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How to Make AI-Generated Footage Actually Look Real, Not Just Convincing

September 22, 2026

AI, AI Tools & Workflows, AI Video, Filmmaking, Software, Tutorials

Every AI video model has gotten better at motion and worse at looking like something a camera actually captured. That’s the problem a growing number of working editors are solving…

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How to Generate AI B-Roll That Actually Matches Your Footage, Using Runway’s Own Workflow

September 18, 2026

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Runway published its own recommended workflow for generating AI B-roll and cutting it into real footage, and it’s worth walking through step by step, because the gap between “impressive AI…

Avid Media Composer 2026.8 interface showing the transcript panel and bin, with on-screen text reading Media Composer is a dream on projects like this

Avid Media Composer 2026.8 Ships Agentic Editing Tools, and a Bin-Locking Change Editors Are Furious About

September 18, 2026

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Avid Media Composer 2026.8 went live on September 1, timed to a full unveiling at IBC 2026, and it’s a genuinely split release: real agentic editing tools bundled with a…

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Alibaba’s Wan 3.0 Tops the AI Video Leaderboard, Beating Sora, Veo, and Kling

September 17, 2026

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Alibaba’s Wan 3.0 is now the top-ranked model on Artificial Analysis’s Text to Video leaderboard, the closest thing the AI video field has to an independent scoreboard, edging out Google’s…

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Netflix Used Generative AI on 300 Titles This Year, and InterPositive Is Why

September 16, 2026

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Netflix told investors during its Q2 2026 earnings call that generative AI touched roughly 300 of its titles this year, and the company is naming names about how. Co-CEO Ted…

A participant in the Body Proxy AI installation at TIFF Innovation Hub wearing AI smart glasses

Body Proxy: Inside the AI Installation Anchoring TIFF’s First-Ever Innovation Hub

September 14, 2026

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Body Proxy is the strangest thing on the floor at TIFF: The Market this week, and that’s the point. The interactive installation by Los Angeles studio Tender Claws is making…

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DaVinci Resolve 21.1 Adds AI Assistant Integration and Moves Python Scripting Behind a Paywall

September 14, 2026

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DaVinci Resolve 21.1 shipped at IBC 2026 with a feature that changes who’s allowed to touch your timeline: a native MCP server that lets Claude, Claude Code, and ChatGPT Codex…

The Hollywood sign in Los Angeles, symbol of the studios pushing back on ByteDance Seedance AI video copyright infringement

ByteDance’s Seedance 2.5 Now Blocks 80% of the Hollywood Rip-Offs Seedance 2.0 Made Viral

September 13, 2026

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ByteDance’s Seedance 2.5 is now blocking roughly 80% of prompts asking it to generate copyrighted Hollywood characters and footage, according to research the AI-copyright testing startup VN.ai shared exclusively with…

Screenshot of the Adobe Premiere Generative Media Tool prompt bar generating a sound effect in the timeline

Adobe’s New Generative Media Tool Puts AI Video Inside Premiere’s Actual Timeline

September 12, 2026

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Adobe’s new Generative Media Tool went live in Premiere ahead of IBC 2026, and it changes where AI video generation actually happens for editors: not in a separate app, not…

Editor working on a color grading timeline in DaVinci Resolve

OpenAI Is Shutting Down the Sora API, and Disney’s Exit Explains Why

September 11, 2026

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OpenAI’s Sora API is going dark, and the shutdown is more final than the usual “deprecated” notice. According to OpenAI’s own help center, every endpoint, sora-2, sora-2-pro, and every snapshot…

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How to Make AI-Generated Footage Actually Look Real, Not Just Convincing

How to Generate AI B-Roll That Actually Matches Your Footage, Using Runway’s Own Workflow

Avid Media Composer 2026.8 Ships Agentic Editing Tools, and a Bin-Locking Change Editors Are Furious About

Alibaba’s Wan 3.0 Tops the AI Video Leaderboard, Beating Sora, Veo, and Kling

Netflix Used Generative AI on 300 Titles This Year, and InterPositive Is Why

Body Proxy: Inside the AI Installation Anchoring TIFF’s First-Ever Innovation Hub

DaVinci Resolve 21.1 Adds AI Assistant Integration and Moves Python Scripting Behind a Paywall

ByteDance’s Seedance 2.5 Now Blocks 80% of the Hollywood Rip-Offs Seedance 2.0 Made Viral

Adobe’s New Generative Media Tool Puts AI Video Inside Premiere’s Actual Timeline

OpenAI Is Shutting Down the Sora API, and Disney’s Exit Explains Why

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