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Columbus

I created something I am quite proud of today — a cinematic video of the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria — all in Midjourney. Usually I start in Midjourney and take it into photoshop and fix it there. Then it's over to Higgsfield to use Nano, Kling or the new cinematic video tab. But today, this came together all in Midjourney. Whooda thunk it?

The final image prompt:

"Wide cinematic low angle shot of the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria at sea with very rough water and large breaking waves, The sails are fully open with a red Spanish cross centered on them, The sky is blue with clouds and dramatic morning light, Rule of thirds, shot with a ARRI Alexa Mini, Epic Cinema." --chaos 10 --ar 7:3 --profile dpi2j1v --stylize 150

I do give

@Marshall Atkinson

a lot of the credit as I used a bunch of things I learned over the last few months especially not being stingy with the iterations. Also, used the edit tool in MJ instead of Photoshop (with Nano). While the ships looked great, I wanted them smaller but every time MJ could stick another ship in the space I just wanted open ocean. It took a bit of futzing, but I finally got my starting and ending images to create a video from.

Next, I went right over to Higgsfield and proceeded to got weird results. I know what I did wrong: I created a smaller version of the original image and when I asked Kling and Nano to make a video, it just scaled the image up which made the whole video look really unnatural. I had to stop at this point as work intruded. Cut to later this evening and I had to fill up with gas. I pulled out my iPhone and decided to generate a video from my image with MJ while I was waiting. I'll be damned if it didn't turn out pretty good AND better than my go-to's for video generation. It's a little fast but I can slow it down in Premiere.

Next steps: Take the last frame and add a bunch of Spanish sailors driving golf balls off the side of the ship, A close up of Christopher Columbus with a driver and a telescope, and some other shots. Then stitch them all together to make a commercial I couldn't possibly make 30 years ago when I foolishly pitched it to my boss.

Soon.

TL;DR Created an image and a video in Midjourney

Attached: The video, The images used for the videos, all the crappy iterations before I dialed in, and the bizarre Higgsfield video

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