Edits by Instagram: Meta launches video editor as an app
A new app from Meta: Edits allows you to edit videos on your smartphone. This is primarily intended for Instagram.
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Edits is a new app that is part of Instagram, but can also be used separately. It is a video editor. The functions are, of course, designed to edit videos for Instagram, but they do not have to be uploaded there and can also be used for private purposes. There are no watermarks, as is the case with other video editing functions on social networks.
The app can be linked to your Instagram account. This also gives you direct insights into how well Reels, the short videos on Instagram, have performed – i.e., views, reach and likes. You can save videos that you like, create collections and create notes. A play button also displays videos that are particularly popular currently and can serve as inspiration. This looks a bit like TikTok – where you swipe the videos upwards. You can also choose to only see videos from people you follow on Instagram.
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Several projects can be created and edited at the same time. The functions include adding music, which you can select from a library, and you can filter out background noise for your audio recordings. Voiceovers can be used to add sound to videos afterward, there are sound effects to decide from and subtitles can be created automatically. Particularly important for a video editor – Of course, videos can also be cut and merged.
AI for video editing
Thanks to Meta AI, individual objects in a video can be cropped and superimposed over another image or video. This corresponds to a green screen function. Meta is working intensively with the FAIR team on AI models for object recognition, among other things.
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Edits is available free of charge for iOS and Android. No prior knowledge is required to edit videos, everything works very intuitively and is easy to try out. It has already been announced that even more AI functions will be added.
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Edits' competitor is CapCut. A similar app that can be used to edit videos, which comes from China and is developed by TikTok parent company ByteDance. CapCut has been around since 2019 and also offers very simple video editing with great effects.
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