“Nobody wanted to do this work”: How Emmy Award–winning filmmakers use AI to automate the tedious parts of documentaries
Tim McLear, a producer at Ken Burns’ Florentine Films, uses AI not to generate flashy creative content but to solve the massive, behind-the-scenes data management challenges in documentary post-production—automating what used to be years of manual labor in logging, tagging, and organizing
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