YouTube Shorts is Introducing New Effects and image-to-video AI Tool

Google is enabling creators to create videos from still images by extending its image-to-video functionality to YouTube Shorts. In addition, a new generation of generative AI features was created, which are intended for visual effects experimentation. This contains a brand-new area called AI Playground as well as immersive AI effects.

With the image to video tool, users may create a six-second video out of a picture from their camera roll. A list of recommendations that are pertinent to the uploaded photo will be displayed to users. This feature can be used to make group shots come to life, animate ordinary photos, or add movement to landscape photos.

Google’s Gemini offers a comparable function, while Meta’s Edits app’s Animate tool can also use AI to convert photos into little video segments.

YouTube is currently launching its image-to-video function in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, with plans to expand its availability later this year.

With the help of the new AI effects, artists can turn their drawings into beautiful pictures and their selfies into films in which they are twinning with someone, diving underwater, and other scenarios. By selecting the “Effects” icon in the Shorts camera and then tapping “AI,” users can peruse all of the generative effects and discover these new effects.

YouTube also introduced AI Playground, a new area where creators can access its most recent generative AI creation tools, such as AI effects, See Inspiration, and more, in an effort to centralize its creative tools. By tapping the create button and then the sparkle icon in the upper right corner, users can locate the AI playground. The AI Playground is accessible in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States.