I really should quit playing with these ai tools and do something more constructive, but in ways it is constructive -- and this is a part 15 radio topic.. but it involves ai. I got to playing with a new one, a video generator. https://app.runwayml.com/
What you do is upload 2 images, a staring image and an ending image. Then you tell it how to make the transition into a movie.. So I get this idea using the image from this article:
So I crop it and make two copies one with the car edited out, and gave it this very descript prompt: (after drastically editing it down a few times to get it under the total word count limit):
A 1939 film in a 4:3 aspect ratio (rebuid scene as neccessary to compensate fit). The scene opens with the following headline superimposed across the screen: "PART 15 AM PUBLIC BROADCASTING IS BORN!
Featuring: William S. Halstead"
As the title fades, camera subtlety pans scene of two men on side of a street, testing a transmitter installed on a traffic light post. A moderate breeze causes the open door of the transmitter to sway slightly, as the men's clothes. Man with mustache moves from side to front of transmitter, thus, monetarily see only his back, then he moves back to side, rest hand top of transmitter while turns knob with other hand. Other man never fully seen, but moves working behind transmitter. Black car pulls up to curb. The man from behind the transmitter waves car away, but a man leans out car window. Man with mustache speaks in microphone. Guy in car tilts head as end title appears on screen: "Not The End... The Beginning!" and small subtext: "@ 2024 End80 Productions"
HERE'S WHAT I GOT:
Ok! That's not what I wanted at all, we car for one thing but noticed a few things.. it created two more men instead of it applying the actions to the existing men in the picture.. and one of those two guys walking around was the guy from the car!
But what was so good about it is that it did bring Halstead to life! He's talking in the microphone and even turns his head to look at the other guys, plus his hands move a little.
So I figure this is great! I just gave it too much information and overwhelmed it or something.. So I simplified my original prompt to this,:
"A 1939 newsreel film. Scene opens with the following headline : "PART 15 AM PUBLIC BROADCASTING IS BORN!
Featuring: William S. Halstead"
Title fades. An old 1930s car drives by.. Man with mustache speaks in microphone. Guy in car tilts head as end title appears on screen: "Not The End... The Beginning!" and small subtext: "@ 2024 End80 Productions"
HERE'S WHAT THAT GOT ME:
Wow.. what a disaster! I might have to pay $15 to play with this a month now that I let the ai music subscription go.
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This was interesting. My prompt was simply: "Part 15 AM Broadcasting".
https://ai.invideo.io/watch/pK82CSdOkck
Not bad.
@richardpowers "Unlocking the Secrets of Part15" gets off to a great start but then is truncated and sounds like the rest of it is missing. It never gets around to really telling how to assemble a part 15 station.
@carl-blare I know, but still, the only prompt I gave it was "Part 15 AM Broadcasting".- nothing else. I just wanted it to see what it did, and if it would say anything about a 200ft limit (it didn't). I was impressed that it created that little presentation from nothing more than four words.
I haven't messed with it any but it seems to work much like the song generators, in that you get the best results by building on it. So this could be built on in much the same way.
I know its wasnt the greatest creation, but it serves as an example how simple it can be to throw together a vide presentation of a topic. I spent about 5 seconds of my time on that video - though it took several minutes for it to render.
Oh! I missed it the first time.. it did mention 200ft!
@richardpowers Speaking of missing things the first time, I totally overlooked the fact that it was AI generated. That changes everything and I see it as tremendous! On top of the message being good, the voice is top drawer!
I didn't know what I was doing.. didn't even know it was going to create an audio story line. I thought it was going to create a short animsted cartoon from my description, so I gave it this prompt:
"Animated video. It's a sunny day, birds in the trees. A man is outside screwing on an 8 foot whip antenna onto the top of a small grey rectangular metal box (about 8" tall,5" wide, 4" deep). He then flips a switch on the box, and pulls a portable transistor radio out of his jacket pocket, turns it on and smiles as he begins to move to the beat of the music coming from the radio."
@richardpowers The announcer on the quirky dance video has the best voice in town. But he never discloses what the DIY secret is.
Still playing around. Not quite what I was aiming for, I was trying to do a twilight zone kind of vibe, but the ai missed the point and left key aspectd out and compleatly altered the direction, but what it came up with is cool nonetheless...