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Zero to Hero 01 · Foundations
What an AI video studio is, what it isn't, and the plan for the next 280 lessons. Part 1 of 14 — 20 video lessons.
What it covers
- Welcome: what we're building and why
- The studio in one picture: idea → script → shots → edit → export
- Tools you need (and the ones you don't)
- Setting up a clean project folder
- Python in ten minutes for studio builders
- Your first script that talks to an AI model
- Keys, secrets and never pasting them anywhere
- Reading an AI response properly
- Costs: every call has a price — measure it from day one
- A tiny budget guard before anything else
- Logging what happened, not what you hoped happened
- Version control with git, the gentle way
- Designing for a human in the loop from the start
- What 'good' looks like: writing your first quality checklist
- Sketching the studio's screens on paper
- Picking one short film to build all course long
- Scoping: the smallest studio that's genuinely useful
- Checkpoint: your studio plan on one page
- Common beginner traps and how to dodge them
- Part 1 recap and what's next
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