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Dan Kieft (2026-09-29, Higgsfield-sponsored) uses a desktop chat agent (\"GPT Astra\", as he names it) with MCPs for Higgsfield, DaVinci Resolve (paid version) and Blender, plus computer-use control of Premiere Pro/After Effects: (1) trim dead space from transcription, insert editor-note adjustment layers and mark candidate B-cam/C-cam spots - works but slow (about 14 minutes for some trims via screen control; the Resolve MCP is much faster) and needs monitoring; local desktop app needed for large camera files (cloud upload limit 512 MB); (2) synthetic B/C-cam angles: give a photo of the room and the A-cam clip, generate side angles with Seedance 2.5 (plausible shadows an...","status":"active","body":{"text":"Creator-reported: statements attributed to the creator(s) come from discovery's reading of auto-caption transcript excerpts; the curator checked the video metadata (title, date, length) and any cited documentation pages, not the spoken claims. 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