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The AI wrote a small app that fixed the flicker in his kid birthday videos, saving a $295 software purchase

He filmed his kid birthday on a camera and forgot about the indoor fluorescent light, so every video had horrible horizontal flickering. He tried ffmpeg fixes himself and they did a poor job. The good result was in the $295 studio version of DaVinci Resolve. Instead he asked the AI to write a small terminal app that does the fix, and it did it in a single prompt.

$295

How it works

  1. Try ffmpeg fixes himself, with poor results
  2. Price the tool that works, DaVinci Resolve Studio at $295
  3. Ask the AI to write a terminal app that removes the flicker
  4. The AI writes it in a single prompt
  5. Run it on the videos

Why it’s worth knowing

The fix for a camera mistake was not learning video editing. It was describing the flicker once and getting a purpose built tool back.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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