YouTube introduced on Thursday that its Dream Display characteristic for Shorts now permits you to create AI-generated video backgrounds. Up till now, Dream Display may solely create picture backgrounds. The brand new functionality is feasible as a result of integration of Google DeepMind’s AI video-generation mannequin, Veo, which might create 1080p video clips in numerous cinematic kinds.
Customers can now use the characteristic to show textual content prompts into AI video backgrounds. To entry the characteristic, you’ll want to go into the Shorts digital camera, faucet the “green screen” icon, after which choose “Dream Screen.” From there, you possibly can sort in a immediate, equivalent to “candy landscape” or “magical forest with a stream.” Subsequent, you possibly can choose an animation type after which faucet “Create.”
The Dream Display software will then generate a collection of video backgrounds which you could select from. As soon as you choose an AI video background, you possibly can report a video with it behind you.
YouTube says the brand new characteristic can be utilized for issues like placing your self within the setting of your favourite e-book or creating an animated opening on your Quick.
Sooner or later, YouTube plans to offer creators the power to generate six-second-long stand-alone video clips for Shorts by way of Dream Display.
It’s price noting that YouTube is giving Shorts creators entry to a characteristic that’s not accessible on TikTok, the main short-form video platform. Whereas TikTok lets creators generate AI-powered background photographs, the corporate at present doesn’t allow you to create video backgrounds.
The brand new characteristic is now accessible in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
