Subj : The Google Photos video editor is set to get some useful upgrades
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Thu Aug 01 2024 11:00:05

The Google Photos video editor is set to get some useful upgrades

Date:
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 09:57:35 +0000

Description:
The Google Photos app could be in line for an interface refresh, if this 
hidden code is enabled.

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Google Photos offers a lot of neat editing tricks for your photos, and it 
includes a video editor as well  and it looks as though that editor is 
getting some much-needed and genuinely useful upgrades in the near future. 

As spotted by Android Authority , hidden code inside the latest Google Photos 
app for Android points to a number of upgrades, and they're going to be 
particularly useful for people who aren't that familiar with the app's 
video-editing capabilities. 

The biggest upgrade seems to be larger buttons with clear labels on them for 
the Mute, Enhance, and Stabilize functions. This makes it much more obvious 
what these buttons do  they're currently represented by smaller pictures, 
with no text. 

You can get into the Google Photos video editor by opening up a video clip 
inside the app, then tapping on the Edit button. As well as the tweaks we've 
mentioned, it's possible to crop videos and add a variety of filters and 
effects. More features coming soon The current trio of buttons (on the right) 
(Image credit: Future) 

This analysis of the Android app also gives us another look at the upcoming 
playback-speed control feature, which has actually been spotted before: it's 
not live yet, but it will enable users to speed up or slow down videos. 

It seems as though a 4x speed increase or decrease will be the limit of the 
feature, and it's going to be possible to apply the change to the whole 
video, or just to a specific part of it. 

There's no indication here as to when the upgrade to Google Photos might go 
live, but it looks as though the bulk of the necessary code is now in place, 
so it shouldn't be too long before we see these changes on Android (and quite 
possibly iOS too). 

As yet we haven't seen any sign of Google Gemini-generated AI images showing 
up inside the Google Photos app, though it does look as though we might soon 
be getting an easier method for hiding images of people we don't want to see. 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/the-google-photos-video-editor-might-
be-getting-some-useful-upgrades


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