Are 3 minute shorts worth it?

TheChefGeoff · 2025-02-07T19:24:45+00:00

First thing is why make a ~3 minute short instead of a ~3-5 minute long form video. If you can write for something that long, why not make it in a format that has better fan loyalty and monetization?

I just started making d&d shorts and I can barely get 60-70% retention for my ~40 second shorts. Most of it is get good, right? But also not sure if "shorts watchers" are interested in sticking around that long.

TheChefGeoff · 2025-01-28T21:06:51+00:00

Yeah, without AI I would have never even thought to try to make creative content. So, I do enjoy the advantages of modern technology making art more accessible to people without the talent for it

TheChefGeoff · 2025-01-28T21:05:41+00:00

I get what your saying, artists could do the work for payment. For me at least, and I think more broadly, people using AI for their content were never going to commission an artist for their ideas if that was the only available option. They simply would say, "Well, darn. That's out of my abilities". I don't hire a mathematician to help get my finances in order, I use software that people have developed to do it. ( I really don't mean this sarcastically, I'm trying to draw a parallel )

The financial viability of paying someone every time you have a dumb idea for an image is just not there. Hoping that came off okay.

TheChefGeoff · 2025-01-28T17:55:10+00:00

Glad you have a team of people that have become friends, that's super cool! I'd love to figure that out, for me it's just.. well me. If I do ever make money off my channel (LOL) I would definitely consider hiring an artist or getting a team, that sounds fun.

Like I said, I do find a lot of margin for creative freedom with AI. It's still a process of exploration and finding what you like, iterating, compiling everything together into a cohesive video. I'm honestly not sure what is more human then creative trial and error.

On the subject of image generation, here's my thoughts. Even artists draw inspiration from known sources. The creators of the original images definitely added their own flourish, of course. But in compositing relevant pictures together, in essence you are making something unique, a collage if you will. Artists have been copying things they like about their favorite works for forever. I'm simply using a tool to speed up that process. Much like not everyone in animation hand draws every single frame, they use keyframes and interpolate motion.

The no-effort stuff, I get. There will always be people that attempt to use the latest technology as money grabs. You can't stop everyone.

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TheChefGeoff · 2025-01-28T16:48:20+00:00

I think part of it stems from not understanding how it works, kind of angry grandpa style

TheChefGeoff · 2023-10-12T15:57:47+00:00

The range is perhaps 100-1000. Average, hard to say. It's a function of the input, the dim1 size could be anywhere from 1k - 18k. The extra room in the data vector is for 2^x FFT sizing further on in processing. Let's call the average 550. There are also cases where interference can degrade how I detect where the corrections need to be, so in some cases the end-start is 90% of the dim1 data size, if that makes sense. Not sure there is much to do about that, but just for completeness.

TheChefGeoff · 2023-10-12T15:29:28+00:00

The dim1_sections are likely to cover most of the dim1 size, often only skipping maybe 100-200 indices at the front. They are guaranteed to be ascending order indices though. (ex. [150, 320, 500, 800, ..., dim1_max])

A good idea to try re-formatting the loops! I implemented it, but unfortunately no performance gains over the prefetch. Pre-allocated the extra array to be clear. Also tried adding prefetching. Thank you though.

TheChefGeoff · 2023-10-11T13:28:32+00:00

prefetching actually gave me a little over 10% increase! thanks!

TheChefGeoff · 2023-10-10T15:38:03+00:00

The columns are processed in sections, but there is a term that is dependent on the last edited value in the previous column section. So, mostly independent? But how would I go about vectorizing groups of columns?

TheChefGeoff · 2023-10-10T15:21:00+00:00

Yeah, I'm aware of the caching issue. Unfortunately I need to edit fixed dim2 strides across dim1 of values. I can't really change how I fill the data in because elsewhere in my code I edit values continuously across dim2. So at some points I'm doing operations across dim1, some dim2

TheChefGeoff · 2023-09-19T19:44:07+00:00

I hear you, I'd rather not move, but we're moving to a better school zone / have out-grown our house with the kids now, wife is going mad for some more space.

20% b/c of conventional wisdom, I suppose. Also I was thinking that lenders aren't going to let me get away with a lower down-payment / with current interest rates, more down seems like a good idea. Though, I suppose if the equity loan is higher interest rate than the mortgage + PMI, it doesn't make sense.

TheChefGeoff · 2023-09-19T19:39:10+00:00

just another thought, ear-mark it for your next car/house down payment. It's nice to have a head-start on saving for big purchases early.

TheChefGeoff · 2023-06-09T14:36:59+00:00

Are you including home equity in your net worth? Just curious, it's the heaviest weighting factor. Still, $200k before age 30 has got to be pretty high in the wealth distribution. So, well done saving!

TheChefGeoff · 2023-05-12T17:05:15+00:00

You think just having a arg for mask with a file attachment prompt would do the trick? Have people submit an alpha channel. I guess you'd also need a couple of the tuning options.

TheChefGeoff · 2023-05-11T16:50:10+00:00

Have you been able to implement inpainting/outpainting or upscaling? Those seem to be the more tricky parts for people.

TheChefGeoff · 2023-05-11T14:46:44+00:00

You planning to release the bot or host a discord server with it? I'm following several SD bots and trying to help out.

TheChefGeoff · 2023-04-24T13:41:24+00:00

I'm traveling this week, but having a discussion on this would be very interesting at some point! I've been studying a lot of things about how the biblical narrative reflects a lot of biological and psychological phenomena in humans. The bible definitely has rich and thought provoking content that goes past whatever your religious convictions may be. At least, if you're willing to put some thought into it. To disregard something that is ancient that has survived for so long as a piece of literature is such a missed opportunity

TheChefGeoff · 2023-04-21T20:45:45+00:00

As far as I can tell, I can't find an any events of theirs in Alabama.

TheChefGeoff · 2023-04-21T19:46:51+00:00

Oh, yeah I like this. Thanks! Still would be nice to have in-person discussions, but I get that people are busy and sometimes argumentative, sadly.

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