Reimagining Post: AI-Powered Rough Cuts Editing Overnight (Partner Episode)

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GG Hawkins interviews Shamir Allibhai about Eddie AI's new features and the implications of AI in film editing.

In this sponsored episode, GG Hawkins speaks with Eddie AI co-founder and CEO Shamir Allibhai about Eddie AI’s latest release, Eddie v3, which launched on April 14, 2026 ahead of NAB Show 2026. Their conversation explores the new Night Shift workflow, designed to process footage overnight by sorting interviews from B-roll, syncing multicam interviews, logging media, and building a rough cut ready for Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut Pro by morning. They also discuss Eddie’s expanding role as an AI assistant editor for professional workflows, including docu-style rough cuts with B-roll placement, and the broader questions filmmakers face around creative control, sustainability, curiosity, and the future of storytelling in an AI-assisted post-production landscape. In this episode, No Film School's GG Hawkins and guest Shamir Allibhai discuss... Eddie AI’s new Night Shift feature and how it aims to build a structured rough cut overnight Why the company positions Eddie AI as an assistant editor rather than a replacement for Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut Pro How AI can help with multicam syncing, A-roll and B-roll organization, logging, and assembly edits The…

People in this episode

Host: GG Hawkins

Guest: Shamir Allibhai

Topics covered

• AI in film editing
• post-production workflows
• Eddie AI features
• creative control in filmmaking
• future of storytelling
• AI-assisted editing

Keywords

• AI editing
• rough cuts
• multicam syncing
• B-roll organization
• post-production
• Eddie AI
• filmmaking
• creative control

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Eddie AI

Products: Eddie v3

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