Google Photos has introduce Automated video editing

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Google is now bringing an update for Google Photos that focuses on enhancing the platform’s video editing tools. The updates, which started releasing on Android and iOS, include new and enhanced gestures for manual video editing and AI-driven presets for fast editing.

Android users will notice a new layout right from the start of launching the app. The video editor now provides basic video-editing tools much more visibly, which makes working with them much more convenient. New features include an enhanced trim tool to enable users to cut their footage with more ease and an auto-enhance button that will enable users to correct the colour and stabilize videos. A new Slo-Mo tool also moved the control of video speed up and slowed it down so you can make the video slow motion or speedy.

Not surprisingly, Android and iOS users are presented with plenty of new video presets as well. All these presets shall be applied in editing the video by trimming the video, adjusting the light, controlling the speed or even applying more comprehensive effects to the video. Users can also now turn on/off dynamic motion tracking of the main subject, zoom in on what matters, or set the slow motion with just a few taps.

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This comes after the video-flipping update launched in Google Photos last week. Both updates introduce manual-editing features that can be found as basic in other video-editing apps to Google Photos; at the same time, exclusive AI capabilities are quite valuable. One can only hope that Google is optimizing for a world of non-photo editors, where common tasks can be done automatically, thus Google Photos may appear more geared toward the ‘casual’ user with little time/knowledge to work on manual enhancements. Editing applications such as Adobe Premier have protocols that need to be learnt so an application that only does standard or routine edits is very useful.

Some new features in Google Photos are arriving today for Android and iOS. This seems to be server-side, so it should appear on devices with the latest Google Photos in the background. Still, it may take a few more days for Google to finish this process.

Source: Google