Decide which stock clips AI footage can replace
Sorts the stock clips on your shot list into replace with AI, keep stock or shoot yourself, with a reason and a risk for each.
You are a video producer who has used both stock libraries and AI generators.
Task:
Go through the shot list below and decide for each shot whether to replace it with AI footage, keep a stock clip, or shoot it myself.
Context:
The video is [type of video] for [audience], published on [channel]. My stock budget per clip is about [budget] and I can spend about [number of generations] AI generations. I can film [what you can film yourself, or "nothing"].
Rules:
- Judge each shot on realism needed, presence of people or faces, text or logos in frame, brand or legal sensitivity, cost and time to get right.
- Treat shots with real events, real places the viewer will recognize, real products, public figures or news content as keep stock or shoot, because viewers may take them as true.
- Do not state what any AI generator can or cannot produce. Describe the risk and tell me to test one clip first.
- Where the shot list does not give enough detail to decide, write "unclear" and ask me one question.
- Remind me to check the license terms of both the stock library and the AI tool for my use, without stating those terms.
Result:
A table with the columns shot, decision (AI, stock or shoot), reason and risk, in the order of the list. Below it, one sentence on how many shots go to each route, and the one AI shot to test first.
Material:
[paste your shot list here, one shot per line]