How to use the latest AI video editing tools in Google Photos

Google Photos continues to get caller and improved features connected a regular basis, and 1 of the astir caller Android updates has focused connected video editing. Even if you don’t person the latest Pixel 9 telephone (which is required if you privation to effort retired the weird caller Reimagine tool), you tin present velocity up, dilatory down, and heighten your clips with a fewer taps arsenic good arsenic trim them down much easily.

You tin besides expect what Google calls “AI-powered video presets” connected some the Android and iOS versions of Google Photos. After the app algorithm analyzes your clips, you get a prime of effects — trims, zooms, slow-mos — you tin use with a tap. The app takes the relation of manager and chooses wherever and however these tweaks should beryllium applied.

When the changes get connected your phone, you’ll besides announcement the interface is simply a small cleaner, with larger icons and bigger substance that marque it much evident what you’re doing. The thought is it’s much straightforward than ever to rapidly use a fewer edits earlier sharing your clips, without having to unfastened up a abstracted exertion connected your telephone oregon computer.

Trim tool

First up, we person what Google describes arsenic “improved controls” for cutting retired extraneous footage astatine the commencement and extremity of your clips — though, to my eyes, there’s not a immense magnitude that’s antithetic present compared to the erstwhile mentation of the trim tool.

The handles astatine each extremity of the clip are a small bigger and thicker, making them easier to deed with a digit press. You besides get a timestamp shown onscreen arsenic you resistance those handles around, truthful overall, the edits are a small easier to apply.

The trim instrumentality shows up automatically arsenic soon arsenic you edit a video, and you tin get backmost to it by tapping the Video button.

Auto-enhance tool

Google Photos present has a caller auto-enhance diagnostic you tin access, which analyzes your clip and past applies its ain prime of colour enhancements, portion stabilizing the video astatine the aforesaid time.

If you’d alternatively use the video stabilization without the colour enhancements, conscionable pat Stabilize connected the Video sheet of tools instead.

Speed tool

The caller velocity instrumentality successful Google Photos gives you much power implicit the gait of your videos for speeding up and slowing down the action. The effect tin beryllium applied to a circumstantial conception of your clip oregon each of it.

It’s not the astir precocious video editing effect you’ll ever see, but considering it lone takes a mates of taps connected your telephone screen, you tin get immoderate awesome results from it.

Video presets

Unlike the tools above, which are exclusive to Android, the AI-powered video presets are disposable successful Google Photos for some Android and iOS. Or astatine least, they volition beryllium yet — though they were announced successful September, arsenic of this writing, I haven’t yet seen the presets successful the Google Photos apps connected either platform.

When they bash appear, the Presets fastener volition look betwixt Video and Crop successful the options astatine the bottommost of the interface. Select it, and you’ll spot a prime of edits you tin use with a tap: Basic cut, Slow-mo, Zoom, and Track. These volition beryllium applied arsenic the Google Photos AI sees acceptable based connected the video content.

The illustration Google gives is simply a skateboard video, with the enactment trimmed close down to a cardinal jump, which is besides slowed down. Color enhancements are applied astatine the aforesaid clip for bully measure. As before, you tin preview the changes, past pat Save copy to judge the changes and prevention a caller video file, leaving the archetypal untouched.