Videography and editing are some of the most time-consuming work you can do on a computer, but AI tools can make the process faster and simpler. Here are five of the best AI tools that are revolutionizing the landscape, and can help you produce professional-looking videos, images, or whatever your imagination can craft.
AI video, image, and audio generators have quickly become a go-to choice among businesses looking to produce training and marketing materials, educational institutions seeking instructional content creation tools, and individuals looking to create personal or professional videos. These user-friendly tools make things easier for any creator with each iteration.
Introduction to Next Gen Ai
As Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) tools advance toward the holy grail of human-like thinking, producing imagery and videos using just text prompts has become possible. Some GAN tools even contain features that transform a still image into video or even create animated characters based on what was provided as input. The battle for the real-time prompt creation query is on. These companies are developing tools that make it easy to go between them to create outstanding effects.
Their versatility is the secret behind many good brand designs, vision boards, invitations, and flyers, as well as replacing green screens to easily remove backgrounds from videos without hassle – an area currently seeing much development. The generative tools inside Photoshop, where you can remove the background magically with a single click, are just the beginning of what is being researched and released regularly online.
GAN tools still present a few challenges when used for business applications, including the lack of realism, bias, and hallucinations. Yes, you heard right, although they don’t need to take drugs to hallucinate. Their performance is gradually approaching human-level performance, while at the same time, is getting incrementally harder to achieve top performers’ peak success. Gen AI will revolutionize business operations, with its many use cases automating task lists in media creation and publishing once a few more iterations have passed and it becomes trained on more data.
Let’s take a look at some of the movers and shakers in the content creation AI industry for 2024.
Move.ai
Since 2019, this London-based technology company has provided revolutionary patented software that extracts high-fidelity human motion from any video you give it, an HD camera, or even something as simple as a mobile device. Giving anyone with a video recording device the chance to create a seamless transition between the physical and digital worlds, benefitting both animators and content creators worldwide.
Markerless mocap traditionally involved hiring teams of professionals and investing millions of dollars in equipment to set up studios, as well as expensive actor equipment and lighting. Now, Move AI makes this more accessible and cost-effective by enabling anyone to digitize their movements and transform them into the motions of an animated character or to a background in a far-off distant land.
This system can track an individual indoors or outdoors – using standard cameras or smartphones (the company also released an iOS app). You can make your animations and movie scenes come to life and really pop with new abilities and action scenes.
Move Ai believes this technology could transform sports games where player motions must be accurately captured in virtual environments. Furthermore, they note its ease of use may lead to people sharing their actions online as emotes for gaming – potentially creating legal complications for game companies while at the same time dropping the barrier for entry on content creation.
DEEPMOTION
DeepMotion is an industry-leading web and mobile AI motion capture solution offering markerless full-body tracking through any browser after you capture your video. Their flagship software, Animate 3D (not to be confused with Adobe Animate), provides powerful yet user-friendly motion capture features perfect for professional animators, game developers, virtual reality enthusiasts, or anyone interested in creating lifelike animations. This will also work for avatars in the Metaverse.
Animate 3D uses cutting-edge motion capture technology to turn video footage into high-quality animations, providing greater realism, giving you a faster turnaround time, and higher production quality than traditional marker-based systems, which take ages. Furthermore, Animate 3D’s physics filter helps enhance animation quality by reinforcing joint limits, addressing self-collisions, and minimizing clipping issues.
Animate 3D integrates seamlessly with Unreal Engine, the industry-leading real-time 3D development platform. An easy workflow enables users to incorporate animation technology into their game or movie projects seamlessly.
Animate 3D is compatible with Reallusion’s powerful real-time 3D character animation software, iClone. You’ll accelerate your results once you start making the two tools work together seamlessly to create lifelike human characters in your project. Users can use AI motion capture or turn 2D images directly into 3D Pose import into scenes for animating with these tools, making creating lifelike characters simpler than any alternative software package.
TensorFlow
TensorFlow is an open-source C++ and CUDA framework for machine learning with many features that make it a robust machine-learning platform. Its data flow graphs can represent neural networks and other models, and it has many tools for building and debugging them, such as TensorBoard (an interactive visualization tool), CoLab (a free online Jupyter Notebook environment); What-If Tool (which tests model changes); and ML Perf (an extensive benchmark suite). There is even a Python API to write your TensorFlow in that language.
Tensorflow offers several advantages over other machine learning software packages, including its deep flexibility, true portability, and ability to bridge their research models with production and deploy in an ML pipeline. Furthermore, TensorFlow supports multiple operating systems and devices, making deployment simple for models and apps. Regular updates make TensorFlow even more appealing to developers. In contrast, its relatively modest computational power demands give additional advantages to those struggling to access similar but out-of-reach technology.
OpenCV
OpenCV is an image recognition library designed to solve various computer vision issues that humans take for granted but take enormous compute power. It features numerous algorithms for everyday tasks, including line detection and shape identification. Furthermore, OpenCV supports many programming languages, including Python.
This library includes various functions for analyzing images and videos to identify the meaning and substance of each. Its purpose is to be a standard platform for developing computer vision applications, compatible with most leading programming languages and easily customizable for specific business requirements. It has high hopes in the Open Source Ai community.
The Python code lets users detect objects quickly, change image colors, apply filters (just think Instagram!), or create augmented reality apps and functionality, many of which are appearing more regularly on smartphones.
Start by installing the Python image processing library and Matplotlib using pip to install on your local Python instance. Next, copy and paste a test image into your desired folder before running cv2’s “imread” function – this will read it into memory as an array with each value identified by its row and column (for instance, [a,b] refers to an index of [a] rows x [b] columns). If you get stuck, you can always call upon ChatGPT.
Splice
Splice is an online audio software and marketplace offering an outstanding selection of one-shots, drum loops, instruments, and sound effects for a subscription. Their search function is excellent – enabling you to filter by tempo, genre, or perform keyword searches is a great Ai feature. However, with so much content on offer, it could lead to “analysis paralysis”, but if you are looking for a lot of fast inspiration, there is no better way than firing up your DAW software and producing movie-quality sound effects and soundtracks.
Splice’s Bridge plugin makes using Splice even more straightforward, allowing you to preview and download sounds directly within your DAW software. This makes using their service simple and seamless and, at the same time, eliminates the need to purchase whole sample packs that may contain content you don’t require. You pay for what you need only, which is a big plus.
Splice did offer a version of Ableton Live in their trial, but that has since been removed in the summer of 2023. Still as a great way to get a source of royalty-free music tailored to what you need, this service and its packages are essential for the audio engineer.
Conclusion
With today’s vast array of AI-powered software tools, creating animation is no longer as difficult. From automating workflow to speeding up production timeframes – there’s sure to be an AI tool out there that meets every need!
They are only going to get better, so stay tuned. Hopefully, they included the kill switch this time!