⚙️ Over the last year, AI has quietly become my assistant as an editor.
Not replacing creative decisions — just removing friction from everyday work.Here are a few practical ways I use it... Read more
⚙️ Over the last year, AI has quietly become my assistant as an editor.
Not replacing creative decisions — just removing friction from everyday work.
Here are a few practical ways I use it 👇
🎬 Visual references during editing
Instead of describing future graphics or VFX verbally, I can quickly generate visual references directly in the edit.
It helps directors and producers align much earlier — and gives VFX / CG artists a clearer visual reference than text ever could.
Not final work, but a strong shared starting point.
🧰 Custom tools for repetitive tasks
I’m not a developer, but AI helped me create simple tools for file renaming (music, graphics, references) and cleaner exports — including automatically updating watermarks with the current date and time.
Fewer mistakes, less friction, more focus.
🗂 Structuring chaotic feedback
When notes come from multiple people across long message threads, AI helps turn that into a clear, structured list — sometimes even timeline-ready markers.
Less noise, more clarity.
🎞 Sizzle research during pre-production
For a recent sizzle reel in pre-production, AI helped identify existing films and series with relevant material — even suggesting approximate timecodes.
That alone saved several days of searching and viewing.
AI doesn’t edit for me. 🤖
It helps me spend more time actually editing and thinking creatively — and less time fighting routine.
Curious how other editors are using AI in their real workflows.
Not replacing creative decisions — just removing friction from everyday work.
Here are a few practical ways I use it 👇
🎬 Visual references during editing
Instead of describing future graphics or VFX verbally, I can quickly generate visual references directly in the edit.
It helps directors and producers align much earlier — and gives VFX / CG artists a clearer visual reference than text ever could.
Not final work, but a strong shared starting point.
🧰 Custom tools for repetitive tasks
I’m not a developer, but AI helped me create simple tools for file renaming (music, graphics, references) and cleaner exports — including automatically updating watermarks with the current date and time.
Fewer mistakes, less friction, more focus.
🗂 Structuring chaotic feedback
When notes come from multiple people across long message threads, AI helps turn that into a clear, structured list — sometimes even timeline-ready markers.
Less noise, more clarity.
🎞 Sizzle research during pre-production
For a recent sizzle reel in pre-production, AI helped identify existing films and series with relevant material — even suggesting approximate timecodes.
That alone saved several days of searching and viewing.
AI doesn’t edit for me. 🤖
It helps me spend more time actually editing and thinking creatively — and less time fighting routine.
Curious how other editors are using AI in their real workflows.
As long as you can get everyone’s ideas into the system. That’s the challenge.
Unstructured notes tend to arrive in an unstructured way.. and not always in the same format.. or at the same time.
Do you voice record entire viewings and hope the AI can pick everything up?
Then add emails or texts separately?
Or do you have some more specific openclaw system running on a raspberry pie or Mac mini?
If not… can it not take longer to get all this into the system rather than just tackling the notes?
In this case it was pretty simple. I’d shared a cut, and over the next week there was a long discussion in the production chat. Lots of ideas, back and forth, people agreeing, disagreeing, refining notes. By the time I came back to it, the thread was huge.
Instead of manually digging through it and structuring everything myself, I copied the conversation into ChatGPT and asked for a short summary with key decisions and action points.
I still read the whole thread afterwards. I don’t blindly trust it. But it saved me from hunting for final decisions buried inside debates.
It’s not a system, and I’ve only used it properly a couple of times. It just helped reduce friction when the feedback had already become chaotic.