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Mike Young @mikeyoung44

Software Engineers Repurpose News Graphics For Social Media

Scrolly2Reel transforms news graphics into short-form TikTok videos by adjusting narrative pacing & beats. It repurposes existing content for social media platforms, making it engaging & accessible to younger audiences.

This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Scrolly2Reel: Retargeting Graphics for Social Media Using Narrative Beats. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should subscribe to the AImodels.fyi newsletter or follow me on Twitter.

  
  
  Overview

• This paper introduces a system called Scrolly2Reel that can transform news graphics into short-form video content for social media platforms like TikTok.
• The key innovations are techniques to adjust the narrative pacing and beats of the content to better match the expectations and conventions of social media video format...