Google Photos adds an AI Video Remix tool

Google Photos is getting a new “Video Remix” feature that can edit and transform videos in seconds, Google announced on Wednesday. The tool is powered by Gemini Omni, Google’s recently released model that promises to “create anything from any input.” Video Remix lives in the “Create” tab inside Google Photos, putting generative editing a few taps away from the camera roll rather than inside a separate app.

The tool covers three broad edit types. Cinematic relighting can brighten a dark clip; a background swap replaces a plain backdrop with something else; and a set of artistic styles — including watercolor, raw sketchbook, and oil painting effects — can be applied over the footage. Google’s own examples include editing a video to appear as if it were shot in a greenhouse, relighting a clip with a morning glow, or rendering it in a watercolor effect. “Creating beautiful video clips shouldn’t require professional skills or hours of editing,” Google wrote in the blog post announcing the feature. “Now, with Video Remix in Google Photos, you can transform ordinary videos into share-worthy moments in just a few taps.”

Video Remix starts rolling out today to eligible Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers in the U.S., Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, and Turkey.

The feature extends a run of AI additions to Google Photos rather than standing alone. The app recently launched touch-up tools that remove blemishes, refine skin texture, brighten eyes, and whiten teeth, and Google has also introduced an AI-powered “digital closet” feature that turns photos of a user’s clothes into a wardrobe for building and virtually trying on outfits. Together, the additions are Google’s latest push to bring more generative AI into its consumer apps as it competes with Apple, OpenAI, and Adobe — companies chasing the same territory from different directions, whether through on-device AI, standalone creative tools, or professional editing software. By building AI-powered video editing directly into Google Photos, Google is making it easier for users to edit clips in a few taps rather than turning to dedicated editing software, giving them another reason to keep their content inside Google’s ecosystem.

Why it matters

Video Remix is another sign that generative video editing is becoming a default-app feature rather than a separate product category, which raises the pressure on Apple, OpenAI, and Adobe to match it inside their own consumer apps instead of ceding that ground to Google Photos.