Here is the latest and greatest to make your life easier and help you create better productions. This list gives you some of those cutting edge technical tools. None of these are substitutes, however, for real humans to make productions (and make them better!).
We’re already seeing AI help with each stage of the production process:
- Scripting: Validating ideas and concepts, formatting scripts, generating dialogue, screening for bias in scripts and content, analyzing and summarizing content, predicting commercial success and outcomes
- Pre-production: creating storyboards, generating and optimizing shooting schedules, creating text-to-image concept art
- Logistics: suggesting budget allocations, tracking financials to budget, reducing time on set, forecasting revenue and profit in real time
- On set: Controlling lighting, simplifying set design and construction with AI-assisted 3D printing, generating text-to-visual B-roll, speeding up roto
- Post: Reducing manual VFX editing time, creating original scores, reducing manual editing and cleanup, automating metadata tags
Here are our favorite AI tools for each of the above; we’ll update this list periodically to include new tech or functionalities.
Scripting & Greenlighting
Scriptbook: Scriptbook is a tool for developing and greenlighting scripts. It provides artificially intelligent script analysis, AI driven content validation, and automated story generation. It predicts financial performance by market trends, audience preference, and other data, and markets itself as. Improvement of the human greenlighting process, eliminating false positives and bias while maximizing a film's potential for critical and commercial success. The list of projects it has screened is interesting.
Final Draft: This AI-enabled tool is already popular and affordable. It streamlines the scriptwriting process, particularly in managing character dialogue and plot development. Industry standard formatting embedded.
Rivet AI aims to be your one resource for pre-production. It generates script analysis, coverage reports, summaries, and character breakdowns. It creates budget sheets, optimizes resource use, drafts shooting schedules, and tracks financial progress.
It’s a customizable tool with a free trial and pricing based on project volume.
Planning & Shooting
CineTracer: Is a cinematography simulator unique tool that allows you to plan shots in a virtual environment and render samples before actual shooting. It’s available on Steam, and it’s still in early release mode. But we’re including here for its potential.
Filmustage: Filmustage will take you from raw script to your shoot by breaking down your script into scenes and elements, generating tags and synopses for each scene, and creating a shooting schedule for you. Pricing is based on volume of projects.
StudioBinder is already popular for a reason. It has everything you need to quickly plan your production: create shot lists, build call sheets, design mood boards, populate production calendars, manage crews, and facilitate communication about all the above. Automation organizes and produces all the above, and brings in all the relevant context into a personalized interface for each crew member. Monthly pricing is based on volume of projects.
Payroll & Budget
Wrapbook: Wrapbook handles all your budgeting and payroll needs; it’s faster, easier paymaster. It integrates with your accounting software to manage payroll costs and POs in real time, allow you to pay your people with a click, and can generate any report you’d need at any time. You can also build people profiles for your team to make working with them again easier—and preferable.
Saturation is a collaborative budgeting tool that allows for tracking and adjusting line items in real time. It’s great for organizing multiple projects at once, and brings your teammates into the process securely.
On Set
ARRI Stellar is AI-assisted lighting design. It has a slick interface and takes care of DMX settings to control lighting setups via phones or tablets. Pre-visualize lighting and change the entire set’s look and feel with one click. Save what you like and replicate instantly in future shots.
Editing & VFX
Runway ML has the potential to be transformational. It creates generative AI models that allow creatives to generate original images and animated videos, assist in editing and VFX and CGI—all with no coding and limited technical knowledge require for us. Pricing feels reasonable for the work it can do. Here is an interview with one of the editors of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” about how he used the tool.
Tellers.ai is an automatic video editing software that will turn any text into a video in seconds. Also great for articles, posts, and any other text that would be more impactful as multimedia.
Audio
AIVA: An AI-powered music composition tool that can generate original scores for film and television projects. And very affordable.
LovoAI: Over a million people already use Lovo for realistic text-to-speech generation. It has a free plan or an affordable monthly paid plan that can create over 500 voices. It also allows text cloning—although the new SAG-AFTRA deal requires consent from the actor to do so.
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