News, workflows, and honest takes on AI for motion designers and video editors, from cleanup and masking to full edits.
28 articles
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Google's video editor moved to its newest video model, with longer clips, a duration slider, and steadier characters and products across shots. Any Google account gets a small free monthly allowance, but Google's own pages don't agree on exactly how small.
Motion & Video
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Viggle's new video-to-video tool lets you chat your way to a different actor, outfit, background, or weather in an existing clip, and the model weights are out too. The app version is capped at 720p, and the open version needs serious hardware and a careful read of its license.
Motion & Video
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Kapwing now has an MCP server that hooks its video tools into Claude and ChatGPT, so you can upload footage, add subtitles, translate, dub, and pull an export from a chat. Its own help pages don't fully agree on what it can do yet, or on who gets it.
Motion & Video
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The update adds animated GIFs in ChatGPT and the API, brings photo markup to the API, and adds SVG output for developers. The SVG side is the more interesting one for designers, but it's API-only for now and comes with real limits.
Brand & Graphic, Motion & Video
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Pixelmator Pro gets a describe-what-you-want fill, Final Cut Pro absorbs MotionVFX, and Keynote, Pages, and Numbers open up to outside agents through MCP. It all lands in November, and Apple left a few big questions unanswered.
Photo & Imaging, Motion & Video
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A new Griptape node connects Foundry's compositor to its AI orchestration platform, so prompts, models, and seeds sit right in Nuke. It's a beta, the AI usage costs extra, and where your plates go depends on how you run it.
Motion & Video
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Describe an app in plain language and Runway builds and hosts it, wired to your models and Brand Kit. It's on every paid plan, but check the minimum credit balance and the conflicting word on public links first.
Motion & Video, Brand & Graphic
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Object Matte replaced Roto Brush in After Effects 26.2, and it changes the job from painting a selection to clicking on one. Pulling together Adobe's guidance, early coverage, and what users are running into, here's a workflow from first click to a matte you can actually composite with.
Motion & Video
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A new importer turns old .fla and XFL files into Rive projects: symbols become artboards, frame labels become state machine states, and buttons, tweens, and sounds carry over.
UI/UX, Motion & Video
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Scene Light, new in Red Giant 2027.0, uses AI to estimate depth and surface direction from your footage, then lets After Effects lights fall across the scene, even behind people and objects in the foreground. Maxon says the analysis runs on your own machine.
Motion & Video
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Cinema 4D now ships with its own MCP server, so Claude or ChatGPT can rename, reorganize, and check your scenes for you. Pulling together Maxon's docs and several early write-ups, here's how to set it up and where it actually earns its keep.
3D, Motion & Video
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Enhance Speech can rescue a phone-mic interview in one click, and it can also leave a voice sounding hollow or robotic. Pulling together Adobe's own notes, several guides, and what editors report in Adobe's forums, here's how to use it without overdoing it.
Motion & Video
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Content-Aware Fill can erase a boom mic, a sign, or a passerby from a shot, but only if you pick the right fill method and feed it the right mask. Pulling together Adobe's docs and several independent tutorials, here's a fuller workflow, including where the guides disagree.
Motion & Video
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Anthropic put Claude Motion into beta for Team and Enterprise plans. It builds short, code-driven animations you can export as MP4 and send on to Adobe and other editors. The same day, Claude Design, Docs, and Slides left beta and came to every plan, Free included.
Motion & Video, Brand & Graphic
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Luma's new Ad Variants resizes and translates a finished static ad into standard placements, and Higgsfield's Ads Studio now builds static ads from your site and remakes video ads with your own product, cast, and script. One week, one tedious job.
Brand & Graphic, Motion & Video
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Generative Extend can save a shot that's a few frames too short, and it can also hand you a brightness bump or a soft, flickery tail. Pulling together Adobe's own notes and several hands-on reviews, here's how to use it where it holds up.
Motion & Video
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The deal closed September 23 with promises that Topaz stays standalone. Across Topaz's own forum and other creative communities, the reaction is less outrage than guarded skepticism about pricing, licenses, and credits.
Photo & Imaging, Motion & Video
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Three months into its open beta, Figma Motion picked up the features that take it from something to experiment with to something a team can standardize on: reusable styles you publish to a library, audio on the timeline, and Lottie output.
UI/UX, Motion & Video
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Magic Mask can isolate a moving person or object without rotoscoping, but most frustration comes from over-guiding it and fixing the wrong frame. Pulling together several guides, here's a workflow from first click to a cached matte you can grade against in real time.
Motion & Video, Photo & Imaging
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Kling's new video model is now available worldwide on its website, with single-pass clips up to 30 seconds, up to 15 references, and 10 keyframes. The promised 10-bit HDR and 21:9 output still aren't here, and API access is coming later.
Motion & Video
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A mid-September Firefly update adds automatic subject detection to background removal for video, applying it across an entire clip instead of frame by frame.
Motion & Video
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A signed add-on now lets Blender artists generate meshes, rigs, and scene elements from inside the 3D viewport, and get back editable data instead of a locked render. Early coverage is cautiously optimistic, not sold.
3D, Motion & Video
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Adobe's new assistant can reorganize messy projects, write expressions from plain-language descriptions, and handle multi-step chores, but for now it only lives in the After Effects beta.
Motion & Video
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Krea's AI agent, which plans a job, picks from more than 150 models, and generates or edits images, video, and audio from one prompt, no longer needs an invite.
Photo & Imaging, Motion & Video
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Canva has grouped its four pro acquisitions into one connected suite, and the headline Affinity 3.3 update adds a Blend Tool, InDesign file import, JavaScript scripting, and a paid Layer to 3D feature.
Brand & Graphic, Illustration, Photo & Imaging, Motion & Video
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Claude, Claude Code, and ChatGPT Codex can now organize media, cut a highlight reel, or batch-render inside Resolve through plain language, using a native MCP server built into Resolve Studio. Studio tier only.
Motion & Video
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A new 'Figma node' lets you paste a Design frame straight into Weave, so it becomes a live, on-brand source that AI workflows can build on at scale.
Brand & Graphic, UI/UX, Motion & Video
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AI agents connected through Runway MCP can now find and reference Brand Kit assets, like logos, colors, and fonts, when generating images and video. Creating or editing a kit still has to happen in the product.
Brand & Graphic, Motion & Video