Video as Code: Should AI Generate Pixels, or Write Programs?
Hosted by Park Jong Hyun + Sina Atalay
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What to look forward to
An upcoming evening will explore generative media made with code, from technical-education videos and GUIs to AI-assisted filmmaking, with creators sharing what they’ve built, what has failed, and what’s next. The discussion will feature Academa’s experience growing its Instagram audience to 15,000+ followers and 1.8 million views, alongside SudoCut’s comparison of AI-generated video approaches.
Inside the event
Media is becoming generative: made on demand, for one person and one question.
There are two ways to make it
- A video model generates the pixels directly.
- A language model writes a program, and software runs it to make the media: a Remotion project, a Manim scene, a Blender script, a shader, an HTML page, a language of your own.
We think the two routes are orthogonal. Some media is best generated directly, and some is best written as code. Both will be huge, and nobody knows the split yet. Both are open research.
This evening is about the second route. When media is a program, you can read it, diff it, render it again at any resolution, and change one number instead of starting over. And because it is code, an LLM can write it.
We say video because it is the part of generative media that gets the most attention right now. The same idea applies to images, diagrams, interfaces, and more.
The evening
We meet in person in San Francisco.
5:45 PM · Doors open
6:15 PM · Academa
For the last 18 months, we have built media as code, video and GUIs, and all of it for one use case: technical education.
On September 28, we started a new series of films on Instagram. Ten days later, our account had grown from 25 followers to over 15,000, with 1.8 million views. We will talk about what we have built, what broke along the way, and where we think the technology is going.
Watch our videos on Instagram: @academaai
6:45 PM · SudoCut
These are results of 2 videos of my YouTube channel. Why they are different? Which one is better content?
We'll talk about the essence of video and how to use AI to get it.
Watch SudoCut on YouTube: sudoremove and aifrontier_kr
7:15 PM · Open conversation
The rest of the evening is a conversation about video as code, and there is a lot to talk about: which language a video should be written in, how to check a film before anyone watches it, and where code ends and video models take over.
Who should come
Anyone curious about where generative media is going. If you build with Remotion, Manim, Motion Canvas, HyperFrames, Blender, shaders, or a language of your own, you will feel at home, and you do not need to write code to join the conversation.
San Francisco, CA
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