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Published on ProVideo Coalition – October 29, 2025 Whenever a new version of an AI tool comes out, I try to test it against others and see how responsive (or useful) they may be. But certain instructions can still elude common sense with Generative AI – often when you give it even simple commands and […]

Published on ProVideo Coalition – September 14, 2025 Once again, HeyGen has updated their AI avatar capabilities (and there’s much more to come soon… stay tuned!) But I’m going to focus on just two major updates, HeyGen Avatar IV and Product Placement for influencers and marketers. Starting with just a simple product image and a script, you

Published on ProVideo Coalition – August 29, 2025 I’ve been using the ElevenLabs TTS (Text To Speech) tool since they were first in beta a couple years ago, and have watched them get progressively better in quality and capabilities. Their most recent updates for voices, Sound FX and Music generation have really surpassed all previous

Published on ProVideo Coalition – June 30, 2025 Midjourney was my first real text-to-image AI tool experience starting back in 2022. I’ve watched it evolve as the industry swelled with competition and lots of other image, animation and video tools popping up almost weekly since. By January 2023, the tools started to evolve to a

Published on ProVideo Coalition – May 28, 2025 If you’re on social media much these days, you’ve undoubtedly seen a major uptick in examples of some pretty amazing AI Generated videos coming out, and how creatives are making fun projects and even commercials and short films with these tools. It’s really an exciting time for

Published on ProVideo Coalition – January 29, 2025 It’s been awhile since I’ve posted much about the advancements of current AI Tools, and although I’ve had some successes in utilizing many of them for projects, we’re still a long way from AI doing ALL the work for producers/content creators. I’ll share some examples from my

Published on ProVideo Coalition – March 20, 2024 With the latest developments in AI video software tools producing such real and believable results with cloning capabilities, we are now in a new age of disinformation and identify theft/IP rustling. What are some of the major players doing to attempt to protect the public from this threat

Published on ProVideo Coalition – February 17, 2024 On Thursday this week (Feb 15), Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (ChatGPT, DALL-E) released a sneak peek into our not-to-distant future of realistic AI generated text-to-video content with the announcement of their new model, Sora on a “Xitter” post: What is Sora? *From OpenAI website – *Creating video from text

Published on ProVideo Coalition – January 28, 2024 While there are some amazing upscaling tools already on the market to clean up and restore blurry or low-res images, Magnific AI takes a different approach to Generative AI upscaling by allowing you to dive deep into an image and create amazing unseen details at high magnification. While using

Published on ProVideo Coalition – December 31, 2023 Wrapping up the year’s list of AI Tools and updates this month. Be sure to look for my final article in the series AI Tools Part 5: 2023 A Year in Review to show just how far this technology has come in just 12 months! We’ll continue with only