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TL; DR
- Google Photos is adding a new 'Enhance Your Video' feature.
- It automatically applies brightness, contrast, saturation and other adjustments to a video with a single tap.
- The feature is not currently available to everyone, but should be rolled out in the near future.
Google Photos is preparing to add a new video editing feature that will allow you to enhance your videos with the tap of a single button. Android Authority contributor Assemble Debug discovered the feature in the Google Photos app version 6.81.0.628906483. It's not currently available to everyone, but the tipster managed to make it work with some clever workarounds.
Google Photos' new editing feature, called 'Enhance Your Video', shows us a magic wand icon next to the stabilizer button on the left when you start editing a video. It automatically adjusts the brightness, contrast, saturation and other qualities of a video to make it look better.
The processing takes some time and also depends on the length of the video you are enhancing. However, this all happens on the device. You can save the new version as a copy once the automatic enhancements have been applied to the video.
Below is a comparison between a regular and an enhanced video taken with the new Google Photos feature. The edited version shows noticeably higher contrast and saturation levels.
It's unclear when Google plans to widely roll out the new “Enhance Your Video” feature, but it shouldn't be far away.