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You have a point but a time is coming when that manual work will be fully automated with Ai.
As most of us are still doing manual work some people are busy training Ai to take over that activities in nearby future
Manual work is always better than ai slop you can use ai for some clips but full video made with ai is unprofessional and a waste of money and resources
You are both partly right, I think. Manual work does not disappear because people get tired of it — it disappears when the output gets good enough that clients stop paying a premium for how it was made. That is what I am seeing building agentic AI systems at Ubunex: the eye and...
Facts. AI is a great tool. I miss manual work, but AI does make life easier.
The point about people quietly training AI on today's manual tasks is the part most of us underestimate. Do you think the craft shifts to directing and curating those models, rather than disappearing entirely?
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Happy to share submission for the invideo Editor Challenge! 🚀✨
For this video, I created an effect I call "Ao Dai Flicker" - blocks of light that flicker across the frame and flip the colours underneath every time the outfit changes.
AO DAI FLICKER
Nobody saw her go through the door.
But every time the light flickered, she stepped back out as someone new.
Seven flashes. Seven looks. One quiet street.
Where does she change? No one knows - and honestly, that's the fun part. ✨
Why fashion? Because fashion lives in the moment of change, and it never slows down. Trends turn over in a week, and every look deserves its own big reveal, not a copy-paste cut. So I made every cut a flash: pink and blue halftone bursts that feel like a printed magazine, a stream of binary code for the screen era, and Difference-blended shapes that turn each reveal into a little flashbulb moment.
It's the kind of edit fashion creators want on every post but rarely have the hours to build by hand. That's exactly what I wanted invideo Editor to take off our plate: the same impact on every single cut, built from a description instead of hours of keyframing, while every creative call (the colours, the rhythm, which look gets the loudest flash) stays ours.
Behind the scenes:
Primary effect: Shape Flicker — Mixed-Media Outfit Transitions
Large squares and rectangles flash across each outfit change, creating bold colour inversions through Difference blending. Blue and pink halftone flashes, black-and-white print textures, and small data-style digits add a mixed-media finish. Each burst clears quickly to reveal the next outfit, with a clean final shot.
Process note:
I started with my own fashion footage, filmed from a fixed camera position with outfit changes at matching poses. I asked invideo Editor’s timeline agent to build the transitions using editable shape layers and Difference blending, without rotoscoping or object tracking. My refinements focused on the shapes’ size, placement, drift, and flicker timing, then adding halftone and data textures while keeping each outfit clearly visible.
Which look is yours? Drop the number 1–7 below 👇
LINKS
invideo timeline: https://invideo.io/share/Ao-dai-Flicker-v1BryMJao80
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The flickering light effect sounds really creative! 🔥 Love how you connected the lighting transitions with the outfit changes. Such a unique visual concept and great execution! 👏✨
