August 2023 – piczoid.com

Yes, you really CAN make money by posting rain videos to YouTube … but there’s a little catch

It might seem hard to believe that you can upload a video to YouTube that’s four, six, even 12 hours long … and all it features is the sound of rain. And maybe a looped video of a rainy forest scene or something.

But before publishing my latest video, I looked into this extensively, and guess what? It IS possible. In fact, there are probably hundreds, or more likely thousands, of YouTube channels that are making money right now from this kind of content.

But if you comb through Google search results long enough, you’ll find various claims that YouTube is demonetizing, or removing ad revenue, from channels that upload looped rain and other sound effects.

So what gives?

How to animate a Midjourney zoom movie with DaVinci Resolve

Midjourney is a really cool AI art generator. One of their more recent features is “zoom,” which allows users to “zoom out” of images. Essentially, you’re creating a new image around an existing image. This is also known as “outpainting.” The effect is that your original image looks like it’s farther away because it’s in the center of the new image and it’s smaller.

Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. The first image is the source, and the image below that is a “zoom” which has been zoomed out 2x. And there is a third one below that.

Midjourney zoom image, how to animate into movie

How To Animate Your Midjourney Zoom Images Into a Movie!

Doing this is pretty simple, but it takes a bit of video editing knowledge. In my video above, I showed how to animate the Midjourney zooms in Canva, but the result is really choppy and not very good.

Introducing LARRY, Piczoid AI’s Assistant

Made with Midjourney, LARRY is a star in the making!

Although that video about Midjourney’s concept of beauty is the very first video published on the Piczoid AI YouTube channel, this video is truly the first one that features any actual content. And even though it counts as content, it’s really just an intro to the channel and what Piczoid AI content will be about.

The intent of this video was mainly to just kind of get my feet wet. I needed to get in front of the camera and speak, which is something I’m not used to.

A simple Midjourney AI video about beauty

About this Midjourney AI video

This is Piczoid AI’s very first video. It’s just a slideshow of Midjourney images. The prompt was simply “beauty” and it was run 100 times in Discord. This slideshow features each of the 4-panel images that Midjourney produced in response to the /imagine: beauty prompt.

Midjourney’s Concept of Beauty in 400 images