commit note 18 May 2025 at 5:58 PM

Author: paramsingh

vault/engineering.videogen.md

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+title: Videogen
+desc: ''
+updated: 1747571309308
+created: 1747570809986
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+Some notes from the videogen project I did for a few weeks in 2023:
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+Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@paramsingh258/shorts
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+thoughts:
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+- the videos were slop. the best image to video model i had available for actual use programatically was stable video diffusion and it only output ~4-5s for each image at very low resolutions.
+- eventually i gave up on image to video completely as the videos were too low res for the algorithm to like
+- shorts are better than full videos if you want algorithmic pull.
+- subtitles are very important. shorts with subtitles do much better than shorts without them.
+- the amount of views you need to make money off of youtube is kind of insane. as far as i understand,
+youtube doesn't count views that come from the shorts feed or from the home page feed for monetization. videos need to be really really good to make it.
+- another thing i tried was a video with much more manual interference. i tried making a
+rk narayan story in the style of [paperman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrqSF2OOz_M).
+sadly, while it turned out reasonably, it took me a lot of time and i didn't really enjoy the process
+enough to put more time into it.
+- overall, my personal intuition is thinking about this as an artist is better than thinking about it
+from a swe perspective. inevitably someone will use these models to make great art, it would be nice to be that person.

vault/movies.superman-2025.md

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+title: "Superman (2025)"
+desc: ''
+updated: 1747457020619
+created: 1747456751864
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+Superman is back in the theaters in 2025. James Gunn is directing.