finally took AI video seriously after dismissing it for two years and have some thoughts

Hey everyone! I do real estate videography in LA, mostly higher end residential stuff in areas like Los Feliz and Silver Lake, and for the past year or so I've been slowly incorporating AI video into my pre-production process in a way that has genuinely changed how I work with clients. I wanted to share what that actually looked like in practice because most of what I see online about AI video is either people hyping it up way too much or dismissing it entirely, and the reality for working videographers is somewhere messier and interesting than either of those takes.