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The AI Video Production Process

Process12 Jan 2025Bas Dumoulin

Creating a video with AI is not a "push-of-a-button" trick. It's a creative production workflow, with humans steering every stage. Here's what actually happens, step by step, and what you can realistically expect.

AI video production — human-guided creative process
Up front

Limitations to Know Up Front

AI Image Limitations

Example of AI image limitations — detail artifacts
  • Fine details can break: extra fingers, generic teeth, nonsensical small objects
  • Text is unreliable
  • Logos can subtly change
  • Consistency can drift
  • Max output: 4K

AI Video Limitations

  • Short clips (8–10 seconds)
  • Interactions break easily
  • Physical/visual consistency can drift
  • Voice consistency is limited
  • Content restrictions on children or characters resembling real people
Our approach

How We Work Around This

Images

We selectively retouch and refine by hand. AI generates the raw material. Humans finish the shot.

Video

We design around the limits. Scenes are broken into manageable beats, actions are simplified, and continuity is carefully controlled in the edit.

Where AI Video Shines

  • Content without physical sets
  • Visual storytelling for products not yet finalized
  • Fast animation workflows
  • Stylized/surreal visuals
  • Visualizing inaccessible locations
  • Updating visuals without restarting
Rights

Copyright and Usage Rights

Usually Safe
  • Marketing
  • Advertising
  • Websites
  • Presentations
  • Social media
Uncertain
  • Full exclusivity / copyright
  • Resemblance to real people
  • Literal proof use

We design with these boundaries in mind.

Timeline Expectations

Most effective videos30 sec – 1 min
If decisions were immediate1–2 weeks
In practice3–5 weeks
The pipeline

Our 12-Step Production Process

1

Ideation

Define audience, CTA, context, core idea, emotional entry point.

2

Script Creation

Emotional entry point, clarity over detail, narrative flow, AI-aware writing.

3

AI Image Generation

Iterative exploration, refining prompts, selecting frames.

Grid of AI-generated images during exploration
4

Build Timeline

Place images in edit to test pacing and flow.

Images placed in editing timeline to test pacing
5

AI Voice-Over

Select voice matching brand/tone, guide delivery.

AI voice-over generation interface
6

AI Music

Explore musical directions, balance with voice and visuals.

7

Timeline Preview & Feedback

Review draft before motion production.

Timeline preview awaiting client feedback
8

Image-to-Video Generation

Turn images into short moving shots.

9

Upscaling & Resolution Enhancement

Push footage to highest usable quality.

Before and after comparison of AI upscaling
10

Composition & Visual Refinement

Adjust framing, fix breaking elements.

11

Color Correction & Visual Consistency

Match exposure/contrast across shots.

Color grading and visual consistency process
12

Sound Effects & Final Mix

Add sound effects, shape ambience, balance levels.

Final Delivery

  • Agreed formats and resolutions
  • Variations (aspect ratios, lengths, platform-specific cuts)
  • Subtitles (SRT or burned-in)

Author: Bas Dumoulin

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