HT asked me to post some info, I think you're going to be pleased folks, and it might not be too far away...
Hi Dad,
HiTech asked me to fill you in on the new film viewer, I read your post on how you make your films, and the short answer to "what impact will it have" is: it's made for exactly what you're doing, and it takes most of the hard part away.
The new viewer has a door for an AI. Codex, which you already use on the desktop, can connect to it and drive it directly: open a film, jump anywhere, place cameras and export the video itself. Help > Socket Instructions for AI in the viewer tells Codex how; just tell it "connect to the film viewer" and carry on talking to it the way you do now.
What changes for you:
- It doesn't have to watch your videos any more. Instead of GPT guessing what happened from frames two minutes at a time, Codex reads the film itself: every kill, hit, landing, bomb drop, burst of gunfire and chat line with its exact time, and where every aircraft is at every moment. A 3-hour film is no problem.
- No more hunting for the shot by eye. Instead of finding a moment and sending screenshots, you say "the moment I start hitting the 190" and it finds the time from the film's own hit events.
- Cameras anywhere: riding on any aircraft (yours or anyone's), hung in the sky watching you pass, gliding from one spot to another, locked onto a target, or riding your bomb down onto the target and holding on the blast. Your cinematographer chat writes the shot list in words; Codex turns it into cameras.
- A shot you nail stays nailed. The camera plan is saved as a file, so it comes out exactly the same every time you render. Once it's right, it's right - no more days trying to repeat one by hand.
- Before drawing anything it can test thousands of camera spots in a second and say which ones keep you and your opponent in frame - handy for the dynamic, cinematic angles you like.
- It renders the .mp4 itself, with the film's sound, at the size and frame rate you ask for (HD at 60 fps works), and can string several moments into one video with no gaps.
- Seeking is fast now: seconds anywhere in a long film, and no more crashing!
Your phone setup still works: Codex runs on the PC, so you can keep directing from the garage.
A few limits as it stands, these will probably added later
- There's no cockpit camera following the pilot's recorded head movement (the recorded view itself works).
- It knows where the aircraft are, not debris: a piece of shrapnel flying at the lens still takes your patience.
It'll also work with Claude and Antigravity, I will be releasing a skill called "Director" which is trained to use the system, and possibly something for those who don't use AI, still confirming this with HT
Steely
