Director / Photographer š„ šø working with brands, artists, athletes and nonprofits to tell their stories. Building @DozaAssist. Luma AI Creative Partner
Boston, MA
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Shipped the biggest update to Doza Assist since launch today, and I want to tell you about the part that still blows my mind.
You can now connect Claude to the app. Not upload anything, not send your footage anywhere. You flip a switch on a single project, and then you can just talk to Claude about that interview. I asked it to find every moment my subject talked about leaving home, and twenty seconds later the clips were waiting for me in the app, labeled so I knew Claude picked them and not me. Then straight onto a Final Cut timeline. Fifteen years of doing that pass by hand and it happened while I refilled my coffee.
Your video and audio never leave your Mac. Only the projects you turn on are ever visible. That was non-negotiable for me.
But the real headline is this. Version 1.1 is almost entirely other people's ideas. Editors wrote me about long interviews breaking chat, so that got rebuilt. Someone wanted to fix a misspelled name by double-clicking it in the transcript, so now you can. A broadcast engineer in Norway found a frame rate bug in Sony camera files and worked through it with me over a weekend.
Doza Assist just passed 50 paid users. Fifty is a small number in software. It is a very large number when every one of them is a working editor who took time out of a real deadline to make your thing better.
Thank you. Sincerely.
Release notes: doza.ai/changelog/1.1/
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Bucha. It was a genocide, recognized by everyone. They buried hundreds of people. They tortured people. We found the grave. There were, I believe, around 500 people. When we liberated those towns near Kyiv, there emerged this, you know, this kind of hatred for the Russians, right at that moment. Not even at the moment when they started the full-scale war. Back then nobody understood what it really was yet. People understood what this war was and what Putin did personally when we found those mass graves of tortured adults, children. I mean they didn't just kill them, they tortured and killed them.
When we liberated Bucha, I said, bring every journalist here. Don't touch anything, just bring the journalists. The whole world simply has to see this. Imagine finding a mass grave in the U.S. or in Britain, God forbid, with 500 tortured people, adults, kids, dogs, animals shot dead. I mean, they held hunting sprees there from military vehicles. People were running, they were shooting, just hunting, playing games. They literally just played with people, like slavery. So how, after this, can you listen to Putin? And how, after this, can you forgive?
From The Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett. (2/3)
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Editing is changing. Story isn't.
Doc editor Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals on his edit bay today: Claude Code for on-brand motion graphics, Doza Assist to find the story in interviews, MCP to connect them, and Final Cut Pro for the part no one automates.
fxfactory.com/news/editing-iā¦
Custom fantasy football league animated shows. Iāve been doing this for my own league and itās created quite the buzz. Disney should do this but they wonāt š
Business idea for anyone who wants to run with it. Make a platform that just runs all the processes for users.
Hereās how I do it for mine. We use Sleeper for our league and Claude can easily connect, consolidate all the weekly data (scores, trades, league history, matchups etc) then I use fable to write the script and build prompt. I hand that to Luma agents and leave it. I come back a few hours later and we have a 3 minute comedic episode. Each manager has a consistent character across each episode, we have an and b plots, rivalries, silly deep cuts and real life inside jokes pulled from our league chats.
Iāve done satirical Seinfeld and Friends episodes as well as a musical. Iām working on a lord of the rings fan fiction episode now.
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Larry Ellisonās TikTok has shut down the promotional account for Alex Gibneyās Elon Musk documentary. theverge.com/tech/1013453/tiā¦
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in the united states, opposition to ai isnāt fear of technology. americans havenāt suddenly become a nation of luddites.
itās a well founded belief that those with power are not going to use ai in ways that benefit the average american.
this is not a comms problem.
itās a trust problem.
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Ben Affleck says the day will come when someone can order up an episode of Succession with a plot they have in mind.
He says that could create an extra revenue stream to replace lost DVD revenue.
Affleck says AI isnāt going to end the film and TV business, but certain parts of the industry will be dramatically affected:
āI wouldnāt like to be in the visual effects business. Theyāre in trouble because what costs a lot of money is now gonna cost a lot lessā¦.And maybe it shouldnāt take a thousand people to render something.ā
But he says the cost savings will mean more television programming, not less:
āYou might be able to get two seasons of House of the Dragon in a year instead of one.ā
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āLet me die,ā American photojournalist Heidi Levine repeats to journalists Jasper Nathaniel as they try to outrun masked Israeli settlers who attacked her on Friday while she covered the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, near Ramallah.
Around 80 settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in the village, AP reported. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it treated six people injured in two attacks in Abu Falah.
Levine, a freelancer for the Washington Post, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that the settlers knocked her down and kicked her for at least 10 minutes, even after she identified herself as an American journalist. They stole her camera, phone and bag. She was eventually taken to a hospital in Ramallah.
"The IDF provided cover, with tear gas and machine guns, while the settlers beat" Levine "nearly to death," Nathaniel wrote, adding that soldiers then shot a Palestinian bystander and aimed their guns at and shoved paramedics trying to treat him. AP photos and circulating videos show Israeli soldiers standing over a wounded Palestinian man after they shot him.
Andrey X, an activist also at the scene, said a Palestinian man "saved our lives from the settler-terrorists who attacked the olive harvesters and journalistsā armed only with a slingshot.
Huge new upgrades to the Doza Assist website all built using claude opus 5.5. I especially love the new demo in the hero that shows exactly what the applicaiton does and how it works in a very simple gif. Let me know what you think! doza.ai
New post: Editing is changing. Story isn't.
My setup now: Claude Code with Opus 5.5 for on-brand motion graphics, Doza Assist to find the story in the interviews, and Final Cut for the part that's still mine.
We are all directors now. š
I kept the camera mostly down to stay focused on my fam but took this of the R2 in Lincoln, NH before we went home. @Rivian
Opus 5.5 has been an absolute game changer for my creative studio. Iāve never felt so creatively free.
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Succession Doomer Themed
Ep. 2: Sam And Dario Clear The Air
Audio and minor visual glitches are fixed now
Visual glitches just required retakes via mage.space mcp
Audio fixes required Seed-VC restoration with the correct reference voice. Can run locally, but used @modal for speed
Enjoy. Ep. 2 is loading
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Doza Assist update š
š Use Doza right inside ChatGPT or Claude
ā” Blazing fast Parakeet v3 transcription in 25 languages (was English only)
šÆ New project prompt (top left): tell Doza what you're working on and it focuses on your goal
fxfactory.com/info/dozaassisā¦
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We just released a short film on our investigation into the U.S. bombing of the Minab school in Iran in the opening hours of the war on February 28,2026.
The stories survivors, parents, first responders and others shared with us will forever haunt me.
youtu.be/9OmK0oeq5fc?si=UuIUā¦
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For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.
At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikesā120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.
It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
dropsitenews.com/p/minab-schā¦
Please share this story with as many people as you can.
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I appreciated the opportunity to speak with @ezraklein at length about the state of AI. I believe the world isn't awake to the dangers of this technology and the choices humanity has to make. AI will either be the greatest tool for opportunity and equality we've ever seenāor the cause of immense, unprecedented harm. Which way things go is up to us. b-gat.es/4AFZZqC
