[Kerwin At AI Travel Pulse] AI Video Tools You Can Use Today

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🎬 AI Video Tools (what they are + how creators can use them)

Lights, camera, publish.
AI video tools just killed the “I don’t have time to edit” excuse. In minutes, you can draft a script, clean up audio, clip your best moments into Reels/Shorts, and even dub the final cut for new markets—no studio, no team. Below are the tools I recommend, what they’re best at, and how travel creators can use them to ship more video with less effort. Let’s roll. 🎬✈️

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• Story vibe: Last year, a 10-minute vlog took half a day to edit. This year, AI handles the rough cut, captions, and a vertical remix while you grab B-roll. These are the tools making that happen—and exactly how to use them as a travel creator.

• Data-ish vibe: If video eats the internet, AI is the fork. From text-to-video intros to auto-subtitled Reels and instant dubbing, here’s the stack that turns one idea into a week of publishable clips.

Text-to-video / video generation

• Luma Dream Machine — text/image → short videos. Great for destination teasers, animated B-roll, logo stings. Try it → lumalabs.ai/dream-machine.

• Runway (Gen-3 Alpha) — text→video + controls (Director Mode, motion brush, camera moves). Use for cinematic openers, transitions, stylized scene inserts. runwayml.com.

• Pika — “idea-to-video” (text/image/refs). Fast concepts and motion graphics for Reels/Shorts. pika.art.

• Canva “Create a Video Clip” (Veo 3) — ~8s AI clips with sound baked in, drops straight into the Canva editor. Perfect for social cutaways and ad intros. canva.com/newsroom/news/veo3-canva-ai-video.

Editing & post (AI assists)

• Adobe Premiere Pro (AI) — Generative Extend (pad a few seconds of video/audio), AI Search, easier caption translation. Use it to smooth jump cuts, fill gaps, and localize subtitles. adobe.com/products/premiere/ai-video-editing.html.

• Descript — edit video by editing text; Eye Contact, Studio Sound, auto-captions. Ideal for talking-head fixes and fast transcripts. descript.com.

Repurpose long videos into shorts

• OpusClip — auto-clips long videos into vertical shorts with hooks/captions. Great for turning trip vlogs or interviews into TikTok/Shorts/IG Reels. opus.pro.

• Riverside Magic Clips — one-click highlights + presets for platform sizes. Perfect for pod-to-Reel conversion. riverside.com/magic-clips.

• Captions — auto-captions, eye-contact correction, multi-language subs, quick edits. captions.ai.

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Localization/Dubbing

• HeyGen AI Translate — translate/dub into 70+ languages / 175+ dialects with voice-clone + lip-sync. Use it to localize your top-performing clips for new markets. heygen.com/translate.

🧳 Travel brand case study (real-world)

trivago → HeyGen AI Translate
What they did: localized TV ads across 30 markets using AI translation/dubbing.
Impact: 50% less post-production time and 3–4 months saved on localization.
Takeaway for creators: when a clip performs, dub it into your top 3–5 languages to unlock new audiences fast.
Source: heygen.com/customer-stories/trivago.

🚀 15-minute starter workflow for travel creators

1. Script/outline in Descript →

2. Record (phone or Riverside) →

3. Polish in Premiere/Descript (captions, eye contact, noise cleanup) →

4. Repurpose with OpusClip/Magic Clips →

5. Localize with HeyGen (ES/PT/FR/DE) →

6. Add generative B-roll from Runway/Luma/Canva as needed.

🌍 AI in Travel

🚕 Waymo Enters Corporate Travel with “Waymo for Business”
Companies can now add Waymo robotaxis to official travel programs (over 1M rides/month already). New partnerships target employers, universities, and events.
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🧾 WeTravel Raises $92M to Expand Its AI Trip-Ops Stack
Group-travel platform WeTravel closed a $92M round led by Sapphire Ventures to scale AI that streamlines reservations, bookings, and payments.
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🧠 Analysis: AI Won’t Replace Advisors—But Misuse Could Hurt the Industry
A thoughtful take on how AI is changing the agency model (productivity gains vs. risk of “race-to-the-bottom” commoditization).
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💡 Google Flight Deals—Hands-On Early Review (very recent)
A practical review of Google’s new AI “Flight Deals” tool for flexible travelers, with real examples of what it can (and can’t) surface.
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🧠 AI Tip of the Week

Turn one long video into a week of platform-ready clips.

How:

1. Drop your podcast/vlog/webinar into OpusClip or Riverside Magic Clips.

2. Let it auto-find 3–5 highlights, then add on-screen titles + auto-captions.

3. Export vertical (1080×1920) for Reels/Shorts/TikTok and square for IG feed.

4. Run the top clip through HeyGen Translate to dub into ES/FR/DE and repost.

Copy-paste prompt for hooks (use in ChatGPT/Claude):

Why it works: You multiply output (1 → 5 clips), raise watch time with captions, and unlock new audiences via quick dubbing—without re-shooting anything.

Pro move: Track CTR/retention by hook line in your captions; recycle the top two hooks on a new B-roll cut next week.

🎲 Fun Fact

Before “AI agents” were cool, airlines were already pioneers in automation: American Airlines’ SABRE (built with IBM) went live in the early 1960s and could search seat inventory and issue bookings in seconds—replacing manual, phone-based lookups. Most modern airline reservation systems still trace their roots back to that architecture.

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Kerwin
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