Not really. Yes there are plenty of images available that are free to use - even for commercial use. But they are unlikely to be useful for what I want. I’m not creating a video so I can learn Resolve. Rather I’m learning Resolve so I can make this specific video for an existing recording. So I’m looking for very specific imagery that matches both the song’s lyrics and the message I’m trying to convey - an actual artistic statement not a training exercise.
Here’s an analogy. If I’m the video’s director, then DALL-E is the casting agent and the images are the actors. You might ask an agent for an actor that is male, balding, late forties and short. You’d audition a bunch of possibles and eventually pick one. I’m doing the same thing - like asking for a giant eyeball floating on the sea. I’m starting to think the real ‘art’ in using DALL-E is figuring out how to best phrase the text prompt that generates the images - minor changes can produce very different results.
Way up near the top of this thread I posted an image of some dancing cocktail glasses. The reason I had that image is because there’s a lyric “For one more happy-hour right here in wonderland” that I thought could use a bunch of different dancing glasses and so I generated a lot of possibilities.
Here’s a screen shot of thumbnails for some of the generated images (aka a casting call). As you can see I’ve asked for very specific imagery. For example the prompt that generated the ones in the upper right corner was “recreate Grant Wood’s ‘American Gothic’ as a photo of a 3-D neon sculpture.” Different versions of ‘American Gothic’ will pop up in each chorus.
My point is that for me this AI, right now, allows me to create art (or at least my best attempts) that would have been impossible without it.
As an overly broad generalization easy usually is better in most of life. And yeah DALL-E does make image generation super easy (but not always). But that doesn’t mean the path got easier - it only means it’s a different path. Generating the images is actually near the trailhead and not the eventual destination. And I’ve gotta say this is a very intriguing & interesting new path.