# AI video: September 25 8D demo notes

Hunter Lee Canning demonstrated AI-assisted video production during The 8th Dimension session hosted with Sara Davison and Tyler Fisk on September 25, 2026.

The full session was still underway when this companion was prepared. This page contains the selected demonstration videos, not the full-session replay. The full recording will be added later. A [presenter-only demo transcript](transcript.txt) is available now, covering meeting clock times 14:21:21 to the 14:52:10 handoff. It preserves automated transcription wording and excludes unrelated attendee interruptions. It is not aligned to an edited replay.

## What the examples show

- **AIBL Essentials, approximately 33 seconds:** GPT-assisted storyboard exploration, an inventor’s workshop direction, generated shots, music and effects, and detailed picture/sound finishing. An earlier 47-second cut existed; the player shows the later cut.
- **Neon Chain Reaction, 16 seconds:** Tesseract vector animation and locally produced procedural sound.
- **Keez, approximately 2:53:** Tesseract motion graphics with ElevenLabs narration. English captions are included.
- **Making the stuff, 21 seconds:** a Tesseract capabilities reel prepared for the demo package, illustrating kinetic text, signal-path animation, composited reveals, 3D rotation and repeated animated elements. It is not footage of the session.

## How our Essentials example came together

Brief and reference images → storyboard and human direction → Seedance and Wan shots through Replicate → ElevenLabs music and sound effects → Premiere and community MCP finishing → human picture and sound review.

The storyboards show retained creative material associated with the decisions. They are not asserted to be the exact generated response to each quoted prompt. Hunter’s quoted excerpts are preserved as written. The new starter prompt and blueprint are teaching resources written for this follow-up.

Hunter described retaining editing corrections through memory and retrieving them for future work. This page gives a reusable preference recipe; it does not claim to document the exact Cairns implementation or prove successful later retrieval.

## Resources

- [AI Video Blueprint](resources/video-blueprint.md)
- [Readable blueprint](resources/blueprint.html)
- [Starter prompt](resources/blueprint-prompt.txt)
- [Questions and answers](resources/faqs.json)
- [Tesseract](https://mirage.app/tesseract)
- [Replicate](https://replicate.com)
- [ElevenLabs](https://elevenlabs.io)
- [Remotion](https://www.remotion.dev)

Provider features, prices and quotas can change. The lesson’s pricing anecdotes are not used as current price claims. Local rendering, agent usage and paid media generation are separate cost categories.

## Scope

This is a companion to the video demonstration, not a complete transcript of the event. It does not include private attendee chat, the full custom CLI, private memory infrastructure or a Premiere MCP installer. The October 6 session topic is not yet confirmed here.