It is not uncommon for vertical format videos to be the most used on social networks such as Instagram or TikTok, so Google's AutoFlip is no bullshit at all, and more when it allows us to cut videos to upload them to these networks.
We talk about those video recordings in landscape format that need third-party apps to be cut and thus be able to upload them to Instagram Stories and they can be seen well without missing anything from the capture we want to show. It is precisely where this framework designed by Google for everyone comes into play.
Autoflip, Google's "smart" solution
En a GIF the big G shows us that solution that it performs appropriately the crop of that horizontal video that we have taken with the camera of our video. Not only does it perform the cropping, as another third-party app could do, but it also focuses the video horizontally, which may interest us so that in the result we do not focus on a subject or even several.
Autoflip is the Google's open source framework that automatically crops a horizontal video with its algorithms and that artificial intelligence so fashionable these days. In other words, it is not just about cutting an area and then encoding the resulting video so that we can upload it. In most cases someone will be out of the picture and the video will be a portion of the original with little value.
How AutoFlip works
With AutoFlip the guys at Google want to offer a solution that turns horizontal video reframing into something very simple to do. This framework is responsible for using machine learning to recognize faces and keyframes in scenes to find their 'cuts' or transitions.
Having this information in hand, AutoFlip uses the algorithm intelligently to trim and reposition existing video clips in that scene. The algorithm is able to work even for long shots and focus on a subject, like those videos in which we can find someone skiing or those where pets are the real protagonists.
In fact, it is Google itself that from a post on its blog shows the process in descriptive illustrations of each of the steps. A framework that it would not take long to arrive as we can understand for the work shown in that publication and that indicates important advances in this technology that will save a lot of effort and waste of time for users.
For very little
The day Autoflip is available, will offer different configurations depending on our needs. In other words, you can configure it to keep all the faces detected in a capture, which the algorithm can ensure thanks to adding padding at the bottom and top of the video clips.
Now we are left wondering how we can enjoy this framework that we already want to put our fingers on to be able to rescue certain videos and thus be able to upload them to our favorite networks such as they can be Instagram or the same TikTok; By the way, don't miss this new platform or social network that comes with the desire to compete against the same one mentioned and those video clips that last just seconds.
Currently Google is working on finishing the algorithm internally, although it does encourages developers to contribute with his work to the project itself as well as to video makers as it is an open source alternative to which anyone can look to take a look at the code.
For the rest of the users it could be Google Photos the app that will take on this new framework called AutoFlip and that the truth looks great to save us time. If you are a creator of high quality content for your networks, stay tuned for the next news from AutoFlip, it will interest you.