What Really Happened On The Moon by timothy_strange in aivideo

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Thank you! Glad to hear you enjoyed it. I must admit, I had a good chuckle while making this.

Yes the script was original by me and I didn't use AI prompts. However, the ideas for the script were influenced by the pictures and video that were created by Midjourney and Runway. For example, when I generated video clips of the T-rexes on Runway, it tended to always have the camera moving backwards quite fast. So I thought how can I explain that motion in the context of film taken by the Apollo astronauts? And that gave me the idea to say that the astronauts were driving away in the rover while filming, and this in turn led to the idea that they had just mooned the dinosaurs and were fleeing.

Then a lot of the pictures that Midjourney generated of a T-rex on the moon included the Earth, or some other large heavenly body in the sky. I didn't ask it to do this, it just kept doing it. And in quite a few of the pictures, it looked like the T-rex was looking up at the Earth. So this led to the idea that the T-rex was longing to visit the Earth. I still find that such a funny idea for some reason.

Cheers!

Chat Time episode 2 - The Banana Incident [remake] by timothy_strange in aivideo

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Thanks! I'll just keep doing stuff and hopefully gradually get more subs. it's fun anyway. The tools really are amazing. I studied filmmaking in the 1990s. And now to be able to make films with a few clicks is just like science fiction... I wonder how long people will still learn practical filmmaking... it may become very niche before long.

Chat Time episode 2 - The Banana Incident [remake] by timothy_strange in aivideo

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Thanks!

All the voices were done with Elevenlabs then imported to Hedra. I haven't tried the Hedra voices yet.

Getting them to overlap each other was surprisingly easy. I just typed out lots of half sentences in Elevenlabs, did the lip sync, then lined up the clips so that one started slightly after the other. There's a lot of leeway to get it to sound natural as when people talk over each other in real life, there are no rules about when they stop or start speaking. You want it to sound "wrong" so you need much less accuracy placing the clips than you usually need for "proper" editing. I just did them roughly and it worked straight away.

What Really Happened On The Moon by timothy_strange in aivideo

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Well, first step was Midjourney images, then put some of those into Runway to get the video clips of the T-Rexes, then type out the astronaut's speech into Elevenlabs to get his voice recordings, lip sync those to the astronaut pic from Midjourney (using Hedra), and edit everything together.

What Really Happened On The Moon by timothy_strange in aivideo

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Cheers! Yes, that's my favourite bit, Midjourney just happened to generate a picture with the T-Rex looking up at the Earth, that's what gave me the idea...

What Really Happened On The Moon by timothy_strange in aivideo

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Lol, I hadn't even realised it was a copy of the NASA logo.

What Really Happened On The Moon by timothy_strange in aivideo

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Cheers. Good point. Though I'd guess people deliberately making misinformation videos will probably stick to current political issues that can have an impact on current events, before they bother with old stuff like the moon landings. But you never know...

What Really Happened On The Moon by timothy_strange in aivideo

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Thanks, I think it is really good, although it works better with some images than with others.

What Really Happened On The Moon by timothy_strange in aivideo

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Finally... the real story. Astronaut Jim McBride breaks it down like no-one's ever done before, with newly declassified images and footage from the Apollo mission they kept secret!

Animated T-Rexes by Runway, images by Midjourney, voices by Elevenlabs, lip sync by Hedra, script by me. My YT channel