Google Photos has always been a popular choice for people who want to store and organize their photos and videos. With the new Highlight Video feature in Google Photos, it has become even more useful. This AI-powered tool automatically selects the best photos and videos of your choice and creates a short video that can be edited and customized. Let’s understand a little more about it and know how to use it.
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What Is a Highlight Video on Google Photos
The Google Photos’ Highlight will use AI LMM to pick images and videos based on filters like dates, individuals, topics, and locations to automatically curate a personalized video for you.
If you are not happy with the result, Highlight Video is customizable. You can choose the length of the video, the music that plays in the background, and even the style of the video. It’s really easy to create a personalized video with Highlight Video that showcases the best moments from your collection. Now let’s check out the process of making a highlight video.
For example, you can choose 2019 as the year a New Year party as the event, and Google Photos Highlight will create a highlight using photos and videos from that party. You can also choose which people to include in the highlight video.
How to Create Highlight Video
Highlight Video has several options to create and edit the video. Let’s know how to do that.
1. In the Google Photos app, go to the Library tab and tap on Utilities. Then tap on Highlight Video and from here you can start creating the video.
2. Here, in the Search section, either you can let the AI add your photos/videos by typing the activities, locations, events, and names of persons or you can just select the suggestions available as inputs for AI. You can also select photos/videos manually by tapping on or select photos at the bottom.
3. If you want to add more photos/videos of people or pets, tap on the Add Contact icon, select people or pets, and then hit the Add button.
4. Tap on the Calendar icon to select a date or a range of dates. The AI will automatically select the best images within those dates for the video.
5. So after you have added all your inputs, simply tap on Preview located at the top right corner and your video will start generating.
6. In the preview section, you can change the music, photos, videos, and even the aspect ratio of the video. To change the music, tap on the Music icon. Here you have the option to remove the soundtrack or change the theme music.
7. To change the background music, simply tap on Theme music. Explore various music tracks categorized at the bottom by sliding through them. Once you find the perfect music for your video, tap on Done.
8. Now to change the aspect ratio of the video, simply tap on the button with the rectangular shape and choose the desired size.
9. And if you want to add more images or videos to the highlight video, tap on the + icon, select photos/ videos, and then tap on Add.
10. You can also rearrange a photo/video by holding on to the media and moving it forward or backward in the video timeline. Adjust the duration of the photo/ video by adjusting the white bar. And if you want to remove a photo/video from the highlight video, simply tap on it and then on the Remove button.
11. When you select a photo, you also get the option to enable or disable the motion of that photo. For this, after selecting the photo, tap on Motion and select No motion or Pan and Zoom.
12 . Once you have finished editing your video, you can play the video by tapping on the Play button. If you find the video good, tap on the Save button to save the video.
Pro Tip: You can also create collages and edit them right inside Google Photos.
How to Edit Saved Highlight Video
Once you tap on Save, the video will be saved in the Google Photos app. Now if you find the video needs some changes after saving, you can still edit the video.
1. Locate the video in the Photos section of the app and tap on it. Videos in Google Photos have a Clapboard icon on the top left.
2. Now tap on the Edit button and you can edit the video just like you edited it before saving.
Pro Tip: Scared to press a button in the Google Photos app without knowing what it does? We have explained the meaning of all Google Photos symbols and icons. Let’s get started.
How to Download Highlight Video
Now that you have saved the highlight video, you can only access it in the Google Photos app or website and it will require an internet connection. To store it on your device locally, once you have selected the video, tap on the Kebab Menu (Three horizontal dots) or swipe up on the video and select Download.
Pro Tip: Do you know you can capture and save photos directly to a Locked Folder in Google Photos on Pixel?
Why Highlight Video Is Not Creating Video
So AI creates a highlight video based on inputs provided by you. When you add inputs, the AI links them and selects the best photos/videos for the highlight video. But if you add inputs that are too narrow or unrelated to each other, you will get a message that there are not enough photos or videos to create a highlight video.
For example, here we added 2 people, 1 activity, and a place for the video. But as there are no photos of these 2 people hiking together in the mountains, AI couldn’t link them up and hence was not able to create a highlight video.
Pro Tip: So are your photos on Google Photos or not? We have covered where you can find your photos and how you can search for specific photos on Google Photos.
Highlight Your Memories
Whether you’re looking to create a birthday video for a loved one, a travel montage of your latest adventure, or a compilation of your baby’s first steps, the Highlight video feature makes it easy and fun. Overall Highlight is a user-friendly tool that allows you to create beautiful and memorable videos with ease.
