Where AI video still falls short (and how to work around it)

Generated footage is good enough to publish. It is not good enough to publish unattended. Here is the human layer that matters.

AI video tools have solved assembly. They have not solved taste.

The failure modes are consistent: pacing that plateaus, B-roll that is thematically close but emotionally flat, and voiceover emphasis landing on the wrong word in the hook.

A practical approach is a short human pass per video: rewrite the first line, trim a couple of seconds from every scene, and replace one clip with something specific to your niche.

That ratio — a little human polish on top of a lot of machine assembly — is the practical productivity story of AI video right now.