Three years ago, I was working on a project that consisted of a couple of interviews of employees at a local business. It was a solo venture—I shot the interviews, took my gear home, and ingested my footage on my drives. I knew the story I wanted to tell, and I knew exactly how I was going to tell it—so why was I burning tons of hours watching this footage I just shot to find the soundbites I knew I was going to use?That sparked a conversation with my colleague about this process. The main question was: There’s got to be something out there that can meaningfully speed this process up.”Short answer: there wasn’t. Or at least not in the way in which I was imagining.I had hit a plateau—I had tuned my workflow to the -nth degree, but I still desperately wanted to speed up the manual processes I was getting inundated with. So that sparked an idea, which led to a company, which led to what we have today: Eddie AI. The Life of a Video CreatorFirst and foremost, I am a video creator, and I have been for the entirety of my career.Well, except for that one time during COVID when I bartended at a ski resort while I wrote filmmaking articles at night. But that was a different time. For the majority of that time (even during my years at Shutterstock Tutorials) I have been mostly a one-man band. As I’m sure a lot of you...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 6 February