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Years ago I ran transcription through the Google Speech API. In 2026 you don't need a cloud API for that — whisper.cpp runs OpenAI's Whisper models locally on a laptop, CPU or GPU, with no keys and nothing leaving the machine. Here's the full path from clone to transcript.
B-roll is the cutaway footage that makes an edit breathe — and onboard POV footage from a single camera has none. I tried five ways to manufacture it from one ATV ride: CV auto-mining of the real footage, generative stills (SDXL-Turbo → RealVisXL img2img), AI Ken Burns via Depth-Anything-V2 parallax, true generated motion via Stable Video Diffusion, and optical-flow slow-motion. All local on a 12 GB card. Here's what each is good for, and the gotchas.