Google Photos is turning into a surprisingly capable video editing suite, and the latest addition leans heavily on the company’s newest multimodal AI model. A feature called video remix lets users transform ordinary clips with a few taps, no professional editing skills required.
Powered by Gemini Omni, the tool lives in the create tab of Google Photos and offers a range of effects. You can apply cinematic relighting to brighten a dark scene, swap a plain background for something more interesting, or add artistic styles like watercolor, raw sketchbook, and oil painting to your footage. Want to make a video look like it was shot in a greenhouse or bathe it in a warm morning glow? That’s the kind of thing the tool is designed for.
This is part of Google’s broader push to embed generative AI capabilities into its consumer apps, keeping users inside its ecosystem instead of sending them to third-party tools like Adobe Premiere or Apple’s Final Cut. The move makes sense: most people don’t need professional editing software, they just want to make their clips look better before sharing them. Google is betting that AI can bridge that gap.
Video remix begins rolling out today to Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers across a range of countries including the US, India, Japan, Brazil, and South Korea. It joins a growing list of AI features in Google Photos, which recently added touch-up tools for blemish removal and skin refinement, as well as an AI-powered digital closet that turns photos of your wardrobe into outfit suggestions.
The competition in AI video editing is heating up fast. Apple, OpenAI, and Adobe are all pushing into similar territory, but Google has an advantage in distribution: billions of people already use Google Photos. If the tool works well, it could make AI-powered video editing feel like table stakes rather than a premium add-on.
Source: TechCrunch
