If you work professionally with videos, you must master the best video editing software (opens in new tab), which will most likely be either Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro. But if you’re a total newbie to video editing, you might have found these sophisticated tools a bit confusing. And even if you’re an old hand, you might still find the busy interfaces and complex menu structure a bit tiresome when you just want to make a few quick edits to a video.
If any of these apply to you, then a groundbreaking new Adobe tool could be the answer to your prayers. Because it allows you to edit a video in a super easy way: just by tapping!
Project Blink was announced last night as part of Adobe Max 2022 (opens in new tab) annual Sneaks event where the company showcases experimental new software it is working on. But unlike the other tools mentioned during sneaks, this one is actually already live, albeit by invitation only. Read on as we explain what it has to offer.
How it works
In last night’s demo, Adobe’s Mira Dontcheva uploaded a video of a conference call using the new software and showed how you can identify a specific section of a video simply by typing words into a search box.
You can search for specific words spoken in the video. You can search for a specific item (e.g. “backpack”) displayed on the screen. You can search for specific sounds (e.g. clapping or music) or types of activities taking place in the video. You can search for text that appears on the camera (in this case, words projected onto a wall). The AI also pulls out specific faces from the video so you can click on them to select the sections where they appear. you have the idea
Once you’ve found the section of video you’re interested in, you can instruct the AI to automatically convert it into a new clip. The software figures out where the in and out points should be so they appear natural. You can then further tweak the clip just by typing. For example, in the demo, Mira showed how to remove the clapping at the end of a speech.
And hey presto, you’ve done some video editing without having to mess with timelines or complicated tools. As Mira put it, “Editing video with Project Blink is just like editing text: you copy, you paste, you delete… that’s it.”
There are clearly still some weaknesses that need to be ironed out; In the demo, Mira had to restart at some point because it clearly wasn’t working. But Adobe is keen for people to try it now and give feedback. So if you need to take highlights out of a long video and turn them into clips, e.g. B. for social media, we recommend you to try it. You can sign up for Adobe Labs to access Project Blink (opens in new tab) today.
Add project immediately
Project Blink wasn’t the only “taste” Adobe gave creators last night. We also saw a demo of an upcoming feature called Dubbed Add project immediately. This simplifies the typically complex and time-consuming process of adding VFX effects in post-production by using AI to automatically map graphics to the selected element in a video.
We were shown the example of a young man dancing on a roof. A logo was added to his hoodie via drag and drop, which then moved naturally with the fabric so you couldn’t see the connection. Big bold type and some other graphics were then dragged and dropped behind the dancer and again the AI did its job adjusting her appearance along with the camera movements.
It all looks pretty intuitive and the results were very impressive. However, we should add that unlike Project Blink, there is no release date for Project Instant Add and it is still a work in progress.
To see all of the upcoming features demoed last night, you can watch the full Sneaks session in the video below.
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