QUESTION · MEDIA PRODUCTION Q&A

Are there any of the AIs where you can say, 'I want a lower third, here's my brand color, here's my font, can you make me an After Effects project where it slides in?' Do any of the things have the ability to do that?

ASKED BY · Chris Fenwick · 18 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:57:09

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Brady noted that when asked about animation, AI offered to write After Effects code/scripting to generate the project file rather than create animation directly.

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A panelist described using AI to build Keynote files with Ken Burns-style transitions across multiple slides sequentially at different sizes with magic move transitions.

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57:08question to the panel? Yeah, well, mine mentioned when I asked it, it said it could generate, you know, After Effects for doing the animation. It said I can't create animation, but I can give you, write the programming for After Effects and I can provide you with that code to do the animation. So essentially the After Effects project file. Right. Yeah, even if I had to pick my keyframes and animate it myself, if all the layers are already there, that's pretty stinking cool.

57:44Next question. There was a really good – hold on. Hold on now. I'm reigning this in for – I had it do a slideshow where I said I want – I have all these stills and I want you to do these Ken Burns-like effects where things are growing and shrinking. And its solution to that was it built an Apple script that then created a keynote file that put every image that I wanted on two slides sequentially at slightly different sizes, put a six-second long magic move transition between them, and then put a object push or object move or all the object-based transitions in between.

58:23That's not the most efficient way to do that, but it does work. Not the most efficient way to do it until you watch a machine make 17 different iterations of it in 10 minutes. So like had I done it that way by hand it would have been horrendously slow, but the output is what mattered So the question is maybe because you could in theory have it build you that in Keynote and then output the

58:47Output the lower third is 4444 To get back to the mechanical engineering If you plug in to MC if you plug in Claude for example into a SketchUp MCP it will draw things in 3D It's not always aware of the constraints of reality or the physical properties of material. So sometimes, like some real architects that I know, they'll design things that are a little impractical.

59:16So just beware there. That's going to – okay. Teeny, tiny little bit. We're going to – because Chris is teasing me about total runtime accuracy. Actually, that's going to do it for today. Thank you very much for everyone for being here. Thank you to our awesome panel for coming in and giving your life experience. Everybody's smarter together. Thank you to our producers for asking such great questions and keeping the show moving.

59:41And finally, thank you to the ladies and gentlemen, the fine ladies and gentlemen, who keep this show going, not only from a technical perspective while we're live, but also all around the show, keeping us moving forward. Tulalik Traversal today, had we done this in person, we would have gone 33,000 miles, 53,000 kilometers. That's 262 million bananas per scale. And I did not account for the credits.

1:00:01See you in after hours. I would like to say that Wednesday's show was 13 seconds long. I think you guys changed the length of the credits because I nailed it. Or you just let it pad out. Whatever. No, I nailed it, dude. When I said bye, it ticked over to the dead roll time that I had calculated. There's no Fenwick standard time.

1:00:28I've put ticking seconds on my stream deck now to really just harass me about it. Oh, that's nice. That's pretty cool. I will admit that's cool. That might be worth learning, Companion. Hey, so OS, whatever it is now, it broke. Wildingate. Golden Gate, yeah. It broke my ability for my streamdex, and I don't use the companion to talk to Unity.

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