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Ehhhh ... I'm not sure it's a great idea to choose Casablanca as an example of the "perfect" script! :lol: On the contrary, if an algorithm had been let loose on the mess that was the original (and every intermediate) Casablanca script, it would probably have ended up as just another forgotten...

I'd want to see several properly worked-out examples of that before parting with any money, because no one element of a script can be improved "immensely" without having an impact on the other aspects. Straight off, I can think of a situation where a reasonable improvement (especially for a...

I don't. 🥸 I'm old-school. If I really want to listen to music, I use CDs or vinyl, or find somewhere to hear it live. There was a time when I'd also listen to the radio, but that's become really dreary in the last decade. 😢

"Dunno what you're working on, but ya better keep at it coz it doesn't look finished ..."

This seems to be quite specific to concert videos, and generally those uploaded by an official channel (broadcast media or the artists themselves). I wouldn't ever pay for YouTube "premium" because their free product is such a pile of shyte (and getting worse by the week) I wouldn't trust them...

Not sure if this counts, but it has a "net" component so I'll take my chances! :D Some years ago - 2021, to be precise - one of our London-based members complained about wall-to-wall Brexit coverage, which prompted me to hastily cobble together a suggested opening scenario, i.e. this: Well, a...

Time for (what seems to have become) my weekly YouTube rant. :angry: Dear TuberFürher: if you allow people to upload (music/concert) videos that are an hour long, and I click play, do you think there's a better-than-average chance that I might, in fact, want to watch an hour-long recording of a...

Context. No-one's stopping you from filming simple scenes ... but you're not filming them. Instead, you're planning a no-props, no-costumes, no-context "rehearsal" that's going to cost you (and others) time and money, without any clear objective. As a lawyer, you must surely have been in a...

But ... why? Seriously, why? As an aspiring producer-director, there's almost nothing you can learn from pointing a camera or two at a guy or two in a featureless room reading lines from a script that's a symbolic excerpt from a movie that may or may not ever get made. You're not even treating...

If he tries to play the French and American unions off against each other, that might be legitimate ... 🤔 Then again, with a couple of cameras in the room, he'd have no trouble getting 13 year's worth of footage of people talking to, at and across each other, no props or script needed. :mad:

You've obviously never eaten a good meal with any French people! ⏳

This auto dubbing is really pissing me off now. :angry: Not only is it systematically applied to the videos of just about every channel I subscribe to - still the same two robotic voices, arbitrarily applied to the original soundtrack without any regard to the number or sex of the people...

This is giving me flashbacks to the time when DVDs and their players were coded by geographical region. For probably the only time in my live, I was an "early adopter" but it did the industry no favours at all telling me that I couldn't watch this copy of the movie on that machine because they...

D'you know, I'm sure that's the same woman YouTube uses for all their auto dubbing. She must be making a fortune. 😝

Okay, this is worse than I thought! Seems like YouTube has only one male and one female voice (what about the gender-neutrals ???) per language, no matter what accent or intonation the speaker(s) in the videos use. So the bearded Matt is represented by the same womanoid who also speaks for the...

Well, if you want (if you really, really want ... ) Of three new videos from channels I'm subscribed to (and acknowledging the liberal use of poetic licence in my "redneck" portrait) this was the wackiest, at least until I restored it to the original American English. I'm assuming you'll have...

This is the part I find confusing. For me, "to be a film maker" means to aspire to be a director or producer (or even a mogul) for which one needs two key elements: a story and a camera. From all that you've said over the years, you still have neither of these. Even so, what's stopping you...

"AI"-enhanced dubbing of YouTube videos has arrived with a vengence on this side of the Atlantic. :mad: For years, we've had to tolerate the TuberFürhrer forcing us to see auto-translated titles of videos, despite at least a decades worth of requests on the Google/YT support forums asking for...

Yeah, that's probably an accurate observation. Without the "game" context, it's easy to look at the clips and see them as "movie" and apply different criteria. On that point, I used to play (and code) video games back in the day, when we had blocks of 8x8 pixels to animate and 16k of RAM to do...

Okay, I'm not a film-making expert, but I know a thing or two about project management and proof-of-concept exercises ... and I'm totally confused. Great, good starting point. Only you describe three different scenarios that - on the face of it - have nothing to do with each other; but you...