AI Video Still Needs a Human Pass, and That's Fine

Runway, Pictory, Synthesia get you 80 percent there. The last 20 percent is the job.

I generate video with AI and then spend real time fixing it. The fix is the work.

Captions are wrong, cuts are long, avatars blink oddly. None of it ships raw.

The tools save the first hour, not the last. Expect to edit like any footage.

Treating AI video as a finish line is how you publish something embarrassing.

Use it to start fast, then do the human pass you'd do on any clip.

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