r/aivideos

I’ve been working on Murmur, a local text-to-speech app for Apple Silicon Macs.

The new feature I’m building is called Projects / Story Studio, and it solves a problem I kept running into:

TTS tools are fine for one-off clips, but messy for actual audio projects.

If you’re making a podcast segment, audiobook chapter, course lesson, ad, or game dialogue, you usually need multiple speakers, multiple takes, pauses, reactions, music, edits, exports, and a way to come back to the project later.

So I built a project-based workflow:

Write a script → assign voices → generate dialogue → edit clips on a timeline → add music/SFX → export final audio.

It supports things like:

• multiple scripts inside one project
• Host / Guest / Narrator / Character speakers
• inline tags like [pause], [laugh], [chuckle]
• per-block regeneration
• timeline editing with waveforms
• media lane for music and SFX
• ripple editing and gap tools
• WAV/M4A export
• transcript and stem export

Everything runs locally on Mac, so long scripts and voice samples do not need to be uploaded to a cloud service.

I’m still polishing the workflow and would love feedback from Mac users, especially people who make podcasts, audiobooks, courses, YouTube narration, or game dialogue.

My first ever full-length AI video. It's shit, but it's pissing-hilarious too!

If you like it, press the thumb button on YouTube. TY!

https://youtu.be/EJdofXUqIvs

What if the ocean isn’t empty… but watching you back?
First, the abyss awakens — Charybdis devours reality itself. Then… she appears. Sedna. Ancient. Silent. Inevitable.

This is not just the ocean. This is something older.

Watch till the end… if you dare.

I've been looking at how rapidly we can establish stakes and aesthetics in modern media workflows. This 45-second sequence is a humble case study, packing three entirely distinct visual genres back-to-back:

1️⃣ A dreamworld-esque animal heist with CG texturing and immediate narrative tension.
2️⃣ A shift to a tactile, stop-motion-style winter fantasy that focuses on environmental lighting.
3️⃣ A hand-painted 2D style stand-up set that tries to capture a grounded, cynical reality.

The contrast in lighting, art direction, and dialogue tells you exactly what genre you're looking at before the characters even finish their lines. For those of us used to old post-production workflows, this kind of rapid context-switching is a great exercise in visual storytelling.

Which of these three concepts has the strongest hook for a full project (if any)?

Spending my Sunday at the music studio recording heavy violin riffs for Pink Paradox third album 🤘🏻🎻

Attr: https://www.youtube.com/@starcrusadeip

The image prompt:

Cinematic photorealistic wide shot, night scene. A young woman in her mid-20s, slender and strikingly beautiful, with white-blonde hair, brown eyes, and an almost angelic appearance that contradicts everything she is. She wears a deep violet dark magic gown, elaborately cut, fitting her silhouette. She points a dark wooden staff directly at the viewer, not as a warning but as a verdict. Her expression is calm and superior, the look of someone who finds this entire situation mildly amusing, fully aware that whoever stands before her is no equal. Behind her: a crossroads at midnight, three skeletal figures holding hand axes, standing motionless like a personal guard. A full moon dominates the sky above, casting cold silver light across the scene. The angelic and the sinister occupy the same face. Shallow depth of field, film grain, single-frame narrative, movie still.

The image to video prompt:

Image-to-video, 10 seconds. The woman walks slowly toward the camera. Her expression remains calm and faintly amused, the look of someone who finds this encounter beneath her but entertaining nonetheless. She does not speak. Behind her, the three skeletal figures begin to move, following her advance in perfect silence. Cold silver moonlight, no camera movement, dramatic orchestral music, cinematic film grain. No dialogue, no subtitles.