The present-day video content creation field is fast changing, courtesy of AI. Lumen5 is pushing the bar on this development by maintaining a platform that empowers anyone to create high-quality videos with the aid of AI. In this interview, Stepan Mikhailiuk, Principal Software Engineer at Lumen5, talked about the challenges and opportunities of creating AI-assisted video editing tools, innovative approaches with Alfa-Bank, his experience in the open-source community, and his vision for the future of video technologies.
With experience ranging from backend development to AI engineering, as well as having been active in the tech community, giving talks at conferences or teaching, Stepan has a unique vantage point on the rapidly changing intersection of technology and creativity. He is a highly esteemed authority in this field and often shares his insights at major industry events such as HolyJS and Videotech.
How Stepan Sees the Video Production Future Under Evolving AI Technologies
It is expected that over the coming years to play an increasingly major role across the video creation process, from concepts to scripting, to automated editing, special effects inclusion, and even voiceovers. With this technology, the production workflow will be made much easier and faster, allowing a wider audience. The more routine tasks would be handled by AI so that the content creators would be able to spend more time on the creative side, working on the video.
Plus, new opportunities for creative content will open up for more engaging, exciting, and personalised video development. For example, it could decide background music, animations, and visual effects by itself in coherence with the video’s mood and theme. Imagine video editors that transform content for different platforms and audiences, measure the effectiveness of the content they edited, and even offer fresh video ideas based on current trends.
This level of personalisation will be unprecedented, as AI will begin to factor in individual viewer tastes and preferences while creating videos that are more engaging to such viewers. The influence of AI on helping users create high-quality videos in a matter of minutes is already observable at Lumen5, as t
New Solutions Utilised in Lumen5
Lumen5 is developing a very user-friendly platform to simplify video creation and accessibility for all users, irrespective of expertise in technicalities. In essence, it shall enable individuals with no previous knowledge of video editing to produce a professional-quality video in only a few minutes. The library is made for video playback, and the final video file creation is core to the fundamental functionality of the system.
Recently, it released several new solutions, including the experimental implementation of server-client video rendering using WebCodecs, which should lower cloud computing costs and improve time to result for users. Furthermore, a new technique in texture allocation in WebGL has been devised, which reduces video memory consumption significantly, thus making Lumen5 more available to users with less powerful computers. Besides, it will therefore have a much broader audience and longer videos captured on the platform.
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