November 26, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
What started as a test prompt from Nick Janes to help doing some Nano Banana Pro 3 testing, ended up with an interesting video. You can read more information about how I used reference videos to create a series of...
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November 25, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
When I decided to test using Gemini Nano Banana Pro 3 to create still images for a project on patient care, I was expecting a great deal of detial — but what truly stood out was the consistency. I started...
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October 13, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
I came up with an idea the morning of Duke University’s TechWeek 2025 to create a looping video showcasing the Bryan Center Studios — Studio 3 (Self-Service Video Studio), Studio 4 (Podcasting Studio), Studio 5 (Video-Conferencing Studio), and the Hotel...
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August 7, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
Frequent contributor to the AI conversation at Duke, Joseph Sorrenson, messaged me on Teams about 10 minutes ago about Google Vids - which consumed a lion's share of his evening last night. Within literally 5 minutes after speaking with him,...
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July 11, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
I'm getting deep into Eleven Labs work so I thought I'd share my musings. If you remember a while back, I wrote a script to automate sending a column of text to Eleven Labs and have it generate audio files...
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July 10, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
I knew it was too good to be true... Seriously though, big advancements, but far from perfect. Our client liked the structure and format of the original animation (which was done in Keynote): The one I generated was more abstract,...
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July 7, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
We're working on a large project with Duke's Student Information Systems & Systems group. Each module will need a separate title. Since this is a training series, the titles need to be clear but not necessarily stylized. Since I've worked...
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July 3, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
We had a problem uploading our first test of Elevenlabs new engine, version 3. There was clicking in the sample. I tried, but failed to contact Elevenlabs support (which has been an ongoing issue that I need to resolve. I...
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By: Stephen Toback
Key Take Aways: Exhausitive detail is critical in video creation Using a form (my idea) helps organize thoughts and generate consistent results Video generation is stateless - need to do each prompt from scratch (form helps having a static part...
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June 25, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
Rather than asking the video engine to come up with the concept from scratch, I used Gemini to first create an image which I would then ask Veo to animate. The first image was pretty good, but it was square:...
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