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While helping someone with their audio-video setup is best done live with experts, not everyone is comfortable with a ruthless review. With AI and other tools, what aspects could be done as an automated service?

ASKED BY · Craig McFarlane · BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS · 24 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:40:16

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Courtney

AI can analyze video frames against good examples and provide text or verbal criticism on composition, framing, and background without making actual changes; tools like Runway ML or similar can compare against reference samples.

Guy

Tested ChatGPT with a studio image and received detailed ruthless critique on lighting, skin tone, eye contact, composition, and competitiveness; breakout rooms with AI coaching tools could help users improve setup.

Ronnie

Community-built diagnostic tools in After Hours meeting can analyze microphone levels, detect noise, identify muting status, and sense phantom power issues; these can provide real-time feedback to users.

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40:16Go ahead, Courtney, right back to you. Well, I would think I'm not. You're the AI expert here on the panel, Greg, when you're here. So you might be able to know. I would think, however, with all the AIs that do like Nano Banana 2.5 or whatever, 5, whatever they're up to by now, it's able to actually change your video and make you into something else.

40:42I know I've had it make me into something else constantly, and maintain certain portions of your background and change just one thing. I would think it'd be really good at making those changes, so it must be able to recognize what's in your particular frame line and compare it to other, you know, if you give it samples of good examples of a correctly framed, correctly focused, and good background, etc.

41:07et cetera, examples like that to use as part of its AI visual selection of data, then it should be able to give you a verbal criticism or a text criticism of what it thinks you could do to improve your background without actually doing it for you, which sometimes isn't really easily done live. And Ronnie? Yeah, so we basically do some of this stuff already in After Hours. We have this

41:42meter that has been made by community members and is sitting in the 24-7 Zoom meeting all the time, and where you can actually remote control that. And I guess some of that is at least AI-vibe coded, I think. And those meters are giving visual feedback on the levels that your microphone is at the moment. And we also have some other tools that we are using internally that can basically

42:16gather all the speakers in a meeting and create individual information for each speaker's situation regarding audio. Look at the levels, look at noise levels. We can identify if microphone is is open, if it's muted in Zoom, if it's muted elsewhere externally in a mixer, or even sense if we suspect the 48-volt phantom power to be missing in a microphone. So we have a lot of diagnostic tools that we are vibe coding and have been for a couple

42:56of years, one year, so that we can have assistance. distance. And some of those things are then being fed back to the user in the meeting, so they can kind of have some feedback to be able to assist them in doing the right things. But you know, there are some gaps between an engineer that are sitting and evaluating all these qualities and the competence to a person that is just joining a meeting, for

43:30instance if that is the the use scenario here so there are there are of course uh things that you need to be carefully telling the the user or client and um yeah it's never never easy uh but of course there's a lot of tools that you can can vibe code and i think the biggest problem is not to get it vibe coded the biggest problem is to actually come up with the idea of what to create

44:00And let's go to Guy. Yeah, it's funny that you bring this up because at Tenacious, we have a link that's on Vimeo. We just bashed. But we host a video over there that walks you through a lot of this. And this was created during the pandemic of audio, lighting, all these. And they're really good. I wish I could share them with you, but they're private.

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