Dr Rave

Hey Friends, My rough cut used to eat up most of a day. Forty-something clips, multiple cameras, Rode audio to match — and before I touched a single creative decision, hours vanished. I wanted to open Resolve and actually work, not spend half a session just assembling a starting point. Nothing that existed did what I needed without a painful workaround. So I built it myself. RoughCut is live, and it's already changed how I edit. My Journey Towards Financial Freedom 🤑 The rough cut is the most...

Hi Friends, AI tools have quietly taken over the boring parts of my creative workflow — and I didn't expect it to happen this fast. I wanted to upload more images to Getty but dreaded the metadata grind. So I asked Claude to build me a local app that reads each image, generates a thumbnail, calls the Anthropic API at $0.03 per image, and writes the title, description, and keywords directly into the file metadata. Two iterations later, it does exactly what I need. Now I'm uploading 40 images a...

Hi Friends, Life has thrown a lot at me this past month—between work and some wild life events 🌀—but I’ve got exciting business updates and a gift 🎁 for my Davinci Resolve users. Let’s talk business first! My Journey Towards Financial Freedom I firmly believe that nothing in life is free (except maybe unsolicited advice 💡), and success, especially financial freedom, requires both smart and hard work. You’ve got to put in the hours, but more importantly, you’ve got to be strategic. It’s like...

Hi Friends, These past few months I have been reflecting on my past and growing on social media in a way I would feel comfortable (not dancing and singing🕺). Now that I am over 40 years old🎂, and passive income has taken care of my needs and GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome 📷) for the past 20 years, I thought it was time to add a few more streams of passive income to my life. More on this later. Flashback to 2002: Some of you might know that during my second year of med school, I had to find a...