YouTube’s bringing more generative AI features to Shorts, by integrating its latest Veo image animation and conversion tools into the Shorts process.
First off, YouTube’s rolling out image-to-video animation, which can turn your photos into animated elements.
As explained by YouTube:
“Bring your story to life with Photo to video, which instantly turns a picture from your camera roll into a video. Just select your image, choose a creative suggestion, and watch your memories come alive.”
This has been a trending use case for several AI tools, with users posting videos expanded from photos to create all-new scenes.
On another front, YouTube’s adding an option to animate drawings, or convert your still images into alternate settings.
So now, you can immediately flesh out and/or animate your sketches and doodles, with little effort.
Thus far, this hasn’t proven as popular as photo animation, but it’s another way to utilize AI within the Shorts creation process.
Along the same line, YouTube’s also launching “AI Playground,” which will house various new AI experiences that you can test and experiment with.
“Inside, you’ll find our latest gen AI creation tools, a gallery of inspirational examples, and pre-filled prompts to help you instantly generate videos, images, music, and more. Find AI playground by tapping the create button and then the sparkle icon in the top right corner. It’s available now for everyone in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to start.”
It’s another option to showcase Google’s evolving generative AI tools, providing direct access to its latest models, and what they can do.
And this is just the start. Google says that all of its image-to-video and generative effects are currently powered by Veo 2, but will be upgraded to Veo 3 shortly, making them even more responsive.
YouTube also notes that all of its generative AI features will utilize SynthID watermarks, and will be clearly labelled to indicate that they were AI generated.
Some interesting options, which will likely prove popular, and could give you some new ways to express your IDs through YouTube’s improving AI processes.
Image-to-video is rolling out over the next week in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, with more regions coming later this year. When they’re available to you, the new AI features will be in the “Effects” section in the Shorts camera.