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The industry is no longer just building smarter models but aggressively retrofitting them into existing professional pipelines. Runway embedding generation directly into the DaVinci Resolve timeline proves that post-production software is becoming the primary interface for AI, while Lightricks ships both IC-LoRA for LTX-2.5 and Alpha Gen to automate matte extraction within that same workflow. Meanwhile, ByteDance’s DMAD architecture slashes diffusion steps to just four, a speed boost that complements Seedance 2.5 Draft Mode allowing cheap 480p previews before expensive upscaling. On the voice front, ElevenLabs v4 handles complex emotional scripts with greater nuance, even as Fish Audio previews Drama 3 TTS controlled by natural language prompts.