Austin

Because stortytelling STARTS from the cuts to the end of post-production. Even the simplest thing like cutting IS a base of your editing style that leads and builds up to the finished product. Relying on AI will make your content repetitive, empty, and it will keep doing the same thing again and again. Human choices and decisions is what seperates art from an AI product. Editors make creative choices based on emotion, experience (personal AND common), and an understanding of how to connect with an audience. That's what makes storytelling effective. It's not just about putting clips together. It's about creating an experience that appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos. AI lacks pathos, and thus why it will never replace human made experiences. Specifically, cutting differs from editor to editor too. Editors cut and structure in different ways as well. I've never asked another editor to cut things for me either bc I think about the editing part of the process AS I cut. I love observing and staying present with any project I'm working on instead of thinking about the x amount of other projects I have lined up. Of course, everyone has their own workflow, and that's completely subjective. It's simply how I prefer to approach my work. It would also feel incredibly contradictory AND performative for me to constantly preach abt storytelling, creativity, and the artistry behind editing (and design recently), only to turn around and rely on AI tools to shortcut even the simplest parts of the process.