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Can AI Generate a Professional Book Trailer?

I geeked out big time revisiting a question I asked 16 months ago.
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Can AI Generate a Professional Book Trailer?
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Not a day goes by that I don't noodle with artificial intelligence in some way. For example, last June, I used NotebookLM to generate two podcasts based on a chapter of Low-Code/No-Code. It also churned out a respectable book trailer based on its synopsis. The results impressed me, but AI is rapidly advancing, I wondered:

How much have AI multi-modal capabilities improved the last 16 months?

I decided to answer this question by giving a few new open-source video-creation tools a spin in Claude Code. Could they generate compelling book trailer for my latest effort, The Nine?

Let's find out.

Brag

I began with Brag. As expected, installing it was easy:

/plugin marketplace add latent-spaces/brag
/plugin install brag@brag

By way of background, I'm on Anthropic's Pro plan. To minimize the tokens required to create the trailer, I ultimately went with Brag's slim version. I then entered the following prompt in Claude Code:

I'd like to try /brag-slim on www.philsimon.com/book-the-nine.

Maybe a minute later, the following Brag/Claude offspring appeared on my computer:

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