Unlocking next level Shorts with new creation tools
The speed of cultural trends demands powerful, accessible tools for creators. Here are some of our newest creation tools to make bringing ideas to life on YouTube Shorts even easier and more fun.
Transform photos into videos: Bring a story to life with Photo to video, which instantly turns a picture from your camera roll into a video. Just select an image, choose a creative suggestion, and watch your memories come alive. For instance, with Photo to video creators can add movement to landscape photos, animate pictures of everyday photos, or bring group photos to life.
Play with new effects: Dive into a constantly refreshing world of effects. Our latest generative effects can dynamically transform doodles into fun images and turn selfies into unique videos, like swimming underwater, twinning with a lookalike sibling, and more. Find these and other effects by navigating to the Effects ✨icon in the Shorts camera, and tap on AI to browse all generative effects.
Discover our latest creation tools in AI playground: AI playground, the new home for creation, houses our latest gen AI creation tools, a gallery of inspirational examples, and pre-filled prompts to help creators 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.
Say hello to the new and improved video editor: Creators can make precise adjustments and edits to the timing of each clip with zooming and snapping, rearrange or delete clips to create a rough cut, add music or timed text, and preview your Short to help you better tell the story you want to tell.
Edits synced to the beat: Creators can pick a song, and this tool will automatically align clips with the music's rhythm, taking the headache out of manual syncing. Get ready for effortlessly smooth, beat-driven Shorts.
For those who love a trend, templates are getting a boost: You can now pull photos from their gallery and use them in templates. When you use a Shorts template, the original creator will also automatically be attributed.
Express your unique style: Creators can throw image stickers into your Shorts, straight from your gallery - so now you can more easily share examples for your outfit inspo!
Bringing big ideas to life, effortlessly: Edit with AI cuts down the time from concept to published content, from arranging the best moments, adding music, and transitions. Creators can add voice-overs in English or Hindi, and apply styles like a Cricket commentator and Shayari to create a compelling first draft.
Across all our AI-powered tools, we use SynthID watermarks and clear labels to indicate that these creations were generated with AI.
While these tools are here to make creating even more fun, it is the unique creativity of our creator community that truly makes Shorts shine!
