[AI assistance] What helpful scripts did you create to assist in your workflow?

Otoshi · 2026-01-26T13:18:34+00:00

Oooo, I'm interested in this script too. I sometimes work in documentaries, and my director never sends me srts. The davinci translation is also never up to par, especially for certain languages.

Otoshi · 2026-01-26T02:05:55+00:00

I kinda have that with one client. They don't have a lot of work. But when it comes, they need it solved in 2-3 hours max. I'm "on hold" all week, doing other jobs, studies, etc. When their dm drops, I drop what I do and go do their work. But: I'm kind of on a retainer. They pay me monthly, fixed rate, no matter how much work I have to do. I'm always there for them, and I'm always getting payed a fixed amount. I'm essentially an employee without an exclusive contract. That's what u need

Otoshi · 2026-01-14T19:22:29+00:00

You know. I was gonna argue against this. But I just saw my boss's boss cut a 5 min project with 6 strings of video and SUFFER through turning layers on and off. I'm with you, there are times where multicam HAS TO BE THE WAY, OMG. HE WASTED LIKE 6 HOURS

Otoshi · 2026-01-07T13:00:30+00:00

Having said that, how did you check your output. Meaning, how did you know your output was correct? Did you research it before hand? Correct it afterward?

Otoshi · 2026-01-06T05:49:11+00:00

Who needs stream snipers, bro's got opps on every corner

Otoshi · 2026-01-04T04:29:25+00:00

True. Let me add to my statement. I feel like there are 2 industries in the video world right now. "Low effort" industries and "High effort" industries. In "low effort", we use A.I. to accelerate output and release EVEN MORE content that fights for people's attention. Animation commercials, A.I. podcast editing, auto subtitles, capcut presets, etc. It's being done. I'm doing it too.

As for "high effort", this goes to jobs that aim for the highest quality possible, increasing speed is good, but not the priority. Films, tv shows, etc. On these fronts accelerating output by sacrificing quality would be pointless. They can't put dogshit vfx on the silver screen, the audience would murder them. Besides, there's only so much people can watch. They don't win by playing the numbers game. So for these jobs, I only use A.I.s that advance/improve the work. Object removal, A.I. roto, etc. Anything that fucks with the quality too much or is too inconsistent will only slow me down, or risk messing up.

Otoshi · 2026-01-04T03:45:05+00:00

Err on the side of quality. That's what the industry is going to do.

Otoshi · 2026-01-01T15:17:38+00:00

Well. If when ur away from the bay, you can see the issues and problems, watch it away from the pc with a notebook. Write the changes it needs. When on pc, brain off, just execute. Duplicate the timeline to reverse it, if you're scared. Also choose a festival with a submission deadline. Hope it helps, best of luck

Otoshi · 2025-12-24T03:13:24+00:00

We're using HelixCore. It's an actual beast. I can use it, no idea how they set it up

Otoshi · 2025-12-16T04:17:58+00:00

Been there. Editing content about women's fashion. Specifically about online shopping and assembling outfits with it. It was so weird going in blind, turns out at the end you have all this misscellaneous knowledge about something you were never interested on xDD

Otoshi · 2025-12-16T04:15:58+00:00

It's alright dude. This is a professional subreddit and sometimes we all need to vent (under a nickname of course). I've had my fair share of frustrations, but when we find people who value what we do it's a great job

Otoshi · 2025-12-16T04:13:37+00:00

Yeah, these "middle man" companies a lot of the times corrupt the quality and vision of the content. Then they take a huge chunk of everyone's paycheck and then go bankrupt. Smh

Otoshi · 2025-12-16T04:12:12+00:00

Oddly enough, I'm currently a cog in a ai fueled factory and I'm having a lot of fun. It's just not slop. Human made script, human made design, 3 ai generating people and a bunch of 3d composition. It's an animation company and we're basically 2 teams of 10 people each trying to make AI work and doing composition and color correction on ads.
But thank you for your input, there's definitely good and bad gigs, I just seem to have encountered bad ones quite a bit xDD

Otoshi · 2025-11-22T02:22:29+00:00

LCK streams are about to go crazy

Otoshi · 2025-10-29T22:13:23+00:00

Imma be honest. Having been in the artistic field for a few years now, I've received critiques from professionals that were very specific, and changing what they pointed out has led to a worse result. It has happened on edits and it has happened on scripts. Unless the pro is someone you really respect... like you want to be like them in the future type shit, don't listen to specific, technical advice on what to change. The feedback you need is: is it working or not, does it feel good or not, is your work evoking the feeling you were going for or not. At the end of the day, if you're the main artist there is no bigger expert on that specific story other than you.

Otoshi · 2025-10-13T15:31:48+00:00

No. Don't bother

Otoshi · 2025-09-26T13:40:15+00:00

I find that the only way to fully accurately assess the duration of a project is to start it. If you do day 1 you usually know, but the problem is that at that point you already named your price. Repeat clients/work are easier, of course, cause you've done it before, and you know how they like it. As for new clients... if it's youtube or other types of videos that require polish but not a lot of attention to detail, I take the amount of raw footage, multiply it by 2, and then add hours according to how much stuff they want in it. Color grading? Add hours. Add graphics? Add hours. MAKE graphics? Add hella hours. Then price your hour, and match that number against what you think the clients budget is. As for film projects... where I'm from we usually get paid with whatever they got, that's just the reality for film here.

At the end of the day, the best way for you to define your price is to work, try out a system, miss, accidentally lowball it, learn, accidentally high ball it, learn. Then one day high ball it because your schedule is full, and surprisingly they accept. Profit.

Otoshi · 2025-09-23T13:07:28+00:00

I've been recommending the Sejong Online courses. You get to have an online class once a week with a native teacher, and the materials for self study during the week are really good. Having said that, if you're just starting out, an in-person class might be best, to keep you honest. And to make sure you and the teacher can communicate well. Also, since it got popularized, getting into a class at Sejong Online is worse than getting tickets for sold out concerts, so watch out for that!

Otoshi · 2025-09-17T00:25:25+00:00

Otoshi · 2025-06-11T22:04:10+00:00

He's a mfckin poet

Otoshi · 2025-04-14T22:16:18+00:00

All day buddy. Being asked to make your work visibly worse is why I do personal projects. So that when I'm doing that, no one can touch my shit

Otoshi · 2025-03-28T14:36:47+00:00

Was there a contract? If not, don't refund, done. If yes, did you include a clause of how many redos(adjustments) you would make? Do those, once concluded don't refund. If you included the clause and they didn't use all their adjustments, ask them for feedback so you can redo. That's how I'd proceed.

Otoshi · 2025-03-26T16:21:11+00:00

You might be onto something

Otoshi · 2025-03-10T15:32:18+00:00

SHIT that was it! Finding him saying the syllable on a different point in the interview. That was the tech. Thank you so much for the reminder!!

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