurdles to expression, it has become overwhelmingly easier to "just give it a try."
Videos change from something to watch to something to play with
What was interesting about using AI tools was that
people are not just creating videos, but are increasingly using them to "play" with existing videos .
For example, you can convert a video of a trip with friends into an anime style,
remake a video of your basketball gameplay to look like a game, or
simply transform a short clip you see on social media to suit your taste.
All of these are much easier than "making something from scratch." I think
most people don't want to make a "completely new piece of work," but rather
want to use their own life as material and add a little magic to it .
In this context, I personally found
the overseas creative tool "Magic Hour" interesting. It has
easy-to-use functions specialized for "remixing" existing footage, such as swapping faces in videos and converting styles.
(Reference: https://magichour.ai)
*In order to present it in a natural way, we have kept it in the context of "there was also this kind of tool."
The era of "creativity = talent" is gradually coming to an end
Of course, there are areas of professional production that AI cannot reach:
precise camerawork, handling of light, story structure, acting...
Such accumulated experience cannot be replaced.
However, the door to creativity is definitely widening .
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I can't draw well so I give up
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Avoid videos because they are difficult to edit
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Believing you have no talent
These "barriers to entry" are beginning to crumble.
It may sound like an exaggeration, but perhaps creativity is returning to something closer to everyday life.
To a world where the moment you think "I want to make something" becomes the beginning of creation
Thanks to AI, creation is changing
from an act that requires a lot of preparation to an act of being able to get started as soon as an idea comes to mind.
The more powerful the tools, the more freedom there is in human creativity.
There is no need to
worry about creating something perfect. If an idea comes to you, try it out, and if you don't like it, erase it.
This kind of effortless back-and-forth has become possible.
Perhaps we are heading towards
an era where expressing ourselves through images becomes as natural as writing
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