Three deep dives dropped this week that Founding Members got first: 🔧 Building a Local 4K AI Video Pipeline — Full NVIDIA + ComfyUI technical breakdown. No cloud costs, no waiting in queues. Your GPU, your footage, your workflow. 🎭 Real-Time AI Avatars with Runway Characters — How world models meet interactive media. Step-by-step build from zero to working avatar. 🎬 Daniel Kwan's AI Roadmap from SXSW — The "Everything Everywhere All at Once" director spent 3 years going deep on AI. His framework for filmmakers is the most practical thing I've seen from someone actually making films. We're past the halfway mark to 50 Founding Members. Once we hit 50, the price goes up and the door closes at this rate. So join TODAY! $29/month, locked for life → https://www.skool.com/aiography/classroom

I've been tracking something that dropped yesterday and I want to get your take on it. Canal+ — the French company behind Studiocanal, Paddington, Back to Black — just announced formal multi-year partnerships with both Google AND OpenAI in the same breath as their annual earnings call. Not a pilot. Not an experiment. Infrastructure. The specific use case they highlighted: Google's Veo3 to recreate historical moments from a single archival photo. That's not vague AI promise language. That's a direct hit on documentary production budgets, historical drama reshoots, and the entire stock footage licensing industry. And they're not alone. Disney already invested $1B in OpenAI and handed Frozen and Star Wars characters to Sora. Banijay just merged with All3Media and is talking up AI capabilities. Now Canal+. When both ends of the market — American blockbuster IP and European prestige cinema — formalize AI partnerships within months of each other, the middle has nowhere to hide. Here's the thing though — and this is what people are missing in all the doom takes: Canal+ simultaneously announced a new deal with Sky to develop English-language drama. At least two projects a year for three years. They're deploying AI AND commissioning more human-driven storytelling at the same time. AI doesn't kill demand for content. It changes the cost structure of producing it. The studios that use AI to make more will win. The ones that only use it to spend less will just be cheaper versions of what they already were. I've been in this industry through every major technology transition. This one feels different in speed. Not in kind. The question on the table for all of us right now: are you positioning yourself as someone who knows how to direct the machines? Or are you waiting to see how this shakes out? Curious what you're seeing from where you sit. Drop it below. 👇

Yesterday we had our first AMA with five of our founding members and honestly… I didn't want it to end. We had editors from LA, New York, Minnesota, and Ireland—different backgrounds, different levels of AI experience, and different fears. But the same underlying question: How do I stay relevant in a craft I've spent my whole career building? That question is exactly why this community exists. Josh kept hearing, "You've got to learn AI," but nobody's telling him which tools are worth his time and which are just another $1,000/month subscription trap. Elisheba is deep in the trenches trying to fix a transcript workflow that's costing her weeks of cleanup time. Ben has been on the same show for 10 years and is watching people get laid off who've been there twice as long. And Elaine? She's already got her handmade gnomes riding trains and talking on camera using Kling and ElevenLabs. First time out of the gate. That's the range we've got in this room. And it's awesome. We're doing this again next week. The Founding Members tier is where we dig in together—real problems, real solutions. $29/month, or go annual and get two months free. If you've been on the fence, stop waiting. The people who showed up to this call didn't have it all figured out. They just showed up. Come join us this Tuesday (3/10) for our first Coffee Hour & AMA. This one is open to ALL members, free and founding. Look forward to seeing you there. — Larry

Hi everyone, I'm Alex Klim, a filmmaker and creative director from Vienna, Austria. I've been in the film industry for almost 2 decades, worked on international film productions around the globe and finally back in Vienna running my own production company. I’m exploring how AI can scale visual storytelling without sacrificing depth, craft, or emotional truth. Currently developing narrative projects and experimenting with AI workflows for film and branded content. Happy to connect.

Here's Why I'm Not Worried. Adobe just dropped a new Firefly feature called "Quick Cut." You upload raw footage, type a description of what the video should be—interview, product demo, travel vlog—and it automatically produces a rough cut. Let that sink in for a second. AI is now assembling edits from raw footage based on a text prompt. It pulls from Adobe, Google, OpenAI, and Runway models. It targets product reviewers, podcasters, marketers—anyone who needs a fast edit without hiring an editor. I can already hear the panic. "They're coming for our jobs." No. They're not. Here's why. A rough cut is not an edit. Every editor in this community knows the difference. A rough cut is assembly. It's organization. It's the starting point. The CRAFT of editing—pacing, rhythm, emotional timing, knowing what to cut and what to keep, building tension, finding the story inside the footage—that's what happens AFTER the rough cut. Quick Cut is doing the part of the job that was already the least creative. It's pulling selects and assembling them in order. That's assistant editor work at best—and even assistants bring more judgment to it than an algorithm. This is actually good news for editors. Here's why: When the rough assembly takes 5 minutes instead of 5 hours, you get to spend more time on the part that actually matters—the storytelling. The craft. The decisions. This is exactly what I mean when I say everything becomes post. AI is collapsing the mechanical parts of the pipeline so humans can focus on the creative parts. The question isn't whether AI can assemble footage. It can. The question is: who decides if the assembly is any good? That's you. That's always been you. What do you think? Are tools like this a threat or an opportunity? Drop your take below.