We all know that managing B-roll can be a huge pain. Hours spent sifting through clips, hunting perfect shots, trying to keep everything organized. If AI is going to be good for anything, it would make sense that this is where it would start.
As we’ve covered before, Eddie AI is one of the new players in the AI video editing space. Self-dubbed as the “chatGPT for video editing” that launched in October last year to create rough cuts in a few seconds, it now has another major update aimed at helping editors organize and log B-roll footage too, with the ultimate goal of saving creators and video storytellers countless hours of work.
Streamline Your B-Roll Management
So, Eddie AI basically streamlines your B-roll management process by analyzing the footage, logging each clip with detailed descriptions, and grouping clips based on content. It also creates stringouts of b-roll for each topic so editors can grab related clips and create sequences easily.
The goal is to remove manual logging or scrubbing. Eddie AI handles that, leaving editors with more time to focus on the creative.
The AI works quite simply. All users need to do is import B-roll clips to the Eddie application for Mac or Windows. Eddie AI then analyzes each clip using computer vision AI to extract key information.
For example, shot types: wide, medium, close-up, recognizing content within the scene such as action and objects, and even generating detailed descriptions of the footage.
This “Wide shot of a cafeteria setting with people sitting at row-style tables” quote is just one example of the types of descriptions available.
Send Directly to Your NLE
From there, all this analysis happens in minutes and then can be sent to your NLE–Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and DaVinci Resolve—with rich metadata that is searchable.
So, again, the goal is to eliminate the digging through “VIDEO_001” files. No more watching the same clips over and over because you forgot what’s in them. The AI prepends the short description to the clip name in the NLE, with the longer description added to the description column in Premiere
B-roll clips are organized in a hierarchical bin structure. Clips are organized into categories and subcategories. It’s surprisingly delightful.
Free to Test Drive
We know AI can be a polarizing topic in the filmmaking and video editing communities. But love it or hate it in theory, in practice, it’s already here and fast changing the landscape—much likely forever.
If you’d like to try out this tech and see what it might offer for you and your workflows as a way to help save you time and free up more creative ideation, you can check out Eddie yourself for free with a trial or with a promo code AIFORLOGGING for 25% off the annual subscription.
Author: Jourdan Aldredge
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
