AI Video Editing — Motion Graphics in Minutes

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Overview

Greg Edits Video tests an AI tool that creates motion graphics in minutes, compares it to 10 years of DaVinci Resolve experience, and reviews the 10 best AI tools built into Resolve.

Key Takeaways

• I tested this new ai tool and it took me just minutes to create these motion graphics that you can see on screen right now. so after editing videos professionally for over 10 years, am i now ditching the adventure
• Quicker and easier. and one of them, i haven’t actually seen anyone talking about yet. so in this video, i’m going to show you what this ai tool is, three different ways that you can use it with the adventure
• Like claude, which is specifically for coding, and this new one’s called claude design. claude design is an ai design tool which can be used to create graphics for all sorts of things like websites, powerpoints, stuff like that, and
• Which is a bit different. so you head over to claude.au forward slash design, create an account which for the design part of claude has to be a paid pro account, and then you can go to the from template
• Design system first over here, and then once you’ve done that, you’ll be able to select it here, and then hit create from template. and then on this screen, you can use the chat on the left to tell what
• Way to do this for my intro is by moving the playhead to the start of the timeline. hit i on my keyboard to set an endpoint, then move the playhead to the end of the section. i want the
• Format and the codec to mp3. so this just exports an mp3 file of the audio. so i’ll export this out, which gives me this file, which i’m then going to drop into the chat box down here. next, the
• That mp3 to the media pool, right click on it and come to ai tools, audio transcription, and then transcribe. in the bottom right down here, i can see it’s transcribing in the background. and then when that’s gone, it
• To click these three dots and hit export subtitles. and then just make sure it’s exporting an srt file. and then inside of this srt file, you can see all of the timings of every few words. so the ai
• I’m just going to give it a prompt of exactly what i want, like this, and then hit send. now it’s going to do its thing, and sometimes it might ask you a couple of questions, but it doesn’t take
• It was animating, because it was looking a bit weird, but after a few messages, you can get there. and it looks pretty good. it doesn’t actually let you download a video file of the animation. so at the moment,
• So once i had my scream recording, i would just add it to my timeline above my a-roll, and that’s it. those motion graphics were done. so this might all sound great, but there are some pretty big downsides to
• Then when you go over that, you then have to pay extra each time that you talk to it. so depending on how much you’re editing, that cost can add up really fast. the second downside is making changes. so
• You want to make, and then it might not do it right, so then there could be a back and forth, which again is just eating up a lot more of your time and weekly usage, which is all costing
• Which can be the time it takes. so obviously the main plus of this is supposed to be the time it saves, but one of my tests i did with it took me about half an hour of going back

Transcript

I tested this new AI tool and it took me just minutes to create these motion graphics that you can see on screen right now. So after editing videos professionally for over 10 years, am I now ditching the adventure resolve and only going to edit videos with AI? No, definitely not, because there’s some big downsides to this tool. But there are three ways that you can actually use this AI to make editing in the adventure resolve much quicker and easier. And one of them, I haven’t actually seen anyone talking about yet. So in this video, I’m going to show you what this AI tool is, three different ways that you can use it with the adventure resolve, and how much time it actually saves when editing videos. So what is this AI tool that I’m talking about? Well, it’s called Claude and Claude is an AI chat assistant like chatGBT. But it also has some offshoots like Claude, which is specifically for coding, and this new one’s called Claude Design. Claude Design is an AI design tool which can be used to create graphics for all sorts of things like websites, PowerPoints, stuff like that, and they can also create motion graphics. And good motion graphics can be one of the most time-consuming parts of video editing. So let me show you what it does, and then I’ll show you what I’m actually doing with it, which is a bit different. So you head over to Claude.au forward slash design, create an account which for the design part of Claude has to be a paid pro account, and then you can go to the from template tab. Give it a project name, select animation, and then you have the option to pick a design system. This is basically like a brand guide so that the animations will be in your branding. You can set up a design system first over here, and then once you’ve done that, you’ll be able to select it here, and then hit create from template. And then on this screen, you can use the chat on the left to tell what you want. So if you want to create some motion graphics for a video that you’re editing, then you’ll want to give Claude Design an audio file of that part of the video, along with a transcript. So the easiest way to do this for my intro is by moving the playhead to the start of the timeline. Hit I on my keyboard to set an endpoint, then move the playhead to the end of the section. I want the graphics for and hit oh, that creates the in and out points so that when I hit export, it’ll only export this section. And then on the deliver page, I’m going to untick export video and then set the audio format and the codec to MP3. So this just exports an MP3 file of the audio. So I’ll export this out, which gives me this file, which I’m then going to drop into the chat box down here. Next, the AI also needs a transcript of what’s being said, along with the timings of when each line has been spoken. And this is really easy to get in-divinci if you’re on the studio version. So I’m just going to add that MP3 to the media pool, right click on it and come to AI tools, audio transcription, and then transcribe. In the bottom right down here, I can see it’s transcribing in the background. And then when that’s gone, it means it’s done. Now if I come to the same transcribe button again, you can see it’s transcribed here. Now to get this into the right format for Claude Design with all of the timings on it, we just need to click these three dots and hit export subtitles. And then just make sure it’s exporting an SRT file. And then inside of this SRT file, you can see all of the timings of every few words. So the AI knows exactly when these words are being spoken in MP3. Next, I just drag this file into the chat. So it’s now got the voiceover, the transcript, my brand guide, and it knows that I want an animation. So now I’m just going to give it a prompt of exactly what I want, like this, and then hit send. Now it’s going to do its thing, and sometimes it might ask you a couple of questions, but it doesn’t take more than a few minutes. And then when it’s done, you can play it back in the browser here. It probably won’t be perfect. I had to go back a few times and ask it to change the way that it was animating, because it was looking a bit weird, but after a few messages, you can get there. And it looks pretty good. It doesn’t actually let you download a video file of the animation. So at the moment, you can either make it full screen, and then just scream record it like I did, or you’re able to send it to a Claude code, and then get Claude code to let you download it. But, massive bit, complex. So once I had my scream recording, I would just add it to my timeline above my A-roll, and that’s it. Those motion graphics were done. So this might all sound great, but there are some pretty big downsides to it. The first downside is the cost. On the pro plan, you get a weekly allowance of how much you can use it, and just crazy this small amount of motion graphics went through half of my weekly usage. And then when you go over that, you then have to pay extra each time that you talk to it. So depending on how much you’re editing, that cost can add up really fast. The second downside is making changes. So if you’ve got your AI motion graphics in your timeline like this, and then want to make changes to it, it can be really fiddly to then have to go back into Claude design, and then ask for the change you want to make, and then it might not do it right, so then there could be a back and forth, which again is just eating up a lot more of your time and weekly usage, which is all costing more money. Whereas if you need to make a simple change of your own graphics, then you can just do it and then move on to the rest of your edit. And this leads me on to the third downside, which can be the time it takes. So obviously the main plus of this is supposed to be the time it saves, but one of my tests I did with it took me about half an hour of going back and forth with it, where it wasn’t getting this little five-second animation quite right. And if I was having to do that for every five seconds of a real edit, then it would have been a bit of a nightmare. So it can be really hit a miss. Sometimes it nails it first time, other times you spend half an hour on it, and it’s still not right. So if I’m not going to be using this to create my own motion graphics, then how exactly will I be using it to speed up my edit Well, here’s the first of three ways. Something that I sometimes struggle with in video editing is coming up with ideas on how to visually show something. And then I’ll try a bunch of different stuff and then realize that none of them look any good, and I just wasted an hour of my time. But thanks to Claude Design, I can come up with multiple ideas in just a few minutes. So if I’m really struggling to come up with a visual way of showing how long the average to venture resolve user spends on each page in reserve, for example. Then I can just put in this prompts to Claude Design, asking it for this as a motion graphic, and for it to give me some different options. And then it will build me a few options like this. I can have a look through these and start getting ideas of what can work. So I’ve gone from struggling to think of a way to show this data and losing an hour of time to then having four or five good options that I can see right in front of me. And if I like this option, for example, then I can just go into reserve and build it myself. And it’s really easy to build graphics like this in reserve by using the presets in my preset pack. So I can use my graph bars preset to build out these bars and then add the graph line to it like this. And now I have it on my timeline exactly how I want it like this. Another scenario is if I’m trying to come up with a way to make a screen recording look a bit better. So I just chuck this into Claude Design to see what it could do with it. And it gave me this animation. So it’s put it into a smaller box. And then it has the text popping up one by one at the bottom as I’m saying it. Which looks really clean, but it hasn’t got the timing right. So I just want to take this idea and build it and resolve myself. So I would then recreate this in reserve again by using my presets. I can add my animated mask presets to the screen recording and add a corner radius and make it smaller like this. And then have it animate in by hitting the animate in button. And it’ll animate in like this. And then use my Greg’s text plus preset to quickly build the text boxes at the bottom like this. I made my own text plus preset in my pack because the normal text plus can be quite difficult to use with all the different controls on the different pages. So if mine I’ve got all of the main controls packaged together on one page. So it’s really quick and easy to use. So I can just add the background, change the corner radius, then add the outline to the background like this. And it’s looking really nice. I can then use my in and out transitions presets to have them animate in one by one. And then use my animate a to be preset to quickly animate them back down, whilst also bringing the opacity down like this. Oh and by the way, you can get my preset pack on my website in the link in the description. There’s 21 presets in the pack that are all built for saving time and making editing easier. So check them out and see what you think. So this clean look isn’t something that I would have thought of on my own. So it’s a case of using the tool to basically feed you ideas like this for your editing. And you don’t even have to use the Claude Design tool for it. You can just ask the basic free version of Claude to give you some visual ideas and it will give you graphics like this. And they’re interactive as well. So you could even just screen record yourself moving your mouse over each one while you’re talking about it if you want. Kind of like a PowerPoint presentation. So that’s one way of using Claude AI. And this next way of using it is something that I haven’t really seen anyone talking about. So when I was editing lots of videos for Ed, we had a system where I

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