New Google Photos Update Enhances Videos with AI Editing

For long, Google Photos were the darling of everybody with storing and editing your photos. Recent updates, however, have given it a new position: as a go-to app for video editing too. As part of the recent Android update, Google Photos will now add some AI-powered tools to enhance video content. From speeding up action to stabilizing shots, Google’s AI is changing the way you can edit your clips easily without necessarily having to depend on Pixel 9 for these features. In the sections that follow, we delve into what these new features bring and how to make use of them.

AI-Powered Video Presets and Super-Editing on the Go

AI-powered video presets” is now coming to Android and iOS, enhancing your video in a few taps with the new update. Those AI algorithms will analyze your footage, making trims, slow-mos, and zooms in smart suggestions to automatically adjust those edits and let AI work its magic on the director’s part to make your video look professionally enhanced.

The interface has also been updated to make video editing even more intuitive. With larger icons and streamlined controls, you can easily edit from your phone. Let’s dive into how these tools can help you make impressive edits straight from the Google Photos app.

Trim Tool: Cut Out the Unnecessary

Google Photos revamped the crop tool. You can now easily remove unwanted footage at the start and end of your clips more precisely. The new interface contains more significant, finger-friendly handles for cropping. You can also view the on-screen timestamps to enable you make accurate cuts.

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How to use the Trim Tool

1. Open Google Photos and tap on the video to be edited.
2. Click on the Video button to access the trimmer tool.
3. Drag the starting point handle left and the end point to the right.
4. Scroll through your video by dragging the white bar between the handles.
5. Tap the play button to preview your edits.
6. When you are happy, tap Save copy to create a separate copy of the cropped video.
7. Auto-Enhance Tool: Color and Stabilisation Effortless adjustment
8. Google Photos’ new auto-enhance tool scans your video for color inconsistencies and stabilizes shaky footage, giving it a polished look in seconds. That feature is perfect for those videos with poor lighting or slight shakes – it makes your clips look pretty professional.

How to Use Auto-Enhance:

1. Tap on the “Video” then select “Enhance” to have auto-enhancements.
2. Preview the changes by tapping on the play button.
3. Compare enhanced to original by toggling “Enhance” on and off.
4. Save your enhanced video using Save copy.
5. If you need just stabilization-no color adjustment-you can achieve this another way in the video tools, via “Stabilize”.
6. Speed Tool: Speed Up or Slow Down Your Videos

The excitement of this feature is determined by the Speed Tool. You can do exactly what its name suggests: add an ability to change the speed of your video, slow action down, or speed it up for more energy. Options range from 1/4 speed up to 4x speed, and selected portions of video may create dramatic moments or fast-paced scenes.

Using the Speed Tool

1. Tap Video and from the list of video edits, tap Speed.
2. Drag the horizontal bars in the timeline to the portion you want to speed up/slow down.
3. Choose your preferred speed. You can go from 1/4 speed (slow-motion) to 4x speed.
4. Preview your sped up/slow motion video by tapping the Play button.
5. When satisfied, tap Done. Tap Save copy to save the copy of your edited clip.
6. Video Presets: One-Tap AI Edits

Some of the features are Android-specific, but the AI-powered video presets in Google Photos are available for anyone who has either an Android or an iOS device. Later this summer, that will enable users to take AI-suggested edits with a single tap. The presets button will be one step between Video and Crop options once they are available.

Among those presets, you’ll find:

1. Basic Cut – clips are shortened to focus on the most important action points
2. Slow-Mo – creating a slow-motion effect over more dramatic parts.
3. Zoom: Adds zoom to highlight specific moments or movements of an action.
4. Track: Keeps key subjects in the center of the video clip.
5. Suppose you are editing a skateboarding video. You tell Google’s AI to crop the footage around the jump, apply slow motion on the trick, and colorise for added brightness.
6. How To Video Presets
7. Open the Presets tool from Google Photos.
8. Apply Basic Cut, Slow-Mo, Zoom or Track to let the AI work out the best cut for your content.
9. Tap Save copy to save your original and your edited version

In-app video editing

Google Photos is bringing the professional quality of video editing directly to your smartphone with these new AI-powered video editing tools. No more reliance on apps such as third-party or cluttered desktop software for users to try and achieve the simple yet effective edits. These features will allow one to enhance videos on-the-go: Do you want to cut, color, slow down, or add a pro touch?.

That is why the introduction of these tools is yet another Google step in the direction of an easier way to edit media content. An all-in-one editing tool such as Google Photos can only make taking a good moment with your smartphone any better.

So, What’s Next?

As Google is said to be eyeing future partnerships with other AI providers – including Google’s own Gemini, it will likely find its way for more sophisticated tools into Google Photos sooner or later. These could be better AI editors for photos and videos for the user, bringing the most advanced technology to their fingertips.

As of now, these new tools represent a significant step forward in accessible, easy-to-use AI-enhanced media editing. So whether you’re the casual user or the creator looking for on-the-go editing, it all comes together in plenty of ways to enhance your videos with just a few taps.

Google Photos again raises the stakes on its potential, now possibly making it easier than ever to make your run-of-the-mill videos into stunning ones after a few edits.

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