Every month, each week, and even day by day, one thing new is popping out within the AI world. With that in thoughts, our “Directing the Future: Ethical AI Video for Filmmakers” course on MZed obtained a recent replace in February. In the brand new module, skilled cinematographer and photographer Drew Geraci is exploring Higgsfield AI, an all-in-one AI platform for picture and video technology. Why particularly this device, and what demos are ready for you within the added lesson – discover out beneath!
In the previous update, Drew took a have a look at OpenAI’s Sora 2 and demonstrated a number of methods it may be used. Generally, the purpose of his course is to seek out moral methods to combine generative video fashions into filmmaking workflows (and to tell folks about their present capabilities). This is especially vital as a result of, because of the fast evolution of those instruments, the moral line may be crossed extra regularly. (Read here concerning the current controversy surrounding a viral AI combat between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, for instance.)
Exploring Higgsfield AI: what’s it?
In our newly released module, Drew Geraci shifts his focus to Higgsfield AI, a comparatively new platform that brings collectively a number of AI fashions and artistic instruments beneath one interface. You may need heard of it, as there was a number of buzz amongst influencers and content material creators. So, what’s so particular about this device? Instead of working with a single generative AI mannequin, Higgsfield acts extra like an ecosystem. Within it, customers can generate or edit movies, flip sketches into brief clips, create customized avatars for UGC (brief for “user-generated content”), swap characters in current footage, relight scenes, add sound components, and so forth.
According to Drew, it’s in all probability essentially the most intensive AI platform he has experimented with to this point. The number of options and built-in fashions permits customers to discover totally different workflows and evaluate the outcomes immediately. It can be an costly answer, however we’ll have a look at pricing in a second.
What is the brand new module about?
The new lesson primarily works as a guided exploration of Higgsfield AI’s interface and its capabilities for filmmakers. Drew goes by numerous instruments on the platform and demonstrates how they is perhaps helpful for pre-production, previsualisation, or idea growth. Among the showcased instruments and options are:
- Cinema Studio 2.0 – for producing frames to make previses and talk concepts, with superior controls akin to shot measurement, digital camera kind, lens choice, aperture settings, to call a couple of.
- Kling 3.0 multi-shot technology – for creating brief sequences (as much as three photographs) with customized prompts and an outlined length of every clip (as much as 15 seconds).
- Using component consistency instruments – for including particular characters, backdrops, or objects that may keep constant all through a sequence (or so the platform makes an attempt to do).
- Touching on relighting and titling instruments
- Animating nonetheless pictures and making cool transitions between them by defining begin and finish frames
Showcasing outcomes from Drew’s experiments to this point, the purpose of the lesson is much less about mastering a single function and extra about getting an outline of how such a platform might probably assist artistic workflows.
Why Higgsfield AI?
Earlier modules within the course explored particular person AI video turbines, akin to Google Veo 3. Drew has mixed the mannequin’s outputs with live-action footage and conventional post-production instruments like Adobe After Effects. Testing Higgsfield AI represents a barely totally different method. Why?
Let’s take the video generator already talked about, Kling 3.0, for instance. Drew finds that it achieves very lifelike outcomes. However, for the time being, it additionally has some sensible limitations. In Drew’s expertise, producing a single 15-second clip with it will possibly take wherever from 20 minutes to an hour. In one in all his checks, producing a nine-shot sequence took roughly 4 hours in whole, which is clearly too sluggish for many fast-paced artistic and experimenting duties.
The benefit of an all-in-one platform over a single device is that it permits you to change between out there fashions: Kling 3.0, Google Veo 3.1, Grok, Sora, and others. So, if one server is overloaded and down, you possibly can change to a different mannequin, and that’s it. Also, if in case you have entry to most trendy instruments without delay, you possibly can intently observe how they evolve.
Higgsfield AI at present provides subscription-based entry, which isn’t low cost by any means. Yet if it matches your targets, there are promotional packages. For instance, the two-year plan at round $1,000 consists of 6000 month-to-month credit for producing content material, which is greater than sufficient. As Drew emphasizes, although, the course itself is just not sponsored by Higgsfield, so he’ll spotlight its drawbacks alongside its advantages.
Ethical questions
As with the remainder of the course, this module additionally touches on the broader implications of generative video instruments. While new alternatives are rising, there are additionally rising considerations about how these instruments already have an effect on current jobs and workflows in movie and media manufacturing.
For Drew, the important thing thought behind the course stays the identical: understanding the instruments, testing them responsibly, and discussing how (and whether or not) they can be utilized ethically in filmmaking.
Learn extra about exploring Higgsfield AI with MZed Pro
If you’d prefer to see Drew Geraci’s demonstrations and exploration of Higgsfield AI and different generative video instruments intimately, watch the total course “Directing the Future: Ethical AI Video for Filmmakers” on MZed. The new module is already out there to the MZed Pro subscribers.
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- 60+ programs, over 800+ high-quality classes.
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Feature picture supply: Drew Geraci / MZed.
