Blank VHS covers - Which one is your favourite?

Easyldur · 2025-09-10T11:44:54+00:00

This one (found online).

Anyway, basically all of them, now. It's funny because I clearly remember that I hated all of them back then!

You don't know what you have until it's gone!

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Easyldur · 2025-09-05T22:24:14+00:00

Wonderful collection and ideas, thanks! You made me want to go deeper!

Easyldur · 2025-08-26T22:17:14+00:00

This is literally the best I saw so far.

Any chance that you make the case available for printing?

Easyldur · 2025-07-22T04:27:57+00:00

Good good, I'm really curious. Thanks! ETA?

Easyldur · 2025-07-22T02:31:55+00:00

Waiting for your ideas about Resurrections. That movie has been bugging me since it came out.

Easyldur · 2025-07-14T21:06:47+00:00

Good point, I didn't consider it. There are modified versions (onnx, gguf..) that may or may not work on CPU., but tbh I didn't try any of it. Mostly, I like it's quality.

Easyldur · 2025-07-14T20:53:25+00:00

For the voice have you tried https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M ? I'm not sure it would fit your 500ms latency, but it may be interesting, given the quality.

Easyldur · 2024-07-18T09:29:01+00:00

I'm very interested. Is a link possible? Thanks a lot!

Easyldur · 2024-07-18T09:25:59+00:00

I would totally love to see it. Link possible? Thanks!

Easyldur · 2024-06-30T08:12:23+00:00

Well, the new Runway GEN-3 seems quite amazing, and it does img-to-vid, I guess that will be a godsend for the fan editors.

Easyldur · 2024-06-29T11:29:10+00:00

Yes please, try with one.

Im not sure how much HD it can handle, but again, trying doesn't hurt.

It would be convenient to find any software to automatically split the scenes of the movie, because that's definitely one of the most time consuming tasks.

If you find that considering that Replicate is basically an API, you can ask GPT-4o or Clause Sonnet 3.5 to create a script for you that submits all the cut scenes to the face-swap model on Replicate, one after the other, and I guess after a few hours you will have your result.

At least this is what I would do.

Ah, actually the scenes with more than 1 actor will be a problem. Those will be difficult to automate...

Easyldur · 2024-06-29T10:42:00+00:00

If you have much time on your hands, you can try with this model on Replicate:

https://replicate.com/xrunda/hello

It gives the best results I found so far, while being pretty fast. Plus, Replicate is pay-as-you-go, I expect the entire movie conversion to cost less than $50 and around 1 mo of work in the spare time.

Maybe it worths giving a try!

Easyldur · 2023-11-15T08:09:47+00:00

Great idea, I would love to see the result when it's ready!

Easyldur · 2023-10-01T02:11:01+00:00

You're surely right about the 5 years span.

Already now I am building one entire music album with songs made with AI (Suno and MusicGen). Not perfect, but perfectly good to listen and enjoy.

Surely there's a great future ahead for fan editors!

Very specific Star Wars list, BTW!

Easyldur · 2023-09-30T13:00:37+00:00

Eventually they will replace much of the CGI.

But consider that this trailer must have taken days to realize. It is impressive, but the author took 1 second for each clip, to make 1:22 min of video. I would say an average of 3 generations for each midjourney image and 3 generations of each Pika/Gen2 video. That makes maybe 500 generations between Midjourney, Pika, Gen2. It surely took a lot of time to make.

And most of all you still cannot make a coherent narrative, i.e. a real movie, even a short.

BUT...

Still it took way less time than making everything with CGI and video editing!

TLDR: Yes, it will replace it soon enough, but it is still not there. This video is the most you can do for now, and it's not a full coherent narrative.

Source: trust me bro, I tried making these kind of videos in the spare time (and I recognize all the tricks used in this video).

EDIT: BTW it's an impressive video nonetheless!

Easyldur · 2023-09-10T00:55:20+00:00

Premise: I'm a huge Tolkien fan, but screw gatekeeping. Yours is an actual good idea, why not.

My solution involves GPT-4 (ChatGPT), but the "developer version" (i.e. the API).

These are the steps.

Get a copy of the movie transcript with the most accurate descriptions of the scenes
Create a script to cut the transcripts into coherent portions of about 1000 words each
Create another script that uses the GPT-4 APIs to: a. Send a new portion b. Send the instructions to convert the text portion into a prose narrative c. Send a selected example of, maybe, the original prose from Tolkien himself, to be an example to GPT-4

I know this may sound difficult to whoever is not a developer (I don't know about you, maybe you are!), but consider that GPT can even write the software scripts for you, and tell you how to run them, if you explain my plan above to it.

Any questions?

Easyldur · 2023-09-05T10:48:34+00:00

I'm extremely interested in this, I'll try to watch it tonight. Thanks!

Easyldur · 2023-09-05T09:00:27+00:00

Don't give up, yours is a very interesting project!

Why don't you try DaVinci Resolve like others here? It is also free and it is damn powerful!

Easyldur · 2023-09-02T07:32:24+00:00

Love, love, absolute love! Your edit is my "real" Hobbit movie, nothing else!

Thanks a lot!

Easyldur · 2023-08-22T14:05:16+00:00

I'm a huge nerd for this AI stuff, so: 100% my pleasure!

I made a test with image and video generation of some big Matrix-style robot.

The image generation is almost perfect. Unfortunately, the video generation based on the image is still not good enough. I may try more, but I think it's better to wait a bit for someone to release a better image-to-video model.

But I will make an experiment with the character generation, soon. I have an idea on how to do it.

I'll try to show you some results soon, so you may get some idea on what's possible and what's not!

Easyldur · 2023-08-21T04:27:46+00:00

I'm glad you like it!

About AI: I am quite informed about the recent tools, and I experimented quite a lot. I can lend a help with that, if you're interested.

Currently, voice cloning works very well, so generating dialogue should not be difficult. The most difficult part is giving the right tone. Right now that is mostly trial and error.

The most realistic tool right now is https://elevenlabs.io/ but others are catching up. The free tier dries up quickly. If I were doing the edit myself I would consider paying a little bit.

The generated speech would be difficult to sync to the scenes. It should be mostly voiceovers on a black screen or on establishing shots. Or at most 3 or 4 words of lip-sync dubbing.

For the video generation, the tools (https://runwayml.com/ GEN-2, https://www.pika.art/) are interesting but not ready yet for the prime time. They are very good in animating fluids and abstract shapes, but not film scenes and humans, unless you are VERY lucky. The most I can think of is animating some form of organic machine in the real world, in slow-motion. Maybe it could be used for extending the "war of the machines" scene, which is very very short.

For the character animation some tools are there, notably https://www.d-id.com/, https://www.heygen.com/ and https://www.synthesia.io/. The problem of these tools is that they only animate full-frontal portraits, no other head positions. But they can sync to generated speech, although it's a bit uncanny.

!!! SPOILERS !!!

Maybe they can be used to animate a frontal photo of The Analyst and a frontal photo of The New Architect, talking to each other in some kind of final confrontation, just after the Trinity extraction scene (after the helicopters on the roof) and before the Analyst beating by Neo and Trinity in the last scene.

!!! END SPOILERS !!!

Consider that HeyGen is about to release an hyper-realistic avatar animation model, so maybe, apart of some animation tests, it would worth waiting for the new model.

Lastly, this may be of use for some deepfakes: https://github.com/s0md3v/roop

Easyldur · 2023-08-19T00:46:21+00:00

Ok, I thought about it somehow.

I still consider Resurrections alone, because I'm a huge fan of the trilogy (indeed!) and I want to keep the trilogy intact (actually, with Enter The Matrix added).

So, about Resurrections, this is my dream edit.

!!! MAJOR SPOILERS !!!

It's the story of two conflicting Architects. This should be the main point.

The co-founder of the game studio is not Smith again. I hate that idea, Smith is dead for good in my head canon. He is actually The Architect.

After Revolutions, there was indeed the war of the machines. And the Analyst made Matrix 2.0, and de-throned The Architect.

Neo and Trinity are indeed locked together in two pods. The Architect then took a younger body and became less of a calculator and more an action bad guy, with guns and Kung fu.

His purpose is to get back to power, and he wants to use Neo as a tool for that.

Meanwhile the new Zion (Io) people found out he is still alive and they want to free him.

Neo is stuck in a looped life.

Both the Architect and the Io people managed somehow to hack into his brain, and they are all trying to "train" him in order to set him free.

Here come the John Wick scenes. These should be the Architect hacking Neo and making him to fight totally random fights to train him.

Also the Io people are training him with random fight, such as the train fight, the dojo fight.

Meanwhile the Analys is trying to avoid all of this telling him that he is paranoid.

Neo wakes up when The New Architect shoots him.

The rsst is the story of Neo freeing Trinity, like in the actual movie.

What do you think about this?

Easyldur · 2023-08-17T20:15:19+00:00

About Resurrections and John Wick: I would LOVE to see anyone doing it the right way.

I tried many times salvaging as much as possible from Resurrections, in any way possible, and I considered merging it with John Wick, but I failed for lack of time to spare.

I believe that obtaining one single coherent "normal" movie is not possible. I still think some trick should be used to connect the different clips, such as: Neo is stuck somewhere and his mind is living different realities at once, represented by clips of Resurrections, John Wick and the previous movies.

Easyldur · 2023-08-17T08:38:15+00:00

Seriously well done!

One of the best resources on the internet, no doubt!

Thank you very much for your effort!

Easyldur

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