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As I say, AI video creation uses huge amount of compute and therefore energy. To put it in perspective, to create a 2 minute video using generative AI, with only a number of photos being used as a prompt, uses approximately 200kWh of energy. The average UK household uses 7.4kWh of energy per day, so to do what you want would take the equivalent of nearly a month's worth of energy consumption for the average household. 200kWh will also do my Ford Capri 3 full charges, that'd power me for over 900 miles. So, what you are asking is hugely energy intensive and will never be free. People really don't realise how incredibly energy intensive and damaging the use of AI is, many just assume its this new magic thing with no downside. The carbon emissions produced in just the exercise you're wanting to do is huge.

Yeah me too. I think the idea of importing, and them very rarely becoming available 2nd hand has been a big factor in me not getting one. The idea of importing seems daunting and has put me off on the times I’ve come close.

Yes, if you want ‘that’ as far as I can see you have to pay. ChatGPT was asking for a subscription of £30 a month and I couldn’t find any way to ’test’ how good it might be. It took three days to get the images out of copilot. It mostly produced ’even crapper and very unrelated images’ apologising profusely, then told me I’d run out of credits and had to wait 24 hrs to do more! I’d be very interested if there is tool that can do what you say for a reasonable cost. As far as my (modest) research took me you have to be Disney to do hyper realistic vids of people who aren’t real… When we released the last album, using Distrokid, they did a few promotional vids as part of the ‘service’ but they were basically actual video (one had Wednesday Adam’s in it) cut & changed to work to the bpm of the track. No ‘people who aren’t real’ involved.

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It's likely that the video shows one of the built in effects and these are usually accessible from the internal programming accessible from the four buttons on the back. On mine the display shows a four character code: 1J-- to 8J-- are all chases (which I think is the Knight Rider thing). The two last digints control the speed so 1J00 is slow and 1J20 is super fast changing the first number gives a different chase so there are 8 options and you just have to plough through them to find something you like. If this sounds like gobbledegook it is and the manual will be in mangled translation from Mandarin, no two lights are the same so if you want a second get it ordered before they re-stock. The good news is that it starts to make some sort of sense and once you've got on top of this light the next one will seem simpler (probably ) Make note of any settings you like so you can get back to them

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ok, thats why I asked the question of whether people meant AI or just standard video effects - your one there, any normal video editor can do that quite simply, but if someone asks for AI I assume they mean a generative AI video, where you have virtual people doing things etc, like the hyper realistic videos of people who aren't real.

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That looks just gorgeous!!!

If not the same then very similar. Yes, it can do a range of modes from 5 channels to around 50. But, to mimic the sequences I saw in the promotional video (think of a Knight Rider effect, with a second in a different colour running opposite) then I think you need the 50 channel mode.

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The ^2 notation is nothing to do with imperial or metric but is a computer way of describing something to the power 2. So x^2 means x squared or x x x (which is really confusing) as we sometimes use x to mean times. We could also say x * x. Many computer languages use the ^ symbol as the notation for "to the power of" as you can't use a superscript as languages are based on the ASCII character set.

Funnily, I'm telling myself that it would be great to sell my Casio AP-750 and buy a Roland LX-9 to be able to use Pianoteq 9 through an iPad with it and especially because this "new" Roland ticks all the boxes for me (having an USB TO HOST with audio plus MIDI both ways and an excellent amplification alongside the marvellous PHA-100 keybed with haptic feedback). I'm still thinking...