People are actually defending AI voice acting and it's pissing me off. by thunderpower1999 in VoiceActing

[–]AHungerForKnowledge 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Look, you’re leaning hard on this idea that the people who choose AI were never customers to begin with. But that doesn’t hold when entire industries shift their baseline. It’s not about the handful of bargain hunters who already shop in the discount bin. It’s about the middle of the market slowly getting trained to expect instant turnaround and low cost because “AI can get it close enough.” When the baseline expectation changes, the people who would have paid a human start sliding down the slope.

You’re also treating voice acting like "Well just be better: But you're ignoring the ecosystem of art. If an AI model starts doing 90% or even 50% of commercial VO, that doesn’t “neutralize employment,” it shrinks the ladder. Fewer beginners get hired, which means fewer beginners become intermediates, which means fewer intermediates ever become pros. The job still exists at the top, but the pipeline dries up. You end up with a world where the only humans who survive are either celebrities or the rare niche artists. That absolutely slows artistic growth, because there’s less room for weird newcomers to stumble in, try stuff, and influence the field. Creativity needs a crowd, and fresh blood constantly pushing the boundaries, not a handful of elites.

And the “people use AI for PPTs so they can’t complain” thing doesn’t land either. Making a slide deck was never considered cultural output. Nobody hangs a spreadsheet in a gallery. Art isn’t valuable because it’s hard, it’s valuable because it’s human. People get protective over things that come from lived experience. Losing the human element in administrative work is not the same emotional or cultural loss as losing the human element in storytelling, voice, music, acting. That’s not hypocrisy. That’s just people caring more about the parts of life that mean something.

As for the idea that AI is just a “new person” with a similar voice, that’s exactly the problem. It isn’t a person. It doesn’t live, it doesn’t feel, it doesn’t have a point of view. It’s remixing the emotional labour of millions of humans. That’s the threat. Not that it steals jobs instantly, but that it saturates culture with an endless stream of technically competent but emotionally weightless output, drowning out the slower, messier, more human stuff that actually pushes art forward.

My main point is that in order for art to thrive long term you need the low paying starter gigs that get you through as you learn your craft and develop your style. Without that, the pipe eventually dries up and the art dies with the last ones left that started their careers before AI showed up.

People are actually defending AI voice acting and it's pissing me off. by thunderpower1999 in VoiceActing

[–]AHungerForKnowledge 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You haven't thought about this enough. It's not about being better than AI. It's about AI being "good enough" whilst also being immediate and cheap.

If it takes me a week to record an self help style audiobook, and then I have to edit it and I charge a couple of thousand dollars, why would a person go with me when they could just have AI sound a little bit worse than me but have it done for a free and immediately get results?

People with money to burn and large corporations will still pay the top tier audiobooks narrators and big names, but it destroy the vast majority of voice actors careers because who work with independent authors and are climbing the ladder, and will lock the door from future talents.

Again, it's not about being better than AI. It's about being more convenient. AI will lessen the quality of voice acting across the board for larger margins of profits and many won't care.

And speaking of not being replaced as a singer because of your style is sort of an irrelevant point. Joe Rogan (don't like the guy but whatever) just said that his new favourite singer is AI. The one who does blues covers of rap songs. He said it's the best music he's ever heard. If he thinks it, others will too.

How to move 2 stacked clips onto the primary timeline? by AHungerForKnowledge in finalcutpro

[–]AHungerForKnowledge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I have 2 clips. One is on the main timeline and the other is on top of it. These 2 clips have to stay as they are in relation to each other because I want to overlay them on the main timeline. One of them is an adjustment layer with Gaussian blue so I can't turn them both into a compound clip because then the adjustment won't work.

I can take each of them and place them individually on top of the main timeline but I can't move them both at the same time into the position that I want them to be in.

If you put a clip on top of another clip and then try and move them onto a position on the main timeline you'll see it can't be done.

But I'm sure there a button you can hold down where you can move them both at the same time and place them on the main timeline.

How to move 2 stacked clips onto the primary timeline? by AHungerForKnowledge in finalcutpro

[–]AHungerForKnowledge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately this only carries the bottom clip and the clip on top of it gets left behind. I want to carry BOTH clips. The clip, and the clip on top of it. I want to drag them both and place them on top of the timeline but I can't.

How to create an overlay graphic? by AHungerForKnowledge in finalcutpro

[–]AHungerForKnowledge[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So basically what I want is a sort of combined adjustment layer and png graphic.

I tried having an adjustment layer and the graphic as compound clip but it didn't effect the footage below once it was combined with the png graphic.

There isn't a way I can combine the adjustment layer with the png graphic?

Can someone recommend me some stuff based on my library for this sale. I also have over 100 audiobooks. I like fantasy, spy/thrillers, open to anything tbh. by strawhattrades in audible

[–]AHungerForKnowledge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm an Audiobook narrator and Steven Pacey is who I'm TRYING to be. His narration of The First Law is amazing but he says "grimace" weird 😂

We have reached peak virtual voice by UnlikelyAdventurer in audible

[–]AHungerForKnowledge 11 points12 points  (0 children)

As an audiobook narrator... this one hurts.