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I Trained Claude to Edit Like Iman Gadzhi! (Complete Guide) — Transcript

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  1. 0:00AI can now create stunning Iman Gadzhi
  2. 0:02videos just like this one.
  3. 0:07That entire edit was created only using
  4. 0:09AI. No After Effects, no animating frame
  5. 0:11by frame, and no editing software
  6. 0:13needed. And in this video, I'm going to
  7. 0:15give you the complete breakdown of how
  8. 0:17you can create Iman Gadzhi videos using
  9. 0:19AI from scratch. And if you've never
  10. 0:21edited anything with AI, or you're new
  11. 0:22to video editing, [music] don't worry.
  12. 0:24This is a complete A-to-Z walk-through
  13. 0:26of everything you need to know. First,
  14. 0:28we're going to break down the Iman
  15. 0:29Gadzhi editing style down to each
  16. 0:31principle [music] in it: the planning,
  17. 0:32the design, and the animations. Then,
  18. 0:34I'll walk you through how we trained
  19. 0:36Claude to think like an Iman Gadzhi
  20. 0:38professional editor. And finally, I'm
  21. 0:39going to show you how we created the
  22. 0:41designs and animations [music] for each
  23. 0:43scene in this Iman Gadzhi video. All of
  24. 0:44this so that by the end of this video,
  25. 0:46you'll be able to take your client's
  26. 0:48footage, or your own video, and turn it
  27. 0:50into an Iman Gadzhi premium video only
  28. 0:52using AI. So, without further ado, let's
  29. 0:55dive right in.
  30. 0:58But first, before we start creating
  31. 0:59amazing Iman Gadzhi designs and stunning
  32. 1:01animations, let me take the next few
  33. 1:03minutes to break down the three
  34. 1:04principles that make up the Iman Gadzhi
  35. 1:06editing style. Starting with principle
  36. 1:08number one, planning. When it comes to
  37. 1:09planning what to show in the video,
  38. 1:11Iman's team go above and beyond. And to
  39. 1:13reverse engineer exactly how, we studied
  40. 1:1510 Iman Gadzhi videos, five of his best
  41. 1:18performing ones, and five of his latest
  42. 1:20ones. We extracted every transcript,
  43. 1:22screenshotted every animation, and
  44. 1:24aligned each one to exactly what was
  45. 1:25being said and when it appeared. And
  46. 1:27after doing this, you start to see a
  47. 1:28pattern. And this pattern is the secret
  48. 1:30behind why Iman's videos are so good to
  49. 1:32watch. The intro and the body are
  50. 1:34planned completely differently. The
  51. 1:36intro has two to five times the
  52. 1:37animations, on average four to 10
  53. 1:39visuals every minute, while the body
  54. 1:41sits around two animations per minute.
  55. 1:43And these animations are never placed
  56. 1:45randomly. In the intro, there are five
  57. 1:46types of statements that always get
  58. 1:48animated: claims and concepts, numbers,
  59. 1:50chapter transitions, promises and open
  60. 1:52loops, and autobiographical proof. In
  61. 1:54the body, it just comes down to four:
  62. 1:56New information, numbers right after
  63. 1:58long dry explanations to restimulate the
  64. 2:00viewer, and proof. And one constant that
  65. 2:02never changes is every time a chapter is
  66. 2:05mentioned, the same chapter animation
  67. 2:06gets reused to help the viewer
  68. 2:08transition through the storyline. Now,
  69. 2:10later in the video, you're going to see
  70. 2:11exactly how we taught Claude this entire
  71. 2:13planning psychology and used it to
  72. 2:15create the full plan for our Iman Gadzhi
  73. 2:17edit. So, make sure to stick around till
  74. 2:18then. But, knowing where to place
  75. 2:20animations is half the battle. The real
  76. 2:21question is, how do we come up with the
  77. 2:23design for each scene? When it comes to
  78. 2:24designing scenes for the Iman Gadzhi
  79. 2:26video, first we have to understand the
  80. 2:28most important principle, which is
  81. 2:29color. Iman chooses the accent color for
  82. 2:31the video based on his recording.
  83. 2:33Whatever accent color is in the
  84. 2:34recording, that's the color theme for
  85. 2:36the animations. Now, out of that color,
  86. 2:37he extracts a darker variant and a
  87. 2:39lighter variant. So, if our color theme
  88. 2:41was red, that's a deep dark red gray and
  89. 2:43a light warm white. Now, the way that
  90. 2:45these colors are spread out is the scene
  91. 2:47is made up of 60% of the darker variant
  92. 2:49and 30% of the lighter variant and 10%
  93. 2:52of the accent vibrant color. This color
  94. 2:54combination stays consistent throughout
  95. 2:55all the designs and it's what makes
  96. 2:57every scene feel like part of the same
  97. 2:59video. Now, with the color broken down,
  98. 3:00there are four main types of Iman Gadzhi
  99. 3:02designs that we see consistently in his
  100. 3:04videos. And understanding these four
  101. 3:06will help you recreate any Iman Gadzhi
  102. 3:08video that you want. The first type is
  103. 3:10on-screen animations. These are fillers
  104. 3:12between two major chapters that maintain
  105. 3:14the viewer's retention until Iman
  106. 3:16transitions. Here, you're going to find
  107. 3:17bottom of screen text and icon
  108. 3:18animations, side-by-side object
  109. 3:20animations, UI elements like graphs with
  110. 3:22text at the bottom of the screen,
  111. 3:23graphics taking up one side while Iman
  112. 3:25takes the other, and lower thirds UI and
  113. 3:27text designs. The second type is UI
  114. 3:29animations, where the full screen
  115. 3:30becomes an animation incorporating UI
  116. 3:32and text. Here, you're going to find
  117. 3:34text-focused scenes with one word
  118. 3:35highlighted or underlined, two object
  119. 3:37scenes, which are great for comparison,
  120. 3:39one object plus text scenes revolving
  121. 3:41around a singular element, and every now
  122. 3:42and then complex design scenes with
  123. 3:44advanced shape geometry. The third type
  124. 3:46is illustrated scenes, typically used
  125. 3:48when telling some kind of story or
  126. 3:49experience. Here, you're going to find
  127. 3:51single character scenes, environmental
  128. 3:53scenes where the character is doing
  129. 3:54something, and characters in
  130. 3:55environments with text describing what
  131. 3:57they're doing, and more rarely,
  132. 3:58mysterious scenes with complex
  133. 4:00illustrations describing a concept. And
  134. 4:02finally, the last type of scene, which
  135. 4:04is the weirdest one, is the 3D animation
  136. 4:06scenes. These are designs composed
  137. 4:07around three-dimensional elements. These
  138. 4:09come very rarely and only when Iman
  139. 4:11really needs the viewer's attention to
  140. 4:13focus. So, to wrap things up, the four
  141. 4:14types of Iman Gadzhi designs are
  142. 4:16on-screen animations, UI animated
  143. 4:18scenes, illustrated cinematic art, and
  144. 4:203D animations. Now, training Cloud later
  145. 4:22on how to recreate each of these types
  146. 4:24of animations is exactly why our final
  147. 4:26edit turned out so good. So, stay tuned
  148. 4:28for that. And real quick, if you enjoy
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  191. 5:45the first two pillars broken down, this
  192. 5:46brings us to pillar number three. How
  193. 5:48the Iman Gadzhi animations are created.
  194. 5:50It all comes down to four animation
  195. 5:52rules. And first is the text animations.
  196. 5:54Almost all of Iman's text use a
  197. 5:55word-by-word pop-up blur fade-in. Each
  198. 5:58word pops up, fades in, and blurs in.
  199. 6:00And they all happen sequentially to
  200. 6:02reveal. And this is exactly how we're
  201. 6:03going to be writing our prompts later to
  202. 6:05get the picture-perfect results with AI.
  203. 6:07Second is the icon animations. Icons get
  204. 6:09a simple pop-up fade-in that's quick and
  205. 6:12smooth. Third is the UI animations. UI
  206. 6:14have a simple pop-up fade-in that starts
  207. 6:16fast and ends slow and smooth. And
  208. 6:17elements always animate in sequentially.
  209. 6:19Certain elements always start first and
  210. 6:21the rest follow after. And fourth is the
  211. 6:23camera movement, especially on the
  212. 6:24illustrated scenes. The character is
  213. 6:26always interacting with the environment,
  214. 6:27and most importantly, the camera always
  215. 6:29has some kind of slow zoom-in or pan
  216. 6:31animation that keeps the scene active.
  217. 6:33So now, ladies and gentlemen, that wraps
  218. 6:34up all the principles to the Iman Gadzhi
  219. 6:36editing style, the planning, the design,
  220. 6:38and the animations. So now it's time to
  221. 6:39teach all of it to AI and train Claude
  222. 6:42to think exactly how an Iman Gadzhi
  223. 6:43editor thinks.
  224. 6:46To better understand how we're going to
  225. 6:48edit videos in the Iman Gadzhi style
  226. 6:49using AI, you need to understand this.
  227. 6:51Claude is a brain. It's able to study
  228. 6:53things and turn them into learned
  229. 6:55skills. And then use these skills to
  230. 6:56execute tasks based on what it studied,
  231. 6:58which is exactly what we're going to be
  232. 7:00doing. We're going to be exposing Claude
  233. 7:01to the training that we put together on
  234. 7:03how Iman's videos are made so that we
  235. 7:05can train it to edit like Iman Gadzhi.
  236. 7:07And it all starts with training Claude
  237. 7:08on how Iman plans his videos. In order
  238. 7:10to do this, first I grabbed a few
  239. 7:12assets, the 10 videos that we studied,
  240. 7:14all their transcriptions, and all the
  241. 7:15animations which were planned for them.
  242. 7:17Then I uploaded them over to Claude and
  243. 7:19told it to study exactly when every
  244. 7:21animation was planned, why, and what it
  245. 7:23included. Then use this analysis to
  246. 7:25conclude the planning system that Iman
  247. 7:27Gadzhi editors use. Now, by clicking
  248. 7:29enter, Claude studied all 10 scripts and
  249. 7:31every animation. And because of the
  250. 7:32sheer size of this analysis, it
  251. 7:34concluded the exact patterns behind how
  252. 7:36Iman's team thinks when planning
  253. 7:38animations. So, to test it, I uploaded
  254. 7:40the script of an Iman Gadzhi video and
  255. 7:41asked it to plan out the animations. And
  256. 7:43in the meantime, I did the same thing
  257. 7:44myself using my 8 years of editing
  258. 7:46experience. To my surprise, both plans
  259. 7:48were essentially identical. Claude was
  260. 7:50officially planning videos like an Iman
  261. 7:52Gadzhi production team.
  262. 7:57Now, if you don't know, I can sit here
  263. 7:59and spend hours and hours training
  264. 8:01Claude on a task, but you won't have to
  265. 8:03do that. Because if you download this
  266. 8:04skill file, your Claude will know
  267. 8:06everything that I trained my Claude on,
  268. 8:08which is why I spent almost a week
  269. 8:10turning this entire style into skills.
  270. 8:12An editor brain that plans out
  271. 8:14animations just like Iman Gadzhi, an
  272. 8:15Iman style designer to design scenes,
  273. 8:17and an Iman Gadzhi animator to create
  274. 8:19the animations. If you want access to
  275. 8:21these skills, I'll be including them in
  276. 8:23my AI editing fundamentals course in
  277. 8:24Ultimate Editors. Meaning not only will
  278. 8:26you be able to learn everything about AI
  279. 8:28video editing, but you're also going to
  280. 8:29get premium skills like these that do
  281. 8:31the editing for you. The link to check
  282. 8:33out Ultimate Editors is going to be down
  283. 8:34below. Check it out. But now that Claude
  284. 8:36was trained to plan just like Iman
  285. 8:38Gadzhi, it was time to train it on
  286. 8:39high-quality Iman Gadzhi designs.
  287. 8:41[music] So, how exactly did we do that?
  288. 8:43What I did was I first collected a huge
  289. 8:45pile of every animation that Iman Gadzhi
  290. 8:47made and put them all in a Figma doc.
  291. 8:49Then, under each section, I added a
  292. 8:50breakdown of how each type of animation
  293. 8:52is created and the different kinds of
  294. 8:54layouts for each design. [music] So, we
  295. 8:56had a column that broke down the design
  296. 8:57fundamentals behind the on-screen
  297. 8:59animations, one for the UI animations,
  298. 9:01one for the illustrated scenes, and one
  299. 9:03for the 3D animations. Then, I took
  300. 9:05these four PDFs and uploaded them to
  301. 9:07Claude. And I explained that this is the
  302. 9:08design fundamentals behind Iman Gadzhi's
  303. 9:11high-quality design scenes. Study it and
  304. 9:12analyze every kind of design and
  305. 9:14associate it with when they were used in
  306. 9:16the previous scripts. [music] Then,
  307. 9:17Claude studied these PDFs and created
  308. 9:19the Iman Gadzhi design brain. A skill
  309. 9:21that knows the four types of Iman Gadzhi
  310. 9:23designs and exactly how and when to
  311. 9:26create them. From the colors to the
  312. 9:27glows to the layouts, fonts, [music] and
  313. 9:29everything. And to test it, later in the
  314. 9:31video, I used this exact skill to design
  315. 9:33all the amazing scenes for our Iman
  316. 9:35Gadzhi edit, which is coming up in just
  317. 9:37a second. Again, if you want to download
  318. 9:39the full skill that was trained on the
  319. 9:40four types of Iman Gadzhi designs, it's
  320. 9:42all going to go live with the editing
  321. 9:43fundamentals course in Ultimate Editors.
  322. 9:45But, by this point, Claude was
  323. 9:46essentially trained on how to plan
  324. 9:48videos like Iman Gadzhi and how to
  325. 9:49design each type of scene just like Iman
  326. 9:51would, which meant that there was one
  327. 9:53last thing to teach Claude. How to
  328. 9:54animate just like Iman. And this is how
  329. 9:56we did it. In order to teach Claude how
  330. 9:58to animate like Iman Gadzhi, I had to do
  331. 10:00something special. You see, Claude can't
  332. 10:02actually watch videos or study
  333. 10:03animations. So, I had to tell Claude
  334. 10:05manually what was happening and when it
  335. 10:07was happening so that it could learn it.
  336. 10:09So, what I did was I uploaded
  337. 10:10screenshots of the designs of animations
  338. 10:12that Iman Gadzhi made. Then, I broke
  339. 10:14each one down for Claude. First, I
  340. 10:16uploaded an on-screen animation. I
  341. 10:17explained to Claude how the word-by-word
  342. 10:19pop-up blur fade-in animation worked,
  343. 10:21how the icons pop up fade in smoothly,
  344. 10:23and how the on-screen animations are
  345. 10:25animated. Then, I uploaded a UI
  346. 10:27animation and explained how the icons
  347. 10:29pop up fade in smoothly, how the UI has
  348. 10:31a cinematic pop-up fade-in animation as
  349. 10:32well, and how the camera follows a
  350. 10:34cinematic zoom-in animation. Then, I
  351. 10:36uploaded an illustrated scene and
  352. 10:37explained how the characters live out
  353. 10:39the environment, how the text pops up,
  354. 10:41and how most importantly the camera has
  355. 10:43a pan animation that starts quick and
  356. 10:45zooms out. After lots of prompting, I
  357. 10:46was finally able to explain to Claude
  358. 10:48how these scenes get [music] animated
  359. 10:50and what makes them the premium Iman
  360. 10:52Gadzhi style. Then, of course, I asked
  361. 10:53it to turn this into a skill called the
  362. 10:55Iman Gadzhi Animator Brain, which again,
  363. 10:57you can get access to in my AI Editing
  364. 10:59Fundamentals course in Ultimate Editors.
  365. 11:01The link's going to be down below. But,
  366. 11:02now that Claude can plan out videos like
  367. 11:04Iman Gadzhi, design scenes like Iman
  368. 11:05Gadzhi, and create smooth animations
  369. 11:07like Iman Gadzhi, there was one [music]
  370. 11:08last thing left to do. It was time to
  371. 11:10put all of this to the test and plug a
  372. 11:12raw video into Claude and see if it
  373. 11:14truly is able to create a full Iman
  374. 11:16Gadzhi style edit from scratch using
  375. 11:18everything we taught it.
  376. 11:21This right here is my raw video. It's a
  377. 11:23segment from an Iman Gadzhi video that
  378. 11:25he recorded a while back and it's all
  379. 11:27completely raw. I wanted to see just how
  380. 11:29good AI can edit this in the Iman Gadzhi
  381. 11:31style. So, let's find out. The first
  382. 11:33thing we need to do is plan out the
  383. 11:34edit, just like Iman Gadzhi. So, I pull
  384. 11:36up Claude and tell it to load up the
  385. 11:37Iman Gadzhi editor brain skill. Then, I
  386. 11:39uploaded the script of the video and
  387. 11:41prompted it this: Using the Iman Gadzhi
  388. 11:42editor brain, I want you to think like
  389. 11:44an Iman Gadzhi editor and plan out the
  390. 11:46edit for this script. For each line,
  391. 11:48extract the main subject of the scene,
  392. 11:49choose whether the scene needs an
  393. 11:50animation or not, and choose what the
  394. 11:52animation should be about. And after
  395. 11:54clicking enter and giving it some time
  396. 11:55to load, it absolutely blew my mind. It
  397. 11:57analyzed the script exactly like an Iman
  398. 11:59Gadzhi editor would, and it planned
  399. 12:01animations for every segment that needed
  400. 12:02animating. In total, it planned out 10
  401. 12:05total animations: a chapter reveal, four
  402. 12:07chapter references, three AI
  403. 12:08illustrations, and two dynamic scene
  404. 12:10designs. And the best part is, it
  405. 12:12planned them perfectly. They hooked the
  406. 12:13viewer in, they highlighted new
  407. 12:14concepts, and showcased everything just
  408. 12:17how Iman would. With the full plan
  409. 12:18created, it was time to start turning
  410. 12:20each scene into an Iman style design.
  411. 12:22So, let's go ahead and start building
  412. 12:23that. I then prompted Claude to load up
  413. 12:25our Iman Gadzhi design brain skill,
  414. 12:27because we were about to start creating
  415. 12:28some designs. But before we create the
  416. 12:30scenes, there's a tiny problem. You see,
  417. 12:31Claude on its own is a brain. It can't
  418. 12:34actually generate images or video. So,
  419. 12:36we connect it to a tool that can, which
  420. 12:37is Higgsfield. This means that Claude
  421. 12:39does the thinking and the
  422. 12:40decision-making, and Higgsfield executes
  423. 12:42on it and creates the images and
  424. 12:44animations. And we just keep working
  425. 12:45inside of Claude as if nothing happened.
  426. 12:47At the beginning of the video, Iman
  427. 12:48starts with this clip here. So, I've got
  428. 12:50a couple things written down, and
  429. 12:52honestly, I'm just going to spitball
  430. 12:53these 17 lessons. This clip introduces
  431. 12:56the subject of the video as 17 life
  432. 12:58lessons. So, Claude planned to reveal a
  433. 13:00notebook as the chapter element, with
  434. 13:02every chapter written inside it. I told
  435. 13:03Claude the accent color was going to be
  436. 13:05red, since we could see a hint of red in
  437. 13:07the background where Iman was recording.
  438. 13:08And I prompted it to create the design
  439. 13:10for this scene in the Iman Gadzhi style.
  440. 13:12Claude thought a little and gave
  441. 13:13Higgsfield this prompt: In a black and
  442. 13:15red illustrated theme, create a top-down
  443. 13:16shot of a notebook on a table in a dark
  444. 13:18room with elements on the edges for
  445. 13:20depth. And this is the design it
  446. 13:21generated. It perfectly fit the brand.
  447. 13:23Then, using the notebook as a reference,
  448. 13:25Claude prompted Higgsfield to create an
  449. 13:26image of this notebook but open. The
  450. 13:28paper has an off-white warm textured
  451. 13:30color and inside the title says 17 life
  452. 13:32lessons and a list of 17 ideas all
  453. 13:35scribbled. And this is the scene that it
  454. 13:36created, which looked perfect. Now,
  455. 13:38these two scenes form the first
  456. 13:39animation. So, I asked Claude to load up
  457. 13:41the Iman Gadzhi animator brain and bring
  458. 13:43them to life. Claude referenced both the
  459. 13:45notebook shots in Scene Dance 2.0 and
  460. 13:47prompted the notebook starts closed on
  461. 13:49the desk then quickly opens as the wind
  462. 13:51makes the papers jitter revealing the 17
  463. 13:53life lessons as a slow camera zoom in is
  464. 13:55constantly happening. There's no music,
  465. 13:57just [music] sound effects. And this is
  466. 13:58the animation it generated. This is the
  467. 14:00perfect chapter element reveal for the
  468. 14:02beginning of the video. By the way, if
  469. 14:03you're finding any of this complex and
  470. 14:04if you've never edited anything with AI
  471. 14:06before, don't worry. This is exactly why
  472. 14:08I built the AI editing fundamentals
  473. 14:09course. I'm going to be breaking down
  474. 14:11everything you need to create stunning
  475. 14:12AI edits like these from A to Z. And
  476. 14:15you're also going to get access to all
  477. 14:16the Iman Gadzhi skills used in this
  478. 14:18video. The link is going to be down in
  479. 14:19the description. But this chapter reveal
  480. 14:20was only the beginning. The next clip
  481. 14:22was Iman revealing the first chapter.
  482. 14:24>> Lesson number one is you need to extend
  483. 14:27your timeline.
  484. 14:28>> To list out each chapter, we unscrambled
  485. 14:30the text and write out the chapter title
  486. 14:32exactly how Iman does it. So, I prompted
  487. 14:34Claude to create the chapter animation
  488. 14:35for chapter one extend your timeline.
  489. 14:37First, Claude prompted Higgsfield to
  490. 14:38reference the open notebook and generate
  491. 14:40a close-up macro shot of lesson number
  492. 14:42one still scribbled. Then to unscramble
  493. 14:44the text into the title extend your
  494. 14:46timeline. Then using these two images as
  495. 14:47reference with Scene Dance 2.0, it
  496. 14:49prompted a close-up macro shot of the
  497. 14:51scribbled text in number one
  498. 14:52unscrambling and turning into the words
  499. 14:54extend your timeline as a cinematic
  500. 14:56camera constantly tilts 3D around the
  501. 14:58image. And this is what Higgsfield
  502. 14:59created, a perfect animation revealing
  503. 15:01our first chapter. And for the three
  504. 15:02other chapters, Claude repeated the same
  505. 15:04workflow, unscrambling a different
  506. 15:05number into each chapter title giving us
  507. 15:07all four chapter animations for the
  508. 15:09video. And this was just the beginning.
  509. 15:11Next up were the three illustrated
  510. 15:12sequences, which follow a very similar
  511. 15:14workflow. In the next clip, Iman says
  512. 15:16this. He's telling a personal story. So,
  513. 15:18Claude planned to emphasize the emotion
  514. 15:20with a cinematic illustrated chart of
  515. 15:22every scenario. Scenario one was the
  516. 15:23hangout with the friends. Claude
  517. 15:25prompted Hicksfield in the red and black
  518. 15:26illustrated style generated a group of
  519. 15:28friends hanging out having fun on a
  520. 15:29couch. And this is what it generated. It
  521. 15:31fit the branding and looked like
  522. 15:32something straight out of an Iman Gadzhi
  523. 15:34video. Then to animate it, Claude
  524. 15:35prompted Hicksfield to use it as a
  525. 15:37reference as the camera slowly zooms in
  526. 15:39on this group of teenagers having fun.
  527. 15:41There's no music, there's just sound
  528. 15:42effects. And this is our first cinematic
  529. 15:44scene. Scenario two was about grabbing a
  530. 15:46beer. Same workflow. Claude references
  531. 15:47the first scene and creates a group
  532. 15:49toasting at the bar. Then it animates it
  533. 15:51with a cinematic slow zoom in as they
  534. 15:53toast and beer spills everywhere. And
  535. 15:55scenario three was about watching a
  536. 15:56football game. Claude generated the
  537. 15:58group of fans jumping hyped in a
  538. 16:00football stadium and animated a
  539. 16:01cinematic zoom in as they
  540. 16:02enthusiastically jump and scream. Now by
  541. 16:05combining all three of these, this is
  542. 16:07what our cinematic illustration looked
  543. 16:08like. Now real quick, this happens two
  544. 16:10more times throughout the raw video. On
  545. 16:11our second section, Iman says this.
  546. 16:14>> I would walk down the street. You could
  547. 16:15tell I was on a mission.
  548. 16:17>> Claude generates a shot of a character
  549. 16:18walking down the crowded street and a
  550. 16:20close-up of the eyebrows. And then it
  551. 16:21turns both into a simple illustrated
  552. 16:23animation. And on our third scenario,
  553. 16:25Iman says this.
  554. 16:26>> If you pick up a girl, if you drop a
  555. 16:28girl home after a date, if you pay for
  556. 16:30the bill.
  557. 16:31>> Claude generates a man opening the door
  558. 16:32for a woman. The man is taking her home
  559. 16:34and a top-down shot of him paying the
  560. 16:36bill. This time with a clean white text
  561. 16:37on the edge of each scene which looked
  562. 16:39super high quality. Then Claude turned
  563. 16:41all of these into high quality animated
  564. 16:42illustrations using the exact same
  565. 16:44workflow. Now by this point, most of the
  566. 16:46edit had animations and it was time to
  567. 16:48create the final cut. The two dynamic
  568. 16:50designs. For our first clip, Iman says
  569. 16:52this.
  570. 16:52>> And I think that was really just a sign
  571. 16:54of having a clear direction, a vision
  572. 16:56for what I could become.
  573. 16:57>> So Claude planned to show a vision in
  574. 16:59the center of the scene with a man
  575. 17:00staring into it and distraction icons
  576. 17:02floating around the edges. Hicksfield
  577. 17:04processed a little and this is what it
  578. 17:06came up with. It fit the branding enough
  579. 17:07but definitely could have been better.
  580. 17:08But I still rolled with it. Then Claude
  581. 17:10prompted Hicksfield to use this as a
  582. 17:12reference and start the scene with a
  583. 17:13black background, reveal the vision in
  584. 17:14the middle with particles and the
  585. 17:16effects then pop up and fade in the
  586. 17:17character and finally reveal the
  587. 17:19distracted icons. Now, this animation
  588. 17:21actually came out really solid. And for
  589. 17:23our second section, Iman mentions this.
  590. 17:25>> Focus on learning skills that are
  591. 17:27practical. Focus on starting businesses
  592. 17:29or careers that are practical.
  593. 17:31>> So, Claude planned a brain receiving
  594. 17:32information in the same style. It
  595. 17:34prompted a design in the middle with
  596. 17:36circular patterns emerging and two hands
  597. 17:38reaching in from the edges with
  598. 17:39information. Then, it used it as a
  599. 17:40reference to create this beautiful
  600. 17:42animation. Which, by this point with the
  601. 17:44chapter animation done, the illustrated
  602. 17:46scenes and the dynamic designs, every
  603. 17:47animation in the video was officially
  604. 17:49complete. And after adding them into the
  605. 17:51video, I just couldn't believe how good
  606. 17:52this turned out. Check it out.
  607. 17:54>> I've got a couple things written down
  608. 17:55and honestly, I'm just going to spitball
  609. 17:57these 17 lessons. Lesson number one is
  610. 18:00you need to extend your timeline. I can
  611. 18:02tell you that I have missed out on so
  612. 18:04many hangout with the friends, grab a
  613. 18:06beer with the friends, watch the
  614. 18:08football game. It is so easy to see the
  615. 18:10final product and think that you need to
  616. 18:13rush when quite frankly, you don't. The
  617. 18:15next life lesson is walk with purpose. I
  618. 18:17remember even from the age of 15 or 16,
  619. 18:20I would walk down the street. You could
  620. 18:22tell I was on a mission and I think that
  621. 18:23was really just a sign of having a clear
  622. 18:26direction, a vision for what I could
  623. 18:28become. Now, the next thing is to focus
  624. 18:30on practicality and not purpose. Focus
  625. 18:33on learning skills that are practical.
  626. 18:35Focus on starting businesses or careers
  627. 18:37that are practical. Focus on becoming a
  628. 18:40gentleman. Do not listen to all of these
  629. 18:42guys that have never lived in the real
  630. 18:43world telling you, "Oh, you're a simp if
  631. 18:46you pick up a girl, if you drop a girl
  632. 18:48home after a date, if you pay
  633. 18:49>> [music]
  634. 18:49>> for the bill." I don't know who raised
  635. 18:51some of these kids because quite
  636. 18:52clearly, they're not actual men. The way
  637. 18:54that I was raised is as a man, you pay
  638. 18:56for the bill. And if you cannot pay for
  639. 18:57the bill, if you cannot afford to, and
  640. 18:59when I was younger, I was in that
  641. 19:00position. Well, then guess what? [music]
  642. 19:02Get to work. Ladies and gentlemen, this
  643. 19:03brings us to the end of the video and
  644. 19:05this makes us realize something very
  645. 19:07shocking. I think it's very evident that
  646. 19:08video editing is slowly going from
  647. 19:10mastering the editing programs and the
  648. 19:12viral editing styles into learning how
  649. 19:14you can utilize AI to do the technical
  650. 19:16work so that you as a video editor can
  651. 19:19focus on coming up with the creative
  652. 19:20[music] scenes. This by no means claims
  653. 19:22that video editing is dead because of
  654. 19:24AI. As a matter of fact, I think it's
  655. 19:26more alive than ever. Now AI can do all
  656. 19:28of the heavy work like the animating and
  657. 19:30the designs while you can focus on doing
  658. 19:31the things that matter like analyzing
  659. 19:33the video for where the best animations
  660. 19:35need to be and using AI to create that
  661. 19:37video for you. But with all this being
  662. 19:38said, thank you guys so much for
  663. 19:39watching all the way to the end of the
  664. 19:40video and I'm very very interested to
  665. 19:42know what do you guys think of AI video
  666. 19:44editing? When you hear AI video editing,
  667. 19:45do you instantly get defensive? Do you
  668. 19:47feel angry about it? Or are you open to
  669. 19:49discovering AI and learning new tools
  670. 19:51that can make your workflow easier? Let
  671. 19:53us know in the comments down below. But
  672. 19:54in the meantime, stay tuned for our next
  673. 19:55video and feel free to check out one of
  674. 19:57these two tutorials which are just as
  675. 19:59valuable as the one that you just
  676. 20:00watched. Thanks a lot for everything
  677. 20:01guys and we'll see you next time.

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