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Adobe Firefly muscles into AI video–here’s what it looks like

Adobe presented today that it’s bringing AI-generated video, aka the Firefly Video Model, to Adobe Premiere Pro plus its Firefly generative art service. Unlike its generative AI image capabilities, however, it won’t be free.

AI-generated video has been available for months. In December, OpenAI released Sora, its ability to craft AI video clips of several seconds from a text prompt. What Adobe is offering is authenticity. Like the AI-generated images in Firefly and Photoshop, Adobe trained its Firefly Video Model on licensed clips.

Right now, Adobe is positioning its AI-generated video clips as b-roll. It’s like filler video behind a title, for example. It also helps facilitate a transition between two different scenes.

In a demonstration provided to reporters, Adobe envisioned an AI-generated clip of red-hot sparks flying across the screen, as a backdrop to a title screen introducing clips of Iceland. However, Adobe also showed off an entirely AI-generated “drone flight” over an erupting volcano for the same project, suggesting viewers will still have to question the authenticity of what they see.

Adobe Firefly models will be able to generate and download the video. In Premiere Pro, like in Photoshop, people will be able to generate the AI-generated content within the app themselves and then simply drop it inside the workflow.

An AI-generated video clip using Adobe’s Firefly Video model. Adobe.

To use Adobe’s Firefly Video Model, however, you’ll need to pay. Adobe is offering early access on two plans. The $[website] Firefly Standard plan gives individuals 2,000 video credits per month or up to 20 five-second 1080p videos. Firefly Pro allows individuals to create 70 five-second 1090p videos via 7,000 video/audio credits per month as well. A Firefly Premium plan for those “looking to generate video content on a regular basis” is also en route, Adobe says, but the pricing hasn’t been showcased.

The plans sound a little confusing at first, but essentially you’re using the credits to “buy” the videos, . In addition to simply creating the video, customers will be able to edit videos, too: by providing filters, crafting paths for the camera to create motion shots, and more. Creatives can also lock the first and last images of the clip to facilitate transitions, and tweak the color to maintain consistency with the other clips in the scene, Adobe says. It doesn’t sound like those capabilities will cost credits.

It’s not clear where the line will be drawn between edits and re-renders, which will cost credits.

“Let’s say I asked for a scene with a bunch of horses racing around a racetrack from the perspective of someone standing on the track infield,” I asked an Adobe representative via email. “Then I decided that didn’t work, and I wanted an overhead shot with the camera moving from overhead to the infield. Is that considered to be an edit or an entirely different render?

” This would be considered a new render and would use credits as it would require additional generations,” the Adobe representative replied.

Adobe won’t generate audio via AI, however. Instead, Adobe is offering to take pre-recorded audio and translate it into 20 languages. Adobe is promising that its translations will maintain an “authentic voice,” with voice, tone, cadence, and acoustic matching.

What isn’t clear is if people will “spend” any available credit, or if they’ll just be used to buy video creation time.

Another short video clip of whales swimming, using Adobe’s AI-generated Firefly Video model. Adobe.

Adobe does have competition here. Creating AI-generated video via cloud services is possible with services like Sora, Pika Labs, Runway, and more. Services like [website] also offer to help create entire video segments from scratch, using AI-generated clips (as well as stock images) and an AI-generated script.

Creating AI video on your own local PC is also possible — barely, it seems. Mochi, , requires 60GB of VRAM to generate 480p videos from your PC. That’s more than the 32GB of VRAM in an Nvidia GeForce 5090 Founder’s Edition. Other competitive offerings don’t seem to be much advanced.

Local AI video models seem to struggle with creating a video clip from a text prompt rather than a reference image, too. Adobe’s Firefly model does both. Running an AI generator like Stable Diffusion on your PC seems quite realistic for AI-generated still images, but AI video may be forced to use the cloud for this generation of PCs.

Adobe’s offering that sort of power with its cloud service. In the long run, convenience may be the real selling point. While Adobe’s Firefly service provides a grab-and-go approach to AI art, it’s the easy, tight integration into Photoshop that’s made it especially useful. I’d expect the same of Premiere Pro and Adobe’s new video model.

This story was updated at 9:25 AM on Feb. 12.

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Apple is finally offering a way to transfer previously purchased content to a different user account, though the process remains somewhat convoluted. First spotted by the Apple-focused blog 512 Pixels, this new option is currently unavailable to millions of customers in the European Union, United Kingdom, and India. However, Apple's official support document provides a step-by-step guide to navigating the migration process.

The new documentation is intended for clients who want to move purchases from one Apple account to another. The ideal use case outlined in the guide involves a secondary account used solely for purchases and a primary account that serves as the user's main iCloud login.

The migration process allows clients to transfer apps, music, books, TV displays, and other content between accounts. During the transfer, the Apple account signed into iCloud is designated as the primary account, while the account used exclusively for media purchases is referred to as the secondary account.

Before migrating data, customers must meet several key requirements. First, they need to be signed into two different accounts on their iPhone or iPad. The secondary account must not be part of a different Family Sharing group, and both accounts must be set to the same country and region for purchases.

Additional prerequisites include enabling two-factor authentication, ensuring the secondary Apple account has a zero balance, and updating to the latest version of iOS or iPadOS. If all conditions are met, consumers can initiate the migration through the new "Migrate Purchases" option in the Settings app. Once the transfer is complete, the secondary account will no longer be able to make media purchases. Additionally, any payment methods associated with the secondary account will be transferred to the primary account.

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Ukrainian drone unit wants to recruit gamers but warns it's "not like Call of Duty"

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The big picture: The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has escalated into a full-blown technological arms race. Both sides are pouring resources into developing cutting-edge military drones and counter-drone systems. But in this high-stakes battle, Ukraine has a new weapon: gamers.

Rally drivers are often naturally great at racing simulation games like Dirt, and vice versa, so you'd think the same would apply to warfare. Indeed, members of Ukraine's elite Typhoon drone unit told Business Insider that they see gamers as potential recruits. However, they also acknowledged the challenges.

Piloting a first-person-view (FPV) drone might seem straightforward on the surface. The headsets are like VR goggles, and the controllers are similar to those of a gaming console. There's even a video game called "Death From Above" that simulates the experience of a Ukrainian drone operator raining hellfire down on Russian forces.

However, in the virtual world, you can just hit reset when things go sideways. In real drone warfare, the consequences are deadly.

"People think flying a military drone is like playing 'Call of Duty,' until they realize there's no restart option," one Typhoon operator told the publication.

The Typhoon unit explains that preparing for a real drone mission is an intricate process of analyzing equipment, anticipated obstacles like jamming, real-time intelligence, and coordinating with commanders. Every flight involves multiple evasive maneuvers and constant adjustments for enemy countermeasures and threats.

As for the Typhoon unit itself, it was officially formed just last year and plays a vital role in Ukraine's National Guard. One of its responsibilities is developing and applying specialized UAV expertise on the battlefield. It does this by combining engineers who can rapidly configure drones with pilots capable of executing complex missions in the chaos of combat.

Despite the challenges mentioned above, the unit sees gamers as invaluable recruits for their lightning-fast reflexes and comfort with virtual environments.

"Gamers make great drone pilots because they are used to fast-moving situations on the screen, just like in real drone operations," Michael, the commander of the unit, stated. "They already have experience making quick decisions, reacting fast, and controlling complex systems, which are all critical skills in combat."

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been pushing for increased domestic drone production and deployment. Companies and volunteer groups have responded by kicking into high gear, mass-producing relatively cheap drones to fill the gap when Western-supplied artillery runs low.

With more drones comes the need for more pilots, and that gap could potentially be filled by recruiting skilled gamers with their finely tuned reflexes gained from video games.

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