- Instagram now changes as a free video editor on Android and iOS
- This is Meta’s response to Capcut with a major accent on integration with the main Instagram platform
- Changes also include tools fed by AI such as cutouts and animation
Instagram’s response to Capcut is finally there. The changes were first tatured by Adam Mosseri, the head of the meta social media giant, in mid-January, while Tiktok faced his first ban in the United States. It was originally launched in February, then in March, but we are there in April and today.
As initially promised, Instagram changes are available for free on Android and iOS. He landed as a publisher based on a familiar chronology offering deep integration with Instagram, which means that you can see your measurements, look at other coils, browse all the sounds and audio clips available and even apply popular effects.
Unlike Capcut, which belongs to the parent company of Tiktok, Bytedance, or other video editing applications for mobile, Instagram invoices modifications as a single window store. As you can see on the screenshots below, the accent is placed on creation and ideas.
Beyond importing video, cutting cuts, adding text and implementation of effects, you can use sticky notes to create ideas of ideas or manage various projects.
As indicated above, you can look at other coils and browse for them without leaving the application. In addition, you will be able to record notes associated with them – maybe this is the one you want to remix or simply an excellent personalized audio that you want to use in your next video.
The great attraction, however, for the faithful Instagram is a high quality camera promised for “improved video recording”. In this way, you can capture and modify directly in the application, compared to the shooting in another application, then to move it to Instagram. Again, as a trend for Meta, the goal is to have the entire process.
Now that you were shooting in the application or you are important, there are many editing tools available. Mosseri initially teased that the modifications would have all the tools you expect, and these are here. Instagram launches most unique, including the possibility of drawing popular effects like a green screen.
More advanced effects, such as cutouts, which allow you to isolate a person or an object on the screen with follow -up, or an antimate, which probably uses a Meta LLM, can transform images into video for committing moments, are also included.
The two seem quite practical and are located at the bottom of the interface as a row of tools. Above him, you will have a classic chronology that goes back to Imovie and which recalls quite capcut. You will have your main video track with the audio below, as well as room for the elements on the screen such as text or overlays.
Although I have not yet tried the modifications, the basic functions seem to be up to those of other video editors, and it should be fairly easy to quickly create a modification with a drag and drop, cuts, split, etc. The changes also have a legendary tool, as well as options to record a voiceover and add other elements.
Instagram also promises to listen to the comments and already have a list of features that are defined to arrive in the next updates of changes, including the possibility of using AI to modify the videos, probably with a prompt; Key images, collaboration features and an expansion of integrated elements such as fonts, filters and vocal effects, among others.
The platform also promises to listen to comments on changes and use it to inform the development roadmap. I am curious to see how the changes have stacked, since Capcut, that I use a little, disappeared for a while, Tiktok was prohibited. You can modify up to 10 minutes of video, and Instagram promises waterproof exports to its own platform as well as general savings of the device.
In addition, although the features of the AI are not carried out or do not break, they could let the creators spice up the content, and I like the promised functionality of the cutouts. So, yes, although the design looks like Capcut, this platform has not necessarily reinvented the wheel of video publishing on the fly.
If anything, the launch of Instagram is an edition as a free video publisher on iOS and Android should inspire new features for competing applications to help level the playing field. If you are interested in trying the changes, it takes place for Android and iOS.
