Adobe gets in the AI game with Firefly

Sorry for the lack of signals recently - been in the beat laboratory with a lot of new videos coming out soon.

Here are the signals for this week. Regular programming resumes next Tuesday. ✌️

Joey

☄️ Adobe is getting into the AI game with its own AI model called Firefly. In beta right now. Photoshop and Illustrator are some of the obvious uses, but it even has some demos of being used in Premiere for video editing by just typing out what you want.

⌨️ Someone built a third-party extension that lets you transcribe your videos inside Resolve using Whisper, OpenAI’s powerful transcribing tool.

📸 When everything shifted to remote work and Zoom meetings, Camo became a stand-out app to turn your smartphone into a webcam. Then Apple launched Continuity Camera, which basically made Camo redundant if you had an iPhone. Now they’ve pivoted and launched Camo 2, which works with any connected camera and helps improve and control your video quality.

👩‍🏫 Twitter launched a free course on video marketing called Unskippable.

🎥 Twitter thread by Matt Wolfe of 9 AI tools that can generate video.

💬 Riverside Transcription: 100% free transcription using Whisper. Full video review here.

🥛 MilkVideo: Turn interviews and podcasts into video highlights

🪄 Unscreen: Remove the background from your video for free

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4. Mention other videos on your channel and use cards to link to them. Think of this as internal linking in blogs. Also link to them in your description.

5. Keep people on your channel by organizing similar videos into playlists and using the end screen to link to a relevant video.

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