Google is developing a new video editing feature for its Photos app. Called Spotlight, it will automatically select the best moments and apply effects to them.
If you have an Android phone, you probably use the Google Photos app to store all your photos and videos online on the internet giant’s servers. It’s a handy tool that automatically organizes images taken into albums, which can then be shared with friends and family. While the app’s built-in video editor isn’t as feature-rich as a dedicated video editing app, it’s still handy for most users. It offers a range of tools for basic editing, such as cropping and adding effects, all accessible with just a few taps of your finger.
Google is planning to improve its editor. The digital giant is currently working on a function that allows you to adjust the playback speed of videos (see our article). This will make it easy to boost sequences, just like in specialized software! But this is not the only tool that should soon make an appearance. Our colleagues atAndroid Authority discovered, by analyzing the APK of version 6.94 of the application, traces of code of a function called Spotlight. The goal: to facilitate the production of video content.
Google Photos Spotlight: Making video editing easier
The Spotlight feature will be dedicated to video editing. Thus, it will allow the automatic editing of a video by selecting key moments before extracting them and adding effects with a few taps of the finger. A way to make the creation of content faster and then share it on social networks. It also seems that this feature will offer some presets, but we don’t know which ones yet.
This new tool simplifies the editing process as much as possible, to the point where the application itself decides what should be kept and improved. This is good news for those who are not very comfortable with editing, but it could make some people fear a certain homogenization of content – everyone already posts the same thing on social networks! The tool is still in development – the Android Authority teams have not managed to activate the function – it should not arrive immediately with the general public.