# Video generation A pack of 9 talks from the AI Engineer YouTube channel, in the order to watch them. 2h 28m of video. Page: https://aietalks.com/packs/video-generation Video generation stops being useful when every clip demands a long wait, another prompt and a manual rescue in the editor. NVIDIA's diffusion work attacks the wait first; Veo 3 shows the camera, continuity and synchronized-audio controls available once generation is fast enough to build with. Reelful then faces the less glamorous job of selecting usable moments from someone's messy camera roll and getting approval before it edits. Remotion, Hyperframes and a browser-based editor turn the composition into code an agent can inspect and revise. A video judge catches what sampled frames miss, including broken motion, pacing and character continuity. Once that loop works, the finished file disappears. Video becomes causal and steerable while it runs, bringing a different set of serving and evaluation problems with it. ## This pack is for you if - You can generate convincing clips, but the wait and repeated attempts make the workflow too expensive. - You are building a video editor or media agent and need to divide the work between model calls, composition code, human approval and visual checks. - You want generated video to respond live and need to understand what changes between rendering a file and running a continuous session. ## The talks, in order ### 1. You Might Not Need 50 Diffusion Steps Ziv Ilan, NVIDIA | 18:46 | AI Engineer Europe 2026 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHs5ZiY80PM Summary: https://aietalks.com/talks/you-might-not-need-50-diffusion-steps.md Why first: Ilan starts with the cost the rest of the pack has to live with: a diffusion model may denoise the same video fifty times before anyone can use it. His stack of quantization, caching and distillation cuts that wait before Bailey shows what a developer can control once a fast model sits behind an API. ### 2. Veo 3 for Developers Paige Bailey, Google DeepMind | 20:37 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlcAZ2lX_ZI Summary: https://aietalks.com/talks/veo-3-for-developers.md Why second: Ilan makes diffusion cheaper to run. Bailey shows the product on the other side of that work: a model that generates audio with the video, follows detailed camera directions and expands a short idea into a fuller prompt. Deyneka next asks the model to work with footage a person already owns. ### 3. Building an Agentic Video Editor for Mass Consumer Ekaterina Deyneka, Reelful | 12:45 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPj_tjlvYjA Summary: https://aietalks.com/talks/building-an-agentic-video-editor-for-mass-consumer.md Why here: Bailey starts from a prompt and generates a scene. Deyneka starts with a camera roll, where the agent has to choose what to keep, what to cut and how to arrange it. The user approves a creative plan before the edit begins. Russo follows with a different answer to the same composition problem: use the web languages models already know. ### 4. HTML Is All Agents Need James Russo, HeyGen | 15:13 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz4v1WHVyZc Summary: https://aietalks.com/talks/html-is-all-agents-need.md Why here: Deyneka gives the agent Remotion plus skills for editing taste. Russo found that a larger custom framework got in the model's way, so Hyperframes keeps a thin layer around HTML and teaches motion through skills instead. Mam then puts another browser-based composition inside a visible edit-and-check loop. ### 5. This video was edited with AI agent. But how? Mam, Re-Skill | 05:00 | AI Engineer Summit 2025 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0AG44qYKsI Summary: https://aietalks.com/talks/this-video-was-edited-with-ai-agent-but-how.md Why here: Russo makes browser code the video format. Mam shows the working parts around that choice: Playwright runs the editor, retrieval finds its documentation, and sampled frames decide whether the agent should revise or render. Bril follows because those frames still cannot tell whether the finished sequence works as a story. ### 6. Evaling Video Slop Maor Bril, Character.ai | 23:13 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_PmGocP4rc Summary: https://aietalks.com/talks/evaling-video-slop.md Why here: Mam checks a composition one sampled frame at a time. Bril shows what that misses: motion, pacing, character identity, physics and sound timing across the whole clip. His team gets more reliable judgments by comparing two videos instead of scoring one. Primas next faces those same continuity problems in a video that cannot stop. ### 7. Voice agents with Realtime Video Sidney Primas, LemonSlice | 26:36 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1dqv74SpUs Summary: https://aietalks.com/talks/voice-agents-with-realtime-video.md Why here: Bril evaluates finished clips and sends bad ones back for repair. Primas removes that pause. His avatar generates causally, reduces denoising to one step and has to avoid errors accumulating through a long conversation. McCallum widens the problem from one human avatar to any continuous video product. ### 8. Generative Video at the Speed of Light Keegan McCallum, uRun | 08:43 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xln-On3syJk Summary: https://aietalks.com/talks/generative-video-at-the-speed-of-light.md Why here: Primas builds one live avatar stack. McCallum maps the wider serving job: place GPUs near users, carry the stream over WebRTC and keep controls synchronized with every frame. Ahres closes by asking what people make once that infrastructure turns video from a delayed result into something they can steer while it runs. ### 9. The Next Medium: Why Real-Time Interactive Video Changes Everything Ahmed Ahres, Reactor | 17:30 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dCAmSDOAjI Summary: https://aietalks.com/talks/the-next-medium-why-real-time-interactive-video-changes-everything.md Why last: McCallum explains how to serve continuous generation. Ahres explains why it is worth the trouble. Immediate feedback turns a passive file into a stateful world for entertainment, education, simulation or editing. He ends on the part the faster stack has not solved: people still have to judge whether the live result is good.