Agentic Video Is Real and Here’s What You Should Try
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Agentic Video Is Real and Here’s What You Should Try

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 8, 202630 min
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AI agents are making it possible to edit, animate, and produce videos simply by describing what you want. NLW explores what changed and how to put it to work—from meeting highlights and concept demos to animated business updates and customer education videos that update themselves. Plus, three levels for getting started, from editing existing recordings to building recurring video workflows. Check out How We Got Here Ep. 2 - How We Made the Wrong Things Cheap ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-we-got-here-with-nlw/id6822359990⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/7h55KSq0XwIjdWzwF2zgNV?si=cb76360051ec48a0⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn More a...

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that it represents a more subtle but significant step change when it comes to not coding capabilities,

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When Opus 4.5 came in November of last year, it took about a month, honestly, till through the holiday break for people to really realize that it represented not just another incremental change, but in fact, a step change in agentic coding capabilities. What happened after that set up the entirety of 2026 where agentic coding became by far the most important and most dominant AI use case and set us all racing to figure out how we could bring coding into our normal knowledge worker lives. Opus 5.5 has been out for a similar amount of time, and people are once again discovering that it represents a more subtle but significant step change when it comes to not coding capabilities,

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but video editing. In today's episode, we're exploring both what changed and what video use cases people who haven't made videos before should be considering based on the new capabilities. The AIDly Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions

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