Meta’s latest Edits update introduces advanced project organisation tools and AI-powered capabilities, aiming to revolutionise mobile short-form video editing for creators, with new features like animated images from prompts and enriched creative controls.
Meta is continuing to expand Edits with a steady stream of workflow and AI tools, sharpening its bid to make the app a more capable mobile editor for short-form video. The latest update focuses on project organisation, reusable text styling and AI-assisted image animation, extending a run of additions that has already included analytics, restyle effects and better audio controls.
The clearest productivity change is a new folder system for active projects. Users can now long-press a project to move it, which makes it easier to reorder work and keep drafts in priority order. Meta has also added support for multiple project versions and richer templates, with overlay support and the ability to lock clips in place, features that should help creators manage more complex edits without rebuilding them from scratch.
On the AI side, U.S. users can now turn a still image into a video clip through conversational prompts. The feature asks users to describe the motion or action they want, then animates the image accordingly. That builds on earlier Edits additions such as AI object segmentation and restyle tools, which let creators apply effects to specific people or items in a frame, or transform the look and context of clips with text prompts.
Meta is also broadening the app’s creative controls around text and audio. Users can bookmark preferred text and caption styles for reuse, while Edits has added more bilingual caption options and a new audio search function that can find clips by mood or theme, such as “chill” or “bossy”. The app has also been gaining other practical tools over recent updates, including sound effects, external audio import, live photo support on iOS and expanded analytics for creators.
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