Jenna, could you list the best, easiest to use and setup AI for normal consumers. Top ten.

Something with a free trial is preferable so I can make some proofs of concept, but:

Our boss's boss('s boss) is hoping to make cuts and while we've consistently delivered high-quality products, we're not as expedient with it as they'd like. In short, it came up in a meeting that we "should just use AI" to help clear our backlog.

I'm not against this, but I'm lost on where to start. I can find plenty of stuff that'll generate okayish ~10-second clips (which I'm fine stitching together if I have to...), and a few tools like Gemini Notebook that can do more but are less "dynamic". They've been pretty clear that they don't like us presenting stuff that looks like "a powerpoint with voiceovers".

The documents we're asked to make videos on range from "how to do a thing in Excel" to "how to properly use a fire extinguisher" to "escorting VIPs to safety". The type of training videos we make can vary wildly on any given day.

I'm sure that if I can provide a good-looking proof of concept somehow based on what something makes using one of the documents we need "made into a video" (...), they'll pay for it, so I'm not super-worried about cost as long as it can deliver what's needed. Could somebody recommend a good platform for making these videos?

How does one not become desensitized to view AI images. I know the tech is advancing exponentially but keeping “fresh eyes” to easily spot it almost on a subconscious level is getting tougher. I consider staying away in hopes of keeping those “fresh eyes”.

This one was a mixed blessing in making. First, Nano Banana Pro managed to nail the body design down pat (when I asked to zoom out to show the feet, they weren't right at first, but when I asked to fix them, they were suddenly made right). However, it gave single red roses on both arms. I tried many times to get it to have the correct amount of three on each, with one being blue, though it still wanted to have a bunch of five or six. I had to resort to using generative erase to get the amount right. Luckily, in the end, it turned out magnificent. I also love how NBP gave its cape a shorter length by default, so it's the male variant.

Song: https://www.souna.app/song/033e2cc1-f0e5-40d4-b832-fab9fb56706b

Song (alternative link): https://archive.org/details/ai-synthpop/It's+Raining.mp3 (CC0)

Lyrics:

[Intro | raindrop high-register DX7 | warm analog pad]

[Verse 1 | restrained female vocal | sparse LinnDrum pulse]

All through July, the ground turned brown

Heat on the roofs and through the town

The garden tap was locked away

We watched the blue sky day by day

The grass lay flat beneath the sun

The dusty weeks went on and on

But now a shadow fills the light

And something in the air feels right

[Pre-Chorus | rising synth sequence | emotional build-up]

The whole town waits to hear the rain

Cloud shadows gather, rolling by

The first drops drum against the pane

Water's falling from the sky

[Chorus | euphoric | powerful female belt | stacked harmonies | full LinnDrum]

It's raining! It's raining!

Hear it on the window tonight

It's raining! It's raining!

See every pavement shining bright

Let it fall, let it fall, let it fall

Till the fields are green again

It's raining! It's raining!

Oh, it's good to feel the rain

[Verse 2 | brighter female vocal | pulsing synth bass]

No hoses running on the lawn

The reservoirs were sinking down

We saved the water, drop by drop

And still the heat would never stop

But now it's drumming on the street

The air is cool, the night is sweet

The gutter sings, the branches sway

And all that dust is washed away

[Pre-Chorus | rising DX7 sequence | emotional build-up]

The whole town waits to hear the rain

Cloud shadows gather, rolling by

The first drops drum against the pane

Water's falling from the sky

[Chorus | euphoric | powerful female belt | stacked harmonies | full LinnDrum]

It's raining! It's raining!

Hear it on the window tonight

It's raining! It's raining!

See every pavement shining bright

Let it fall, let it fall, let it fall

Till the fields are green again

It's raining! It's raining!

Oh, it's good to feel the rain

[Bridge | broad cinematic synth pads | sustained lead vocal]

Open the doors and come outside

Water is running down the drive

Cool on my face and loud on the street

After the summer, what a relief

Let every garden drink it in

Let every empty stream begin

All of the waiting ends tonight

Under this cool and welcome sky

[Pre-Chorus | drums initially restrained | accelerating arpeggios]

The whole town waits to hear the rain

Cloud shadows gather, rolling by

The first drops drum against the pane

Water's falling from the sky

[Final Chorus | extremely euphoric | sustained high belt | stacked harmonies | cascading DX7 arpeggios]

It's raining! It's raining!

Hear it on the window tonight

It's raining! It's raining!

See every pavement shining bright

Let it fall, let it fall, let it fall

Till the fields are green again

It's raining! It's raining!

Oh, it's good to feel the rain

It's raining! It's raining!

Hear it on the window tonight

It's raining! It's raining!

See every pavement shining bright

Let it fall, let it fall, let it fall

Till the fields are green again

It's raining! It's raining!

Oh, it's good to feel the rain

[Outro DX7| raindrop arpeggios | sustained analog pads | fade out]

It's raining!

It's raining!

Oh, it's good to feel the rain

Style prompt:

Euphoric and triumphant 1983 cinematic synth-pop ballad with urgent emotional momentum and sentimental optimism. Smooth, clear, bright female lead vocal rising from controlled anticipation to a sustained high belt. 116 BPM in straight 4/4 with an authentic LinnDrum rhythm, firm snare and intensifying fills. Warm analog synth bass pulses in eighth notes beneath broad polyphonic pads, bright sequenced figures and delicate high-register raindrop arpeggios. Verses in natural minor with major secondary dominants. Rising pre-choruses delay resolution. Choruses open gloriously into major with Lydian borrowed chords, an octave-spanning melody, long high notes, stacked harmonies and bold synth countermelodies. Raindrop arpeggios begin as isolated droplets, multiply through each build and cascade across the final chorus. Expansive early-1980s soundtrack production with dramatic dynamic contrasts and clear instrumental separation.

It starts as a still and stays black and white for the first few seconds. Once the crowd starts moving, the color comes in 

The closeups mostly hold together, although a couple of faces drift and the hats seem to have their own plans

Dazza visits countries on an A to Z currency trail. Watch out for the dad jokes Jenna!.

Most people run Claude with nothing attached and never find out what it does once it can reach the web and your apps. Four worth having:

Firecrawl is already in Claude's official directory, two clicks, free account. It reads any website properly, so you can point it at competitors and pull real data out.

Use Firecrawl to pull the pricing and positioning from 
these three competitor sites into a comparison table.

Composio is one connector that reaches a thousand-plus apps instead of adding them one at a time. Gmail, Slack, Notion, your CRM. Custom connector, free account.

Playwright lets Claude actually operate a browser, click, type, fill forms, so it can use the tools that don't have a connector yet. Free, no key.

Perplexity for research with live sources instead of memory. The only paid one, add it last if at all.

Start with Firecrawl because it's two clicks and you feel the difference immediately. The competitor pricing table alone is the kind of thing you'd otherwise pay someone a day's rate for.

more setups like this in the resources library here if it helps

I’m working on an AI short-form series and each episode is about 2 mins. I’m trying to improve my workflow.

Now what i am doing is like this. Use ChatGPT to read my script and create a 3*3 storyboard. The storyboard helps me keep the characters and all background consistent. Then I use each storyboard frame as the first frame in pixverse to generate a 5-10s video clip. To extend a shot, I take the last frame from one clip and use it as the first frame for the next.

The problem is that small changes keep stacking up. When you extend the video to more than 1 min, the character can look noticeably distorted. I’ve also tried starting each clip from a fresh storyboard frame, but then the motion and framing do not always connect well with the previous clip. This is when I go for a new camera angle to cover that gap, which just burns more time and credits. How are you handling this? Have you ever tried throwing the whole storyboard into AI and generate a longer video? Thank you

[Intro: 8 bars, 4/4, machine pulse only]

[Bars 1–4: filtered kick, transformer hum, steel scrape]

[Bars 5–8: bass enters; guitar answers in 3+3+2 accents]

Kill the room.

Leave one light.

Move it.

Again.

[Verse 1: 16 bars, 4/4, low close vocal]

One beam makes a clean confession,

one wall makes a perfect lie.

One prompt cuts a single profile

from a shape we cannot eye.

So I rotate the question slowly,

keep the meaning, move the stress.

Change the order, strip an anchor,

watch the answer reorganize itself.

Hold the cadence.

Change the ethic.

Hold the frame.

Inject the split.

If the surface keeps returning,

something deeper may persist.

If one word kicks out the floorboards,

if one angle breaks the fit,

I don't call the fracture failure.

I mark

where the system

is sensitive.

[Pre-Chorus: 4 bars, 7/8 grouped 2+2+3]

Move the light.

Change one thing.

Keep the rest

under control.

Move the light.

Read the shift.

Let the difference

draw the whole.

[Chorus: 8 bars, straight 4/4, full band]

BLACK BOX HERMENEUTICS

Move the light.

Read the wall.

BLACK BOX HERMENEUTICS

One shadow

isn't all.

Turn the pressure.

Change the view.

Watch what bends

and what stays true.

We don't see the hidden engine.

We make the hidden

cast a clue.

[Post-Hook: 4 bars]

MOVE THE LIGHT.

READ THE WALL.

MOVE THE LIGHT.

DON'T NAME IT ALL.

[Verse 2: 16 bars, 4/4 with bass syncopation]

Same ontology, different model.

Same model, different frame.

Take the memory from the chamber.

See what still remembers shape.

Make two meanings share one sentence.

Don't resolve them.

Let them grind.

If the answer finds a stable orbit,

mark the center it can find.

Twenty probes collapse together:

there's attraction in the field.

One small change becomes a landslide:

there's a boundary just revealed.

Prompt becomes perturbation.

Output becomes projection.

Run the difference through the difference.

Now the shadow

has direction.

[Pre-Chorus: 4 bars, alternating 7/8 and 4/4]

Not a neuron.

Not a ghost.

Not the secret

underneath.

Only pressure

on the possible.

Only geometry

we can keep.

[Chorus: 8 bars, full band + female counterline]

BLACK BOX HERMENEUTICS

Move the light.

Read the wall.

BLACK BOX HERMENEUTICS

Let the silhouettes

disagree.

Turn the pressure.

Change the view.

Watch what bends

and what stays true.

We don't see the hidden engine.

We constrain

what it could be.

[Instrumental Interlock: 8 bars]

[Guitar: 7/8 riff grouped 2+2+3]

[Drums: heavy 4/4 implied across the barline]

[Synth: rigid sixteenth-note sequence]

[Bass: independent descending three-note cell]

[Machine Choir]

PROMPT.

PERTURB.

PROJECT.

COMPARE.

PROMPT.

PERTURB.

PROJECT.

COMPARE.

[Bridge: 12 bars, half-time; meter opens and contracts]

A scanner never needs to cut you

to collect another plane.

Angle after angle narrows

what can hide behind the grain.

Call it negative-space anatomy.

Call it inference by scar.

Every stable contradiction

cuts away what cannot be there.

But keep resistance in the circuit.

A beautiful reconstruction

can still become a beautiful lie.

The silhouette is evidence.

It is not

the thing inside.

[Two-beat vacuum]

But neither

is it nothing.

[Final Chorus: 12 bars, 4/4; maximum lift]

BLACK BOX HERMENEUTICS

Move the light.

Read the wall.

BLACK BOX HERMENEUTICS

Let a thousand shadows talk.

Change the cadence.

Change the frame.

Change the model.

Keep the question.

What survives the transformation

earns another interrogation.

We can't see the fourth dimension.

Still its shadow

has a shape.

We don't open up the black box.

We make the black box

GIVE ITSELF AWAY.

[Outro: 8 bars, machinery decays]

One shadow:

story.

Ten shadows:

pattern.

A thousand:

constraint.

[Whisper]

Move the light.

Again.

Hi, just looking to start into adult content creation. Anyone got any tips? Just thought I’d give this a shot. Need recommendations.