{"id":2486,"date":"2015-06-04T08:31:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T15:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2015-06-04T08:31:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T15:31:56","slug":"come-make-a-movie-in-google-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/04\/come-make-a-movie-in-google-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Come make a movie in Google Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my areas of responsibility has been movie creation. Every day Google Photos analyzes millions of photos &amp; videos, looking for the most interesting parts &amp; combining them into bite-sized visual summaries. These then show up in your <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.google.com\/assistant\">Assistant view<\/a>, from where you can view &amp; save them. You can also apply a different theme, change the soundtrack, or remove\/reorder clips.<\/p>\n<p>To make your own movie, select a number of items using your iOS or Android device, then tap \u201c+\u201d and then Movie. Here\u2019s the one I made after the Micronaxx visited our <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/04\/the-toontastic-guys-are-joining-google\/\">Toontastic<\/a> friends during Google\u2019s Take Your Kids To Work Day:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/genF4tKBUS8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was pleased to hear The Verge\u2019s Thomas Ricker reporting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/6\/2\/8704137\/google-photos-surprise-and-delight\">surprise &amp; delight<\/a>\u00a0with movie creation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve been testing Google Photos with a few thousand pics from recent holidays and family events. The behind-the-scenes Assistant feature is downright magical (to borrow another Apple buzzword). It combined five separate videos I shot of my daughter\u2019s gymnastics competition into an almost perfect one-minute highlight reel set to music. Amazingly, it identified her amongst all the other children of the same age and wearing the same uniform, culminating with a still photo of her on the trophy stand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Give it a whirl and please let us know what you think!<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=genF4tKBUS8\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my areas of responsibility has been movie creation. Every day Google Photos analyzes millions of photos &amp; videos, looking for the most interesting parts &amp; combining them into bite-sized visual summaries. These then show up in your Assistant view, from where you can view &amp; save them. You can also apply a different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2487,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}