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Finally, new plots unlocked for Hallmark movies!

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Ryan Morrison of Tom’s Guide, reveals I asked ChatGPT to create a Hallmark Christmas movie — and it went better than expected.

He begins:

“Part of my job is testing AI products to find out how well they work, what they can be used for and just how good they are at different tasks. So, inspired by my mom’s favorite genre of movie I decided to ask ChatGPT to write a Christmas story in the style of Hallmark.”

His ChatGPT 4 prompt? “Can you help me come up with the plot for a Hallmark-style Christmas movie?”

The resulting basic plot? “In ‘Christmas Carousel’, a New York architect discovers love and the value of tradition when she teams up with a local carousel restorer to save a cherished holiday attraction in a small town.”

There’s a more detailed plot, characters and even dialogue.

The AI even suggests filming in Cold Spring, New York State.

Oops! There is a real 2020 Hallmark movie called “A Christmas Carousel” with this plot: “When Lila is hired by the Royal Family of Ancadia to repair a carousel, she must work with the Prince to complete it by Christmas.”

My take: even though it appears ChatGPT 4 came extremely close to ripping off the title of an existing Hallmark movie, I like its plot better than the real one. Go figure.

AI delivers on “Fix it in post!”

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Michael Wynne, an audio mastering engineer, just claimed on his In The Mix channel: I Found The Best FREE AI Noise Reduction Plugin in 2023.

The tool is a free AI de-noising and re-reverb plugin called GOYO by South Korea’s Supertone AI.

Michael begins:

“I’ve used many of the sort of more premium and expensive dialogue, restoration and denoising softwares, and those are very good, but I haven’t come across a free tool that even comes close to what is offered by those. So I was really curious, downloaded it, tried it in my DAW and video editor, and was just completely shocked by the results.”

There are three dials: Ambience, Voice and Voice Reverb. You can solo, mute, decrease or increase each band. Simple and powerful!

His expert tip:

“My favourite way to use these sorts of tools is to dial them in and then print the results. So I would control this to the amount I’d like. I would export that as a new WAV file, take a listen and then work with that so that I know that the next time I open up the session, it’s going to be exactly the same.”

The How to Use page from Supertone is quite sparse so Michael’s examples are great.

My take: the perennial joke on set has always been, “We’ll fix it in post.” Well, now that’s possible for sound! I’ve used this on a short and can attest to its ease of use and incredible results. I concur with Michael that it’s best to print out each voice track as a WAV file and re-synchronize it to the timeline because I found that either the effect did not persist between sessions or the values had reset to zero or the effect was present but the numbers displayed as zero. My other tip is to only use the graphical user interface (and do not use the Inspector) as this seemed to work best. After all, this is a free beta!