For as long as there have been people funding art the artists they fund have chafed under their direction, and thus artist remixes of "their" work are nothing new. Fan edits are not a new concept either (how many places will have a local take on a song or poem possibly hundreds of years old?) but the DVD generation and rise of home PC video editing changed things somewhat, even more so DVDs with deleted scenes. Not sure what to point at for the current pinnacle of this sort of thing but a place to start would likely be Star Wars the Phantom Edit, a fan edit designed to correct the problems with Episode , nice intro/refresher1https://starwarsfans.fandom.com/wiki/The_Phantom_Edit . Right now most uses are spoofs, silliness and porn but it is likely only a matter of time before it is a routinely used tool in the arsenal.
We are probably a ways off regenerating/creating whole scenes but voice generation sample requirements have got rather small (not to mention many actors will have hours and hours of sample data to feed it), the same things that provide face swapping also provide for lip syncing. In the commercial side of things we have been seeing product placement edited in for some years now, though much of that is more traditional some poor bastard has to go frame by frame tweaking a mask. Obviously we have also had singers... brought back from the dead for the better part of 20 years now but that was also more traditional stitching in many cases. I am however also interested in "fake" songs, though I imagine it will be your favourite artist does karaoke or a better version of a mashup/"duet".
I also wonder if it will be fun trying to find "official" cuts of films on the future equivalent of torrent sites.
Personally I would like to see what critics might do here -- as it stands we can already see people edit photos and obviously text as well. "Everybody is a critic" does then get "money where your mouth is" if it results in but a few hours of work to demonstrate a failure. I also wonder if such things will be able to be distributed as user generated code -- if the voice samples can be generated from the film itself or some easy to obtain library then it likely ends up functionally no different than cut this frame to this frame, move this frame to this frame, mute this/overlay this sound, put this picture over this part of the frame (possibly with a little tweak), all of which I can already (and have long been able to) distribute as a script for a video editor.
I am also curious what might go for more adult themed edits (such things may include some more sex but language is where I would be looking first). For instance how many fansubs in anime add in the swears where the original might be lacking or milder?
We are probably a ways off regenerating/creating whole scenes but voice generation sample requirements have got rather small (not to mention many actors will have hours and hours of sample data to feed it), the same things that provide face swapping also provide for lip syncing. In the commercial side of things we have been seeing product placement edited in for some years now, though much of that is more traditional some poor bastard has to go frame by frame tweaking a mask. Obviously we have also had singers... brought back from the dead for the better part of 20 years now but that was also more traditional stitching in many cases. I am however also interested in "fake" songs, though I imagine it will be your favourite artist does karaoke or a better version of a mashup/"duet".
I also wonder if it will be fun trying to find "official" cuts of films on the future equivalent of torrent sites.
Personally I would like to see what critics might do here -- as it stands we can already see people edit photos and obviously text as well. "Everybody is a critic" does then get "money where your mouth is" if it results in but a few hours of work to demonstrate a failure. I also wonder if such things will be able to be distributed as user generated code -- if the voice samples can be generated from the film itself or some easy to obtain library then it likely ends up functionally no different than cut this frame to this frame, move this frame to this frame, mute this/overlay this sound, put this picture over this part of the frame (possibly with a little tweak), all of which I can already (and have long been able to) distribute as a script for a video editor.
I am also curious what might go for more adult themed edits (such things may include some more sex but language is where I would be looking first). For instance how many fansubs in anime add in the swears where the original might be lacking or milder?
