Frictionless Filmmaking: Using AI Tools to Solve Your Biggest Production Bottlenecks

By Arab Seed News Editorial Team

If you look at the “AI Tools” market today, 90% of it is noise. I get dozens of emails every week promising a “One-Click Viral Video Creator.” Most of them are useless. However, for the professional editor, there is a small group of AI utilities that have become absolutely essential. These aren’t “creative” tools—they are “productivity” tools that handle the boring, repetitive tasks that used to take us hours.

Think about Rotoscoping. It used to be the bane of my existence—spending an entire day masking a subject frame by frame. Now, with AI-powered masking, I can do it in seconds with incredible accuracy. This is the true power of AI: it buys you back your time. Another tool I use every day is AI-Driven Transcription. Being able to search through two hours of interview footage for a single keyword has completely changed how I approach documentary editing.

But here is the catch: you have to know when the AI is lying to you. AI upscalers can sometimes add weird artifacts, and “Enhance Speech” tools can make a person sound like they’re in a vacuum. The professional’s job in 2026 is to be a Quality Controller. Use the AI to do the heavy lifting, but always apply that final 10% of human polish. That’s what separates a “generated” video from a “produced” one.