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AI Second Unit
Inserts, pickups, establishing shots and VFX fixes, built to slot into an existing cut. Matched to your footage and delivered to your timeline specs.
The editor-led AI studio · Los Angeles
AI footage
built to cut.
Commercials, series, features and VFX shots, generated by an invisible crew and delivered cut-ready to your timeline. Made by editors who know what a shot has to do once it hits the edit.
01 / Reel
The work, in motion.
Our featured piece: a two-minute concept trailer, generated end to end and cut like a studio spot.
Concept Trailer
02 / Services
Your invisible second unit.
On a film set, the second unit grabs the shots the main crew can't get to. We do the same job with AI, and we deliver it the way an editor needs it.
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Commercials & Internet Ads
Hybrid and fully generated spots for broadcast and social, from a single hero film to a full set of platform versions.
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Series & Features
Shots, sequences and title work for long-form projects, made with a story editor's sense of pacing and continuity.
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VFX Shots
Environments, set extensions, skies, cleanup and the impossible shot, comped and graded to sit inside live action.
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Pitch Sizzles
Proof-of-concept trailers and mood films that sell the idea in the room before a single shoot day is booked.
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Cutdowns & Versioning
Thirty, fifteen and six-second edits, aspect-ratio reframes and alternates, with new AI coverage where the cutdown needs it.
03 / Why editor-led
Every frame earns the cut.
Most AI footage looks great on its own and falls apart in a timeline. We start from the cut and work backwards.
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Cut-ready deliverables
Handles on every shot, clean file naming, and clips that drop straight into your bins. No conforming, no detective work.
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Matched to your project
Your codec, frame rate, resolution and color space, so generated shots sit next to camera footage without a fight.
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Editorial thinking
We know where the cut lands, how long a shot needs to hold, and what the next shot needs from this one.
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Fast turnaround
Pickups and inserts without a reshoot day. Notes come back as revised shots, not a new schedule.
04 / Process
Brief. Generate. Cut. Deliver.
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Brief
Send us your cut, references and specs. We agree on the shot list, the look and the deliverables before anything is generated.
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Generate
We build the shots with the right AI tools for each one, then grade and finish them to match your footage.
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Cut
We test every shot in context, trimming and timing it in an edit before you ever see it.
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Deliver
Final files to your specs with handles, plus a clear note on what was generated and what you own.
05 / Selected work
Selected work.
Three samples are up. More are in the edit.
06 / About
Shot by no one. Cut by editors.
Ghost Unit Studios is an AI footage studio in Los Angeles, started by two people who have spent their careers in edit bays. We make the shots we always wished we had.
Co-founder · Editor & AI filmmaker
Dave Cory
Dave is a feature film editor with 20 years in studio filmmaking, most of it as a first assistant and associate editor on some of the biggest tentpoles of the last decade. Now he brings that cutting-room instinct to AI filmmaking, and teaches it to other editors through The Frame, his community for working editors.
Past work includes Captain America: Brave New World, Avengers: Endgame, Aquaman, Black Widow, Thor: Love and Thunder, Star Trek Beyond, Furious 7, Fast Five, Overlord and Despicable Me 2.
Co-founder · Producer & director
Michael Lutz
Michael is an Emmy-nominated producer, showrunner and DGA director with more than 20 years in network, cable and streaming television and thousands of hours logged in edit bays. He created and executive produced Netflix's Car Masters: Rust to Riches, and he founded the LA content studio Monarch Hill Productions.
Past work includes Car Masters: Rust to Riches (Netflix, creator and executive producer), The Flying Fercos (director and executive producer), Dr. Phil (segment producer and director) and The Jeff Probst Show.
07 / Contact
Start a project.
Tell us what the cut needs. A shot, a sequence or a whole spot, we'll reply with questions, a plan and a quote.
Emailhello@ghostunitstudios.com
StudioLos Angeles, CA