After the demo, someone still has to direct.
Opus 5.5, GPT‑6 and AI video inside the edit. A director’s guide to the shift from impressive outputs to work you can actually revise.
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Dmytro Uhnivenko / Editorial logIssue 005 · New articles · 27 Sep 2026
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What changes the image—and what only changes the interface.
New tools, films worth studying and open calls. A director’s view of what helps the work and what still needs to prove itself.
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After the demo, someone still has to direct.
Opus 5.5, GPT‑6 and AI video inside the edit. A director’s guide to the shift from impressive outputs to work you can actually revise.
AI filmmaking
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S/012Tools / Analysis
Claude Opus 5.5: the second draft is the real test.
What Anthropic’s latest Opus changes, a creator’s interactive lens demo, and a practical way to evaluate it on creative work.
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Astra · Sol · Luna
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GPT‑6: three models, one creative brief.
What Astra, Sol and Luna are for, how their API prices compare with Opus 5.5, and which model to trial for your creative workflow.
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S/014Tools / Analysis
AI video’s next move is inside the edit.
Resolve integration, editable video, character references and delivery tools. The recent changes that deserve a place in a filmmaker’s test sequence.
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S/008Tools / Analysis
Runway in the edit: what the Adobe plugins change
Runway’s Adobe plugins bring generation into the timeline. The useful question is what happens to the cut.
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S/009Tools / Analysis
Astra: from a rendered image to an editable scene
Astra’s architectural case study connects geometry, materials and camera direction. What that suggests for cinematic websites.
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GWM Worlds
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GWM Worlds 2: when the viewer controls the camera
GWM Worlds 2 explores responsive generated worlds. The creative promise comes with a different continuity problem.
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Seedance 2.5: what thirty seconds change
Longer scenes, more references and sound generated with the image. A look at the features, early tests and practical limits.
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A generator makes a shot. An agent tries to remember the film.
InVideo proposes working with an agent across a whole film. A look at shot consistency, revisions and the decisions that remain with the director.
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Over 200 models in InVideo: how do you know which one is working?
InVideo now exposes a large model library and automatic routing. The useful question is no longer access, but whether a director can understand cost, provenance and repeatability.
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AIFF JapanAI Film Festival
S/005Open call
AI Film Festival Japan asks filmmakers to disclose the process—not hide it.
The call closes September 30 at 12:00 JST. The latest notice moves the festival to October 31–November 2 and adds a CapCut special award. Submissions must disclose the tools used. Checked September 12; follow the official category rules.
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30 Sep / 12:00 JSTView source
We Are HumanFilm Festival
S/006Open call
We Are Human puts AI cinema against a human-rights question.
A free international call for 1–10 minute work responding to Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. An Ethics Notebook answering four questions is mandatory. Rules checked September 12.
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30 Sep / 23:59 CESTView source