How AI changed the video colouring industry

Since it has become a widespread technology, AI has managed to fully change or at least reshape more than a few industries. One of those affected is the world of video colouring. Artificial intelligence has managed to enter this domain entirely adding to the content created.

Before AI, colouring of old videos was slow, costly, and involved hard labour. These days, the situation is different - it's much better. Here are the top ways the video colouring industry was changed with the introduction of artificial intelligence.

Speed of Colouring

If you are even remotely into video colouring, you ought to know that back in the day it was work that had to be done frame by frame. Even experts had to put in hours of work for just a couple of minutes of video.

Today, with the AI present, when you want to colorize video, it takes examples of the first few frames, and applies the process to the rest of the video. Something that took hours of work earlier, can now be done in a matter of minutes. Days worth of work now first into an hourly schedule. Saving time to do the work takes us to the next point.

Better Colour Matching

It's time to face the harsh truth - we're entering the era of our history when it is becoming evident that machines can do so many things better than we do. It is a well known fact, at least in the colouring industry, that keeping the colours consistent across the scenes is hard especially on a lengthy project.

The more hours needed to complete a project the more likely it is that there will be mistakes. The change of lighting, or a simple camera shift, make colours appear different. With AI it is more easier than ever to keep a track of colours and lighting through the entire video regardless of its length. There's no misses on the smallest of details, and everything is kept up to identical standards.

Lower Costs

If you ever had to pay for a video colouring you know that it is not a cheap service. Or at least it wasn't. With the coming of age of AI, the process is now automated and thus cheaper. Before AI, you had to pay for a colourist with high end skills in the work, some highly expensive software, and not to mention hours of work needed to be invested. Today, big companies in this industry no longer require as many people involved and the number of hours is shortened. Today, video colouring is cheaper than it ever was.

The Old Video Resurrection

AI is not only used on the new videos and for colour correction. It is also used to make black & white videos coloured. It is advanced enough to be able to study the old videos. Once it is done with the colour recognition, AI can guess the colours that are missing based on the video context, and fill the gaps.

Without artificial intelligence, and modern software solutions this was a work that needed to be done frame by frame, by hand, taking hours for a minute of a video. Nowadays, AI can colour the entire video based on the settings, and reduce the amount needed to do it to a fraction of time needed before with only small afterwork needed.

Easier for Beginners

Learning how to do colour correction is not an easy task. It is actually a skill that is hard to acquire. Even with AI it is not super easy. But, it is easier to learn than ever before. If you have previous knowledge in the field of editing videos, you can now add the skill of colour correction to your arsenal way easier.

AI tools come with a tendency to be simple to understand as they are created with an intention to make your life easier. The only thing you need to do is to upload your video to the software, give it instructions, and AI will handle the rest. People who are new to colour correction, and have been aiming to add it to their catalogue of services tied to video editing now have an easier path to ascendancy.

Creating New Styles

You'd have to get an expert in using AI for video editing, but anyone can now get there. AI is not just a one dimensional tool. It can learn and adapt. With the proper usage you can help it to learn and expand its knowledge making your work more creative and even be able to create a new style of working on a video.

The more you work with AI the more ideas you will have, and the more expertise it will gain. Together you can experiment, adding new layers to what both you and the AI can do.