Machine learning has opened up extraordinary opportunities for the visual effects industry. Labour-intensive tasks like object removal and scene cleanup can now be automated. Working with Nulight studios, QuasiScience developed an award-winning tool for object removal and imperfection correction, which won a £50k award for Amplifying Imagination: AI in the Creative Industries, sponsored by the BBC, AWS, Innovate UK and the DIgital Catapult.

A game-changer for us at Nulight Studios

— CEO, Nulight Studios

Common Challenges in Film Editing

Video-editing is a creative profession, but traditional post-production work requires extensive manual frame-by-frame editing to remove unwanted objects or imperfections. This time-consuming process limits editors’ availability for more creative tasks.

Our client, Nulight Studios, wanted to use the latest machine learning technologies to automate these repetitive tasks. They called in QuasiScience to help.

AI At Work

Our team of data scientists developed a custom VFX plugin which enabled:

• AI-powered object removal: automatic detection and removal of unwanted objects and imperfections in video frames.
• 10x quicker editing: no need to fill empty spots after object removal
• Seamless integration: a plug for existing software pipelines, which didn’t disrupt other work.
• Improved visual quality: consistent, high-quality results across diverse types of footage.
• Scalability: a repeatable, automated process that can be applied to multiple projects.

Our plugin combines high-performance processing with intuitive controls, and frees up creatives to focus on creativity.

Based on this work, Nulight Studios won a £50,000 award for Amplifying Imagination: AI in the Creative Industries, sponsored by the BBC, AWS, Innovate UK and the DIgital Catapult.

Future of Film Editing

This tool is a milestone not only in the video editing industry, but also in the tense conversation about creativity and AI. At QuasiScience, we believe that AI does not exist to replace creative jobs or lessen them, but to free them up from dull, repetitive tasks and enable them to focus on the more inspiring, imaginative work that they actually want to do.

Do you have a dream VFX plugin you’d like to develop? If so, reach out to us at QuasiScience - we’d love to help you bring it to life.