Post-production absorbed AI faster than any other part of the pipeline, because most of post is repetitive work that nobody enjoys.
Where AI genuinely wins
Transcription and text-based editing, dialogue isolation, noise and reverb removal, rotoscoping, object removal, upscaling old footage and shot matching across cameras.
These are hours of manual labour reduced to minutes, with no creative cost.
Where it should be supervised
Auto-grading and auto-music selection produce competent, generic results. Competent and generic is exactly what a paying client can already get elsewhere.
A practical hybrid workflow
Let AI do the cleanup pass, then make every taste decision manually: pacing, colour intention, music choice, sound design accents.
Keep a version of the project before any AI pass, so a bad automated decision is always reversible.
