Hey Everyone, Just wanted to share a small win for me today. I managed to secure my first sit down with a possible client today. I got talking to our contract manager at work today just general chit chat talking about his role and what it entailed. We got onto how late he has to work and how it was hard on the family so so forth. I said to him what if i could give you that time back through implementing software that did a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to office admin. he laughed and asked how was that I explained lv learned how to use AI to build systems we went back and forth a bit about AI talking about where it might lead and such and I'm not going to lie basically regurgitated Jakes classes stating things like how its now to have a hand carved rifle will set you back a small fortune but way back when you would of been looked down on, I spoke about the part about human desire and how that will always be there. He was completely taken back to him I was now not just a vet and a carpenter I was the future and Iv been asked to come to the office tomorrow to sit down and talk. I know its only a sit down and nothing confirmed but when i first approached them i was basically laughed out the office and given work via what's app but that small amount of knowledge might be the reason my life changes for the better. So thank you @Jake Van Clief .for giving this course away and helping complete beginners like me a fighter chance of a better future.

today i stumbled upon a youtube video that talks about a tool called buttercut (it's free!) that helps edit talking head videos so much faster. and i thought i would share! it can edit multiple videos at the same time and do a solid first pass so you can get straight to making creative decisions and not edit out ums and ahs for 45 minutes. i made a couple of small changes to the repo (so i could use elevenlabs instead of whisper for transcription) but it works fantastic! i spent most of the day testing this workflow against some other tools, making some adjustments, and making sure it worked well for what we needed. here's the training video i sent my team: https://www.loom.com/share/8dd08df9f4114bf49bfcaa6df7102c72 and here's the video from the original creator explaining the tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBkfr1yWf_s and here's the repo from the original creator if you want to try it yourself: https://github.com/barefootford/buttercut who this is for: - editors who want to work in their primary NLE and build customs workflows based on what they need - editors who have to have videos go through color grading passes, audio, and FX with detailed versioning without having to export between multiple tools to get a revision done - editors who may need to batch edit large amounts of videos to be exported into their NLE who this is not for: - someone who does not need to use davinci/premiere/fcp and have a pipeline where there is color/audio/fx/versioning - someone who films clips that require no color/advanced audio(you could just use descript in this case and that would work great!) problem this solved for me and my team: - we often get bogged down when we have to edit a bunch of talking head clips, and the first pass usually takes hours. - if we used descript to mitigate that time, it would require us to do color FIRST, then export into descript, and pray that the client wouldn't need any revisions on the color. (which can easily be 3 hours of rendering on a youtube video) - we've found descript's interface to be somewhat clunky for a lot of things we need. multitrack editing and complex audio don't seem to play well in descript (currently) - from what i currently understand, descript can't do this many isolated videos at the same time, it's usually expecting videos you upload to all be part of the same project, unless you explicitly tell it each piece of media belongs in a different composition, but even so, versioning for those quickly becomes disorganized if done in the same project - i am looking to have descript a bit more integrated into our workflow, but it doesn't fit every scenario. when it does work though, it works great. - no need to burn descript credits like crazy, i already have a claude max plan, so i can just utilize what i already have