They live on Ashdale Avenue, one block over from Craven Road, and have just released a mini-documentary on the history of the street that's one of the first actually useful uses of AI video I’ve seen to date.
It still feels a bit uncanny, though, especially if you’re familiar with the archival photos it’s bringing to life!
“For the AI recreations, it involved quite a bit of trial and error. For the archive photos coming to life in video form, I used Adobe Firefly. I have a full subscription to the Adobe suite of applications through Adobe Creative Cloud, which I use a lot for our real estate marketing.
“With the subscription, you get quite a few monthly credits for AI video generation. The cool thing about Firefly is that it offers a wide variety of 3rd party ‘partner’ video generation models to choose from, like Kling and Veo.
“I leaned heavily on ChatGPT to help me create prompts for the video generation, as well as asking which models to try without burning through credits. ChatGPT also helped me create some 'old-timey stills' of shacks on one side and Ashdale backyards on the other.
“I mostly used still photos and asked a Firefly model to turn them into video using a good prompt with Kling 3.0 and Veo Fast.”
Kudos to Jon for bringing the past to life in such a futuristic way!
