Instagram is sticking to its word in keeping the updates coming for its new Edits video editing app, with the launch of four more updated elements for the increasingly handy video creation tool.
The latest feature drop includes more precision editing options, as well as some additional text and voice effects.
Here’s a look at the latest Edits features:
The main new element is “Keyframes,” which enables more granular editing:
As you can see in this example sequence, now, you can pinpoint specific edit points in the project, while you can also customize the presentation of each frame. That’ll enable more specific, custom edits, and make your projects look more professional and precise.
Edits says that it’s also rolling out keyframe editing for text, sticker, overlays and cutouts in the near future.
It’s also upgraded the “Ideas” tab with saved audio, as well as the ability to leave sticky notes on audio you want to create with.
It’s also got some new voice enhancement options, including the ability to remove background noise from your voiceovers:
And finally, there are some additional text effects, expanding your creative annotations for your clips:
Some handy updates, which will give you even more considerations for your video projects, in what’s becoming a key social media creation tool.
Indeed, since first launching the app in April, Instagram has announced a range of updates, including improved editing features, expanded transition effects, fonts, a teleprompter, beat-markers, and more.
It’s also added its advanced, AI-powered “Restyling” tool, which enables you to re-contextualize any video clip into an entirely new scene.
This is the first of a range of AI-powered elements that the Threads team is developing, with a view to making Edits the best platform for creating video content.
Which means beating out CapCut, the TikTok-aligned video editor, created by ByteDance, which has long been the leader in short-form video customization. Now, Edits is largely on par, if not exceeding CapCut in some ways, which could get more people creating in the app, and relying on it as their top video editing platform of choice.
Which could not only help in ensuring more video content gets posted to Instagram, but also, eventually, in providing another revenue opportunity, when Meta decides to start charging users for Edits access. Right now, the app is available for free, but the Instagram team has already flagged that it’ll likely be charging for at least some features in the near future.
So it could be a winner on two fronts for Meta, which is why you can expect to see the updates continue to flow for the app.
