I'm Brian Paris. Built things with video and audio for about 25 years. Produced, directed, shot, edited. Currently running a government access TV channel in Champaign, Illinois.
For the last couple of years, I've been using AI to actually make things. Short films. Websites. Apps. Chatbots. A full tarot card deck. (Apple rejected the app. That's a whole post.)
Some of it works. Some of it doesn't. I write about it all in my newsletter, AI, Actually!
Sounds & Colors is where the builds live.
B-Roller Lite
Triage a folder of clips and pick the keepers, right in your browser. Thumbnails, filmstrips, and a one-click Keepers export. Free, nothing leaves your machine.
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B-Roller
Cull a card dump in the time it takes to watch it. Free app for Mac. Keyboard-driven culling, subclip marking, and selects export, all on your machine.
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B-Roller Studio
Make soundbites by highlighting the words you want. Reframe for social. Fix log footage. No NLE required. Free. macOS only.
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Ruff Cutter
Turn interview transcripts into a documentary rough cut. Free app for Mac. Your API keys, your footage, your machine.
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Lower Key
Something new for film and video, in the works. Worth the wait. More soon.
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AudioDesc
Automatic audio descriptions for video. Built for government channels and community media. Free app, M-series Mac, under a dollar an hour to run.
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PhotoDesc
Audio-described videos from your photos. The AI describes each image, a voice narrates, and you review every word. Free app, M-series Mac, under a dollar a project to run.
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Apps, websites, chatbots, word search books. Some are public. Some just run on my computer. All of them were worth building.
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