I'd love to open up that good ole' conversation about AI stuff. Preface: I hate AI because of data centers and I feel like we're gonna see a lot of crap because lazy people will have more of a voice. Also...great creative people will have a useful tool too, so it's a double edge sword. I'd like to be on the creative/artistic/hard working side of that edge, so with that interest in mind, what are your current most useful tools to use in our field? Personally I've been having a lot of success using Perplexity.ai for a Youtube channel. I can quickly make silly animations where it doesn't matter if it's perfect or not. (I attached a random one trying to describe someone trying to cook a "turduckensquaqua...") It's also good at making cartoon images of people. I'd love to get a better sense of successful use cases for AI you all have been using. I've personally found things like Sora and Midjourney not great...but maybe others have found good uses. Any great storyboarding platforms out there? (I know Lumarka is on it's way but curious about others too.)

Hey Y'all I'm about to do something I promised myself I'd never do. And I'm telling YOU first, before the email list even sees this. Today only, I'm releasing our Feature Film Assistant Editor Immersion course at a price so low I can't even post it here. Not "low for us." Not "a nice little discount." I mean the lowest price in the 8+ year history of this course. Lower than Halloween. Lower than any flash sale we've ever run. Lower than I'm comfortable admitting publicly. Here's the deal: You get EVERYTHING from our Halloween Special — the full course, the New Version of the Digital Codebook*, (v4.3) the referral database**, community access, the Avid practice media, the AI chatbot, the private 1:1 coaching call with me... ALL of it. At a price that honestly makes me a little nauseous. The catch: → Only 5 spots at this price. That's it. → Once they're gone, they're gone. No exceptions. → This ends tonight at midnight PST — or the moment the 5th person claims it. Whichever comes first. How to see the price: DM me here in Skool with the words "I'm Interested" & your email address. That's it. I'll send you the details personally. Why am I posting this here first? Because you're already in the community. You already know what we're about. And if you've been watching from the sidelines, thinking "maybe someday I'll take the full course"... Someday is today. And it's only here until midnight. Or until 5 people claim it. Your move. Larry *The Digital Codebook requires FileMaker Pro which must be purchased separately. **To be added to the referral database you must pass our quizzes with 80% grade or higher.

We've got some new members to the community and I'd be great if you'd all introduce yourselves. Let us know what brought you to Master The Workflow and tell us how you came to editing in general. Also, for those who've been around for a while, let's hear what the big challenges you're facing? Is there anything in the course you're finding particularly difficult to grasp? Let's get a conversation going. --Larry

Hey all. I've got a pretty common generic question that I'm sure we've heard plenty of times before. Does anyone have any stories to share about how they transitioned from unscripted to scripted? I'm one of the unscripted editors that finds themself mostly watching an enjoying scripted content. So I often question if I'm in the right genre, but it also keeps paying the bills. Curious what that path looks like. Do you have to sit in the AE chair? Do you have to take some indy/low budget gigs? And if so, how do you determine that said gig will be worth the effort put forth before signing on? How do you go about finding an avenue for either path? Any thoughts and advice are most welcome!

I just jumped back onto the latest version of Avid bringing back a project from many years ago on version 2018. For whatever reason there's a camera that's used over 70 episodes of interviews which will not relink. I originally cut all this so I know it worked before, it's the same file. Curious if it's because I'm on an updated version of Avid. Has anyone ever experienced linking to AMA problems like this? If so are there possible workarounds other than manually recutting the whole angle in?